2 ChAP.I^* 
Theatntm 'Botamcum. 
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unto QluJim, Imperatw alfo it is likely 'had it from thence, by the fame name of Dorycniiim, for fo BauhixHs 
faith,he called it, and Alpinus in his booke dephmtisexoticis, faith thatthey of Candy doe call it Dorycninm. Yet 
Pom doth not account it to be the right,but rather tbinketh it to be a Convolves, and calleth it Convolvulus rettus 
CrcticHs. Luydunenpj calleth it Cneorum album Dalabtmpi], and Banhims in his Pinax calleth it, Cntorumal. 
The Vert lies. 
There hath notbeeneanyexperiencemadeofanyofthefeplantes, fo farreas I can underfland, that they be 
effeftualltoany Phyfrcall ufe, and therefore I can fay no more of them; for feeing none of them arefoporiferous, 
as Diofcorides his Dorycninm, or venemous, and was accounted as ftrong a Toxicant, to dippe their arrowes heads 
in, to kill wild beads, asany other; I cannot appropriate the virtues olDorychinnm, to any of thefe plants. Yet 
Galen accounted it onely like unto Mandrake and P eppy,for the cooling property,and only dangerous if too much 
were taken thereof, in provoking too much fleepe. 
Ch»p. XIII. 
Hyofcyamm, Henbane. 
nade mention, but of three kindes of Henbane, the one blacke, the other 
white, and the third yellow; which denominations are not taken from the colour of the herbeor 
flower, but of the feeder but there hath beenefome other forts found out of later times; all which 
^ thinke meete to fet downe in this Chapter together. 
r. Hyofcyctmusvttlgaris. Common Henbane. 
Cur common Henbane, hath very large, thicke,foft,woolly leaves, lying upon the ground, much cut in or 
torne on the edges, of a darke or evill grayifh greene colour, among which rife up divers thicke and foft flalkcs, 
two or three foote high, fpread into divers fmaller branches, with foir.c lcffer leaves on them, and n any hollow 
flowers, fcarfe appearing above the huskes,and ufually torne on the one fide, ending in five round points,grow¬ 
ing one above another, ofadeadifh yellow colour, fomewhat paler towards the edges, with many purplifh 
veines therein, and ofa darke yellowifh purple in thebottome of the flower, with a fmall pointell ofthefame 
colour in the middle, each of them [landing in a hard clofe huske, which after the flower is pad, groweth very 
like (the huske of the Pomgranet flower, bur that is not fo well knowne unto us) the flower or huske of Aftra 
bacca, and fomewhat fharpe at the toppe points, wherein is contained much lmall feed, very like unto Poppy 
feede, but ofa duskye grayilli colour, the roote is great white,and thicke, branching foith divers wayes under 
ground, fo like unto a Parinep roote, but that it is not fo white, that it hath deceived divers,as you fhall heare 
by and by; the whole plant more then the roote, hath an heavie evill foporiferous Inrell fomewhat oflen- 
five. 
i. Hyofcyamus nige' vel vu Igaru. 
Common or while Henbane. 
3. Hyofcyamus Crcticns. 
Henbane oicandyc. 
a. HjofcyawM 
