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you forth the plant as it groweth with us) then of the other thick and fhort, but not white, and in letter quan¬ 
tity then it :the rootes runnedowne deepe into the ground, and being there encreafed doe runne and fpread 
themfelves, taking up a great deale of roome. 
The Thee. 
The firft is generally fowen in Spaine,Italy and other places,for the efpeciall ufe thereof: The fecond Alpinus 
faith was brought out of Candye : The lad groweth wilde in Spline, as well about Sevill as Cordnla, and in 
other places as Clnftus faith ,?om remembreth it to grow upon Mount Baldus, 
The Time . 
They flower in the end of Inly, or about the beginning of Attguft, and the feede is ripe about the end thereof. 
The Names. 
It is called in ffireeke ««©■ and *«>»©-, (ftnicus and Cnecus, either am n quod eft pungcrc vet mordere, or 
dnirou ss 11 e/XSu , quodpnngendo pruriginem excitet, but is more properly to be underflood of the wilde kind : orra- 
ther a floris colore, cum *»#*©• exponatur croceus vel rutilm ; it is called [ok us and Cnecus, alfo in Latin, and Car- 
tbamui in the Apothecaries (hops, JaiTov as it is thought,^<W eftpurgare, but more truly from the Ara¬ 
bians Kar.tam. The firft is called Cnicusfativus urbantu and vulgaris by moft Authors, and C arthamus as I laid in 
the Apothecaries flioppes, of fome alio Crocus Saracenicns. The fecond isremembredonely by Alpinus in his 
bookc de plantis exoticis by the name of Cnicus ftngu/aris:the laft Clnftus calleth Cnicns alter l cernleoftorc, andfo 
doe all other after him without any great variation. The Arabians call it Kartam , the Italians Safarano Sarafc- 
niftco ; the Spaniards Alacor and Arafttmfalvaja : The Germaines cMittFilder Saffran, the French Saffran baftard 
migraine de Perroquets,beaufe they ufe to feede Parrats with the feede : inEnglifh Wilde Saffron, Baftard 
Saffron.Spanifh Saffron,and Catalonia Saffron. 
The Vertue . 
The firft Spanifh Saffron flowers are much ttfed in S paint and other places, to bee put into their brothes and 
meates, to give them a yellow colour, which doth much pleafe them : for as for any relifh of'fpice,or hot quick 
tafte they have none, nor any comfortable qualities, that they fhould be defired or ufed, neither have they any 
great ufe in Phyficke that I know : but many pounds of them are (pent in dying filke into a kind of Carnacion 
colour: the feede is chiefly ufed inPhyfiek, or rather the kernclls within the feede, which beaten and the emtil- 
fion thereof with honyed water, or with i he broth of a pullet, taken faffing, doth open the body.and purgeth 
waterie and flegmatick humours, both upwards and downewards, whichhumorsalfoitvoydeth ifthcemul- 
fion of the feede be given in a glitter, and thereby hclpeth the collicke and dropfie, and thofe other difeafes that 
proceede from thofe humors: being made into a Lohoc or licking elefluary, with Sugar and heny, and a few al¬ 
monds and pine kernell--, itclenfeth the bred and lungs of flegme flicking therein wonderfully, caufing it to be 
eafily fpit forth, it alfo cleared: the voycc,and encreafeth fperme, by the often ufe of it: but it doth fomewhat 
trouble the ftomacke, and therefore fome ftomachicall helpers are fit tobe given with it, as Anifeede, Galanga, 
Mafticke, or if neede be of more forcible, Cardamoms,Singer, [algemma,&c. a dram of the flowers in pouder 
taken in hydromel or honyed water, or in barly water helpeth the Iaundife : a dram of the pulpe of the feede 
taken with an ounce of the Syrupe of W orme wood, doth the like alfo : the confeflion made of the feeds hereof) 
called in (hoppes Diacarthamum ,is an efpeciall good medecine both to purge choller and fleagme.as alfo to cleare 
and clenfe the body of the watery humors of the Dropfie. Parrots doe moft willingly feede upon this feede, yet 
doth it not move their bodies a white.The fecond fort Alpinus faith is ufed by the naturalifts in the fame manner, 
and to the fame purpofes to purge that the firft is ufed. Of the laft there is little written, but wee may onely fup- 
| pole that being fo like in forme, it fhould fo be alfo in quality. 
Chap. XL 1 X. 
Papaver corniculatum. Horned Poppie. 
Here are at this dav two or three forts of horned Poppies knowne to us, whereas there was but one 
fort knowne to Dio [corides,md other the antient Greeke and Latin writers. 
I. rapaver corniculatum luteum. Yellow horned Poppie. 
This horned Poppie hath divers long and fomewhat large whitifh or hoary leaves,lying upon the 
ground, very much cut in or tome on the edges, and fomewhat rough or hayrie,from among which 
rifeup divers weakeround llalkes, leaning downe rather then (landing upright, fomewhat hayrie alfo,fprea- 
ding forth into fome branches, and bearing a large flower, at the top of every one of them, confiding of foure 
leaves of a fine pale yellow colour, with a few threds in the middle,(landing about a fmall crooked pointell 
which in time groweth to be a long naked round pod, halfe a foote long or better; with a fmall head or button, 
as it were at the end thereof,wherein is conteyned fmall blackifh round feede: the rootc is white long and rough, 
Ipreading divers wayes, enduring many yeares, and keeping his leaves all the winter ; everypart hereof yeel- 
deth forth a yellow juice being broken,of bitter tad. 
2 . Papaver Corniculatum rubrimi Red horned Poppie. 
The red horned Poppie hath fewer,Ieffer and more j’agged leaves then the former, nothing fo whitifh,but of a 
fullen greene colour.fomewhat hairy alfo:the flalks are (lender er and lower,bearing flowers at the tops of them, 
like the other, and confiding of foure leaves a peece, but muchfmallcr and ofa pale reddifh colour, for the mod 
parr, yetfometimesfadder; after which come fuch like crooked or horned pods, butfmaller then the other; 
having fuch like finall blackifh feede within them : the roote is long and [lender, perifhing every yeare, and rai- 
let’n it fe.lfe oftentimes from it owne fowing, or elfe mull bee fowen ev ery yeare in the fpring ; this yeelderh no 
yellow juice, when it is broken like the other. 
3. Papaver Corniculatum [ore viotaceo. Blew horned Poppie. 
The blew horned Poppie groweth much lower, and with fmaller leaves, very much or finely cut and divided 
V«o many parts, of a fad greene colour : the (lalkes are low and (lender, yet fome what hairy, riling not much 
above 
