Tribe 5. The Theater of Plants. Cha P.54. 579 
The Names. 
It is generally taken to be the Ei Mt l e ;,.Bupleurum,t\nz Pliry mentioneth in his i*. booke, and 22. chap, out 
of Hippocrates, and Nic under in Theriacis 5 and was as he there laith, ufcd in meates ill Hippocrates his time and 0- 
thers,and reckoned among lalletand pot hearbes,bnt iifedin Phyfickeand tnedecines, by Glaucus m&Nicander, 
Divers havediverfiy referred thefe herbes, as forne to the BupreJHs oiTheophraJIm, in his 7. booke, and S. chap, 
whereof (liny alfo l'peaketh. in the fayd booke, and chapter before fayd: Gefner in hortU faith, that with the 
French, it was called Elaphobofctsm and Cjratia Dei. Some alfotooke ittobethe Panax Chtronium, 0 f Diofcori- 
, des,Some to be Ammivulgatius, and fome Sanamunda. Bauhinut in his Pinax faith, that Far ax Chironium Tlirii 
I: doth more rightly agree unto the Valeriana campeflris JiveUducaagnim, Lambes Lettice, or Come fallet: thofe 
n about 'jMornpcher as Gefner in hortie and Label fay, called it Auricula leporis, efpecially the Latifolmm for the 
i refemblance thereof unto Hares eares. Cor dm in hishiffory of Plants, called) it jfophy lion.Tragus calleth it Her bn 
\ Valuer ar ia,tVaundbraut,not underftar.ding from any ofhis nation,by what other name they called it,and therefore 
he himfelfe referreth it, to the Panax Cbironium of Theopbraflus , who faith it hath the lcafe of a Docke, blit that 
of Diofcorides & Nu:under have the leaves of Amaracns or Marjerome.I fincle a great millake, and forgetfulnelfe 
in Baubimts as w ell as in Lugduncnfls , this in fetting forth, and he in admitting the errour to paffe concerning the 
'Bupleurum which Litgdimer.fis calk'dl Lapathum fylvefire 4: genus Dalechampii in one place, and Batthims Lapa- 
* thumacutum flare aurco, and yet Lugdnnenfls faith there, that fome called it Fannies Chironium folio Lapathi flare 
anreo Plirij, which was fufficierit f thinke, to make him underftand it to be this Bupleurum, and not a Lapathum, 
and yet both he & Bauhimu in their prdper places.call it £«/>/«»-«» notwithlhnding.The third is called by Pona, 
in his Latine edition of VsowntBaldusfSedumpetreum Bupleitrifolio,aut potius Buplettritmpetraum yamineofolio. 
but Clufius in fetting forth the defeription of the fayd Mount Baldtts, givethit this note, that it rs flare verms’ 
tjuamfo/io'Eupleuri. Baubimts in the fayd Latine edition of Potta, Is let downe tocallit then Bupleurum Alpi- 
i num, Btip/eurifolio (which I have thought fitted to follow, as it is in the title,-but afterwards in his Pima, bee 
1 referreth it to the Perfoliata, calling it 'Perfoliata Alpim pramineofolio,five Bssplettrtsm angfsftifolium Alpinism here¬ 
by judging the Perfoliata and Bupleurum to be congeneres, for in the heads of feede, the one is fome what like the 
1 other, as any that hath leene them both may well obferve. Fatbitss (folumr.a maketh mention of the laft, and cal- 
. lcth it, as it is in the title : and BnHhinut Bupleurum angufliffimo folio . 
The Vertues , 
Thefe herbeS are moderately hot and dry, and therefore may well be accounted Panaces, or Wound herbes' 
and have the fame properties that they have, and which Pliny and others attribute unto Bupleurum : if the feede 
or the roote in powder taken in wine, or boyled in wine be dritnke; and fo are the leaves alfo good againft the 
bicings.orftingings.of any ferpents or venemous creatures, the hurt place alfo bathed with the' fame, and is of 
great efficacy to provoke Vrine,and womens courfes being lloppedrthey are alfoto very good purpofe, either ufed 
alone,or with other things,to heale wounds inward or outward, whether they be frefir and greene,or old cancres 
j and lores, of cvill dilpoirtion, and bad curation. 
Chap. LI III. 
Perfoliata. Thorough waxe. 
Here arc divers forts of Thoroughwaxe, fome greater, fome lelfer, fome of the fields and Med. 
dowes,other or the hils and mountaines,&c.al of necrc aflinitic one unto anetherjand with them 
I thinke fit to joyne another herbe, which fome have referred to another family, becaufe of the 
long cods with fefcde that it beareth. 
1 . Perfoliata vulgaris. Common Thoroughwaxe. 
—- The common Thoroughwaxe, fendeth forth one ftraight round (hike, and fometimes more 
two foote high and better whole lower leaves being of a blewifh greenc colour, are fmaller and narrower than 
thole tip higher , and doe Hand clofe thereto, not comparing it, but as they grow higher, they doe more and 
more encompafle the Halke, untill it wholly as it were pafle through them, branching toward the toppe into 
many parts, where the leaves grow fmaller againe,every one Handing fingly,and never two at any ioynt:thp flow¬ 
ers are very fmali, and yellow,Handing in tufts at the heads of the branches, where afterwards grow the feede- 
imnli and blackifh, many thicke thruft together: the roote is fmall, long, and wooddy, periling every vecre* 
after feede time; and riling plentifully of it owne (owing, if it be fuffered to (hed it lelfe. 
. , _ Perfoliata fore multiplier. Double fiowred Thoroughwaxe. 
1 nis differeth in nothing from the former, but in the heads of flowers, which arc thicker fet together, and 
larger, which give no feede, buns wholly a degenerate kinde, riling fiom the feede of the former, fpendins 
his fruite and encreafe in the plentifull headcs of flowers. ^ g 
3* P er foliata montaualatifolia. Broad leafed Mountaine Thorough waxe. 
1 he leaves of this Mountaine thronghwaxe, are fomewhat larger and longer, and more pointed than the 
former, many growing together, from the heads riling from the roote, every one Handing on afmall foote- 
Italke- from among which rile up (hikes with Shorter leaves,, which compafle the Halkes, that are branched at 
the toppes whereon Hand yellow flowers, fomewhat larger than the former, many in like manner fee together 
in the midlt of the under greene leaves,which are as a cup to conteine them,whsrein afterwards Hand the feede’ 
like the former but larger : the roote is thicke and reddifla on the outlide, lying long wile under the face of the 
ground, (hooting forth heads of leaves in divers places,and with fmali Hrings and fibres downeward \cndurinfr 
many yeeres, and not perifhing like the former. Bauhinw maketh another fort hereof with fmaller flower? 
yet giveth no defeription thereof. nowers, Mkcr: 
4- P e rf°h*ta Alpina latifolia minor. The lelfer broad leafed Mountaine Thoroughwaxe. 
This letter Throughwaxe is fomewhat like the firft or common fort, but that it is fmaller, riling not fo high,and 
lalke^f^, 11 ^ fta ii CS fU ? i lke 'l aves but fmalIer > which are divided at th£ Dattomc 3f them into two’ pari, the 
talkcs lo pa (ling through them, but are not whole and round as the former are, and branching at the toppes, 
D d d 2 whereout 
