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TbeTheater of Plants. Chap.6. 1219 
The Names. 
They are called both AJphodelut latent paluftri, as Bodomas doth the firft, and Pfcudo ajfhodelm as Chifitu doth 
bur calleth the laft isfSfodelue pamilto folio IrUi,. And although Baahinta hath three forts,making the esfslhode- 
hu u«cap,earn which Label faith he had out of Scotland. and fa w it iikewifc in Norway to differ from the flrfl 
yet furcly he is miflaken therein (or it is all one fort. 
The pcrtues. 
Wee have not knownc thefe ufed in Phyficke for any purpofe, but I have had intelligence from mv mod 
f lend Doftor Anthony Salter of Exeter .that he having found it in fome places ncare unto him,could underhand of 
the counttey people no other name thereof,or propertie appropriate unto it but knavery, which whether thev 
named it lo in knavery,or knew any ufe of knavery in it, I neyther can learne nor am much inquifitive thereafter 
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VI. 
aStmpalufirulcuPfeudairu luteapaloJl. it 
The yellow water Flaggc, 
AcorX paluftri, five Pfeudoiri, & Iril Inteafalujirit. The yellow water Flag, 
PIPf, He W3tCr Fbg S ro "' eth like the Flowerdeluces,but that it hath much longer and narrower f-dde preen- 
fH J“y«edtogether mthat fafhion.the ftalkelikewile groweth ofrenrimes twife as hich bcniZ 
‘^ aU y cl ‘°» fl° wers > fli»ped fomewhat like unto the Flowerdeluce.with three falling leaves and oihe^ 
three arched that cover their bottomes,but in head of the three uptight leaves as the fiowerdeluces have 
this hath onely three fhort peeces handing in their places, after “ na ' c ’ 
which fucceede thickc anS long three fquare heads,eonteining in 
each part fomewhat big and flat feede.likc unto thofe of the 
Fiowerdeluces : theroote is longer and flenderer then of the 
Flowerdeluce, ol a pale brownifli colourontheoutfidc, and of 
an horfcflefli colour on the innerfide, with many hard fibres 
thereat,and very hai lh in tafle, Lobel fheweth in his Adverfaria 
that ih ; te was a grtac roote brought from Tholofe, which was 
taken for Radix (,'nma, but dcccaved many in that it was no 
Inch thing in < tfcfl.for ic was in tafle aftringent,and in the proofs 
not much dift'ciing from the former. 
The Place a*d Time , 
It ufually groweth in watery ditches, ponds,lakes, andmoores 
fide-, which are alwayesoveiflowne with water, asttLambetb 
in the ditches on the bankes fide may be yearcly feene, and in ma¬ 
ny other plates, flawring in Inly and ripening its feede in 
August, 
The Names, 
This is not "ex which was called hettideft.confecratrix as (jaz.it 
tranfiatech ic, but is rather s Pfeudoiris a baftard brother 
of that ftocke:in the former ages ofour fathers ic was held by ma¬ 
ny to bee the true Acorw oiDiofcoridcs , (o ignorantly had the 
World beene crayned for many )eares,untill fcruples began to 
arife in mens mindes, not finding the things anfwerablc to their 
deliniations in old writers, which caufed them in thefe later 
tunes to be fomewhat more inquifice and diligcnr,to findeoat the 
true and genuine plants,and give them their proper names (and 
hath it not fo fallen out in Divinitie thinke you as you fee it hath 
done in Philcfophie) for thereupon although ‘Brunieljiut call it 
Acorw, yet Tragus called ic Adulterine, and Cordut, Cjefner, 
Matthiolus and others call it Acorw falfns, and Lobel Acorn 
pa/uflrij t FuchpM Turner and others call it Gladiolus luteus\ but 
: Dodor ,am Pfeudoiris t and others his palufiris lutea which (flufiws 
m (peaking of the true Acorw faith that the mod judicious take 
it Co be the Butomos of Theophrajhu , 
The Verities. 
T he roore of this water Flagge is very aflringent cooling and 
drying, and thereby helpeth ail Laskes and Fluxes, whether of 
blood or humors, as bleedings at mouth, nofe or other parts, 
. lo , l y Huxcs **} d otllcr ? ot nature,- and womens too abounding courses : the dcftilled water of the 
herbe flowers and rootes is a foveraignc good remedy for watering eyes, both to bee dropped in o them 2 
have clothes or fpunges wetted therein and applyed to the forehead, it alfo helpeth the foots or blrmlSk t 
>appen in or about the e t es.or in any ocher parts: thefayd water fomented ori 1 wellings and hot inflam ,- thaC 
oi womens fore breads,upon cankers alfo and thofe fpreading ulcers called Noli me tanrere dorh mnefl m J clons 
lame al lo helpeth luch foule ulcers as happen in the privy parts of man or woman or elTe whert E * the 
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