y§2 Chap. 27, 
Theat rum Fotanicum* 
Tribe 6 
f L.,, f. fo.. r om , t 7 m e toeetherOiall finde a wonderfull helpe, not onely in clenfing the malignant humor 
hutlrencthenine thegood and preferving the body found in all his funftions: it helpethalfo to procure reft aiw 
flcepe wbodies diftmfpered by the heate of ague fits ot otherwife = the deft died water alfo is effcftuall to d.inkr 
in pcftentiall fevets and to wafh the lores. 
Chap. XXVII. 
Chondrilla. Gumme Succory? 
|N I) 10fear ides time there were but two forts of ChondnH* knowne. both which are much control 
1 vetted in our time, divers herbes being affimilated unto them, and fcarfe any agreeing in all things 
with them, butthisage hath found out fundry plants, which for the rcfemblance are refer- 
1 red to Chondrilla, and called by that name, whereof fomebeare blew flowers, and divers yellow, 
1 Of thole with yellow flowers I (hall entreate in this Chapter, and of the other m the next. 
I. Chondrilla prior Dicfcoridis legit,ma Clafij. 
The former true Gumme Succory of 'THofccrides according to CH* S p s minde. 
This Gumme Succory hath many long and fomewhat broad hoary leaves lying upon the ground covered with 
athicke downe, cue in on the edges fomewhat like thofe of Succory, from among which nuth up an hoary ftalkej 
a foore high or more parted into a few branches with fmalier and narrower leaves let without order, whereon 
arc fometimes found yellowifh graines like unto imall peeces of Gumme,which grow quickly to be hard ? at the 
toppes of the branches (land fingly yellow flowers like tho.e of Camomill, which when they are ripe turne into 
downe, and with the feede is carried a wav with the winde • the loote is of a fingers thickncfleblackifli on the 
outflde with lome fibres thereat, and parted at the toppe into fome heads, which bring forth leaves, &c. it is full 
of iuyee which is yellowifh when it is drie. „ 
2. ChondriHa viminalibw virgis. Gumme Succory with twiggHikebranches. 
This twiggy Gumme Succory lhaoteth forth fundry (lender tough and flexible branches or twigge-like 
flalkes very c lammy in handling, fet with many narrow and (If ort leaves, but thole that grow at the footeofthe 
ftalkcs next the ground are larger and longer, cut in on the tides into divers long gafhes, when thofe fialkes grow 
toward flowring, the greater leaves begin to wither and die, (o that being in/flower they are quite gone and wi¬ 
thered, the toppes whereof are furniflied with fmall yellow flowers, which in time turne into downe and paffc 
away with the winde : the roote is long and flender, full of milke as all the reli or the plant is if any part be 
q. Chondrilla viminea vifeofa Monfrelidca. French twiggye Gnmme Succory. 
This French kind of Gumme Succory hath a white round ftraked clammic Italke two cubits high, fpreading into 
1. ChondiMa prior legitima Dicfcoridis. , . 
The former true Gumme Succory according to C/n/flJ his minae. 
2. Chondrilla viminalibm virgis. 
Gumme Succory with twi£g<»like branches. 
