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The Theater of 'Plants* 
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I have hereunto put the figure that Dodmen faith, hee tooke out of a Manufcript Herball of the Emperours, 
which whether hetooketobetrueorno.hedothnotfct downe, butfurely Ithmke both this and all the others 
he tooke thence, are but ligmenta'BoUruilogicu'jHfdamcalidc, they are lo artificially compofed, although but rude¬ 
ly,according to the times expreft, like unto many others of this name,though much let by by others,for the heads, 
being fo like unto burres, fheweththat he would frame it toakinde oiArceitm, a Butte,which differeth much 
from ArBion or ArBurtm. 
The Place and Tin. e. 
This groweth among the Rockes, on the Mountaines in Savoy. 
The Names. 
Jt is taken by fome to be the °r 0 { r Di°]corides,Galen. m & others, which Pliny alfo calleth ArBitmi 
and a sdrBHrum.Lngdnnenlii onely doth exhibite tbis to view,under the name of A r cl mm qaerundam ,which Bast" 
himu calleth Lappa motet ana altera larntginofa : falling on the fame rocke that others before him did, to put no dif¬ 
ference bet weene and e^rSi«w, when as Dufcoridei, hath fo punflually divided them, for alfurediy i; 
is plattta fui gonerie ,and hath no fellow. 
TbeVcrtttes. 
If this be the true ArBiumof Diofcoridcs, then he faith that the roote and feede boy led in Wine, will helpe the 
Toothache, ifthedecoftion beheld in the mouth: the fame decoftion is good for burnes, kibes, and chilblanes 
on the heeles and hands to be bathed therewith : it is alfo drunke with Wine againft the paines of the Hip-gout 
or Sciatica,and the Strangury, galen confirmeth the lame tilings,faying it is of thin parts, and doth moderately 
dry and clcanfe. ■* 
Chap. XXV. 
Melambium five NigeUa. Tfjgclla or Fennell flower. 
Here be lundry iorts of Nigella t iome fownc in Gardens,others growing v.'ilcfe, mod with Angle, a nd 
I fome with double flowers of the double forts, and of the Spanifli Anglo kiode, I have ipoken already 
I in my former Booke,the reft fliall follow here. 
i. NigellaRot/tanajivefativa. T!:e Romane or fweetc fmelling NigeUa. 
This fweete NigeUa groweth up to be two foote high, with (undry (lender branches, and many 
finely cut and divided leaves on them, almolt as fmall as Fennell,and veiy like unco thole of the Latkes heeles at 
the top of every branchdUndcth one flower, made of five blew leaves laid abroad like a liar, without any greene 
leaves under the flower,as 111 lome (ingle and another double blew fort,with a greene head in the middle,compaf- 
fed with fome lew threds, which head groweth to be the feede veffell, being a little long and round, withfive 
fmall Ihort toppes like homes, (landing at the toppes of the heads,In which lye in feverall cells, fmall blacke and 
very fharpe fweete (trofig fuelling feede : the roote isfmallchrcddy and yellow.periftiing yearely. 
1.3. Nigtlla Romnna fasiva.fjf fylve/?ru,floTibxs nudU& foliofr. 
Thefirll Romanc Nigclla 3 and bot!i the fores of the wilde* 
NigeUa Hijpanica . 
Spanifh NigeUa, 
