TR. IBE.3. 
The Theater of Plants. 
Chap.8. 251 
feed, of Pellitorpe ofthewall, but leffer: the roote is fmall, very white, and full o( /oynts, from whence it 
fhooterh forth and crcepeth every way under ground, quickly ljpreadinga great compalfc; the tafte hereof is 
fcflhewhat fweetifh and waterilh withall. 
a. Circealutetianaminor. Small Inchanters Nightfhade. 
This fmall Nightfhade is in all things like the former,but that it groweth much l'maller in every part although 
it grow in the fame places with it. ‘ r ‘ b 
The T lace , 1. Cireea lutttiana major. 
They grow in moifl and lhado wye places, andfome- The greater InchantetsNigbtlhaJe. 
times at the rootes of old rotten trees in woods, and 
fometimcs by the hedge (ides or borders of fields. 
The Time. 
n lane, give 
thi _ ) the ground 
afterwards, the rootes abiding fafe in the ground. 
thi 
Thefe were not knowne to any of the ancient writers, 
that we can findc, but are ufually in thefe dayes, called 
by all Herbarifts Circea, becaufe in the outward forme, 
it is like the CircaaotSDiofeorides : Lobel and Pern, call 
the greater Circaa Lutetiana, not knowing the leffer, 
we ad de major for a diftinftion between them,the former 
is called alfo Circaa Monfpelienfmm. Trayus calleth it 
Lappa, jjlveflrit , becaufe the (mail heads of feed, are 
rough like fmall burres, for he judgeth the Amaranthm 
minor purpureas to be the Circea of Diofcorides and Pli¬ 
ny. lohames Thalius in Harcynia fylva (which is joyned 
with Gamerarim his harm rffef/r:«-)calleth them Helxine 
fylveflrio, five flaviatilis major < 0 - minor , and faith that 
they are like in leaves, unto the Helxine, that is called 
Tarietaria. gefner in hortis (jermame, calleth it Ocima- 
flrum verrucarium (not being before knowne by any 
name ) becaufe the leaves as he faith, are like Baffin, and 
the rough heades, like unto rugged warts; Tabermonta- 
nw calleth it herba Di. Stephan ,; SBanhintu calleth the 
greater Solanifolia Circaa ditla major, as hee doth the 
leffer Solanifolia Circea Alpina , which Fdbiw Columna 
calleth Circaamimma. Many alfo have taken the Man¬ 
drake of Theophrafttu to bcCircxa of the ancients,becaufe 
he faith, it was fo called by fome in his dayes: and fome 
the c dManiragoras of Tbeophrajhu, to be this Circaa, and 
have attributed the vertues thereof unto it: but affuredly 
none of thefe herbes, nor that in the former Chapter,is 
anfwerable unto the defeription of Diofcorides his Cir¬ 
caa, for although he faith the leaves of Circa a are like 
tlier doe we know what it is. 
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