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of women in childbearing : a decoftion made of theherbeand rootes in wine, is very good for women to (if 
over the hot fumes.as alfo to have it in/effed,or the places bathed for the falling downe of the mother, to fettle 
it in the right place againe : the laid decoftion.or the powder of the herbe and rootes are accounted lingular gonif 
to dry up the moifture of old Vlcers of long and hard curation, to clenfe them and the more fpeedily to performe 
their healing: the faculties of the other are by Gains judgement like to thofe of the former, and Diofco r ider 
faith it eafeth the paines of the head, and the heart burning,as alfo the torments of the belly, being drunke with 
wine,and provoketh urine and womens courfes. 1 
Chap. CV. 
Hippogloffum five Bijlingua. Horfe tongue or double tongue. 
a He H° r fe tongue or double tongue is very likeunto the former two plants, fet forth in the Iaft Chap- 
Jr ter, for the manner of growing, for this (hooteth forth divers hard lialkes with leaves on them,one 
2 above another astbev doe and much shorn- the fame length:the leaves likciuife lor rhe farm. u... 
g, owing, ror tins lnuutciu u.m., witii waves on cnem,onc 
above another as they doe,and much about the fame length.-the leaves likewife lor the forme are but 
little differing,being (omewhat harder in handling, narrower & longer,and (harper pointed,with ribs 
( rnwuaniH Wi -- iiaiuci in iidnuuugj 
running through them : but this hath a fmaller leafe or tongue, 
growing upon the greater from the middle ribbe, and about the 
middle ot the leafe on the upperfide, which maketh it to differ 
from all other plants that grow upon the ground that I knoWj 
and from thence tooke the name of double tongue: under the 
fmaller leafe at the bottom where it joyneth to the greater* 
commcth forth one fmall whitifh greene flower, and lomctimes 
two, Handing upon fhort footltalkes, where afterward Hand 
the berries, which when fhey are ripe are very red, very like 
unto the berries of the Yew tree, wherein is a white hard feede 
like the other: the rootc conHHcth of many long hard whitifh 
firings growing from ahead. Fabius Columna maketh mention 
’Mijori- of another fort with larger tongues upon the leaves then the 
bus liguis. former,which is as he faith much more rare to finde 
The I lace. 
It groweth upon hills and in woods in divers places both of 
Italy and Germany } but is onely cheriflicd in gardens with us. 
The Time, 
It flowreth in lane, and the berries are ripe in the end of Sep¬ 
tember,in the naturall places as in the warmer countries, but 1 
could never learne that any hath feenc itbeare his fruit in our 
Land. 
The Names. 
It is called in (Sreeke « orAryKoojov Hippoa/offum, lirm feplflime 
magnit plant is datur ,vel quia equina lingtiam imitaturvel qrande, 
but others think it fhould be moretruly called ^oy\ U om. Hypo, 
glcffum, becaufe of the fmall leaves like fmall tongues,orowin^ 
upon the greater: the Latines keepe the name and call ft Hippo- 
g'ojjum or Hypoglojjitm, and fometoexprelTe the Grceke name 
more fully in Latine Bijlingua^ two tongues or double tongue 
fome Lingua Pagana^ and of Apuleius ViEloriola : it is called alfo 
Bonifacio, by Anguilara, zndV vularia by Brunfelfius , Lonicertts 
Tabermontamts and others. Fufchius calleth it Daphne Alexan- 
anna, and Laurus Alexandria, as Tragus and divers others 
doe, and himfelfe confeffeth he knew no other Lauru. 
HippoglnJ/um five Bt/hngua. 
Horlc longue or double tongue. 
' —“‘■"‘w.vuyim.utuiiic Micwno ountr JLaurtts 
Alexandria, untill Simon deTovar, a Spanifb Phifition did fend i l - , • r, . , . 
™ Alexandra t0 fee, which had no tongues or fmall leaves at al a d >nCh ’ bc , rrl ' s , of th f r JS ht r f tu 
fhewed you before, and therefore he called this Lnmus Alexandra amadapbielhiv 
Rttfco affinu prima. Cohmm makerh it to bee IeUa radix Viofcoridl fhn ^ ^falp.ms calleth i 
P/«y, whichcobefo,hecontendethveryferiouny, as it is fet downe h "( d cc ’ampins to bee LaurwTtxa a 
and 30. Chap, numbreth up the feverall forts of true Bayes andZn me ^ r h ? 7 f h 'n' V °? k 
Of the Creeke or Latines from fome likeneffc of the leaves as ST f th “ 
voO.es. and La„ rw Alexandria but Monardm thirketh that L (lead nfP T r ^ Cha ™ d *f ht1 '' 
*mL«,re* foould be read, againft which be contefteth and (hewe^h [bit T’ ^ fraxwea,.r 
futh Bay, and that p/;,„ ; n >!,<■ n i.„ • j ■ no liiewetn that no author ever made mention of an' 
trades Cpcci.H note of laurns Tax*, that is to bee fit fo 
the middle of the other leafe 'and frrrhrr rhir.hF e ^ e . '^ eunt:0 a J s ggeor tornepeece ofa leafe growing ii 
Bay from the forme of the leafe and Tara fro latron or name doth fitly agree therewith.being called i 
I have related to fliew his indoo'o , r m e [ e bf r nes hkeuntothofeoftheYewtreecalled7ii.rKr.Thi 
caule, but for mine owne part Ithinke rhar pT’ . tba 5? tbc !' s all °w °r difallow thereof, as theyfhall fei 
feriptions ofone and the fame herbe follow; "11 "Z” a ?. In lfl '' ers °“ ,er P^nts giveth two names and two de 
others.and often confounaeth them’ d f ^ ^ ^aTu a “ tbors tlee reac, i as Vufcondes, Tbeopbrafiusmi 
sthersinhis timewC he thonoh^ooH f f° f 7 det J ra3etb ofl,is owne min *. the opinion o 
time what he thought good, formhi.ay.Bookeand Ii. Chapter hce maketh mention of Hippo 
glojfun 
