1 34^ Chap.6. 
Theatrum Botanicum. 
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blackiflt round feedc, foure ufually fet in one haske: yet it feldome commeth to ripeneffe in our country • rh, 
roote is white and groweth great with us, but perilheth ifit be not defended from the frofts in wintcr.whichnfn 
ally rotit, but in the naturall places it groweth as big as a mans !egge,(for fuch hath beene fent me, with man ' 
circles to be feene in the middle when it was cut life unto a 'Bryony e roote ) and above a foote long ^ 
8. Solanum Mexicanum parvofire, Jive MirabUi, Peruana minor. The fmall Mervaileof Peru 
This fmall Mervaileof the world, or of groweeh in the fame manner, that the greater kinde 
you in my former bookc doth, but nothing fo great or high, having fuch like leaves fet on the ftalkes h. irm , j, 
lefler and roundenthe flowers likewife being ota red colour for the mollpart.and madeofone leafe openLTnm 
five parts at the brimes, like the other, arc fo (mail, that the whole flower of this is fcarce fo bigee ~ 
part, or divifion of the greater flower, the feed that followeth, and the roote likewife are anfvverable in nronnr 
cion to the reft of the plant. mpropor- 
„ , . The PI M e. 
The firft groweth wild with us, under old walles, andinrubbifh, the common paths and (ides of hedges and 
fieldes as well as m other countryes.either hot or cold, as alfo both in their and our gardens, without anv nlan- 
tmg. I he fecond groweth oncly wild in the hotter countries of Spaine, Italy, &c. The third C lx fins fLn he 
found not farre from Malaga in Sparne, and Matthio/us faith in Italy alfo. The fourth Alpinus faith/moweth in 
■ a* ye. The fifth as cJWhnWiu ianh, groweth on the hill Salvatino in the Councy of Goritio in Italy hard ho 
Trent, and as fome thinke in Syria, and the Eaft Countries thereabouts. The lixth groweth wilde notonelv in 
many, and divers woods of 6but in divers places of our owne Land, as in the Caffle yard of Framing 
mm Sufolks, under lefts Collcdge wall m Cambridge,id in many places of chat Countryialfo at Ilford i n 
at among the Elmes, at the end of the Towne: in Moore Parke in the Parke of Sir pJcivallHart a? 
L./lingfinem Kent on the Conny hurries, m Burling Parke likewife.as alfo in the way that leadeth from S Ma- 
y Cray to Footes Cl ay over againft the gate of a great field called Wcmell. The feventh is declared in the de 
fcriptron. The eighth groweth m l crgima, New England, &c. from whence the feed and Plants, were firft 
brought to us. The lalt came as the greater fort did from the Wcfl-Indiej. Were hrlt 
The Time. 
They doe all dye downe to the ground in winter, although fome doe fhootea frefh in the fpring, as the y 
I'Js'f f' d 5 T th 5 1Ird be "S more tcn dcr as comming out ofa warmer Country, doth hardly endure 3 but 
fwSharT 7 ’ y exXremi J s ° f0 “'WMtem. efpecially ifit be not houfed or well defended/and e/en the 
t wo fi, ft that dye every yeare, and rife of their owne fo wing, doe not fpring out of the "round untfl I irfo-w 
in the yeare.as not untill the latter end o£Aprillnt the fooneft! F 3 ’ untill it be late 
The Names, 
acinlff *? Gre X ke f folne & T7 & ’ but more 1 «°dvUe«m, caprcohtm, vitem vel 
acmum,vcl tace qmddam Civvet. ait Pcn.i.m Solan arum cliffs FU* ‘ \ m 1Jei 
bere,nifi epuis eyfsov e. Theophrafiofujpicari malityirfshocfdilv^HnsfJyvfmHtatum^n ‘iTi ITS vey tJJ u p 0 f es 
VM V “ l r- Fli u y la ' Ch “ W3S Ca " Cd alf0 StrumJsk Cucuba/uelb^hey^ZalttoZ'''”' 
ther baftard names, and not to be proper to this plant, the Arabians call ir /u / 8 rr 1 , ra " 
mans Nachtfchadt, and the DutchNafcaye, and Natchfcade. In Fnolitt, S ,, „ ^ • !, he 9 tr ~ 
fome places Honnds berries. <Diofeorides reckoneth ud foure fort? kiL, <8. 1 ’Morrell, Petty Morrell, and in 
^nferumM^MfunofumLanic^ 
Lobel) Cs.falp.nns Caftor D nr antes, Camertrw ,and Lugdunenfis doe fet it downe Profoer Afoinus nnlu 
eth agamit it,and ^eweth that the fourth here fet downc.which in his bookc* plantiseloticis[ he faith hath red 
bladders,and fmall red berryes ,n themi, the right fort, as Diojcorides, Theophraflue and Pliny doe deferibe their 
%ol*numftmmferum to be. The fifth CMattbiolm calleth Solanum fomniferum altcrum and fo doe Corner^ 
Gefner y and Luedunenfis , c Dodon £ Hi calleth it Solani Uthali aliudgenus. The fixch is generally bv the Trahan 
ed f/ffalp , e ‘ cher k fr rdr.tiphrajin, becaufe it is blacke, orasth eCMoores doe account them faired that 
have the fineft blackeskinne.or as fome have reported,becaufe the Italian Dames, ufe the juice or diftilied water 
thereoffoi a/^.pc'adventurcby theexceffivecold quality, totakeaway their high colour and make them 
looke paler. Maithtolv.s calleth it Solatiummajrn, and fo doe Cafalpinu ,, and Camerarins ; Tragus Solanum hoT- 
fnlmlwrt’/ r r’ ft Solanum fomniferum, Doionam, and Clufim SolLmUthale and 
drfflf hal ‘Z : If’T S ° UnKm (y lv ‘ aic «™\ Angudlara, Guitaniinw, Dodonsm. F acinus, CordtumA othe^ 
doe take it to be Mandragorae motion of ThcophraHw .but not of Tdiofcotides, for they are fo much differing one 
o r frhe a or 0 her r 'Th t « 0U S hthe y had lived m two feverall worlds, to give names to herbes, the one not knowing 
The h fea, P f c Grrm ‘‘” es cM « Schlaffbeete and Dolwurtz-, it is called in Englijh,Dwale.or deadly TFiohtfhaS 
Th fi f nh “aketh mention of, in the fourth booke of his Exotickes, by the name of Solani bfdtci oemss ’ 
and ■Satthim, thereupon calleth it as I doe in the title, Solanum Indicum hirfutum corjmbiferum. The eighth we 
and' r n f > rC A asI(ald {’ efore ' to the kindes of Solanum, forthelikeneffeof the leaves, although much larger 
wfth Zr7 b °l h f ° r , thc C0 ‘° Ur 5 f the ftalkc > and from the col °^ that it giveth, for tl TlXus thefe- 
with doe both colour their skimics, and the barkes of trees wherewith they make their baskets and fuch like 
thrngs,as weareinformed = the Indians themfelvescall it an d y our £ngtjl peSat lwe“n Hr- 
hut We according to the Latine name, red Nightjhade of Virginia. The iaft Baulinw 
fccthfortm his Prodomus and 3W, under the title here exptelted, not being mentioned by any X 
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