Tribe 5. PheFheater of "Plants. Chap,13 503 
The Place . 
The firft ufually groweth in driefandy grounds, as m Tuttle fields by fVcflmmjhnr, and divers other places of 
the land: it was wont to be planted and nourifhed up in gardens in Italy, France, and other places, where the 
people more delight in grecne and fallet herbes chan we in this countne doe, becaufe it was in frequent tile to be 
eaten by them: the fecond as Column* faith, groweth on the rockes m the Hand P rocky,* ■ the third hee faith 
likewife groweth in many untilled grounds in the Kingdome of "eare the lea fide, and fo doth the fourth, 
1 neare the lea fide, but particularly in what countrie is not exprefled : the lad groweth every where almoft round 
3i about London, in any moift ground, or the foote of bankes, where there is any low trench or rill, that is not con¬ 
ic tinually filled with water. The Time, ■ . 
They all flower and feede in May, Inn:, and My, and their greene leaves abide trefia in a manner all the 
ij Winter. TheNames. 
\t is cMeiinGreekeMwoi:*! firowpui, acorvino pede quemejfigiaiit folia, faith Petit, that is Crowfoote, 
v whereunto the leaves are like, which name the Latines doe hold, as alfo Cornu cervi mcervimm, and Herb* 
1; Stella, both of them, from the pofture of their leaves. Some alfo call it, Hannan.t and Sangmnarta mSangmna- 
i; lie, the one from the place of hts growing, the other from the effefts or properties. There hath beene much doubt 
■ formerly, what herbe (hould be the true Coronopus of Diofcorides, for the name fignifymg a Crowes foote, dc- 
>' ceivedmany and led them into that errour, to thinke thatthe herbe called Pet commas, and Pet aaUinaccus 
[ fhould be it; among whom arc not oncly the Comentators upon Awccn, but Ern-nfelfim alfo of late dayes, who 
1: carried away rather with the currant ofthetime, and thefignification of the name, than with the opinion of 
C others that contracted it, and without the due examination of the herbe it felfe held this opinion, whom Mat- 
il thialas juflly reprehencleth therefore, (hewing that it was a fpecies of Ranunculus, that wasgeneially called Pet 
Ii continue, and Pet eaUinacem, which is an exulcerating herbe, and not this Corompw which Hiofcor.de, ma¬ 
il keth a fallet herbe familiarly eaten, and alloweth of Cfolonardw Ferrarienfis his judgement, that let downc this 
1 HerbafMle or Cornu cervimim, to bethe true Coronofen o (‘Diofcorides. Matthiolus contefteth alfo againft Lem. 
! term that tooke a kinde of "rafle,called gramen Marine cfculentum, and Pentadabiylon, which hee faith was cal- 
I led by his countrimen and Sanguinellt in Matthiolus countne, to be the Coronopus of Diofcorides j which 
grafleas he faith, although it hath fivefmall fpikes growing at the toppes of the flalkes, which 1 eing opened re- 
lemble in fome manner, the foote ofa Crow or other bird ( as thereupon tooke the name VemadaEljlon, of five 
fingers of a fpread hand) yet this hath no divided leaves, neither is a fallet herbe for men to eate, but oncly being 
a grade ferveth as hay for beaftes: there is alfo another controverfie among divers, what herbe Theophrastus 
fhould meane by his Coronopus (which Gaza tranflateth Solidago, and) which hec placeth among the prickly 
plants, whom Vliny alfo herein followeth in his 21.Bookc and 1 6. Chapter ; and yet in his 22. boo! e making 
mention thereof, aoth not fpeake of any prickles it bath, following peradventure Diofcorides text therein; but 
CMotthiolus to excufe Tbeophrajius his prickles in Coronopus, fuppoleth that the j'agges or divifionsof the lea ves 
o f Cornu Corvinum , might be taken or miftaken by Tbeophrafhts to be thornes ( he might as well iay homes) or 
prickles, although they be not hard nor fharpe: and therefore judgeth the Coronopus, both of Diofcorides an d 
Theophraflus to be one paint; which thing although with Matthiolus I thinke to be true, yet doe I not thinke his 
reafon therefore to be true ;but if 1 may give my judgement thereof, I thinke it more probable that Theophralius 
might Ice fuch a Coronopus, as Fabius Columna calleth InfuLe Prochyt£, which hath fharpe and prickly edges; (as 
is before faid in the defeription thereof) and therefore placed it inter aculeatas ; and Diofcorides fuch as wc iilu® 
ally have, which grew in milder places, and is a tender herbe, ufedto be eaten; and hereby as I thinke they 
may be reconciled together. The firft is called Coronopus fativus , by Cordus , Cjefner , Cameranus ai d others, and 
hortenfis by Bauhinus jbeezufe it was familiarly fowen in gardens for meate, and Herb a Stella, as I laid before, 
by LobelfDodonaus and others, and Cornu cervi , and (fornu cervinum • yet the fame herbe is alfo called fjlveflrjs t 
being found wild by divers, both the fame and other Authors: the fecond is as I faid called Coronopus InfuU Pro- 
chyu> by Fabius Columna, and by Bauhinus Coronopus filveftris hirfutior : the third the fame Column,a calleth Coro- 
nopus Neopolttanus tenuifolius minimus y and minimus tenuifolius maritimus ."the fourth Bauhinus fetteth forth Under 
the name exprefied in the title: the laft is thought by fome to be the Coronopus of ‘ Diofcorides • but called by fome 
‘ Nafturtium verrucarium: yet is generally called foronopus re f ens : buc Dotbrieus thinketh it fitter to be cal¬ 
led P feudo coronopus, or elfe Cornu cervi alterum vulgi\ the upright plant is Matthiolus his Ambrofa^ and Lobe Is Am - 
brojiaJpontanea flri^ofior, and Bauhinus himfelfe puttcch it for a fecond AmbroRa , becaufe it is figured upright by 
tJMatthiolus and Lobel. The firft is called by the Italians Herba fella and Coronopo, by the Spaniards Guia- 
bella , by the French Come de Cerfynd piedde cornolle ;by the Germans Krauwenfuf by tbe Dutch Hertzharren,wc 
in Englifb call it Bucks home. Harts borne, and Bucks home Plantane, and of fome Herbe Ivye, and Herbe Evej 
Gerard calleth it Swines Crefles,but I do rather call it W art Crefles according to the Latine name that iome give 
from the forme of the huskes of feede. 
The Vert ties] 
Buckshorne Plantane boiled in wine and drunke, is an excellent remedy for the biting of a V iper or Adder 
(for I hold our Englifb Adder to be the true Viper, both by the forme thereof, the teeth it hath with poifonin 
the gummes, being deadly and dangerous upon the biting, and by the breeding, which is of quicke young ones, 
and not by eggesas fnakes, dec.) by laying fome of the herbe to the wound : the fame alfo being drunke, helpeth 
thofe that are troubled with the ftone in the reines and kidneyes, not that it breaketh the ftone or expelleth it, 
but by cooling the heate of the parts, and (lengthening the backe andreynes: it ftayeth likewife all bleeding?* 
and eruptions of bloud, whether at the mouth or nofe, either by urine or the ftoole, and helpeth the la, ke of the 
belly and bowells, and the difentery or bloudy fiaxe; it helpeth much alfo thofe that have weake ftomackes, and 
are much given to calling, not containing their meate ; and this the herbe doth well, but the roote more effeftu- 
aily. P aulus genet a in his feventh Booke writeth, that it helpeth thofe that are troubled with the collicke; of 
which fome make a doubt, that it might be an errour of the Writer in miftaking the word, but that he in the 
fame place, prefently after that he hath (hewed, that thejLarke is a remedy for.the collicke adioyne:h this alfo, 
that the rootes alfo of Coronopus doth helpe the cholicke; it hath beene held profitable for agues, to weaken their 
fits,and to take them away, to hang the tootes with the reft of the herbe about the necke, as nine to men^n 
