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I H ellc-berm ifigfi’ rzzerm . The true blacke I-iellcbor.

3 Hclléifvorajicr m.1xz"mrr5.+ The great Oxe-heele.

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t . . ,c.w 4 Confiligo Ruel. &* Scf2zmW/"-‘ "Mg Setter-wort,or Beare-foot.

kl i Oi the Hiftorie of Plants;

fl0r3c&dT/’l1e.thrrd kindc oi blacke Hellebor, called of Fem, Helloéomflcr maximra, with this adition V Wilde Efgfllfléprqgfldns, that is, full both or floures and feed, hath leaueslomervlrat like the former eight of :6’ 0r,fa=.re .n._at_th.ey be greater,mor€ Jagged, and deeply cut. 1‘ he fiiill<CS grow vp to the lime mundwo CL1l31‘t'S,Ll1LllCllng themfelues at the top into fundry f mall branches, whereupon grow pmea mm and bottle-like hollow greene floures -,afterwh1ch come forth feeds which come to ped (mew ifilrrtre and rrpeneil'e.l‘he root confilteth of many fmall black fll'1ngs,.|nuoIugd 0; map- 4 Th fun another very intricately. _ _ '

Ofcmlm 6 glitch l{lDClC of blacke H ellebor (called_of1fem1 and Loéel, according to the defcrrptron names “earn k RnclZzm,Sr_zf4moz:l:s rz_zagr2ut+2, and Cozzfilzga:1n,Englr{h,Ox—heele,or Setter-worgwhich in the “am :1 en from his yertues in curing Oxen and {herb like cattell,as {hall be {hewed afterward es thereof) 15 lo well ltnozvue vnto the molt tort of people by the name of Beare-foot,‘

need Fm all not haue caufe to {pend much time about the defcriptionw #1 Indeed it was not much.

6 P an} fir Our Author to defcribe_it, for it was the lalt thing he drdsfor both thefe two lat": are of 13 r in {R 0th figures and defcrrptrons ; the former of thefe figures exprefling It in floure, and the namwefficl : but the former of our Author was Wltll fomewhat broader leaues, and the later with . ., . Th F _ qj T/as Place. _ and e E Hellebors grow vpon rough and craggy mountains : the lait growes wilde in many woods’ 3 Owie places in England : we haue them all in our London gardens. Tb qr ‘1‘l2cTz'me. _ ‘C EYE floureth about Chri{tmafl‘e,if the Winter be milde and warme: the others later. It is V, q] ‘Me Names. _ V _ V leborosagreed among the later writers, that thefe plants are Veratm nzgm .- lfl Englifh, blacke Hel- 1,,,,,P0d‘ ‘ In Greeice, ;».~..:,2.,,; .u.w: in Icalian,E[z’eéora zzero .- in Spaniflryerdegamée nggro .- qfdiruers,rJKe- ha is ""5 bccaufe it was firfl; found by uuelampas, who was firfi thought to purge therewith PM- -heard ‘mid daughtersgand to refiore them to health. Diofcaride: writeth, that this man was a [hep-y mdotners, a Soothfayer. In high ‘Dutchit is called, (Efi);i[tmutt§,_th3E}§, Chriflsllerbez or of our game herbe : in low Du tchjgtpllclj ihflfi £fllyt,and that becaufe It flollfeth about the birth Old It-firs Chrilt, t t ‘ _ in En °l‘_hlrd~ kind was called ofFat/5/iu5,Pfi’udo5e/lc50ru:, and Verammz migmm adultcrmungwhtch is rig "hi falle or bafiard blacke Hellebor. Molt name it canfllzgo, becaufe the husbandmen of C oe herewith cure their cattell, no otherwife than the old Farr1ers‘O|' llorfc-leeches were de, t%d°°:that is,they cut a flit or hole in the dewlap,as they tertI_1€it(Wh1C_1“5 3" Cmptie skinne: in . ° throat of the beaii')rv'herein they put a piece of the root or Setter-wort or Beare-foot, fuf- ring 0;” etc to remains for Cettaine daies together: which manner ofcurrng thev do call Sette- llorfe ht~ elf Cattell, and is a manner of rowelling, as the {aid Horfe-leeches doe their hotfes with‘ San” aéure tv_vified,or {uch lil<e,and as in Surgerie we doe vfe with {ilke,WhlCh in {lead of the word fled n']a.n°°’t31ne Phyfitian called it by the name Rowcll 3 a Wofd Val)’ "“P’°Pe‘lY {POW-‘n_ Of a leat- ‘In . . pe1%i(l>efcattellhe1pe:h the difeafe ofthe lungs, thecough, and wheeling. Moreouer, in the time of fagd WE,“ Or murraine_.or any other drfeafes affeaing cattell,they put the root into the place afores dafyjtwlc draweth vnto it all the venomous matter,and vordeth rt forth at the yvound.'T’he which‘ lin,B and Hicrocle: the Greelte Horfe-leeches haue at large fet downe. And it is called in Eng- 9 tare- oot,Setterwort,and Settcl‘-gl'3fl“-3

f0r it :‘§l°0nd is named in the German tor1gl_1f-‘.7-lvlilfikliliflllli, that is, Pedimlarir, or Low fiegra {Te :

bercck ; Ought to defiroy and kill lice, and not onely lice but fheepe and other cattell :and may"

“'3 among the Beareefeenas kindes thereof.

la b «J The Temperature. : y A _ mannefilie Hellebonas Galen holdeth opinion, is hotter in tafle than the white Hellebor: in like \ 19‘? and dry in the third degree.

T/ye Vemm. . » _ I

lebor purgeth downeward flegme,choler,and alfo melancholy efpeciallyflfld 3” me- Y “fD0rs,yet not without trouble and difl*iculty:therefore it is not to be giuen W‘ to ‘'‘?b ““

:1 Sad ‘long b°‘li€$,aS Mefim teacheth. A purgation of Hellebor is good for mad and furious for gépelrlstf-_l&ncholy,dull and heauie perfons, for thofe that are troubled with the falllng fickefles. With

belfirclke choletrartd molefled with melanchol . _ . , . . . . . _

three f anner ofgrurng rt(meaning the firfiblacke Hellebot)fattl'1 Arflfiarzus in his fitlt booke,rs

I iSc"_‘Pl€S little more or lelle. i

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gtuen with wineof raifins or oxymel,but for pleafanrnelfe fake fame fvveet and odoriferous

feeds‘

>b°C8ufe there would be tome difference betweene men and beafis. This manner of St-rte-=7

s 0! them that are {icke of a quartaine Ague, and briefly for allthofe that are troubled .