5^8 Chap. 30, 
Theatrum Botantcum . 
lib 8 5 
port. Of the juice or water of the flowers of Cowflips,divers Gentlewomen know how to clenfe the skin fron 
( pots or difcolourings therein, as alfo to take away the wrinckles thereof, and caufe the skinne to become fmootl 
andfairc, the rootes made into a decodion and taken, eafeth the paines of the backe and bladder, opening thi 
paffages of urine which was the caufe thereof; they are likewife often ufed in wounds either greenc or old, anci 
that to very good purpofe. The Beares cares according to their name Sanicle, arenoleffe powerfull in healing 
then the common, as alfo for the palfie and trembling of the joynts, Clufiu faith that the mountainers that huni 
after wilde hearts doe life the rootes of Beares eares to helpe either paines in the head, or the giddineffe that 
may happen thereto, by the light of fuch fearefull precipicet or ffeepe places, that they mull often paffe by in fob. 
lowing their game, and are admitted as good Wound herbes as the former Cowflips. 
Chat. XXX. 
Alchymilla. Ladies Mantile. 
Nto the Sanicles fetdownein the Iafh Chapter, I thinkeit fitted to place this next unto it, becaufe: 
both for forme and quality it i, lo affuredly like it, that it is called of divers the greater Sanicle and: 
will adde thereunto another fort thereof, which hath not beene formerly well knownc. 
r. A/chymillamajor vulgaris. Common Ladies Mantle. 
Our common Ladies Mantle is very like to the former Sanicle, having many leaves riling from 
iding upon long hairv fnorpdalkes. ,___ _ & 
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theroote, danding upon long hairy footedalkes, being 
almodround, but a little cut in on the edges, intoeight 
or renne parts,more or lefle,making it feeme like a ftarre, 
with fo many corners and points, and dented round a- 
bout,ofalight greene colom, fomewhat hardin hand¬ 
ling, and as if it were foulded or plaited at the fird, and 
then crumpled in divers places, and S little hairy, as the 
flslke is alio which rifeth up among them, to the height 
of two or three foote,with a few fuch leaves thereupon, 
but fmalier,and being weakc is not able to Hand upright, 
hut bendeth downe to the ground, divided at the toppe 
into two or three fmall branches, with final! yellowifh 
grccnc heads, and flowers of a whitifh greene colour 
breaking out of them, which being pad.tlierc commeth 
fmall yellowida feede like unto Poppy feede, the rootc 
is fomewhat long and blacke, with many firings and fi¬ 
bres thereat. 
z. Alchymilla minor qitinqttefolil, 
Cinkefoile Ladies Mantle. 
This fmall Ladies Mantle, hath alfo a few fmallcr and 
fmoother greene leaves, riling fromthefmall blackcfi¬ 
brous roote, fetuponlong footeftalkes, but divided at 
the edges into five corners or points, and fomewhat 
deepelier dented about the brimmes then the former - 
from whence two or three fmall weake bending ftalkes 
doe rife, nothalfe a foote high : the flowers that grow 
at rhe toppes are fmaller, but alike according to the 
bignefle of che plant, and of the fame herby or greene 
colour. 
The 7 lace. 
. A'.ibymithtmajor vulgaris. 
Common Ladies Mamie. 
The firft groweth naturally in many paflures and wood fides, both in Hartford ml mltfhire , and in Kent a IfiT 
asm L ingwoodneetc Veverjham, m the paftures nigh Tidnam, and Chefflow, and in other places of this land-the 
ocher groweth on St. Bernards hill among the Smtzers. 
The Time. 
The firft flowreth in May and lane, the other not nntill Augufi but both abide after feede time,greene all the 
Winter after. & 
The Names. 
It was not knowne by name unto the ancient writers, as can be gathered, and although BrurflRu, and feme 
others thought it to be Leontopodtum or Lions foote, deceived by che name, becaufe divers nations have fo called 
it, from the forme or hkeneffe of the leafe yet is it not that of Diofcerides, as may plai.iely appeareby his de- 
fcnptton thereof. Itis ufually called Alchymilla by moft writers, becaufe as fome thinke the Alchymifls gave 
uch commendations of it. It is called alio of Matthiolm, Luedtmer.fi „and others Stellaria, from the forme of the 
leafe, chat with the corners refemble a ftarre, but there are divers other herbes called Stellaria by divers au- 
tliours, and fome alfo call this Tet LeonU, and Fata Leoni,: others call it Samcula major, not without good rea- 
fon. Cordm m htfiona de plants,, calleth it Drofera , Drofmm, and Pfadeion from the Germane name Simian be- 
caufe the hollow crumplings and the edges alfo of the leaves, will conraine the dew^n droppes like pearles.that 
ftl l'<y H Alchymida Alpina Quinquefolia. The Italians call ft Stellaria 
and Stellaherha The Trench Tieddelyon. The germane .c a8 1 Laid before S innate, and fome Lemnfafi and Vnfer'- 
rfmn lTnnTf'nm he °"f er And wein Eng/ijh Our Ladies Mantle, and great Sanicle,and 
iome Lions foote a or Lions paw 3 or Fadeljon after the French. 
The 
