618 Chap. 70, Tkeatrum ‘Botanicum, 
4. C helidonia rotundifolia major. A greater fmall Celandine ~ ' 
This greater fort of the fmall Celandine,hath a fibrous roote, whereunto grow fmall round knohs • 4, '■ 
are round thicke and lmoth, growing ahnoft as large as Afarnm, or Afarzbacc*, fometimes a little waledX* : 
the edges,each (landing upon a longer foote ftalke than the former, yet lying upon the ground • the b ? uc ’ 
(land (everally as the others doe,upon longer foote [hikes, are of a pale yellow colour, a § nd larger than thl ^ ' 
^^ g dl= of the towen 1 CUC m “ £ * ™ t0 thC “ ldd!e ° f ' them ’ “ d haVI,, S fomc rcddi ^ 
The Place. 
. The firft groweth in many places by old wall fides, and by the hedges and way fides in unfilled nlaree „ no 
mg onee planted m a garden,efpecially in fome flrady place.it will ft ill be found therein.thefccondis nork“ be ' 
where it is naturall, but is received into gardens for the varietie: the fmall fort groweth for the A ft W " e 1 
the moyft cornets of fields, and places that are neere watcrlides, yet will abide in dryer groundes fo^srhefu 
little Ihadowed-the third in Canada as the title (heweth: the Iaft groweth in the wet grounds about c Mom^Uer 
The two firft forts flower all the Sommer long, and the feede tipeneth in the meane time. 4,. . 
flower betimes about .March, or and is quite gone in OIU r , fo at it cannot be found andU itfnn, * 
game- that of flow red late but gave no feede. ' “lpnnga- 
7 _ The Names. 
T he firfl and greater is called in Greeke in Latinc Chelidomum majm , anc J Hirundin. ■ 
and in Latinc Chelidonium minus, and HirunLarU minor 
call them Chehdoma major ob minor, and tooke the name as Dioficr.de, faith, becaufe it fpringeth when' W 
lowescomein; and witheteth at their going away (which is true in neither, the greater whe Ktf DiJZf 
clncldy fpeaketh, being greene both winter and fommer, and the lefler fpringing before Swallowescome ’ 
and ,s gone and withered long before their departure,) Dioftoridee likewife and Pliny alfo f»Tt t oX ,ll”' 
name from Swallowes that cured their young ones eves, that were Wr wlrh hr™,;,!, i ? y to , oke tb « 
it to them : but^.andC^ fto£ hil, doe ^hafth/fonn o^ff^ ilrt Doves So? 
&c will recover their fight (being hurt) of themlelvesin rime, wiihout any thing alplyed unto them 4 
c Tledth" rfTe TTr c yWgfable - The in fo ™ er m/aking theereekename 
called the rearer kindeCnl, dom-.m-, and thereupon did highly enroll the Quimeffence drawfte from it nor n™’ 
I}' to cupel! many difeales, but for many them idle and fantafticke tranfmuMtfons: the lefe fort S the f 
met names, is called Ftcnnn & Scrofhularix minor of Brnnfelf.m, of Fufchim MnlacocifTos rmnor fvhom^r' 
paxeth therefore, < 7 »iWi«»r and Cnttfat tooke it tobe esimellwVirqilii, aswe&ewed vo’uinrh 
Kv of.djne/lm or dfier. SylvaticiK calleth it 7 efiiculm feerrdoti, and islikelvto be the ZJl y V .^. ha P* 
Zugdunenjb. BnuhinmcMahitChelidoninrotundifolia : it is thought alfo to be the Strum™ of PEny'then \ 
f k H TTK :he K r u T l l : raany d0C make doabt whether this herbe be the Chelidonium mil’, of n f 
[corides and Gnlen, becaufe it hath not any acrimome or fharpenefle therein, as they fay is i n theirs ■ Lur vef u 
writers doe agree that howfoevet it hath not any acrimony, it is in forme andalUtherprolirt e the fame 1 
if 4 f c yd f uT a " Sm P h:,lm « m }”° r > From the likendfe of the rootes^nto thofe^v * 
called Scrophule.wkch appeare m,™, r> W tonfdh,, and therefore as in many o-her the like held nowelfon 
cure them; the greater is called of the Italims CelidmU mwiore of the Stamards rerv, A, , , P° wer fitH to 
C'lidr'nh* : of the French Ckelidoirx Felon,," and ECtUire ■ of the Germ Je TJ J o 7 , S ‘ T 3nd 
and Schwalbenkrr.Ht: of the Vutch cJJTlcn^oTjl ^ Colder, 
The Vert net. 
helpcth^heyellow^laun^i^^theherbe^^rh 1 '^’^ 0 ^, CI ‘ etk |, tkeob ^ ^l, '^' on, 
wine with a few Annefeedes and drunke.- Mouhidm faith that if the "reeneherbebTw 8 tC '" g ln whltc 
have the yellow Iandies, fo as their bate feete may tread [hereon it hebe them nf° t ^ 
ill the lame manner, helpeth thofe that are inclining to the dropfie or have iAnnfirmA • ’ n 6 /” e A 0 taken 
it, as aifo for thofe that L troubled with the itch 8 or have^old' fo%sl^ 
the ju.ee thereof taken fafting, is held to bee of Angular good ufc againft the iullu f the , lr r bodle , ! ' : 
diflilled water alio with a little Sugar, butefpeciailv if a little oooH Tre, p k b ” C '■ P ^! lcnce ’. ancl tstlie 
upon the taking iayd downe to fwefte’a little Ftl^e /uie droppedTntoThe A th , Crew ' th > 
and clouds that darken them : but becaufe it is fomewhat flia^pe, the hardned” iuice ?4,' S r°T 
milke will well allay it: it is to good purpofeufedin old filthy or corroding mdcreeninovl , W ‘A a ]l “ lc bread 
flay their malignitie of fretting and running, and to caufe them to heaie the more v 5 ' berefoever > t0 
plyed to tetters,ringwormes or other fuch like fpreading Cancers willauicklv kilfth ' mi' lc JU '^ of j!l 3 F‘ 
'hem alfo s the fame rubbed often upon warts will talAtheSv Ahe he K b P “TS 3nd h f ale 
red with oyle of Camomill, and applyed to the Navill aW L v^^bnrh Z '' b .* herootcs b ™ f ed and hca- 
aZndaAeftajSuhArth^l^ 
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that in a tender body it caufe a„S “ in’fkmmS Zh.l iuT>h . ar T S ° r thc like I a nd if it chance 
taken 
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