T heatrum Botanicum. 
Tribe 15. 
to chinkc his lort chic came from Canada ( which is I take it is the lame with our. of howloevcr he 
laith his (carle rife a palmc high) would by fouldin? the leaver, contime Water in them, and therefore woultfrc- 
ferre the name to Allege, that tlinj mentioncth, the pipes that convey water which containtth more conceit 
then verity. 
The Vert tier. 
The leaves of Columbines are commonly uled in lotions,for lore mouthes, andI throates.which effefl it worketh 
by the drying andbinding quality therein. Tragut faitb that a dramme of the feede takenWine with a little 
Saffron, doth open the obftjuftions ot the Liver, and is good for the yellow j.undife, and advifeth that the par¬ 
ties after the tak no thereof iliould be laid to fweate well in thetr beds. Ctxfim laith a Phylitian m 'Sruget uled 
the feede for women that were in fore travell ot childe birth, to caufc a (pecdie delivery, being taken in Wine, 
and a lecond draught to betaken, it the firlt did not the eft'eft. C«w«ra» laith that direrfe in Spain, did eaten 
peece of the roore for many daics together, to helpe thole that were troubled with the Stone m the rernes and 
kidnies. Others doe ufe the decoftion both ol herbe and roote in Wine,putting thereto lotne Ambergrile.againft 
thefc fwounings that the Greckcs call S-Or,;, h. 
Chap. XXI. 
Hepatica nobili. five trifolia , Noble Liverwort, or Hepatica, 
LthoughI (hewed you in my former Booke, all the forts of Hepatic* that then X knew, yer 
lince Mailer Tradejcant, found one other fort,is I cake it growing in Virginia, and brought it 
home with him,whichdiffcreth fomewhat from the other fort wee formerly had, this bea¬ 
ring very datke greene lcaves,and a linall white flower,with a few white and not red chreda 
in the middle, buc btcaufe l had fome of the figures by me, I thought good to exhibite them 
in this place. 
Their Tlace, Time,Nantei, and Virtues are exprelfed in my former Booke, wbtrcantol 
refen eyou,bur as 1 here fliew you,there is little Phyfkall ufe made of them,elfe I would willingly havianlargcd 
the properties he- e : thele being more tor pleafure to the fenfes then helpes for any diteafe, 
Hcpat'x i tioki'u ftye trifolia fimple*. 
T! c oiduiary finale Hcpatica or Liverwort, 
Htpatica nobilU five trifolia flats fltno. 
Double Hcpauca or Liverwort. 
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