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in a huske, flat at the bottome, the roote perifhethevery yeareTand muff benew fowen a°aine 
oCennthe minor flare alfo. White Honywort. 
This f‘mall Honywort hath divers weake and (mall branches, leaning or rather lying dowr.e noon the a 
fet with fuch like pale greene leaves, but leffer than the former, vvhofe white foots are not foeaK grCund > 
to be feene asm many of the other: the flowers are white long and hollow Sketliembmfo | P “T®” 8 
difli circle about the middle of the flower, and {landing with greene leaves,and 
wherein after they are part, come very likefeede, but not halfe To meat as the lad 7 tllcr «». 
flender, and white, perifhing every yeare after it hath given feede. ^ liltewifeis long. 
The Vtace, 
'ru c n 1 ne riace, 
Thefitftas C//#r faith, groweth generally throughout Artie* of Spume plentifully, and in feme , i 
Portingall alfo: the fecond is not knowne from what place it came hnr ,,, 9 Lpi„ ni aL j . in ^ aces of 
f. HogheUndKis garden : the thirdC/„/,» faith Sd in the K^'gdome of 
faith ltgrowech in Monte Talatino it 'floiw.as alfo in Germa n n rJ j in opaiae. Gefmrmhcrti, 
fotmd it in divers fields of AufirU and Stiria, where fometimes it would outdid a" Wma-Zd wf* X'n 
m Bohenra* and clivers parts of Hnnoary ; the fife and fivr Pmur in Hiv^r* c c V and faith 
them, by CndUume } Ll h,sdiligfncemfindi^them^uhere P ^ fro “ whence we had 
The Time, 
They doe all flower in 7«/y and ^kc«/?, vet fometimes fn Hr? . . i 
them but the red, ifthe yejre prove warmeaionrfi^and wet whhaM < rn rf 01 g c^ er gt f d of any of 
if the Sommer be drie to bring them forward the foonei npCn them ' ° r be not well watered 
quarto (forgicorum in thefe words, ‘ 00 ^ e aid 12 * Chapter, and Virgil i n 
-Thictu j ft [Jos ajpergefagores, 
Trita (JA'Ieliphjlla & Cerinthe ignobile of amen, 
and not granum as fome rcade it; whereby is underftood that it is a bafe nr „. Pr j P i . 
whereas grade, for fo divers herbes are named grade. Many learned men i weede or herbe, growing every 
about Pan,, where they nurfb it in their gardens have called , G /' m y ™ d France, efpeciaily 
ofniofemdes. Bodonaut fu PP° fi "g « t°be the tI 
C ?‘ whereof in his 4 6 4 Chapter, he maker!, five forts, and this to be the fourth^ burVtT?' fT't ° f 1^ 
/Avicm to meane no other herbe but eitheraiur Borage or Busloffe ■ he faith alfn rhi C/ ^ W(a,th tbath e ca keth 
the Leucographis P/ mJ , whereof hec maketh mention in his a 7 fiooke and 11 cl T 7 f' agree vvith 
fpotted white; fome alfo hec faith tooke it to be Memithali the Arabtl, Vut r/ are 
GUucmm Gracornm , Gefner, as I faid before in hmi, Germania {i rh ir c,n» ^ feppofeth that to be 
*r± M * ; a » d ^uhinm thereuponcallethit Cynogloffnmmental L cLr* if T^ O*’?*/** 
of Borage or Buglofle, whereof in temperature he faith it is neareft T)alccLVu^T'tT^Ti tothek,ncle s 
the, a cerco ipfimflorefic appe/lata : but the mold ufttall and common name w h^chv ?r°; C ^ ale ” li “ ,a to be Cerm- 
dayes is Cerinthe, and Pliny added, becaufe the moftand bed Herbaiifts dne rinnt/jr 1 8 gcnt;rall P callcd n ow a 
fcription. The firft is called Cerinthe major by Lobel^Camerariw and K J^ke P eonies neareft unto his-5e- 
vcrfialorc florc, and Banhinm Cerinthe feu Cynoololfum montanum ’main ■ w Cerinthe tjuarmiUm major 
whereof he maketh mention in his other Appendix, which is foyned to his Rnn^/fr^ IS h ' s kl ''ide, 
himt! calleth it Cerinthe folio non mncul.no viridi ■ the third Until, rslWlIr B ° t o ( Exot,cke things ; and Ban. 
•Bnnhinu, Cerintheflm/fiavorferiir : the fourth iscalledbv CluRufc^tT ^ ?“ r " W ‘ Iro ’"‘‘j"/**>&»■', and 
Cnmernrine and wij, Cerinthe ^ L ° M 
Clufius in his hiflory of plants, and called by Bnuhintts Cerinthe fore ruhro oZ’L c'f ^ C t o lr . d CmKti >e of 
taut, or remembred by any Author, * 1 we ^tngthl’Rrti'tovlhomiz vias'btouphr^t^P^iiJineU^ryn 01 P et J" x “ 
before remembred, The Vermes ' was brought out of Spume by Guillaume Boel 
They are all of a temperate qualitiebetweene cold and hot, but rather inri;n,'n„ g u j r , 
gent Wlthall, it is held good to flay the bleedings at the mouth or nofe ! 5 “ 3 " d fom f what a(lr; ”- 
and the fluxes or laskes of the belly, the herbe being boyled and viven r ft . a P"' om£ " s ^moderate fluxes, 
with a little faffron diffolved therein, is good for bleared and wfrerinoe drink ,: ^ tbe ,ierbe 
they are clenfed, to helpe to incarnate thej, efpeciallyfch “ d ^ l " e ^ 
apply it as a remedie whereuntoBorrage and BuglofTeare good. P/il, and b ,° dy S r onie doe 
tioned, did affirms that Bees are much delighted with the flowers bein/fwee^ * C P v,‘ aCCS beforeirlcn - 
morc then from any other flowers, doe gather both Hony and Waxe and r h™ ^ :m as or 
likely, tooke the name of Cerinthe, ' ’ d thereupon peradventure it is more 
Chap. X XIV- 
Sjmphitum majrn . Great Comfrey. 
IXr ff many / 0rtS0 J f J ^' Wcalled and Sclidago, that is major minormdmedia a mm 
j ’> a u er> ai 7 d a middle one : as alfo another kinde called Symphitttmpetr^m «-W»n*' 7 vV b 
the fields and ditches fides of our owne land, others nurftdup onely Sdens^Aus!^ ty g,CWi ” 6 W ’ Id ’ by 
I. Sjmphi- 
