Tribe 3. The Theater of‘Plante s. Chap,!. 
with Larkes heclc flowers : the pods are greater and ftand three or foure together, with larger rough blackifh 
feede in them: the roote is thicke and long, fomewhat like unto the rootes of the greater Helmet flower, and 
encreafeth fuch like heads by it in the fame manner. 
8. Aconittm purpareum aliud. Another purple Helmet flower. 
This other purple Helmet flower hath larger leaves then the other, of a fadder greene colour and Alining 
i withalhbut incifed after the fame manner: the flalke likewife groweth very high, and often fpreadeth into 
fundry branches, bearing large purple blew flowers in longer fpikes then the other ; the ieedcs and rootes be much 
! like the other Helmet flower. 
Aconitum byema/c. Winter Woolfesbane. 
This is deferibed in my former Booke. 
Vnto thefe kinds of Aconites may be referred the Authora or Antithora, fet forth in my former booke, for that 
in the outward face and forme of growing, it doth fo nearely reprefent them, that it made Chfim thinkeic 
tnuftalfobeof the fame deadly quality with them; and although the name doth import it to be the remedy a- 
gainfl; the poyfon of the herbe Thom, which fhall be (hewed in the next Chapter, and 1 b might challenge to 
be rather inferted among the Alextpharmaca.Comterpotions, yet becaufe both it is as I faidfolike unto thofe 
former Aconites in the flowring,and yet is the remedy againft the poyfon of thefe Aconites , as well as of that 
Thora, 1 thinke it fitter to mention it here then there, and give you the figure and properties thereof likewife, 
among the vertues, although 1 have faid fomewhat of them formerly. 
The Place. 
None of thefe plants grow naturally wilde in our country that ever I could certainly learnc, although Doftof 
Penny in his life time, feemed to affirme, that he faw fome of their kinds growing on certaine hills in Nortbmh. 
herland: they all grow in woods and Ihadowie places in Only,Cjermany, and other places. 
The Time. 
Some of thefe flower earlier and fome later then others,according as their titles teftifie ; the refl flower in the 
end of or beginning of Iune. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke irimw Aconitumjta dictum faith Pliny , quia in nudis cautibus nafcitttr , qua; accr.ec nomi- 
nmt, ttbi nu/lojuxta tie fulvere qiiidem nutrititr, which Ovid exprelfeth in the feventh booke of his Metamorfhofis 
in thefe verfes. 
Qux quia nafeuntur dura vivacia cote 
Agreftes Aconita vocant - ■■ — 
Theophraftiu faith it took'C the name ab Aconisubi plurimumnafcitury Is autem vie us eft Pcryandinorum, qttiad 
Her ac learn Ponti eft , which Tl'my faith againe in his fixt booke and firft Chap. Tortus Aeonx veneno Aconito dirus. 
But Pena milliking thefe derivations faith, Aptior fusrit Nomenclatura interpretation ft cam ab herb a fucco , velra- 
dice^quibuf q-uafi cote Jpicula a venatoribus affriEla & fubaEla, cxlerius fubirent , & perniciem adferrent , quam ft 
ft cautibus, aut apagi cognomine deducas : yet faith he poflit etiam cLtwth dnovn^v deduct, qnemadmodum t o^lnor 
ctTnTov To^ivtiv & non a taxo. For even fo Xenophon in Cyripxdia faith>«^' tophi', iJt dy.ovv(ed\>auifyco 7 rov 
( vjfiv. Neque enim jacularineque in hominemcollimare permittebamrn vobU •„ it is called LycoElonon & CynoElonum 
becaufe it killeth Woolves and Dogs; in Latine ^Aconitum & luparia, for the fame caufes : But the name of 
Aconitum was referred to many forts of poyfons, and poyfonous herbes, one much differing in face, though nop 
quality from another, as hath beene (liewed before in the white Ellebor and-others, and may be hereafter more 
as accafion fhall ferve ; It is called of the Arabians fhanach adip or ad’b, ideftyflrangulatorem Itipi , of the Italians 
^Aconito & Luparia, of the Spaniards Terua matta louo, of the French Tueloup t ot the Cjcrmans fVoljfjwurtz,,Qf the 
Dutch Woolfxvurtcl . The firft kind here fet downe is called by Gefner in hort Ger, Aconitum primum fiore 
albo, Camerarius tnhorto under the name of Aconitum LycoElonum flore luteo difimguifheth both the kinds very 
well, faying the greater hath the largeft leafe and fairell greene colour and flow rcth later then the other, it is 
thought to be the fixt kind of Aconite, that Mattbiolus givech onely the dumbe figure thereof: The fecond is cal¬ 
led of Cluftus Aconitum LycoElonum fiore Delphinii j m .Silc/iacum-yof Camerarius Aconitum fiore Delphinii; of Gef¬ 
ner in hortis Germainx ^Aconitum cxrulcum aliud. of Bauhinus Aconitum cxruleum hirfutum fiore Confolidx rega¬ 
in : the third is the Aconitum fiore j Delphinii of TDodonxus and Lobel : of'Dalechampius Aconitum LycoElonum ca«* 
ruleum j m ,fioreDelphinii Dodonxi:[t is probable to be the fourth Aconitum of Matthiolus.Bauhinus calleth it Aco¬ 
nitum cxruleum glabrum fiore confolidx regain: the fourth is called Aconitum LycoElonum tertium cxruleum parvum 
of Dodonxns, of Lobel LycoElonum cxruleum parvumfacie Tfapelli • it is the tenth Aconitum of Cluftus , who faith 
and fo doth Gefner alfo, that is called in Italy Thora Italica , and of the Cby miftes there herbatora : of Bauhinus 
Aconitum cxruleum minus,fine Napellus minor. The fift is called e Aconitum LycoElonum 4. Tauricnm by Cluftus^ 
and by Bauhinus Aconitum violaceum feu Napellus fecundus. The fixt is the Aconitum LycoElonum alterum of Do- 
donteus, and is the feventh Aconitum LycoElonum of Cluftus , which he faith is called alfo Antumnale : The feventh 
is the eight Aconitum LycoElonum coma nut ante of CluftiuSyBduhinus calleth it Aconitum inflex a coma maximum:thc 
laft is called by Clufius Aconitum Neubergenfe and by Bauhinus Napellus tertius. I call all thefe kinds Woolfes 
banes and Helmet flowers, not onely for a diftinftion from the other forts that follow (for all thefe are in face 
and forme of growing, and in leaves, rootes, flowers and feede one, not much differing one from another ) but 
to {hew you that it is even Diofcoridei his diftinftion,who maketh this his Aconitum alterum , which he faith 
was called LycoElonum and (fynoElonum, although his former Aconitum called Pardahanches did kill Woolves as 
well as this, and tha tfuch different herbes fhould not goe in Englifb under one common name of Woolfes banc, 
whereby it fhould bee hard to underhand in the naming of them what kind is meant. 
The Vertues. 
All thefe plants are poifonous and deadly to mankinde, to be taken inwardly any manner of way, as that feaftj 
at A nwerp? flieweth,where by ignorance the leaves of Inpana or Nape/lm, being put as a fallet herbe with others, 
many that did eate thereof died,after the violent paflions they endured for the time : it is alfo as deadly to Dogs, 
Wolves, and other creatures, who fhall take thereof, either the juyee of the herbe or roote, or the herbe or 
roote it feife, put into flefh, and given them to eate .* in the juyee of the rootes efpeeially* the hunters of „ wilde 
Ee t, beafts. 
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