1046 Cm a p. 9* 
Tbeatmm Botanicum, 
riba 10. 
jifpleimunfvcCtUrach. 
.Smooth Splccncwort or Mikwaftc, 
The Names. 
It is called in Grceke d(S7rmm and sttKaviov AJplenum and 
Splenium q»od jplcnem juvAt, which it holdeth alfo in La- 
cine inGrcekeall ~o fMhomvJ'eiov } $colopc*driHm,8c Scolopendra 
in Latine from the likenelTe ofthc Worme fo called as I layd 
before .* Theophrafitts callcth ic ^£4; and not irTt? u Z as ic is in 
the vulgar copies, as alfo m piovov Hemionum which Galen 
tranflateth Mala herb a in the Apothecaries (hoppes Ceterach 
from the Arabians t in the Antidotarinm Benonienfe it is called 
Digiti eitrini : the Apothecaries and Phylirions in former 
times held the Harts-congue to be the true Scolopendrinm of 
the ancients, but that errour is now lufficiently manifested 
and left, as theirs alfo who held formerly that Ajfilenttm was 
not Ceterach : it is called of the later Arabians and GAtiores 
Scolofcndrittm, of the Italians AJp'eno and Scolopendria y and 
herba inodor at a, of the Spaniards Doradilha , of the French 
CeteraCydi the Cjermanes Steynfam, of th z‘Dutch Steenvaren 
and Mdtcruit , in Englijb Spleenewort, Milt waft and Scalc- 
Fcrne. 
The Vertues. 
It was and is generally ufed againft the infirmities of the 
Splcene,and as Vitruvius faitb,thc Swine in Candy where it 
grew by feeding thereon were found to be without Spleenes, 
when as others chat did not eate thereof had them as the reft; 
it helpech the Strangury or pifliig by dropprs,and wafteth the 
Stone in the Bladder, and is good againft the Yellow Jiun- 
dies and the hicket: but the ufe of it in women hindcreth 
conception. Mitthidas faith that if a dramme of the dud 
that is on the backe of the leaves,be mixed with halfe a dram 
of Amber in powder,and taken with the juice of Purfhneor 
Plantaineit will help: the running of the Raines fpceiily, 
and that the herbe and roo:e being boyled and taken helpech 
all melancholicke difeafcs,and thife efpecially which rife 
fromthe French difeafe. Carmrarisis faith char the) ditlillcd 
water thereof being drunkc is very effedtuill againft the Stone 
both in the Reines and Bladder; and that the Lye that is . , . , , 
made of the allies thereof being drunkc for fome time together hclpeth Splenetickc perfons. it is uiedjxi outward 
remedies alfo for the fame purpofe. 
Chap. IX: 
l, Phyllitis five Lingua Cervina vulgar it. 
Ordinary Harts-tongue. 
Wr ordinary Harts-tongue hath divers leaves rifing 
J from the rootc, every one fcverall, which as the 
{laft and other Femes fold themfelvcs in the firft 
Ifpringingand fpreading,when they arc full growne 
are about a foote long, fmooth and grecne above but 
hard or with little fappe in them, and Braked on the backe a- 
twhart, on both (ides of the middle ribbe, wichfmall and 
fomcwhat long brownifh markes, the bottomes of the leaves 
arc a little bowed on each fide of the middle ribbe, fomewhac 
narrow with the length, and fomewhat Imall at the end: the 
rootc is of many blacke threads foulded or interlaced together. 
Some doe make twofoits hereof, and diftinguifh them into 
l at if alia and angHjlifolia . 
1. Phyllitis haciniata. lagged Harts-tongue. 
This Harts differeth in no other thing from the former then 
in the divifion of the toppesof the leaves which are diverfiy 
as it were tome or j’agged, fome leaves much and fome little, 
according to the place of growing and time of abiding. 
3. Phyllitis ramofa Alp'mo. 
Branched Harts-tongue according to Alpinus. 
The rootes hereof are fomewhat wooddy with theblackcfi- 
bres thereat, (booting forth many (lender broad (Hikes , of 
leaves two cubits long, a little downy at the bottome, divided 
into many long and narrow leaves, dented about the edges, fee 
one againft another with an odde one at the end, each refem- 
bling the heads of a Iaveling, marked thicke with ftraight lines 
x. P by it a u five Lingua Ciwinavitigai u. 
Oiuuuiy H-i is-tengue. 
