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part as they thought did anfwer the defcription of the S take of the ancients; as alfo becaute thole plants may in 
the judgement of many be referred to the kinde of S cabions ( but more truely I fuppol'e unto Iacea ) which of 
j molt Phifitions of thefe later ages, is therefore accounted, called, and ufed for Stake- which.notwithllanding is 
an error great and intolerable, in regard S cabions is a fmooth herbe, vvii hour any fhew of pricke or thorne there- 
, on which the true S take hath , lo it is no leffe erronious to transferre the vermes of Stake to the Scabious } for as 
o Diofcorides andGalen after him doe affirme,Ste£* hath fo drying and aftringcnt a quality,that it wil Hay any flux of 
j humours or bloud in the bowells or belly, as alfo thofe of wounds, which I thinke was never found in S cabions. 
it. But that I may informe you, ( which to fome may feeme doubtfull ) that Stake hath a prickly ftalke, which is 
i: neither extent in THofcorides novGalens Coppies : let me fhew you it out of 7 heophraftus in his fixt Booke and 
T firfl Chapter where he numbreth Phleos, which as he faith, was alfo called Stake, (and not Thloum, whereof hee 
\ fpeaketh in his fourth Booke and eleventh Chapter,among thofe plants, that grow in watery and irorifn places; 
>/: the likeneffc of which tw6 words, hath deceived many, miftafcing them to be one thing,) among thofe plants, 
il that have a leafebelides the thornes on their flalkes, which fentence Gaz,a (as 1 fa id before) tranfhteth, that it 
C hath befide the prickly leafe, another leafe alfo by it, for Theophraftm in the fifth Chapter of the faid fixth 
■3 Booke, doth deny phleos , and Hippophaes to-have any prickly but a fmooth leafe, although in the third Chap~ 
& ter of the fame fixth Booke, he fee me th to fay, that Phleos,Tribulw, and Capparis have prickly leaves, be- 
[j fide the thorny flalkes, but both of them cannot be true. And herein Pliny hath fha me fully erred in con- 
: founding Theophraftm , making ph/eos and phleum to be one thing, and hath beenethe caufe of many o- 
{j timers errours alfo. Plutarch in the life of The feus about the beginning doth name Stake among the thorny 
[< plants, whofe words are thefe; Mcnalippi jilim loxm Ornito foetus deducenda in Cary am ColonU fit it joule /oxides 
| origincm traxerunt, quibus mos esh patruus, neque fpinis Afparagi, neque- Stakes igne era man fed honore & culm 
8 pofeqin. In Englijh thus, Ioxus the fonne of Menahppm was joyned with Ornitus, to leade forth a colony to 
|! Caryaf rom whence the loxides have their originall, whofe Countries cuflome it is neither to burne the thornes 
U of Afparagus nor of Stake , but to give them honour and reverence: thus much Plutarch. z/£tiw alfo in bis third 
( Booke and one and twentieth Chapter, remembreth Stake, faying that Epithymum, (or more truely Gladder) 
j groweth upon it. But now as I have fhewed you that the true Stake is a prickly or thorny plant, and chat there¬ 
fore neither Scabious nor this Stake is it.Let me here alfo fhew you what is the true Stake, which is indeedewor- 
[ thy the hearing,but that I referve it to a fitter place, that is among the thorny plants, where it is called PimpinelU 
sf ir.ofa , or Poterion, but I forbeare any farther to fpeake thereof in this place. The firfl of thefe here let downe, 
is called by fluf us Stake Salamantica prima, by Dodonaus AphyUanthes prim a, by Bauhinus Stake major folijs Ci~ 
ch iraceii mollibw lanuginofts. The fecond is called by C hi fits. Stakes Salamantica prima altera fpecies , by Lobe l 
Stabc arqcntea incana Aldroandi, by Glodonaus Aphyllanthes tertia, by Bauhinus Stake major folijs £rue a mo Hi but 
lanuginofts. The third is called by Clufus Stake Salamantica altera veltertia, by Lobcl Stake argentca Salamanti- 
ca minor , by Do don a us Aphyllantes quart a, by Bauhinus Stake calyculis argenteis . The fourth is called by Clufus , 
! Stake Gallic a and Auftriac a elatior,by Bauhinus Stake major calyculis non (plendentibus. The fifth is called by 
Clufus , Stake Auflriaca humiljs , by Gefner in colie ft ione ftirpium , (entanrij majoris fpecies minor , and by Bauhinus 
Stake incana Cyano fimiliitenuifolia. The fixth is called by Taberm out anus and Gerard, Iacea flare alfro, and by 
Bauhinus Stake calyculis argenteis minor. The feaventh is called by Alpinus lib.de plantis exoticis as it is in the title. 
The eighth is called by Ton a in his Italian B nidus , Cyanns jpinofus Creticus ,and fo alfo by Alpinus in lib . de exo~ 
ticis plantis: Clufus in his Auftuarium, to the other Appendix to his hiftory of plants, calleth it Stake peregrind a 
and faith that Jacobus Plateau , who fent him a branch of the plant, with the figure thereof drawne, having ga¬ 
thered it in the Garden of the Duke of Arefchote, in Bellomonte , called it Stake jfinofa fruticans. The ninth I 
have joyned with thefe Stakes as I faid before, rather then with the Storax trees as Bauhinus doth, calling ic 
Trntex rot undo argentco folio Cyani flore • for Pona in the lame place above faid, calleth it, Cyanus fruticoftis Cre- 
ticus , and is the fame plant that Honorius Bellas , in his fecond Epiftleto Clufus , as he faith, could not Iearne by 
what name they of Candy called it, and therefore he onely called it Pulcherrimus feutex, I have as you fee, fee 
it^ndthelaftwith the Jaceds, being neareft in likenefle to them, in regard thefe have all Icaly heads, as the 
laceas have; which are not feene in any Scakions. The lafl Pona in the defcription of Mount Baidas fii A called 
Stake capitata Rofmarini folijs K but after in his ltdlian booke, he calleth it Chamapitys fruticofa Cretica Belli , and 
by them of Candy called id eft ftignumfat idtrn ,and by Bauhinus Iacea fruticans V inifolio, and is thought 
to be the Chamapeuce P lir.ij of Anguilara. The Spaniards as Clufus faith, call the firfl by the name C akefuela , id 
eft , capitulum a little head, and ufually make broomes thereof to lweepe their houfes,the learned Phifitionsthere 
as he faith, ufe the third fort inftead of Scabious for all the purpofes thereof. 
The Vertues. 
The mod of thefe forta 3 but efpecially the three firfl,do come fomewhat nigh unto the qualities of Scakionszni 
therefore I mud referreyou thereunto, to know both what remedies may be had from thefe plants, and in whac 
manner,and to what purpofe to be ufed Tor as S cabions fitteth the parts whercunto it is applyed,fo doe thefe alfo 0 
C H A P. V I I. 
Ftarmicxnon vulgares. Vnufuall Sneefeworr, 
Have here I promifed before, brought to your knowledge thofe other plants, that comming 
ncereft uiitd the Iacea's and Stakes , and yet being none of them, were fitted to be entreated of in a 
Chapter peculiar by themfelves; for as I faid although Bauhinus doth put thefe two forts under the 
title of laced oleafolio, and reciteth their authors for them, who are chiefely Lobe l and Clufius, yet 
I cannot fiod&,by the fame authors, as well as by mine owne fight and knowledge, but that they are 
differing plants, from bath island Stabe, but I would not have you conceive, that any of thefe Ptarmicds is 
that,which growth wild with us. in divers places;for I meane to bring it into that Claflis that is fit for it,namely 
thatofhot, fharpe, and biting herbes^ the double kinde whereof, I have fet forth in my former booke. 
I. Ptarmica 
