y- 2 - Chap. 3. C 1 beatrum Botanicum. Tribe 3. 
8. Dotonicttm Helveticum incamtm. The hoary Helvetian flippofed Woolies bane. 
The hoary' Doronkum of Helvetia, rileth up with a round hollow greene italke, a loote high or more, hearingi 
thereon divers leaves fomevvhat longer and more pointed, then thofe that grow next the ground, l'ome’whereof 
are round.and others long androundyetall dented about the edges,ofa pale greene colour on the upper fide, with 
a white rib in the middle, and ofamealiehoarinefi'e underneath, as the footeftalke is allb; the flower is treat and 
yellow chat llandeth at the top of the ftalke, with many long narrow leaves,not dented at the edges, but Imooth 
compaflingthe middle thrumme : thefeeae is carried away with the downe, like untoothers ; therooteisimall 1 
joynted,and as it were icaltd like the reft. ’ 
9 - ‘Doroncum Helveticumhumile. T he low fuppofed Woolfesbane of Helvetia. 
This low Doronicnm of Helvetia or Switzerland, hath many ihicke,darke, greene,hairy leaves, and of a paler 
greene underneath, lying next the roote being lomewhat long and round and dented about the edges; from a. 
mong which rifeth up a (hort hairy ftalke, not halfe a (oote high, with very long and narrow leaves l'ct’thereon" 
parted at the toppe into two or three l'mall branches, bearingyellow flowers, ot a meane fize or bigneffe like 
unto the reft,, 5 
IQ. r DcTonicnm Arntricanum. Suppolcd Woclfesbane of America, 
This ftrange Doronicum hath divers very large leaves next the ground lomewhat rough and hairie,divided in¬ 
to five parts, each part being five or fix inches long,and two inches broad,pointed at the ends,and deepely dented 
on the edges into three parts: from among which rileth up fundry Imooth round ftalkes let with the like leaves 
butfomewhat Idler and lelfedivided.andfome little or i.ocar all: atthetopof every ftalke llandeth one larne’ 
yellow flower like unto the former,the bordering leaves being long and narrow,and the middle thrum bi ow- 
mfh,and made as it were ot many flowers fet thicke together: the roote is great thickeand hard, faltnedwith 
many long firings, I have here given you two figures thereof.the one taken by us,the other by the French. 
1 2. Radices Donnie, vulgo officinarum,& Radices Mechini ranoris Lobelii,fn Doronicogenuine Arabnm a ’Torn 
exhibits. The Apothecaries Doronicnm,2ni the true one of the Arabians as Pona thinketh. 
I have here Iikewife particularly given you the figures of the rootes of two forts of Deromcum as they are fup. 
poled to be,the formofl generally received by all or moll both writers & Apothecaries for their medicines, whofe 
dclcription islet downebefore.the other Pena in his Italian Baldm fetteth forth (uppofing it to be more probably 
the true 'Doronicum of the Arabians then the former, which doth not agree thereunto either in forme or quality 
for in the zoo. Chap, ofhis fecond Booke, and Serapio in the 315. Chap, of his Booke of fimpleshave’ 
defctibcd their Bonn,cum to be a roote of the bigneffc ofones thumb, ofahard and heavy fubftance, ofa yel- 
lowtlh colour on the outfide and browne within, with fome white veines.and is hot and dry in the third degree: 
thus hut laithT»M,I know ns ocher roote more properly doth reprefent that Dorcnicnm ,then this fort 
m't 1S 0 , found amon § the M 'cbinm or blacke Singer, that is brought us chiefly from 'Brajnt 
which Lobc/l calleth Mechim rant variety ,having divers circular knotted lines as it were like joynts on theout- 
10 . Dornnicum Americium. 
The flippofed Woolfes banc of America. 
it. Vorotiicum antiqucramPorit. 
Lehel liis rare varieties of CMtcbitim and the ^ira- 
biant 2)oronicum by Pona. 
