Tribe 5- 
The Theater of Tlantes. 
Chap.8. 483 
4. Cjunm Bdtticmfkpinus, The Spmiji Come flower. 
This sptmifh kinde hath many fquare low bending or creeping ftalkes not (landing fo upright as the former, bsis 
6. Cyanus minimus repent angu/tifoltus. 
The fmalleft Corne flower of Montpelier* 
branching out more diverfly, fo that one plant will take up a 
great deale of ground, the leaves are fomewhat broader,foftcr, 
and of a paler greene colour, then of the common. fmall kinde, 
but not much or deepely gafhed on the edges; the flowers (land 
in bigger heads alfo, and with foure or five leaves under each, 
of a light purple or blufh colour, after which come white feed 
like thereunto alfo, but not fo plentifully, yet wrapped in a 
more downy fubLlance, the roote groweth downe deepe and 
perifheth likewife every yeare as they doe. 
5. Cyanw reports latifolius Lobelij'. ' 
Broad leafed French Come flower. 
This Cyanus that Label and Tena in their t Adverfaria have 
fet forth, whofe taftc is vefy bitter and unpleafant, hath divers 
weake hoary and trayling branches not (landing upright, about 
a foote and a halfe high, whereon grow divers hoary leaves, 
fomewhat long and narrow, and fomewhat like unto thofe of 
Lavander, but harder in handlings the top of the (lalke which 
is branched forth, grow feverall fcaly heads like unto the other 
Cyani, whofe flowers are like unto them, but of a fadder or 
deader purple colour, then in any of the other forts; the roote 
is about a fingers length. 
6 . Cyanus repens anguflifolius Jive minimus , 
The fmallefl Come flower of Mompelier, 
This finalleft Come flower,hath like wife divers weake (len¬ 
der yet hard hoary and twigged (lalkes, whereon are fet divers 
fonaller leaves then the lad, but hoary in the fame manner ; at 
the toppes of the branched (lalkes,(land many fcaly heads,much 
leffer then any of the forts of Corne flowers; from whence 
grow fuch like flowers, but of a fadder or deader colour: the 
feedes are like the fmaller ordinary kindes, and the roote is 
fmall,long and wooddy. 
7. Cyanus CreticwJpinofw, 
Prickly Corne flower of Candy'. 
The lower leaves of this Corne flower are jagged and very 
hoary, but thofe on the hoary branches of the ftalkes are leffe 
or not at all,they ending in long lharpe prickes or thornes with 
final! blufh-coloured flowers like the others forts but fmaller, the roote is long and fomewhat thTcke enduring 
manyyearcs: The P lace. & 
The firft groweth naturally upon fandy hill in Germany, but is ufually cherifhed elfewhere in Gardens; The 
fecond with blew flowers in many corne fieldes of our owne land and fome of the other colours alfo; The third 
as is (aid in Turkic, and thd fourth in Spaine, firft found and fent unto us by Doftor 'Bee!, who is now refident ac 
Lijbborne. The fifth growethunder the branches of the Sefeli pratenjis by Sella nova neereunto CWompelper, and 
the fixt thereabouts alfo, and by Cajlrum novum not farre from OVlompelier, as Pena and Label doe fet them downe 
in their Adverfaria ; the three laft and the other woolly fort in Candy, 
The Time, 
They flower and feede in the Sommer Moneths when the other doe. 
The Names. 
It is called War©- Cyanw, aflorU Cyaneovel caruleo colore. Inthelnfancy of Herbarifts, Tragus who knew 
not well what to call the firft, referred it to the Verbajca , and called it Verbajculum, but now it is generally cal¬ 
led hy all Herbarifts, Cyamu mayor - fome adde thereunto hortenjis, and others Montanw, yet Hermolaw taketh 
it to be Leucoium of Diofcoridcs, and Cstfalpintu to be a kinde of Strutbium , whereof Theophraftus maketh men¬ 
tion: Fabim Columna judgeth it to be that kinde of Papaver which Theophrafitu calleth Heracleum, and Lobel 
maketh a doubt whether it may not be accounted a fpccies of ChondrilU. The fecond fort that groweth in the 
Corne is called Flos Frumenii and Baptifecula or 'Blaptifecula, of the turning the edges of fickles,in cutting downs 
the Corne for Secula was taken for a Sickle in ancient time. The third was fent us out of Turkie, by the name 
of Ambreboi, which whether it be a Turkijb or Arabian name I know not, the Turlies themfelves as I heare, doe 
generally call it the Sultans flower andfodoe I, but that I adde odor at w for the fweete fent of the flower. 'The 
fourth was fent by Soc/under the name of Iacea Batica, but becaule I finde it better agreeing with Cyanus then 
Iacea; I have inferted ithere. The two next forts are called Cyanus fupinHS & repens by Lobel inbis Adverfaria. 
The Candy kindesarc mentioned by A/pinus in his Booke de exotich. 
The Vertues. 
The powder of the dryed leaves of the greater blew Bottle, or Come flower, is given with good fuccefle to 
thofe that by fome fall are much bruifed, and for them alfo if they have broken a veine inwardly, and voide much 
blood at the mouth, being taken either in the water of Plantaine, Horfetaile, or the greater Comfrey. . It is ac¬ 
counted a helpe or remedy againft the poyfon of the Scorpion and Phalanglum, and to refiff all other venomes 
and poyfons. And therefore Placemius affirmeth it to be excellent good in all peftilentiall feavers,and of itsowne 
power, to be powerfull againft the pi ague or peftilence, andall'other infedlious difeafes, either the feede or 
the leaves taken in Wine, The juice is lingular good to put into frefh or greene wounds.for it doth quickly foder 
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