Chap.io. 
Theatrum Botaaicum, 
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~T , .vn' ; •• ,, rat Vifr a. T thinke it fliOuld be *nei‘t or teitcr.1 have given you in the margent againfi: every 
the feed .s like - om"Lhbuconc or two at this tisne)tbat hath defcribed it before. 1 finde that Tr.au, 
one,the fev trail A ( g ^ of kinl i s 0 f Orchid,,.Tub that they borcno leed(for hefuppokd 
that th-Vmali fce C dewhich as 1 faid is like duft,found in the long heades ef them, after the flower is pad was not 
he 1 ede) for he faid the headsthst it bore after were idle, containing nothing wtthtn them : and fccondly he 
h frrma rhev were not orocreaced by their owne feede.but that they were encrta ca by foiraigne feed, 
thought that feeing y £ h ; h y eir copulation let fall feme of their fperme npt n the ground, and 
r, am h y ° 2 to vare^found inereateft Plenty among the woods where thefe birdsrelorr.and have their chiefeft 
that becaufe t rhaRallJs and Chafialcbch,rht Italians Satir,ane,zndTefticel, at ra Wli he Spaniards 
c£ndJX* he^ 
drlhe » the D»ich Knahrcrmt^U Standelcruijt, and we in S»gW(cl the Apothecaries gei ertflly taking all io ta 
for the'irlife) Satjrim and of lome Dogges Hones, of others St.ndle wort, and Standle graffe, andoffomealfo 
^ rc ^ s ' The Venae,. 
Diolcondes faith of Cynofarcbi, that the roote thereof being boylcd is eaten as other forts of bulbes are and that 
if m l ate th ‘ greater,they Avail beget men children, and it women eatc.he Idler they lha 1 bring fo.th women 
children • A id th ,t the women in The fair, give the foft roote in Goates milke to picture luff, and the dry roote 
to reftraine it and t h« thevertuc ot ihcoie Uextinguifhed fay the taking of the other. 7-toy alfo write,h rhe 
ame words ont of Derides, yet it is generally held, by almoftallnow adayes, that the hrmc: roote onely is 
effectual! for that purpole.and the loofe ot foft fpengy mote to be either of no force or to hinder that effedl s but 
moil of our Apotheca. ies doe promifcuoufiy take.not onely both of thofe rootes to ufe.but of all forts of Orchides 
in generall. 
Chap. X. 
Orchil UWcno. Fooles (bonds. 
Secundits Ordo. ThefecondRancke. 
4„ y 0 | thefc Tcfiiculi are referred by divers Anthours, unto the former Rancke of Cjncfinhidts.but in 
i i regard the pollute of the flowers have different (hapes from them, that ia of Fooles caps, with eares ac 
Hyal? them I have thought good to fpeake of them apart by themfelvcs. 
’ , Orchii rmriomasfcU],macul»tu. The greater male Fooles floncs. 
This greater fore hath five ot fixe broad and fmooth long leaves like Lillies,(potted with blacke (pots on the up* 
. Orchis morio mdsfolijs maculatu. 
The greater male Fooles ftonci. 
2, QTtb'u miioalterarrmeulata. 
Another Fooles Hone* with lpotccd leave*. 
