Tbeatrum Botarncum. 
RIB 
choller and flegme, and being boylcd in wine, it is good againft the Ringings of Scorpions, to be as well drunke 
as laid upon the place that is Hung : the fame alfo boiled with Cummin and drunke, helpeth them chat are trou¬ 
bled with the ft one in the reines or kidnies or bladder, provokcch urine and womens courfes, caufeth aneafie 1 
and fpeedy birth, when they are in traeell; it killeth the wormes of the belly both long and round, it the herb- i 
and feede of the Idler kinde be taken with Hyffope, Creffes, and Nitar. Tlir.y faith 'that the Man in his time 
held this opinion, (idle as many other his relations are) that foure graines or ieedes ot his Turnelole dtunke in 
wine, an houre before the accelle orthe fit of the quartaine ague doth cure it, and that three graines drunke in 
the fame manner will helpe the tertian : the leaves bruifedand applyed to the places pained with the gout, or 
that are out of/oynt, and being let are full of paine, doth give much eafe, as alio for children that have the difeafe 
called SjrinJis , which is an inflammation of the parts about the braine, and the tmicles thereof j the feed of the 
lead kinde (but the greater will doe the fame alfo) and the juice of the leaves alfo being rubbed with a little (alt 
upon warts, lwollen wens, and other hard kernels or excellences, in the face, eyc-lids, or any other parts of the 
body, will take them away, by confuming them a little and a little, with often uling it: The dying or colou¬ 
ring Turnefole is alfo good againft all venemous creatures, and chieffy againft that great Spider Phalanainm and 
tocaulc the (ling of Scorpions to be without danger or paine, being applyed thereto : it is laid alfo that if*one 
make a circle upon the ground, round about a Scorpion with a branch of this Turnefole, it fhall not he able to <>ec 
out of the circle, but if any fhall touch the Scorpion therewith, or C3fl any of the herbe upon ic. it fhall prefently 
dye: we have no other ufe of thofe clouts that are dyed with the j’uicc thereof, then to colour gellies or tarts or 
any ocher fuch things which are frequent in many great mens houfes at Tcftivall times. 
Ch AP. XIII. 
'Vrtica. Nettles. 
I Shall in this place onely (hew you thofe Nettles that are flinging, as peculiar for this Claffis or 
Tribe, but if I were to write an univerfall compacted hiftory together, which the method I have 
J propofed doth not permit; I would then in this as in all others,joyne all th efpecies under one genw 
‘ and (hew y, 011 / 11 c ^ e diverficies of them, as well thole that are fharpe and flinging,as thofe that are 
* ~ ° uc ca . , Dea ? ^ ecc ^ es > a °d in them fuch as fmell well, and fuch as (linke, and luch as are 
Ipotted, and luch as are without lpots, and fo like wife their variation of colours in their flowers,which becaufe I 
cannot in one, I mull doe in leverall places of this worke. 
i. P'rtica Romand. The Romane Nettle. 
The great Romane Nettle groweth up with many round hairy branches, rather leaning downe then Handing 
upright, fomctimes riling to be of foure or five foote long, fpreading into many branches, whereon at the joynts 
■». Vttica Komcina. , 
• Vrttcamjorv ‘Igaru. 
The Romans Nettle. 
The greater wilde Ncrtle. 
