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Tbeatrum Botamcum. 
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faith hath but one leafe, unleffe the place be corrupted, whereof there is home doubt. Tragus calleth it Cotrlrd 
fylvefire, and VmfoUum j moll of the later Writers call it MmAjHm or VmUlium, onely BautAnm referrr h V 
the Lilmmcobvallitim' calling it Liliumconcilium minus ,but he fettcth it dowre in his Mattkolw that ,h? 
men ParnaJJi of Mdtthulm, whom Lugdmenfis and others doe follow, isthisZ/w/Wfawill fetfonh whirl, ("l 
be fo, th enLobcl, Dodomm, and all others, have bcene utterly miftakcn in' Gramen ParmlTi who all 
fame or thelike figure of gramen ParnaJJi, that Mattbiolw doth, and even Bauhinus himfelfe, caileth tha tGram, 
Parnaftalba flare, that hee faith, Label,Dodane vs and others call, Gramen Barnaf/l ,how can itthen he mifHu 
when all others and himfelfe agreeth to call it Grammy arnajji , and not Vmfelinm as they doe this- ind irdr' 
with what reafon or judgement can the Gramen ParnaJJibt this Vmfolium, when this hath never more than 
leafe nnttll it flower.and the gramen ‘TamaJJl is never without more leaves than one-' the Germans call it Sinbll 
and tile French Vne fueille, as we doe One blade. ciwiau 
The Vertues . 
■ alfe a dramme or a drammc at the moft in powder of the rootes hereof taken in wire and vinegar o 
equall parts, and the party prelently thereupon laid tofweate, is held to be a fowaigne remedy forWe rh, ‘ 
are infefted with the plague, and have a lore upon them, by expelling the poyfon and infeflion, and defending 
other e h rt h ndfpirl ^ fr T d t, anger ' 1C An 1 ? accoumed a good wound herbe, and thereupon tiled witfii 
other herbesmmaktng Inch compound Balmes, as are neceflane forthecuring of wounds, be thevfrefis ani 
OpbiogbJJum. Adders tongue. 
Chap. XVI. 
Ophioa/oflum jive Lingua ferpentina, Adders tongue. 
His fmall herbe alfo hath but ore leafe, which with the (hike, rifeth not above a fingers length above 
@1 the ground, being fat or fomewhat thicke, of a frefii greene colour, formed very like unto the head 
M ofa broad Javelin or Parttzan, orasfomedoelikcn it, to the leafe of the water Plantane but leffe 
w ! t - h ?‘! t “ y mldd, . e " bbc tber J ln • as a11 or m° fi other herbes have : from the bofomc or bottome of 
ai* *? ea C on jho tnfide, rifeth up a fmal] (lender flalke, about a fingers length, and fometimesthe 
half 1 ke 'f 1 lave t 'T° ^ ads tbere , n ’ and fometime three,or elfe abortive as Lobel t xprefleth one ■ the'ttppe” 
CO o!, V r e r e °^r T W la gS f r ' an J d 1 a! k were dcntcd ab&ut with fma11 r ™nd dents, of a yellowilh -re™ 
^th rhela? f g the m' ,g f e u" dder u l Crpalt ' Whidl nCver ft,eWeth any otbcr Bower, a " d falleth away 
the room Iffma l f ° Tfih V ’rj" W "j* C hath a PP ear , cd ’ without bringing any feede, that could be obferved^ 
° ot£1 ?{roalI and fibrous abiding under ground, and (hooting forth the next Spring, notperifhino in rhe 
V nter, although the leaves doe, Some have made hereoftwo other forts, one whofe leaves at the lower end is 
“foyle' E o“! nth£ ° ther;and which 1 doe account^nd 
The Place . 
Itgroweth in many moift meddowes of the land where the 
roote Jyeth covered with the grade,; 
The Time, 
with a little heate! “ M * h a " d P eriflieth 
The Thames, 
nlwif X ^ ritCrS have F u 't the Greeke name ociWa™, 
Oph,oglojfl«m hereunto according with the fatine Lingua ferpm. 
r„ or/^ w « M a8 tt ,s ufually called now adaye., for ft i, not 
found in any oftheanctent Greeke or Latine Writers, except it 
be the Lmgua or L.ngnlaca whereof P liny maketh mention in his 
*4. Booke and j 9 . Chapter, and in his 15. Booke and 11. 
tiapter, that growerh about fountaines, but becaufe he maketh 
no dcfcriptton of the forme, it is doubtfull whether it be it or no • 
for Lugdmenps referreth it to the Ranunculi pamine^ 
whereof I have fpoken both here before, and in my formed 
Book,and Dalebhdmpm as he faith,would make P liny his Lingua 
to beakindof Coryza pa/uftri, Jerrat folia. s ome alfo would 
^Cerga PhW,,mbis ad.Booke and 8 Xhapter, 
winch he faith hath but one leafe and a roote made ofnodes or 
b™rZ~ bmf j' S . not n' S; butas I fhall foew you fhortly, Fa. 
fl r”n doth mo(l P r °P er >y°f any other,referre his Cera:,a. 
Some alfo would make it Lu- 
that n m ° r ’ bUt We have anothc:r bcrbe properly called by 
tname.asyoufhallunderftand in the next Chapter • Arnett* 
am d ZTl which doth well agree hereto; 
n the Ch 111 hlS -* dz, ' r f" r,a LnAphyllum ; t ut becaufe the herbe 
- the chapter next going before,is fo called with inoflj thinke 
Ifinde r' en, r ?^ f ° Undtwoherbcs b >’ one ,iarae ’ a " d 
his sfreema '° 5 ° ° W them herein ’ £r ””M« makctlt tt 
c te-“*r ' as thinking it a fpecies of thatkinde: 
callcth n Vutneraria. Cefrer in kart. Lancea 
Cbrifii; 
