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Tbeatrum Botanicum . 
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other fort of male Mandrake whofe leaves were of a more grayifli greene colour and ferrew hat fculded rose- 
thcr differing herein from the forcrecited kinde which grew there hard by this alio, but w hat fruit it bore could 
not be affured having never borne any as they (aid. 
3. Mandragoras f gmineut , The female Mandrake. 
ThefemaleMandrakehathlikewife many leaves lyingon the ground but Imallcr, narrower, more crumpled 
and of a darker greene colour, refembling thofc of Lettict a s Diofcorides compareth them: the flowers alfo rifel 
from among the leaves, each on his (lender footeffalke as in the former, but of a blewifh purple colour• the fruit t 
^Mandragoras mas & feemneas. 
The male and female Mandrake. 
that followeth is much fmaller than thofe of the male, but 
round like them, and not peare fajfhion as fome have 
thought, (for C In fins who faw diver fe of them, growing, 
naturally in fundry places in Spaine denieth it) of a paler 
yellow colour when they are ripe, and of a more pleafing, 
or rather of a Idle heady lent, than the apples of the 
male, wherein are contained fuch like feede but fmaller 
and blacker, the roote alfo is like the former, blackifh 
without and white within, neere unto the fame forme, 
parted into more or fewer branches, as nature lifieth. 
The 'Place. 
They grow in woods and fhadowie places, and the 
female by rivers fides, in diverle countries beyound the 
Alpesjbut not on this fide naturally,as in Or£cia, the lies of 
Candy , and others in the Mediterranean fea, Italy alfo 
and <fy4i»f:wichus they are nourfed up as rarieties in Gar- 
dens,the male in fundry places: but the female onely with 
the curious,as being both farre more rare to get, and more 
tender to keepe. 7 he Time. 
The male flowreth in March and the fruit is ripe in 
July the female as Cluf/ts faith, he found in fome places in 
Spaine in fiower in February,and in the fame moneth in ci¬ 
ther places of Spaine it had ripe fruit,but with us where it is 
bell preferved, it flowreth not untill Augaft or September, 
and the fruit feldome or never ripeneeb. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greek Afandragoras alfo in 
Latine. quod admandr.is pecorum aliafejuefp dune as proveniat- 
fome alfo as Diofcorides fairh in his time called it d duahov, 
and Circxa, becaufe Circe the great enchantrdfe ufeditas 
is thought in love matters ; Pythagoras called it riuep. 
V :i aformahumana, bccaufethe roote hath fome likenefle 
of a mans body with two legges,bnt without armes they 
are called alfo CMalacanina or terrefiria. Diofcorides faith' 
the female was called rpiddnixs tridacias of the Letice like 
leaves, and niger ,as the male was called Candidas , the fruit 
of both is round, but of the female as Diofcorides faith, like 
rots for lit t and not ^ ovis, as Ruelhns his Tranflation hath it, which caufed fome to figure it peare faJfhion,efpe c i.. 
ally feeing Oribafna who followed Diofcorides mod nearely compareth the fruit as well to acradibus as Wild 
peares; but you here before Clufiut his deniall thereof, as an oculatm tefits of all thofe that he faw, fothat if any 
fall out otherwife, it might be rather accounted lufnt natur£, than theordinary propertie in nature. Diofcorides 
his third fort called CMorion, is not Theophrafius his Ollandr agorot as Ccrrdw thought, which lib. 6 . cap. 2. hee 
faith hath a flalke as Elleborw, Cicut# and Albucum, but is much controverted by diverfe, being not certainely 
kno wnc what herbe it is, and peradventure alfo not to Diofcorides himfelfe, for he rebteth it but by hearefay, a 8 
he doth many other things whicn were not of his owne knowledge. Matthiolus defendeih Hcrmolaus 'Barba - 
rm a gain ft Brafavolw and Fuchflu, who judged that Hermolatis thought the Alelomjcna or Mala inf ana to be 
Diofcorides his Morion ,which he defcnbeth,«r/W or tradunt, to grow nigh unto caves in fundry woods, with 
lefTer white leaves than thofe of the white Mandrake, a fpanne long lying about theroote, which is tender and 
vvhite, longer then ones hand, andofthethickneffeofonesthumbe : tradunt againe faith he, that if adramme 
of the roote be given any man in bread or broath, it will take away the ufe of reafon and fenfe, caufing him to 
Ilcepe for three or foure lioures, after the lame manner of difpofition as when he tooke it: Phy< tians ufe this 
when there is caufe to burne or cutoff any member, (that is, to calf him inro a deepe or dead fleepe, that the 
paines may not be fo fenfible:)by thtfc words of Diofcorides fit doth plainely appeare to me, that his Morion is but 
another fpecies of the former which hath no ftalkes,for the leaves he faith(and peradventure the fruite alfo)lie on 
he groujM about the head of the roote : but Pliny hath faulted foulely in defenbing the Mandrakes, making 
cT'fX a u d D f°r cor,dcs f° be one, and transferring that which is proper to the one unto the o- 
ther. 1 he undry fables hereofreported in Matthiolus and others are not fit here to be 1 elated - who fo arc de- 
lirous to Know them, may reade them in thir Authors or Relators. The Arabians call it labor a and Tabrohach • 
the Italians Mandragora ; the Spaniards Mandracola • the French Mandra?ore and CMandadoire ■ the Germans 
Alraum ; the Dutch Mandragora ; and we in En^lifh Mandrake: ’ 
The Dertues. 
J^akc as ^ alcn faith is of an exceeding cold qualitie even in the third degree, yet hath in it fome heate; 
“ ^ bark r° ft n hCr00tC ; S fome dnnelTe and in the apple fome moifture, whereby it is of a foporiferous pro¬ 
perty caufing fleepu.efle or drowlineffe, as Levinas Lemnim inbisHcrbM to the Bible maktth mention of 
