2 04. Chap.21. TheatrumBotanicum . Tribe.z, , 
the Aromaticall tree, which is like to Cinamon : Lugdunenps by correcting the greeketext of Theopbrajhu in i; 
divers places where he thinketh it is faulty, fheweth the figure of a Plant, accounted of divers, as he faith, to be f 
the Cneorum album of Theophrafius, which Bauhinus jndgeth to be the D orychnium Imperati & Plateau, mentio- f 
red in C lupus his Hiftory of Plants. But Bauhinus, both in his annotations upon Matthiolus as he hath published I: 
them, and in his Pin ax referreth both thefe Plants of his,the firft unto Ocj/moidcs repens Polygonifolio of Lobel, and | 
the other unto the Ocymodcs repens of Carrierarhu . Myconus, as Lugdunenps faith,referreth his Cneorum album, tin- | 
to Avicenne his other Oleander, which he calleth wild Oleander , for as he faith it is like common Oleander, both in f 
leafe, flower, and fent. The third is called ChamaUa & Mefereon ufually now adayes,and fo likewise by Traotssi | 
Dodcnaus and C am re arias call it ChamaUa Germanic a ; by Fuchfm and other s,Daphno ides, Gefnerin her t is Daph- | 
noides nofrum vulgarc-. Lugdunenps, L sureola famina,AnguilUra Vipermontanum, and Lob ell, Lauras pufi/la, and f 
Mefereon G ermameum : fo me alfo take it to be (hamadaphneD iofeoridis. The fourth is called C.hamtd&a Alpina inca - | 
na by Lobelia Cham a la a altera by C lupus,\\A Italica by many with us,becaufe C lupus faid it came to them only j 
from Italy . 1 he fifth is the true ChamaUa & Mefereon of the Arabians, & generally called now adayes ChamaUa j 
tricoccos. The fixt is called Sana.mur.da> by the Spanifb Mores in Gran ado, as C lupus faith, and of the profeft'ors of ! 
Herbarifme, or Herbarifts there alfo, though the countrie people call them, as he faith, Mierda cruz i of the pro- J 
pertieof the flrong purging. Bauhinus calleth it Thyme Uafoljs Cbamalaa minoribusfubhirfutis , and is the Thy- | 
melea ftecics CMyconi of Lugdunenps the fecond S mamunda of Clupus, which Bauhinus calleth ThymeUa folijs 
Ka.ii Unrtginops palps. Thefeventh is the Brie a Alexandria of Lob ell -, and the 3. Sanamunda of Clupus. The | 
eight is called Sefamoides minus Datedampij by Lugdunenps, who in my mind much confoundeth both himfelfe 9 
and his readers herein, for he referreth this both to C lupus his fecond Sanamunda, which he faith is hot, fharpe, 9 
and fomewhat fait, even as he faith his Sefamoides is: and alfo to the Cneorum nigrum My coni, which he flievv- | 
eth after the defeription thereof, that the tafle of the leaves is fomewhat binding,with a clammineffe or glcuifh- 
nefle therein alfo, which is quite differing in propertie, and yethemaketh them to be all one Plant:, and Bauhi¬ 
nus following him herein, fofetteth itdowne in his Pinax : but both this defeription, aslhave before given it 
you, differeth from C lupus his fecond Sanamunda, which as C lupus faith,hath his flowers in clufters at the tops, 
and from the other which hath them at the joynts } Clupus again giveth unto his yellowifh flowers,like unto thofe 
of the Olive tree, and Dalechampius faith, it beareth fmall white flowers, very fweete : fo that it may feeine to 
be a fpecies thereof, and not the very fame, but it cannot be alfo his Cneorum nigrum Myconi, if the talles be fo 
different: let others judge hereof after they have confidered them both well. 1 he ninth Bauhinus fetteth downe 
in his Pinax , with the title ThymcUafolips polygalaglabris, in his Prodromus with the title Sanamunda viridis , vcl 
glabra, and referreth it to the ThymeUa fpecics Myconi of Lugdunenps, who faith it doth beft agree with Clupus . 
his fv ft Sanamunda. The laft is not remembred by any before. 
7 he Kertues, 
The firft Spurge Olive worketh very churlifhly with whomfoever, and inwhatfoever manner you give it, 
viz. the leaves piepared beaten to powder, and taken in wine or broth, or the berries fwallowed whole or brui- 
fed and taken by themfelves; for as Diofcorides faith, if twenty foure of the berries be taken in drinke (this pro¬ 
portion is anfwerable to the reft of the phificke in thofe times as I have often faid) or the inner pulpe of them 
onely, it purgeth downewards very ftrongly, both Choller, Flcgme and water, but as he faith, they will 
burne the jawes and throate, and therefore they had ncede be rowled, or otherwife given with flower or barley 
meale, or fwallowed in mcalc, orinraifins, the ftones taken out, or taken with purified honey, being beaten 
with niter and vinegar, it is applied to them that are given to over much l'weating. H e that will give the pou- I 
der of the leaves, had ncede firft to take away the firings that runne in the leaves; which may be done while it 1 
is groftcly beaten, before it be beaten finer, which prepared in this manner may be made into Trochifces or balls, 1 
to keepc all they care .the leaves being gathered in Autumne : It is a remedy alfo for them that have eaten and | 
drunken Hemlocke,the poyfonfullher-be. All the Sanamunda s likewife arc violent purgers, forhalfe a dramme I 
ofthe juyee ofthe berries taken in wine,,or in broth, which is the better, and the iafer way, purgeth watery 1 
humours aboundantly; and therefore if it be taken with good advife warily, it may doe good in Dropfics, I 
Gouts, Joynt-aches, the Sciatica, and the like : in Spaine they ufually give a dramme in thedeco&ion of red 9 
Cicers, which purgeth flegmaticke and melanchancholy humors wonderfully, and conlcquently is availeable to d 
all fuch difeafes, as rife from fuch humours, Lugdunenps recordeth a cure of one in the Hofpitall at Lions, who 9 
was grievoufly tormented with the Crampe, performed by Dalechampius, by giving him a dramme of the leaves 9 
of the fourth kinde here fet downe in pouder, in a little barley water, which wrought as forceably as if he had | 
taken Colocynthis, and thereby was reflored to his health. The country people, as Matthiolus fheweth, doe 1 
often take of thofe berries to purge themfelves, thinking to be their owne Phylitions herein, and deceive them of 1‘ 
their fee due for their counfcll, but as he there faith, they often'deceive themfelves, by their unskil full foole- A 
hardinefle, and make more worke for the Phifitions to cure them of the paines and torments, and other dange- ► 
rous difeafes that follow the taking of thefe violent purgers, ifthey free them not of further trouble by their II 
owne deaths: Pliny is j'uftly to be taxed for writing in his 27. booke and 9. Chapter that the Coccognidium 1 
(which as I faid before, is called by the Grecians the fruite of Thymelaa) doth ftay or bind the belly (Sifit alvum, ij 
is the word in the generall Copie, which yet fome would impute to be the errour of the Writer out thereof 3 
when it fhould be Ciet alvumi) when Galen and all other Authors acknowledge it to be a ftrong purger. Mefues n 
advifeth that Mefereon ( which I faid before the Arabians doe confound, and is to be underftood this Thymelaa , >1 
as well as that ChamaUa, &c.) is not to be given without the corredfors appointed for it, and yet not, but unto J 
ftrong able bodies: All thefe therefore are not fafe to be given to weake bodies or ftomackes, to women with 
child, or to children that arc not ftrong,except they be ftrongly infedfed. 
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