Tribe 9. 
T be Theater of ‘Plants, 
Chat, 180 
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vellow but fmailer and hanging downcwards: the feede that followeth is much like the other, but i mailer and ins 
imaller cods Of this (ort a'ifo wee have had from the faid Boel two other forts with reddiih Sowers both of Mime 
them growing low and l'mall.the one beingbut annuaUand the other abiding, 
The firlf fecondand fift with the varietie thereof grow in many places of our land, as wet! in the arable is /Z " * l ‘ f,! ' ! 
wafte grounds, but the third and fourth I never met with growing naturally any where in onr countrcy .although 
LoM laithof the fourth that it groweth as well about Briftor* ts London, Gefneruith the third groweth on the 
hill Gemma among the Valefums, and Columna faith the fourth groweth in the kingdoms of Naples ■ the lixr, fe~ 
venth and eighth with their varieties groweth as well in Narbcne in Trance, and about dtompe/ier as in Spams 
and Tortugall. 
The Time. 
They doe all flower about the beginning or middle oUWy.and their feede is ripe in tsfttgufi. 
IT THofcorides and Tliny call it A’tuy'i; Anonis,Tbeophrafiw and GalenO’vavis Ononis the Latines keepc both names, 
Anonis quafi non juvande quod null am util it atom p,abeat,dicividetnr , pqmdcmaratoribm immicaeft, vivaxq- nimis 
ft-uees epprimit & fait actilen nocet nifi qais ex adverfo nomen inditiim putaverit ; Ononis hot' t» •> i quafi d cm afini 
obfeBationem, nam ex Greets quidam affirmant afinos in cafe volutare <$■ dorfumfub ejus aculcit hbenter exterere. It 
is alfo called Arcfla bovis and Refla bovis, and Rcmorum aratri, becaufc the roots are both fo tough that the Plough 
Share cannot eafily cut them, and fo deepely and llrongly fallned in the ground,ihac the Coulter happening w der 
iccaufeththeOxentobeeataftand for the firft twitch, nut being able without mote then ordinary Ifrengthto 
pull them forth, Cordus on THofcorides calleth it AcutelU , becaufe the thotnes doe prick: chole that unwarily g 0 e 
by it. Gefner in bonis advifeth not to bring Ononis into a garden lead it prove Anonis that is not helpefull buc 
hurtfull, being not eafie to rid it out againe Angmtara tooke it to be co£gipjras Cr.ueass. All writers elfeca.Tic 
'eyther Anonis,Ononis or Rejlabovis with the feverall dilfinfl:ionsof^i»o/nor non ffimofa , and according to the 
colour of the flowers onely the great yellow without thoi nes is taken of moft herbar ills to be Natnx lnfj,w hich 
yet iaWfecmeth to doubt of,'faying hce will neither gucfle not divine by what argument it is luppoled, nor 
troublehimftlfe much to difprove them, yet Angailara doth rather thinke the Fraxmella fhouldbeit. The/or- 
lians call it Anor.ide Bonagami Refta bone, the Spaniards gattilhos and galtinos, theFremh Arrefte beuf. rhe 
Germans HanhackellanA Ocksenbrcck the Thuch rangwortele, oft Staler vijt, and wee mEngltJh Rdf Harrow 
Enpboma gratia rather then Reft Plough or Reft Oxen as it is in other languages,in fome countries alfo Cammock 
and Petty whin. 
The Verities. 
Galen faith that the roote of Reft Harrowis hot' in the third degree having fome clenfing and cutting fa cubic 
therein alfo. It is Angular good to provoke urine when it is flopped, and tobreake and drive forth ri e ftune, 
which the powder @fthe barke of the roote taken in wine performethcffcdlually; for CMatthiolus writeth that 
he knew divers freed from thofe difeales that ufed the fayd powder in wine for many dayes together, and the 
fame alfo to he pethat lifeafe called Rnmex or Beirnacamofa the flefhy rupture, that is, that flcfliy carnofitieby 
little and little confumedpn taking the faid powder for fome moneths together conflanrly.when as the Phyhcionc 
and Chirurgions had given them over, as defperate or no otherwife to bee cured but by cutting or burning: the 
clccoftion thereofmade with fome vinegar and gargled in the mouth eafeth the paines of the roothach eft ecially 
when it commeth of rheume.- fome alfo atfirme that the decoftion.here .fdrunke doth helpe the painefull heiror- 
1 hordes: but it is certainly found true that the faid decoftion taken is very effcftuall toopen the obfti uftions of 
the Liver and Spleetie,and the other parts :a dill filed water made in Balnea with fbure pounds of thcrootes of 
Reft Harrow, firftfliced fmall, and afterwards fteeped ma Gallon of Canaty wine, is lingular pood liltewft for 
all the purpofes aforefaid.and to c enle the paffagesof theurine,not lufferingany marrer that is clammy to gather 
tog ther or harden to become a done: the faid quaniitie of the rooces diced and put into a Hone pot dole flopped 
with rhe like quantitie of wine, and fofetcoboylein a Raima Marie tor 24. houresis asdaintie a medicine for 
tender ftomacks as any the daintiel! Lady in the Land can rielire to take, being troubled with am-the afore I a id 
griefes : the powder of the faid roote made into an Elecfluary or Lozenges with Sugar, as alio the bailee, f the 
trefli rootes boyled ender and afterwards beaten into a Conferee with Sugar worketh to the like. ft. ft .-,h e 
powder or the rootssflrowedupon the hard callous, brims of ulcers, or the (aid powder mixed with any other 
convenient thing and applyed doth conlume the Iaardndle and caufethcm toheale the btitc - : it is recorded chat 
informer times the young'fhoots and tender ftalkes before they became prickly were picled up to bee eaten as a 
meate orfawfe, wonderfully commended againft a Itinking breath, and to takeaway the fmellof wire in them 
thithaddrunke too much. Pena in his Italian Baidas faith that divers Apothecaries with them there in /nr) doe 
ufe the flowers of die yellow Reft Harrow in (lead of Mellilot eyther through want or ignorance. 
Chap. XVIII: 
Tragstcantha. Goates Thorne.’ 
SjCannot bat diffent from Bauhinus who diffenteth from Cluftst and others, that make Poterium another 
; or lefler fort of Tragacantha,zwA differing from the Pimpinclla frinofa for I muftdoe contrary to him, 
: and thinke I have gftod reafon for it, as fhall be fhewed by and by,n«ncl fpeake of the Pimpinclla fpinofa 
in a Chapter by it (elfe, becaufe I finde the difference betweene Poterium,Tragacantha and Pimpinclla 
fpinofa to conftft in many things. 
1 Tragetcantha vera. The true Goats thornc. 
The trne Goars thorne is a fmall bubble plant rifingup withmany tough plyantor flexible wooddv {femmes 
not much above a mbit or two f, ,ote high divided into many (lender branches, covered with a white hoarineffe, 
fet with divers long white thurnes in a double row, among which rife, up divers winged leaves that is, many 
Q^qq 2 final.? 
