Tbeatrum Botamcum, 
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Theatrum Botanicum. 
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Bauhinus fetteth forth in his Trodomus and Pinax , under the fame titles they doe here beare: the tenth Robmus 
of Paris called A conitum Americanum J znd Cornutus Aconitum Hehanthemum Canadenfe j but the upper leaves 
on the kalke,with the flowers and roote, declare it to come nearer to the forts of ‘Doronicum • thelaftare as the 
titles declare them. They may all be called in Englijh, either T)oronicum according »the Lat'me name, for jfo doc 
both Italians, Spaniards , French , Cjermancsy and Dutchmen ; or as I haveentitulcd them fuppofed Wolfes banes 
both that the name may differ from the former Wolfes banes, and to give you to underftand that they are but 
fuppoled to be dangerous; becaufe as I faid before the outward forme oFthe rootes, like unto Shrimpes or Scor- 
pions^nd rhe leaves round like unto the leaves of Sow bread or Cowcumbers, have cauled many to thinke them 
to be the Aconites of Theophraflus and Diofcorides ; but Columna, hath treated very learnedly hereof in the 18 . 
Chapter of his Booke of Plants) whereunto I referreyou, fork were too tedious 3 to relate his fayings in this 
place. J b 
The Verities. 
The true T) oronicum is faid to be a foveraigne Cordiall, and to refill the poyfonboth of beafls and other deadly 
medicines, to clenfe the break and to hclpe the cough,and to rid thofe humors, that caufe paines in the fides: but 
our Toronicum, although it be not the true of Serapio and Avicen, yet it isno Aconite , as Matthiolus and others 
have fuppofed ; for as is before faid, both Cjefner tooke it often, and a good quantitie at a time, even two 
drammes in powder, that he might find the operation of it, yet found no harm*e thereby • and Vrocde, ss Lobel 
faith tooke of it many times, without any harme ; but what efpeciall good they found by it, is not remembred 
for Gefner maketh not any mention thereof:.yet the juyee thereof is found to be good, for thofe eyes that be 
hot and red, and full of paine, by reafon of hot and fharpe rheumes, falling into them, to allay the heate, to take a- 
way the redneffe, and to give eafe of the paines and prickings in them. C lupus faith that the hunters, and fliep- 
heards that live in the mountaines of Anflria,doe noleffe life and commend the rootesof the third and fourth 
forts,here fet forth,(which grow with them more frequently,than theothers.at the leak bek known unto them ) 
then they doe the rootesof the yellow Auricula urji, againk the lwimming or turning in the head, which is 
a difeafe fuhje&to thofe places, rifing from the feareand horrour, of fuch keepe downefalls and dangerous pla¬ 
ces, which they doe and muk continually paffe, in feeking for and hunting the wild Goates, and therefore they 
rhere call them Genjfwurtz , that is, Rupicaprana radix , as Clufins doth interpret it; and there hath beene found in 
their mawes a certaine hone, called by Bauhinus, in his Treatile thereof Bezoar Cjermamcum, in the middek of 
which kones, fome of the rootes have beene found almoft whole, which fheweth that they feede thereon wil- 
linglv, without taking any harme thereby, and that the kones bred thereon are Cordiall, and foufed And I doc 
not thinke but any of the other forts fleeing they are all in fo me,and places of growing,one fo like unto another) 
if triad were fufrkiently made,would performe the fame efteft. For the fixt fort here exprefled (which as 1 faid is 
called Caltha*\lpina offome,A lyj'ma or 'Damofomnm of others, and Doronictm Geranicum ofothers, ofthe people 
m the Alpes Muttervourtz , as Iofi.ts Simlerm faith, in his Commentarie of the Alpes,that is Matricaria,U other 
wort,which they have found,and do continually ufe to procure womens courfes,and to eafe the paines and difea- 
les of the morher)is very effeduall againk the poylon of the hfh called La pus marinus,zs alfo the venemous biting 
of the Shrew, and the poyfon of a 1 oade;and is alfo profitable for them that have eaten Opium, in any dangerous 
quantities is given with good fucceflc,to them that have the bloudy flixe,or any other paines or gripin°s in their 
body or bo wells, by reafon offliarpe humours gathered chereimit is alfo helpefull to thofe that Have convulfkms 
or crampes, and ach or paines inthej'oyntsand (inewes, and is ve r y powerful! to be taken with fome wildc 
Carrot feede, to expcljgraveil, or thekone in thereinesorkidnies,ifthedeco<kion thereof in wine or water or 
the powder of the herbe and rootes betakenrit is applied alto outwardly, to eafe the paines and inflammations of 
apoltumes and lores: the flowers hereof doe procure neefings. 
Ghap. I y. 
Ranunculus, Crowfoote.' 
(^^^PHereare fo many forts of Crowfecte, fome of the Woods, fome of the Medowes, fome of the 
UtI^ 01111 ?' 5 ’ lome °j- tbe Water ’ tIie Rockes, and fome of the Gardens; that to 
proceede in a methodicall manner, and to eafe mylelfe and the Reader of too much prolixitie, 
,Jcgjg|||i|g and mtricahe, I thinke itbek to dikinguifh or divide them into fcverall formes or orders, that 
. r ^ ma y be tbe better apprehended and underkood. for otherwife it would be toogreat a 
confuHon, to huddle fo many together: and becaufe I have already fet forth in my former Booke, many forts, 
whofe flowers being mok beautifull and rare, were fittek to adorne that Garden; I fhall not neede to deferibe 
any of them againe in this worke, but referreyou thereunto to be in formd ofthem: but in (hewing you the 
reft, 1 will give you the figures of fome of them, and ofthe Anemones which are nearek unto them, and fobring 
every of them into their leverali order, and begin firk with thofe of the Woods, 
DeYtfio prima % The fir ft Divifion. 
Ranunculi nemersfi. Wood Crowfecte. 
T I. Ranuncului nemorefusallrni Jimplcx. The finelc white Wood Crowfoote! 
He hngle white wood or wilde Crowfoote, rifeth up with two or three (hikes, about an hand breadth hich 
1 j° r b ? ttcr > a . bouc tbe middle whereof.come forth ufually three (hikes of leaves, each being foraewhat broacl 
Hard and cur in on the edges into three parts, of a (ad greene colour, and dented alfo? the (hike rifeth 
made offiv? We" f S hlgh .I H 3 ™? at 'j 10 , cop P c one . fin g. lc flowe t> ha "g i > 1 ? d °wne the head for the mod part, 
madeot he e Iea\ es, fomewhat broad and almoft round pointed, of alight blewifh colour on the outlide. before 
tt be bio wne open, but white afterwards, and more white on the infide, having a few white threds in the 
middle, 
