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The Theater of Tlants. 
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dantly, know very familiarly, and call it L' herbe du machon, that is, the wind collicke herbe, and fuppofe that it 
having two round rootes, theone will be full and folide one yeare, (as it is in the Orchidcs or Satjrions) and th£ 
other lanke, whichchangeth to be folide the next yeare, when the other that was firme in the former yeare, will 
then become lanke; that the found roote will eale the winde chollicke, and the lanke procure it:the fame rootes 
alfo uled inwardly, is not onely the chiefe and principall Antidote or remedie, againft the poyfon of thefe 
Wolfes banes, and Helmet flowers, but of the Leopards bane, which {hall be deferibed in the next chapter, and 
all other poyfonous berbes whatfoever: and againft the venome of all ferpents and other venerrious beafts or crea¬ 
tures, and is alfo a-moft foveraigne remedy againft the plague or peftilencc, and all other infeflions, or contagi¬ 
ous difeafes, whichraifefpdts,pockes,ormarkes intheoutwardskinnejbyexpellingthepoyfonfrom within 
and defending the heart, as a molt foveraigne Cordiall. 
Chap, II. 
Acmtitm Pardalianches jive Thorn, Leopards bane, 
!F this fort of Leopards bane, there are accounted two feverall forts, differing in bearing more 
' leaves, one than another, as alfo in the greatnefle of them, and of the whole plant, which yet mi»ht 
rather be attributed, to the fertility or fterilitie of the foyle, wherein they grow •• but as they sre°e- 
membred by others, fo I mull: proceede alfo, and let them forth here unto you, 
I. AccnitumT ardalianches jive Thorn minor. The It (Ter Leopards bane. 
T The Leopards bane is a fmall low herbe, riling up with a fmall (lender round ftalke, little more than halfe a 
.foote high, bearing about the middle thereof but one fmall ftiffe or hard leafe, for the mod part, but fometirnes 
two or three one above another, and fomecimes two together, which are round fomewhat like the leafe of Afa-, 
rnm, but leffer, fmooth, and of a blewilh greene colour full of veines therein, fomewhat unevenly dented about 
the edges, not compifling the ftalke, but Handing from it, upon fhort footeftalkes: the toppeof the ftalke is di¬ 
vided oftentimes into two or three branches, with a fmall narrow leafe at the joint, and one fmooth pale yellow 
flower at the toppe thereof, fomewhat like unto thofe of Cintjuefoi/e 0 t five leafed graffe, confiding in many of 
foure, and in fomeoffive round pointed leaves, with a fmall greenifhhead in the middle, which when their 
flower is fallen, groweth to bea fmall head, confifting of many fmall feedes fet together, like unto the heads of 
diverfe forts of Ranunculi, or Crowfecte: the roote is compofed offeven eight or tenne, fmall long round very 
white fhining rootes, fomewhat unevenly as it were branched out like knots or joynts in diverfe places, plaine- 
lytobedifeernedinfome, but in others not, being plaine and finooth, ending in a fmall long fibre, and all of 
