Tbibb . 5, 
'The 'Theater of'Plants, 
Ihap.57. 589 
indmoyll, and but a little bending,) it not onely preferveth tliol'e parts, but is admirable good for allgreene 
wounds, today the bleeding ,and to heale and clofe up their lippes quickely without fuppuration, as well as to 
dry up the tnoyfiure andfluxe of hdmors in old fretting ulcers, and cancres, that hindreth their healing; and 
herein as it feemeth, it hath his name Heraclee, by priviledgeof excellency, as an Hercules or maftertamer of 
:he flrong: and if there be any inflammation about the parts, by the application of tie herbe, juyee or decofHon, 
it is foone taken away. Thelaftby Gerardbis tellimony of che ufe thereof is lingular effeduall infrefh Wounds, 
>nd can be no Ieffe available in the flaying of blood and humors than the others. 
Cb a p. IVI I- 
tAlyfium. Madwort. 
His name Aljjfum is diverfly confounded, both by the anciedhui moderne writers,being referred to 
divers hcrbes,for‘I | i»/ci’rid« hath one fort, and Galen an6|(jMhd pliny a third, each differing from 
others, as it is thought, andhatha kinde of TWKi, for the oAlyftum of Dio/corides , 
^ and others as Label faith,the Bugula or Confolida media, Rue/lii:i a kinde of wilde or Ballard Hempe, 
Cefit/piiM taketh that kind of Horehound, that iscalled Cardiac* Motherwort, to be Aljjfuta Caleni, 
and Fracafiorhs our ordinary Clary, Cjefner andothers take ASferuL r,or fome other fmaller Madder to be Pliny his 
Cifalpirms Cruciata: but be-caufe they are all improperly applyed,l meane not here to entreate of any 
of them in this place; but of other plants, that this later age hath found out, molt neerely to reprefent the two 
forts of ‘Dioftmdes and Galen, their Aljpsm. 
1. Alyjfum niofeoridis. The Madwort of ‘Diofcorides, 
The Madwort of ‘Viofcorides, hath many hoary, hard, and rough leaves, lying on the ground, fomewhat broad 
androundjforthefirffyeareof their fpringing,but the next ycere when the ftalke beginneth toarife, they grow 
then on both greater and longer, and fomewhat tome in on the edges, in fome places, which ftalke is hoary about 
a cubitc high, and fpreadeth into two or three branches, at the toppes whereof come divers pale yellow, and very 
fmall flowers (landing one above another feverally, on both fides of the ftalkes, which turne into fomewhat 
, large and round, fiat, tliinne, hoary, hard, rough huskes, rcfembling little bucklers; or rather moll like theyel- 
c low huskes with feede, of the Lunuria major, or Bolbonacb, which is the white Sattin, but that thefe are fmaller, 
i rougher, and harder, and wherein lye fmall flatreddifhfeedes, in a double order on both (ides of the thinne 
: middle skinne, which in this is not white, like that of the fattin, but elfe very like : theroote is fmall and wood-, 
■ dy, dying every yeare, after it hath given feede, and leldome perifheth the firfl yeere, before itrunneup to 
I ftalke. 
1. JtyJfumTftefcoridu. 
Madwort of Divfioridei, 
movtamm Column a. 
Madwort of Columa. 
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