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hard but more reddifh at the roppe. This is very like the former dr annuall Goates beard if itbenocthe fame. 
Camerarm in his Horttu Median maketh mention of one with a white flower,which I never law yet nor heard vlonAlbt, 
of by any other. 
The Place. 
The firft was fent me out of Italy among other feedes, but from whence they had it I know not. The fecond 
as Battinnw faith groweth about Montpelier, and fo doth the fourth alfo. The third groweth in many places, 
)I both in Italy and Spaine, for I had feedes thereof out of Spaine, by my friend Bodies that gathered them : the lift 
I found in the Medowes about London, and other places of our land, but not fo plentifully as our greater 
i 1 yellow kinde: the fixth, feventh, .eighth and ninth, grow on the hills in Naples, as Calumna recordeth, both in 
y his Phytobafanos, ;and fiirpium minw cognttarum hifiorid; 
The Time. 
Thefe doe flower about the time of the others, which is in the end of May, ox mime, and the feede is ripe 
S fooneafter ibutallof them,except thefirft, doe abide greene the firft Winter after it is fowen, or dothrifeof 
i its owne fowing, and flowreth and feedeth the next yeare after: but the firft as 1 faid, flowreth and feedeth the 
i fame yeare, and mull be new fowen every yeare, for I never ktnwitfpringfrom any ieede, that itihed 
i icfelfe. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke, vf and ’tpctjondytr, Tragopogon, Tar ha hires and Barbula hire}, and Yttfttzryar 
Tar ha fenti, quod a calyee Jemma promt fee Inrci vel fenie harbor inftar pendent • fo fay both Diofcorides Z x\d Theo- 
phraftus, The firft came to me with the fame name, 1 have let with it in the title Tragopogon ajiivum : the fecond 
TSatihimt! cMcxhTragopogonfolio ohlongojirmato: the third, both Angttillara mentioneth, calling it AcorwThco. 
fbrafti as he faith others did, and Fabim Colttmna in his Phytobafanos Tragopogon laciniatis folijs. The fourth 
Tanhixus calleth Tragopogon tenutjjtme laciniatttm. The fift is called by Tabermontamu Barbula hirci minor, and by 
Taukinm Tragopogon gramineo folio radice villofa.lhe fixt Columna calleth Tragopogon Apnltim hirfutum humile-,m& 
Batthinus Tragopogon hirfutumflhe feventh Colttmna calleth Tragopogon Apulum humile hirfutum lutettm; the eighth 
Columna alfo calleth Tragopogon crocifolinm montanumfore nigra pttrpureoflnd Batthinus Tragopogon purpuro carule - 
vm crocifolium. The laft is called by Columna Tragopegon gramineo folio fttave rubente fiore. Jome have doubted 
that thisisnot the7"r^op«jji!«of‘Dw/con^aand Theophrajlw., becaufe the leaves of the tnoft of them are greater 
than the leaves of the Saffron, butnotwithftanding it is generally taken to be the tight, becaufe of the head of 
feede, which agreeth fo well thereto, as no plant elfe can doe the like; and befidcs Colttmna hath fet forth feme 
efthofe before recited, which agreeth better with Diofcorides and Theopbrafha Saffron leaves, than any of the 
reft, which therefore he taketh to be the trueft. It is called in Italian Safifrica-^nd with (omcSafffca,3nd barb a 
dibecco tin Spanijb BarbaCabrona,m&BarbadiCabron : in French Barba do bone : in High Dutch Bocksbarti in 
Loro Dutch Boexbaert ende Iofepht bloemen: in F.nglifh Goates beard, and goe to bed at Noone, or Noone tide, and 
of fome Starre of Ierufalem, and others after theDam^ word Iofepht flower : of fome alfo Saxifrage. 
The Verities . 
The rootes of the greater wild yellow kinde chiefely, as alfo of the other kinde* here fet forthbeing dreffed as 
aParfneppe.is more delicate and pleafant to the tafte in eatingtthe rootes boyled and dreffed (or asfomedoeate 
them raw) is a fine iallct like wife to be eaten cold, and are very acceptable to the ftomacke,helping to ftrengthen 
them that are growing into a confumption, or are become fpareand leane by fome long fickneffe : the diftilled 
water faith Tragus, is the moftprefent remedy that is to helpe inward impoftumes (fuch as is the Pleurifie ^ 
and all other paincs and flitches in the Tides t the Italians ufe it much and often againft all the griefesof the 
ftomacke, both to take away the heart burne as we call it ( which is an hoc and fharpe humour in the ftomacke 
fretting and paming.it) and doth helpe alfo in adejefled appetite, to incite and ftirre it up, as alfo againft the 
defefls of the breaft or liver, and to helpe to expell gravell and the ftone from the reynes, kidneies, and bladder, 
whereof the name Saffifrica, which is as muchasbrcakeftone, declarcth the propertie : fome doe hold opinion, 
that the purple and afhcoloured kindes being more bitter, aftringentand abfterfive, have a more binding and 
denting qualirie than the others, and are therefore onely to be ufed for medicament, and the others as nutriment, 
and that they onely are effedluall to all the purpofes before recited. 
Chap, XXIX. 
Echittm. W ilde Bugloffe, or Vipers Bugloffe,,' 
Lufm that painefull and induftrious fearcher of plants,hath given us the knowledge of many more forts 
of Vipers Buglofle as he hath dontof many other plants, than any before him; whereof I meane to en* 
treats in this place, and with them fome others alfo. 
i. Echittmvttlgare. The common Vipers Bugloffe. 
The common Vipers Bugloffe hath many long rough leaves, lying on the ground, from among which rife up 
divers hard round (hikes, very rough, as if they were thicke fee with prickles or fiaires, wherein are fet, 
fuch like long rough hairic or prickly fad greene leaves, fome what narrow, the middle ribbe for the moft part 
being white : the flowers ftandat the toppe of the (talkes, branched forth into many longfpiked leaves of 
flowers bowing or turning like the Turnefole, all of them opening for the moft part on the one fide, which are 
long and hollow turning up the brimmes a little, of a purplifti violet colour, in them that are fully blowne, but 
tnorereddifh while they are in the bndde, and not blowers open, as alfo upon their decay and whithering, but in 
fome places of a paler purple colour, with a long pointcll in the middle, fethered or parced at the toppe: after 
the flowers are fallen, the feedes ( growing to be ripe, and endofed in round heads) are blackifh, cornered and 
pointed fome what like unco the head of a Viper: the roote is fomewhac great and blackifh and wooddy. 
when it groweth coward feede time, and periiheth in the VVinter. 
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