C H A P. 64. 
Tbeatrmi Sotanicum . 
Tri 
B E^. 
in both thole Authors the word Vitrum {hould be read in (lead of Glaftum ; becaufe the Germane word Glatte 
from whence they thinke Glaftum is derived, is Ggnifiedby Vitrum ; and home alfo would turne Vitrum in* 
to Nitrum • but Nitrum is not for Cuch uie, for it is yet very rare or fcarfe feene of any with us ? the Arabians 
call kDilt f Deligi y (fhate^chatisj Alchat, Alder, or Adhlen, or as Avicen in his/12. Chap, faith Nil ; yetinhis 
305. Chap.he hath another 2 ^/ 7 ,which is a kind ckConvonvnlw ox blew Bellflower,whereof I havefpokenin mv 
forqpcr Booke, which Serapio calleth Uab aln'ilgranum nil: but this Nfl (for Nir in the Arabic ke tongue * 
as fome lay doth fignifie any blew colour, fuch as this Woadc or the Nil or Indie0 maketh ) or Anil , from i 
whence was made a blew colour formerly called with us Aneale for the Dyers and others ufe, and was wont to 1 
be brought in round great cakes like wax, with round bottomes five or fix packt up in double skinnes longwife 
which was but a bafe or counterfeit fort of Indico, fas it is probably ghefled) made up with land andtrafluo 
augment the weight; or elle it was a worker kinde of that Nil or Anil that grew in 7 urkey. f or t h e yjn ■ 
Jiml or Indico as is aforefaid commeth to us from Cjuzttrate in the Eaft Indies•, lofepb Salbanke his report of Indico 
in PurchasHb.q.ch. 9. fee .4.^.235, (\vhoby reafon of Ihipwracke upon the MagoHs countrey, with others 
was forced to travell over land many dayes) faith that at Bianie the beft Indico is made, where are Indico milles 
and groweth upon Imall bullies, and beareth feede like Cabbadge feede, which being cut downe Iyeth on heapes 
for halfeayearetorot, and then troden out by Oxen from the fialkcs and fo ground fine at the milles, and lalflv 
boiled in furnacesjefined and lorted, the befl: there worth eight pence the pound : which laft claufe^f bovling 
refiningj&c. me thinkes lavoreth fomevvhat ofDiofcorides text, (but you have another mans report before ) 
Dio/corides memioncth lnduum in his fifth booke and 67. Chap, to be of two forts, the one naturall ifluing out 
of Indian Canes or R.eeds : the other a blew or purple feumme thatrifeth on the dy fat, which is taken off and drv- 
ed -. this faith Diofcorides, and peradventure was our very Indico, although related it may bee in this manner 
which fheweth how lame the ancients were in the knowledge of forraine doings : but we have indeede, even in 
thefe dayes, a certaine thing called by divers Florey, which the painter:, fometimes ufe, and is the feumme of 
the dyfat, while the cloth is upon the dying a blew colour with Indico or Woade, and is a fine light powder 
The Italians as I fayd before call Woade Guado and G/afto • the Spaniards call the herbe while it is greene and 
growing Guida, but when it is made up and dry, they call it Paftel,forte quia in paftttlos cogantur t the French 
P aft el likewile, the Germans tVeijs, the ‘Dutch jVeet , we in Englifh Woade and Wade. 
The Verities. 
The faculties of Woade arc binding and very drying, and fomewhat bitter withall, but notfharpe, and the 
wilde fort much more, as ufually all wilde herbesexceede the tame in the properties, and therefore it refifteth 
putrefaction, and prelerveth therefrom more then the tame; the tame ftancheth bleedings of all forts evther 
inward or outward, eyther upwards or downewards more then the wilde : thedeccftion of the mannW but 
much more of the wilde fort, made with wine and drunkc, helpeth the bardnefl’e of the fplcenc • and if the re¬ 
gion thereof be outwardly fomented therewith alfo, it will doe the more good : the manured is much more nro* 
Htably ufed for all greene wounds then the wilde. quickly to foder up the lippes ofrhem, and no leffe profitable 
it is to reprelfc the corroding and malignant qualities of fowle and eating Vlcers, foule Cancers and thelike and 
healeth them alfo; as alfo allayeth and difeufl'eth all hot inflammations, impoflumes, S. Antonies fire hard tu 
motirs or fwellings. Indico (which as is fayd, was formerly taken for the fpume of the dyfat, in dyin» a blew 
colour, either from W oade or Indico) as Diofcorides faith is of the fame qualities,both to clenfe and reprefle the 
maligmtie of foule Vlcers, and to difTolve tumours, breake impoflumes, and to dry up and biude tile defluxi¬ 
ons of blood or humors: the juice of Woadc prelerved all the yeare,or the diflillcd water of the herbe worketh 
the fame effeftes that eyther the decoftion or the powder of the dryed herbe doth. 
Chaj. LXIIII. 
Herb a Listen jive Lateo/a. W ould or Welde or Diers weede. 
[ Thought good to joync this plant unto the otherbeforecoing, both for the dying quality and healing 
- alfo,although not fo notorious as the other: but although with many former writers, there hath beene 
( but one fort remembred, yet we have attained the knowledge of two or three other as you fhall have 
them exprefled unto you. 
1. Luteola vulgaris. Common Would or Diers weede. 
The common Would or Diers weede groweth bufhingwith many long and narrow flat leaves upon the 
ground, of a darkeblewifh greene colour, fomewhat like unto Woade, but nothing fo large, a little crumpled 
as it were and fomewhat round pointed, vyhich doe fo abide the firftyearc; and the next Ipring from among 
them rife divers round (hikes, two or thee foote high, belet with many fuch like leaves thereon, but fmaller.ana 
mooting forth fome fmaU branches,which with the (hikes carry many (mall yellow flowers in a Ion* fpiked 
head at the toppes ofthem, where afterwards come the (eede, which is fmall and blacke, enclofed in heads 
that are divided at the teppe into fourc parts: the roote is long, thkke and white,abiding the winter: the whole 
lierbc changeth to be yellowjafrer it hath becne in flower a while. 
2. futeola vulgaris Cretica. Small Would of Candy, 
The fmall Would of Candj hathlikewlfc many long narrow leaves like the former, and tall high ftalkes with 
lmaller leaves on them alfo: the long fpiked heads have fomewhat larger flowers, more fpread open and ftan- 
dmg fingly each by rhemfclves, in other things not differing from the former. P 
, ?• Listen maxima Cretica foecunda. The bearing great Would of Candy 
fmhrJn!! rf P ‘lv "m'u Up0 '”^! with div! s rs S reat ftal , kes J > fome of them »s bigge as'a mans arme of five, fix, 
eigh.and ten cubits high, yet perifh in winter .bare or naked of leaves next the ground for a cubits fpace the 
tonnes liJveafl'nf r'hjoyning clofe at thebottome, the other growing up higher up to the 
j “f'hcmfooteftalkesofafpanne long; the leaves ofthemfelves are very krge, made of many 
-omewhat broad and long greene Aiming ones, fet one agamft another on the middle ribbe, and not yet alway/s 
direflly 
