Tribe 5. 
The Theater of "Plants. 
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' £-runctia Lactmatofolio fivcSymphitum pctt'xum LobeJij a 
Selfeheale with jagged leaves. 
and longer than thofe ofthe former: the heads of flowers 
at the tops are much greater than in the former, but made 
after the fame fafhion, with fmall browne leaves among 
the flowers, but greater and more open and difplayed, 
■which in fome are of a blewifh purple colour, in other 
( more pale, or almoft blew or pale blew: after which come 
1 foure fmall feedes fee together in a huske: the roote is 
I blackc with white fibres thereat (hooting forth anden- 
1 creafing new heads of leaves every yeare. 
4. Prunella magnet fore albo. 
Selfeheale with a great white flower. 
This felfeheale likewife differeth from the lad onely in 
: heade and flowers, for the fmall loaves are greenc, and 
the flowers white, as in the ordinary fort before, 
y. Prunella Laciniatofolio. 
Selfeheale with jagged leaves. 
The (hikes of this Selfeheale are likewife fquare 
and hairy as the leaves fet thereon by couples at the 
j'oynts, the lowed whereof are long and whole without 
any cut or jagge in them, all the red. being longer and 
narrower, are cut in or j’agged on the (ides, and the higer 
leaves more divided or cut: the heads are like thofe of 
the common fort, and of the fame forme and bignelfe, but 
varying in colour as both the former forts doe ; for fome 
plants are found with purplith flowers, others morede- 
iaied like blew, fome betweene blew and white, like an 
afh colour; others altogether white : the roote hereof is 
like the other, and encreafeth by the (hooting dririgs, that 
put forth frefh leaves every yeare. 
The 1 - lace. 
The two fird are found in woods and fieldes every 
where, yet the fecond much more feldome than the for¬ 
mer ■■ the third and fourth, and fo likewife the lad, on di¬ 
vers hills and parts of Germany and trance. 
The Time. 
The two fird forts flower in May, and fometimes in 
Aprill, the other fort, fomewhac later, as for the mod part 
all mountaineherbes doe. The Names. 
This is generally called Prunella (for it was not knowue to the ancient Greeke or Larine Writers, tbatcan 
yet be found) and TSrmella from the Germans, who called it Brumetlen, b caute it cureth that difeal’e whith they 
call die 'Brunt, common to fouldiers in campe, but efpccially in garifon, which is an inflammation of the mouth, 
throate, and tongue, with blackneffe therein, accompanied for the mod part with a drong burning feaver, and 
didraff ion of the lenfes : it is alfo called Confolida minor , and Solidaao minor, and of Camer.tr us Confolida minima. 
Label and fome others alfo with him, tookeitefpecially that withj'agged leaves to be Sy» phitum petreum of 
Tiofcorides which that it cannot be, you {hall heare the defeription thereofas T Hofccrides givctli it; (that is Sym. 
phitum petraum') groweth faith he in rockie and dony places, with Render fmall branches like Origanum, and 
with the heads and leaves of Time; it is all woody, fwelling fweete and pleafant in tade, yet drawing water in¬ 
to the mouth : and caufing one to fpit it out: the roote is fomewhat reddifh or browne, ofthe length of a finger ; 
yet fome coppies have, it hath branches like Origanum and fmatl leaves and heades like Time: this is Diofcorides 
his text: but this herbe Selfeheale.hath no wooddy dalkes,nor reddifh rootes,nor finelleth fweete except in fome 
places, nor doth it fo drongly confolidate or knit flefh together, as the great Gomfrey doth ; which is one of the 
properties Diofcorides appropriateth unto Symphytum vetrsum. Lobel therefore fird imagined that the Coris 
sjfylonjpelienjium Ihould be it; Bauhimss alfo after him faith he did, but afterwards he learned that Matthiolm his 
Symphitum petrsmmivjas much differing,his figure being of Coris lutca. The fird and fo the reft are called Brunella, 
by Brunfeljius ,ZJ odonsus and Label, by Tragus Prunella vulgaris, and fo by all /Authors,only as I laid before, Label 
in his Adverfaria calleth this laft, Symphytum petraum and Bauhinw Prunella Laciniato folio. 
The Vertues. 
The Selfeheale being fo like the Bugle as I faid in outward forme, is no Idle like it in the qnalitie and ver¬ 
tues being by the bitterneffe taken to be hot anddrie.and yet temperate in both degrees, and by fome thought to 
be rath er more cold, in regard it is fo powerfull tohelpefuchanhotfickncfleas the (germane difeafe, called die 
Bruen, which as hath bin in fome part faid before, commeth with inflammation and Iwelling both in the mouth 
and throate, the tongue rough and rugged or blacke,and a fierce hot continUall ague thereon, which is remedied 
ehiefely by drinking the deco&ion of this herbe continually,and wafhing the mouth often alfo therewith, having 
fome vinegar added unto it; but bloud letting mud: beufed in the cure, and that under the tongue, without 
Which it will not, or very hardly be effected: this herbe ferveth for all the purpofes whereunto Bugle is applied, 
and with as good fucceffe both inwardly and outwardly: for inward wounds and ulcers wherefoever within 
the body : for bruifes and falls, and other fuchgriefes, for if it be accompanied with Bugle, Panicle, and other 
the like wound herbes it will be the more effeftuall and to wadi or inj'edt into ulcers, in the parts outwardly, for 
where there is caufe to repreffe the heate and (harpeneffe of humours, flowing to any fore, ulcer, inflammation, 
fwelling or the like ; or to day the fluxe of bloud in any wound or any part, this is ufed with good fucceffe, as 
alfo to clehfe the fouleneffe of all fores, and to caufe them the more fpeedily to be healed: it is an efpeciall re¬ 
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