420 Chap. 34, 
Theatrum Potanicum. 
Tr 
I B E.}. 
The Place and Time. 
Both thefe forts grow in low and wet grounds by rivers and waters (ides, their flowers, as is faid, rilin»and 
decaying, that is, inWtw; or CMmch before the leaves appeare in Apritt. ° 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke and IPeufitee a lfo in Latine, deduced <r Tetaf., idefl, magK o g dero iu ut vicem 
galert fupp/ere poffit. Some take it to be Iphmm ot Theophraji,,, . and fome to be PerfLta or FerfcUu of Pliny 
7Z r Z’“, m “ ore £°“L? 0n and the ^fesmina 1 but in his Epitome upon MeutMm. L 
and call the greater fort major. The /recall it Capelin. \he SpyLrib Sombreru- 
the French Herbe aux ttputfx ; the Germans Peftilent *, rsurtx. ■ the Hatch ‘DockJUdcrcn. 
The Vertues, 
Therootes hereof are hot in the firlt degree, but as Galen faith drie in the third, and are by Ion? experience 
found to be very ava.leable againft the plague,and peftilemiall fevers by provoking fweat, if the powder thereof 
be taken in wine; as alfo refiftetlnhe force of any other poyfon; the roote hereof taken with Zedearia and Ante. 
geUca or without then.• helped, the fuffocation or riling ofthe mother : the decoftion of the roote in wine beL* 
taken is (ingular good for thole that wheefe much and are (hort winded : itprovoketh urine alfo and women! 
courfes, and killeth the flat and broad wormesm the belly : the powder ofthe roote doth wonderfully helpe to 
drie up the moifture of fores that are hard to be cured and taketh away all (pots and blcmilhes in the skinne P 
Chap. XXXIV. 
Polyrhizos Virginiana. The rattle Snakewceke of Virginia. 
|His plant of ^wVt.fo certaine a remedy againft the biting of thatvenemous rattle Snake, as thev 
® call it which breedeth in Virgima^uVt not be forgoiten among the reft, for it is a Counterpoifon, to 
. be compared, andlthinke preferred before any the foreremembred molt loveraigne plants againft: 
poyfons: whofe defcription as farre forth,as hath yet come to our obfervation, is this: It rifeth up 
with divers fmall fquare ftalkes, fpreading not much above halfe a foote long,whereon are fet divers 
duskifh hoary greene leaves,fomevvhat rugged as it were with many veines.and fomewhat re(emblin« the leaves 
of Piftolochh , whereunto it may be referred butfmaller,fet without order one a* a joint:the flowers'orow more 
at.the bottome of the ftalkes next the roote than on the branches as the P>Jlolocbia doth , and aienot much unlikeit 
but of a darke or fullen yellow colour, and fomewhat lefle alfo; after which come very fmall heades with feede * 
fomewhat like to the Piflolocbia but letter: the rootes are a number of very fmall blackifh gray fibres or 
threds,as lmall almoft ashaires, which haveboth an aromaticall and refinous fmcll, when thev are drie more 
than when they are greene, and of an aromaticall refinous aftringenc tafte, without any great or manifpft 
Polyihiio: Virginians. The rattle Snakeweede of Virginia. 
- _ The Place. 
c groweth very frequent in the upper parts of our Virginian plantation, in the fields and rhamnirmrnnnn-.v 
to ... “The Time. 
I: Howreth with us in Ime and Iulj. 
• The Names. 
^ Ittbrit 
