Tribe 5. ' TbeTheateroJ‘Plants . Cha p.95, 68? 
anTtrouble in the braines, andfenfes s A Pugillof the Bowers (chat is as much as one may take up with their 
three finders together) which may be about a dramme,faith ‘Piofcorides, drunke twice a day in red wine, hd- 
ueth the°Laske'and blooddy flix. It is an enemy to the nerves and finewes being taken much inwardly, buc is ve- 
rv hebefullunto them being applied outwardly -.Pliny faith that the yellow berries are good againli the Iaun- 
dies and taken before onebefet to drinkehard will keepehim from drunkennefle, and'helpeth thole thatfpi: 
bloo’d and that the white berriesbeing taken inwardly killeththe wormes ofthe belly,or applyed oucwardlyithe 
mice ofthe roote is good to be taken againft the biting of the Phalanqinm, or deadly Spider: the berries are held 
bv many Empericks Quackfalvers and Chimrgions to be a Angular remedy both to prevent the Plague or pefti- 
lence before it be taken, as alfo to free them from it, that havegotitj by drinking the berries made in powder 
11 for two or three dayes together: they being taken in wine do for certame hdpe to breake the Bone,provoke urine 
1 and womens courfes as Tram faith, yea (o powerfull they are in thofe parts, that a bath made ofthe leaves and 
E bcrr i es for women to fit in, or over the fumes, or a peffarie made of them and put up doth mightily prevaile to 
- bring them downe, and to draw forth the dead birth and fecondines or afterbirth, but this is to be cauteloufly 
) ufed and not but upon neceffitie, or extremitie : the leaves of Ivic while they are frefli, boyled m Vine- 
ji ear ’and applyed warme to the Tides of thofe that are fpleneticke, or troubled with the Spleene, ache or (fitch in 
I jhefides doth give them much eafe i the fame alfo applyed with fome Rofewater and oyle of Roles to the fores 
1 head and temples, doth eale the headach although it be of long continuance: the frelh leaves boyled in wine,and 
1 old filthy fores and Vicetsthat are hard to bee cured wafhed therewith, doth wonderfully lielpe to clenfc and 
1 healethem, as alio cffeftuall for greene wounds to heale them quickly end lodcr up the lippes thereof : the fame 
li alfo is effeftuall to heale fealdings of water, and burnings by fire, and the exulcerations thac happen thereby, or 
: upon the (harpeneffe of fait flegme.and hot humours in other parts of the body: the juice of the leaves or ber¬ 
ries being fnuffed up into the nofe purgeth the head and braine of thmne rheume, which maketh defluxions into 
■ the eyes and nofe, and cureth the Vlcers and Bench therein : the lame dropped into the eares, doth helpe the 
: old and running fores ofthem : five of the yellow berries bruifed and heated with oyle of Rofes in a Pomgranet 
■ rinde and dropped into the eare of fuch as have the toothache,on the contrary fide of the paine ealeth them there¬ 
of ■ the berries or the leaves ufed caufeth the haire to grow blacke. The frelh leaves arc commonly ufed to bee 
layd upon iffucs whereloever,in the armes leggcs,&c. to keepe them open, and to draw forth the humours 
that fall thither: the Gum ofthe Ivic, which in the hot countries is gathered from the body and branches, is ex¬ 
ceeding fharpe and hot, burning and exnlcerating the skinne, yet it is nfed being doflolved to take away fuper- 
fluous haire in any place, and to deftroy Nits and Lice wherefoever: the fame diffolved mVmegarand put into 
hollow akiny teeth doth eafe the fame, and beingoften ufed will caufe them to fall out.-Some doe ufe itasa 
baite with other things to kill fifti: the Wood made into a cup, and thofe that arc troubled with the Spleene lhall 
findecafe, and be much holpen thereof, if they continually drinke out of it, fo as the drinke may Band fome 
fmall time therein before it be drunke. Cato writeth an experiment bow to finde out the deceit of Vintners and 
others that put water to their wine, which is this, that if you fufpeft your wine,you lhall put fome thereof into 
fuch a cup that is made oflvie wood, and that if there beany water therein it will remaine in the cup, and the 
wine will foke throughjfor the nature oflvie wood faith he and V«m, is not to hold any wine.fo great an antipa¬ 
thy there is betweene them : the fume of Ivic branches being burned driyeth away Gnattes and Battes, and all 
other hurtfull and noyfome creatures. 
Chat. XCV. 
Cymbalaria Italka Hederacea. The Italian Cjondtlo or Ivie like leafe, 
His fmall herbe creepeth on the ground with (lender tbreddy branches all about,taking bold on walls 
or any thing it mceteth.by fmall fibrous rootes,which it fhooteth out at the joynts as it runneth : at 
the feverall j'oynts grow fmall broad, and almoB round leaves, cut in on the edges into corners, 
fomewhat like unto a cornered Ivie leafe.each Banding upon a very fmall and threddy ftalke: at the 
j'oynts likewife Band feverall fmall flowers upon (lender footeflalkes, fafhioned like unto a Snap¬ 
dragon or Fluellen flower, with a taile or fpurre behind it, mixed of yellow whstilh and purple colours, and 
the fpurre as it were walhcd over with a purplifh alfoj in whofc places after they ate fallen come fmall round 
headsjconteining fmall blackilh feede: 
& The Place, 
It groweth naturally in divers places of out Land, although formerly it hath not beene knowne to bee but in 
(Gardens,as about Hatfield in Hartfordfljirc, both in their Gardens and other places that ate fihadie upon the 
ground, for there it will alwayes bed like to grow, as alfo upon the thatched hdtifes in the Norrh parts, aslam 
given to underhand,and moft abundantly in Lancashire , and in my Garden where it runneth up from the ground 
on the wall a pretty height. 
The Time, 
It flowreth fcldome untill the end of Inly, and in Augafi, but continued! with mee in flower untill the gresE 
frofts deftroy it,and the feede is ripe foone after the flowers doe (hed. 
The Names. 
This never as I thinke met with a (Sreeke Author to give it a name, although the name Cymbalaria by the La ^ 
tines is derived from the Sreeke word Cymba, a boat; or from the herbe nhjj.ea.Km Cjmbalion, which D io. 
fcorides faith was a name given to his Cotyledon, or Umbilicus Vmorit alter, whereof divers would make this to 
be eyther it or a Jpecies of it, and thereupon gave it the name of Cymbalaria, or Cymbalaris ■ the Apothecaries of 
Venice, padaa, and divers other places in Italy, where it familiarly groweth upon their mudde walles, &c. take 
it (either by ignorance not knowing the right,or by penury not having the right) for Cotyledon or Umbilicus Ve- 
mrit, and £o ufe it inftead thereof in Vngucnto Poptlton, as iMattbMw faith, and therefore Lmcertu calleth ic 
Umbilici* 
