278 Chap.57. 
1 Theatrum Botanicum . 
Tribe 
I. Fjyttium vut^are. 
The ordinary Fie aw ore. 
ther, and in time bowing downewards andfome- 
whathard ■■ the bloomings or flowers are white, 
and the feede that flowreth is fhining.and like the 
other, but fmaller: the roote is fmall and white 
with divers Fibres thereat. 
The Place. 
The firft groweth in the fields and untilled places 
of Spaine and Italy, but with us no where but in 
gardens: The fecond groweth more plentifully in 
the fields that are ncare the Tea.The third is thought 
to come out of the Indies^ the name importeth,but 
we are not furc thereof. The laft is naturally of E- 
gypt or Arabia , and grew in the moft noble Signior 
Bembej his garden at Padoa. 
The Time. 
All thefe Fleaworts flower in July or therea¬ 
bout with us, but in their naturall places, all the 
Summer long,yet the laft,is the lateft with us. 
The Names. 
It is called in Grecke ju aa/op, in Latine PfyIlium , 
Tu Hear is herba i & ’Ptilicaria , becaufe the ieede is 
like unto Fleas, and not becaufe it driveth away 
Fleas, being brought greene into the houfe, for that 
is falfe:there is alio another Pulicaria called Conyza, 
•which wc have fhewed before : The Arabians call 
it Bazar a Chatama , and Bezercothune. The Itali¬ 
ans PfyIIto^ the Spaniard* Zargatona, the French / 
Her be an V Poulx. The Germans Pfihenratit • and 
wee in Englifh Fleawort, and not Fleabanc, for 
that is Conyza } as is fhewed befjre : The firft is ge¬ 
nerally called P fyHium of all writers. Gefncr in hor - 
tis Germanix calleth it fynops of Theophrajhes . 1 he 
fecond is called by Matthiolus PJyllium alterum , 
Gefner and Gamer aritu call it Pfy'hum perenne ; 
Lobel'm his Adverfaria calleth it PfyIlium Plinianic 
forte majus radice perenne ; the third is Anguillara 
his firft PJyllium and thought by Bauhir.ui to be the true PfyllUm of Tiofcorides and by him called Indicum be¬ 
caufe the leede came to him under that name. The laft as Bauhimu faith he had from the moft noble Btmb w his 
Garden at Padoa ,under the name ofCjottnc rabrum,w he had another called album, which is a kind of Holoshum , 
Bauhinus mentioneth Projper Alpinw to call it Gottnc rubrum , but 1 can finde no other then Gottnemfegiar Gof. 
fpium arbor cum in bis Egyptian plants : he faith alfo that it was fent him from Heidelberg,by Spreneerw , with the 
name Botrio rubro. 
The Vcrtues, 
All Authors doe confirme that the feede of Vfyllium is cold which Mefues attributed! to the barke or outfide 
faying that the inward pulpe thereof, is hot ftiarpe and drying, but divers doeutteily miflike and refufe that opi¬ 
nion : the muccilage of the feed made (but indeed the feede is feldome builed by any Artift, but alwayes fteeped 
whole) with bariy water,and iome fyrupe of Rofes or Violets put thereto and drunke,doth purge downewards 
groiTe flegme and burnt choller • but the (cede be ing fryed and io taken, ftayeth the flux or laske of the belly, and 
the corrofions that come by reafon of hot, chollericke, fharpe and malignant humors, or by the iuperpurgation 
of any violent medicine, fuch as Scamony or the like worketh : the muccilage of the feede made with Rofe- 
watcr and a little Sugar Candy put thereto,is very good in all hot agues, and burning feavers, and other inflam¬ 
mations, both to coolc the thirft,and ro lenifie the drinefie and roughneffe of the tongue and throate; it helpeth 
alio the hoa: fenefle of the voyce, a d difeafes of the breft and lungs caufed by heat, or fliarpe fait humors, and 
the Pleurilic alfo : the muccilage of the feede made in Plantaine water, whereunto the yolke of an cope or 
two,and a little Populeon is put, is a moft fafe and fure remedy to eafe the fliarpenefle, prickings, and paines of 
rhehemorrhoidcs or piles, if it bee laid on a cloth and bound thereto: it helpeth alfo all inflammations in any 
part of the body, and the paines that come thereby, as the headach and meagrime, and all hot impoflumesor 
dwellings,or breakings out in the skin, a?hlaines,wheales,pufhes, purples and the like, as alfo the paines of the 
jovnts,and ofthofc places that are out of joynt, the paines of the Goute and Sciatica, the burflin^ of youn* 
childremand the i welling out ofthenavell, applyed with oyle of Rofes and Vinegar; the fame alfo is very oR 
ten and with good fuccefle applyed to heale the Nipples, and the lore breafts of women laying it often thereon : 
the juice of the herbe witha little hony putinto the eares,helpcth the running of them, and the wormes breeding 
in diem : the lame alfo.mixcd with Axungia, and applyed to foule corrupt and filthy Vlcers and fores, clenfeth 
and heale th them, by cooling the heatc and reprefflng the fliarpenetfe of the humors, flowing unto them: 
Whereas divers have written that the frequent life of the feede inwardly taken is very dangerous, \ is no other- 
wiic true, then as it falleth out in all other great cooling herbes, as NightlRade, Houfeleeke, Henbane, and the 
1 ike, wmen are all lafe herbes, being wifely and conveniently applyed: but ignorance, raflinefle and indiVerction 
. in the applying of remedies, hath alwayes done more harme and brought more difcredic unto them, then any 
danger in them can threaten it: and therefore it is no: Efficient to know that a medicine is good for fuch a di- 
feafe. 
