1578 CHAF.27. 
c Tbeatrum Botamcum. 
1 RIBS 
and oihcrsMtC^^onTMcori^es earneftly ftrivech to 
make itch eDorjcnim of ‘Diofcorides, whereuntoitfec- 
mech lie was led, not onely fromthe feverall parts ot the 
forme thereof, except the leaves, but alio from the pro¬ 
perties of the fcede, which as hee faith, he tryed in hma- 
felfeto he dangerous in provoking fleepe, if too muc 
(hould be taken, although as he faith it caulech a Iwecte 
fleepe then Op:«m: but Matthiolvn contelkth agamlt him 
for this his opinion, but fbeweth no reafons for it: 'I>o- 
don£M mifliking others opinions, btingeth in one othis 
owne, that this is Serapio, his Atrongoi Atnegi, menti¬ 
oned in his 15 3 • Chapter,in theft words: 
fmall graine fpotted with blacke and white, and like unto 
the giaine UUaU: hotel affenteth unto fuch of his friends 
as moke it to be Deojcorides his I/opprum, whereuntoit 
commeth neerer as he faith, then unto any r 
Unthiumfiuth lsCMatebiolm gave it for, or as JJedonaue 
in his French Hetball, Trifoltnmpalnjlre : entail alike,e- 
very one wanting fome thing or other, Lobel callcthit 
therefore as it wasufuall, for Ir.dnm, cxVifiam ln icxm, 
Cordiu eramim cordie, and Tabcrmcntantte Card,firrtm«% 
Tram alio faith it was called with them Munckj Kopfflm 
idejl, AUnacbi calvaria, or as Gefintr faith, [apar AIo. 
nachi, hotelAlo calkth it Pi{«m Cordatum, but Kattbimu 
putting icamcno: the Peaie.as a fort thereof, calicth it Pt- 
[pm v'ficarittm frietht nigro alta mnatlata notato. 
The fertuei. 
Some aftgnatur would mike it availeable for faintings 
and other difealesof the heart, but without experience 
aslthinke. Cordm faith as is before related, tobeagrea: 
provoker to flcept,even to tbe danger of life, if the quan¬ 
tity be not proportioned : 1 find not any olthe other Au- 
thours that hath written of it, hath fet downe any proper¬ 
ty they knew,or heard co be in it. 
iifum CordaCuv vefcarium. 
The bladder hart l;ke fported Peafe, 
Chap. XXVII. 
Dtlpbinum five Confiolida regalU. 
Larkes fpurres ot lieeles. 
Have in my former Booke flicwed youail the 
j 3 fs torts ef Larkes fpurres, both tame and wilde, 
WSA both (ingle and double, both Ample and feverall 
Item colours,' and party coloured, that I have not a- 
— -- o 1 ny more to bring to your confideration : Yet f 
thinke good here to prefent you with fome figures of them, 
tint I had by mee, and with them a kinde of different Na- 
fiurtwm Indie urn, in the forme of the leaves, which Label 
had fotmerly fet forth, taken as it is likely, to the life of the 
viewed plant,howloeverithathbetne fincemiflikedby ma¬ 
ny others, yy.-Kd f’nce his time have not obtained the like to 
feeagaine, yet thathindereth not much the verity of the 
thin- no more then the relatgm of Uondm the younger, of a 
whim flower qf this Jtinde, which wee have not as yet ftene 
neither. 
Dclpbinumfive (JovfoliJa regalufjlvefirit. 
Wild Larkes Spurrcs. 
