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heir prime, and each of them [landing in a brownifli huske, 
15 >arted at the toppes into five points, and fpotted with five 
/ dackifh fpots, on the outfide, wherein afterwards groweth 
fihefeede; which is fmail round and blackifli, wrapped up as 
s t were in many coates or filmes, whofe huskes then doe grow 
sfomewhat hard and fharpeat the ends, when as Jjefore, 
iivhile the flower lafted, they were not fo; the roote is reddifh, 
Bind; hard, or wooddy, greater than the proportion of the 
plant fliouki feeme to require; giving a dye or colour, not one- 
y to the fingers of them that touch it, but ferveth alfo to 
lyelinnencloathes withall, forthofe where it groweth na- 
.tirafly this alfo abideth the winter, although the leaves are 
:hen more reddifh than in Summer, but requireth foraecarc 
to preferve it with us. 
The "Place, 
The firfl groweth in many places in Italy , in dry grounds 
and hils, as Matthiolm faith, and Tena feemeth to confirme the 
fame, in giving a more exa& difeription thereof, thanc^/k/- 
r hiolw did : Camerarim faith it groweth by Carara , a Village 
in Liguria : the fecond in Candye : and the laft neere Mom - 
\pelier, and the parts thereabouts, as Ten* faith, and Clu(ius 
faith, he found it in the dry grounds about Salamanca in 
Spaine, and neere the Sea alfo in Valenti a , and by OUompc- 
lier. 
The Time, 
~~ They flower early in the hot Countries as Clufiw obferved, 
to be as well in \JMarch in fome places, as inCMaj in others^ 
but late with us, and feldome doe perfect their feede. 
The Names. 
ItiscalledinGreeke Kcexs, and as Diofcorides faith, of fome 
in his time Hypericum , and in Latine Coris alfo s oh pulchritu - 
dinem videtur difla, nam n'opn virgo puettave did potuir, faith 
Pena, quia teta pttlchella, & perquam hilarii eft • verum Hippo - 
crates & antiejui t pupiUam vocarunt, propter femen h 
cculi pupilUy feu anteriori humori crijlallino 9 amhitu Jpha- 
rico hand ahfimile.cujufmodi in hac Monfbeliaca cernitur. The _ , r ^ » -s 
firfl: is called Cori, Matthioli, by Camerarim, qefrerinhortis, Lacuna, Lomceru j, Label, Lugdunenfif, 7 abermon. 
tan us and others: Bauhinm calleth it Coni, lute*. the fecond Honbriw Bella,, In his firfl Epiftle to Clufim, calleth 
Coris leoitima, Brice Jitnilis,3,nd contefteth againft Bellonius for that in his firfl: booke of Obfervations, and 17. 
chap, he faith, that the roote of the Coris which he found in Candy, having yellow flowers, is very unplealant, 
whereby Bella, doth prefume that Bellonita did never fee this true Corn, for the caule atorefayd; that is, the un~ 
pleafantnefleof the roote,but that it was Afcyrumfci/icetfetidum which BelL^ushw, and called it Com- and 
therefore I alfo fufpeft, Bauhinu, hath not io rightly referred, Homrim Bellas, his Corn hgmma to this firfl 
Coris Matthioli but fhould rather have made it agree with the Monfyclsaca or Lhif amca, oi Lobel maC lajius, 
in regard of the manner of the growing and pollute of the leaves -. the other is called Corn Monjjtcltaca by, 
T'xa and Lobil in their Adverfaria, and io alfo by Corner arm and Tabermontanas and by Clufiut Com quorum 
dam. Eanhinus calleth it Coris cerulea maritime, and faith that although C/vjiw did fufpeft that the Symphytum pc. 
trssum of CMatthiolus, was this Coris, yet affurcdly, faith he, it was a differing plant , and was brought him from 
r _i__1___ ViVo rl arnin C.LtiSiM faith that the Spaniards did call it P inf el intncic 
u\eum or cjnattmom. was mis uora, yet anuicuiy,iaiui r-—... g. ri • . . 
the fame place, where Matthiolus laith his did grow. Clufm faith that the Spaniards did call itPmfel ini thei 
language: and Bellas faith that they mCandje called his fort Orpiloeorto, tdeft, herbaorpilo. I have given 
_/:_ 11 _ -l_ijin.™, dirh fir V.r.ohth names, as 1 thinke an 
language: and Beaus laitn tnat tney in c,armje cancu msxo.L . r * 
unto thefe, fo well as unto the other in the lall Chapter, iuch fit Enghfb names, as I thinke are proper unto 
them. 
The Vertues. ,. 
The Corides efpecially that of Montpelier, is hot and bitter, and fomewhat fweete in fent withall, and is very 
good to provoke Vrine, and womens courfes that are flopped, and fortheftrangury, if the bla er e no! ™ * 
cerated, if the feede be boyled in wine or bn, ifed and drunke. therein , the decofen thereof or thefeede it 
felfcdrunke is a remedy for thofe that have becne bitten with the venemous Spider ctilcd Phalangium, a 
for thofe that are troubled with the Goute or Sciatica,to be bathed therewith/* made into an oyle.or' 
it helpeth alfo the fhiveriags or (haking fitsaf agues, taken with femePepper: ItB^“^nwlShC. 
ments and falves, that are made to heale any old or running fores, and to dry up the moy [lure of them v 
dreth their cure. 
