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Iribe 5. 
alfo for the caufe (hewed in the defetiption as I thinkc : divers other Greeke names it hath needeleffe to be re- 
membred here, and Latine alfo, as Rape mm, Rapavcrculnm, Semen Leoninum, Brumaria, and PesLeonhtu, and 
Tat* leonii ■ but yet there is another P*ra leenie called Alchymilla, as wee have (hewed before. Camerarim from 
Rauwo/fuu faith, that they about Aleppo call it Aflat. Apnleim calleth it Leohtopodium , and fo doth oSEtiut alfo.in 
alcribinc the fame qualities to his Leontopodium, that Piofcorides and Galen doe, unto the Letmtopctalon : Oribaflue 
alfo laying that Leontopetalon was called Leontopodium in his time. We may call it in Englifl, either as it is in the 
■■title or according to the forme. Blacked)™. Codded, or J)r/«w blacke bulbed Fumiterry, for both Anguilara 
and 'cafatpinM doe make the Radix Cava or Fumaria bulbof 1, to be Leontopetalum altcrum, and Leant opctalige. 
X\nnt auibufdam. band plane inepte.to diftinguidi it from the next that is like it alfo. 
' The Vertaes. 
Galen faith it is hot and dry in the third degree, and that it hath a digetting quality therein alfo; ‘Dle/eorides 
faith that it is the moftpower'ull remedy fpeedily to helpethofe chat are bitten by any Serpent, if the rootc bee 
taken in wine: the famfc alfo is very egettuall to helpe the Sciatica, hot onely to be put into glitters that are made 
1 for that purpofe, but alfo to be applied outwardly, and by the digefting faculty is etfettuall to denfeandheale 
old and filthy Vlcers. Raum/fiw in his Hoedoporico, or Ieurnaltoftbe Halt Countries, reporteth that the inhabi¬ 
tants about and in Aleppo doe ule the powder of the old and greater roots of this herbe, to take out fp'ots out of 
their garments by tubbing them therewith. 
Ch* ». XCVXI. 
Chryfogennm. Oaken leafed blacke Turnep. 
His Plant fo like unto the laft hath caufed me to foyne it next unto it, whofe defeription according 
'I to the bed authors that have feene it and fecit forth, and mine owne obfervation of their figures, 
you lhall have in this manner. It hath a tuberous roote like unto Leontopct*/on,oT the Earth Chefnut, 
- „ called Balanocaftanon, or ‘BulbcoaSlanttm, of a browne colour on the outfidc and very red within, 
^ fending forth three or foure long winged leaves, lying on the ground, Kauwo/fim faith heneverob- 
ferved fo few as three, (landing upon a very (mail and (lender , , ,, 
ftalke or ribbe, and are made of many leaves, (landing oppo- cbt/epm. Oaken leafed blacke lump. 
lice one unto another,at fpaces or joynts, and lome at the ends, 
everyone whereof is fmall at the bottome, and broad at the 
point, where it is cut into lome divifions, making them feeme 
like unto Oaken leaves, but much letter ( Ramvolfuts figure 
thereof feemeth to exprettc but two leaves at a (pace, Alpine 
figure five or fix yet fmalier) of a very darke greene, from 
among which leaves riietli up a ftalke a cubit high, without 
any leafe upon it, divided at the toppe into many fmall fprigs 
or branches, bearing every one a yellow flower, made of five 
leaves a pcece>larger then thofe of the laft : after which come 
fmall (hort pods, fmiill at the further end, with a little round 
knobbe,w herein lye the feede (like the other as I thinke.) 
The Place. 
It groweth in the fields among the come in Syria, as Ran- 
yvolfiue faith,who there found it. 
The Time, 
The time of the flowering is not exprefled, but it is likely it 
being fo like the former,ftiould flower about the fame time. 
The Names* 
Diofcoridcs onely of the ancient Greeke Authors maketh 
mention of it, and calleth it xt v °*y )VOV Chryfagonum , which the 
Latines alfo follow, and if wee defcant upon the name or Eti- 
mologie, it is a yellow knee or joynt, which it is likely al¬ 
though it be not expretted in the defeription the ftalkes have. 
RatmolfiM onely and Pona in his Italian r Baldw of the late wri¬ 
ters have fet forth the figure of it, for Durantes hath nothing 
but the text of t T>iofcoridet ; Lugdunenfis in his Appendix hath 
the Text of Rauwolfiin: and Baufoinus hath it from them, and 
pona who had it from Padre Malocchio,VxtI\&tr\x. of the Garden 
a tPi/f \ lhave in this as in the former given it an Englifh 
name,according to the forme that in my minde it beareth, ey- 
thcr of which may ftand untill a more proper may be given it. 
The Vertues , 
This as the former is appropriated by ‘Diofcoridcs (for lean- . > ■ 
not findethac Galen hath made mention of it) to healethe bitings of venemous beailb, and efpecially the Shrew 
orpoyfonfull Moufe s and thereby may bcc conjedured to bee of the fame facultie in the other things with 
the former. 
Cha^ 
