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Yellow Woolfes bane. /m,He/«’e9orus,& N 4116!]!!! -') ‘ms Yenowmhi.‘ I fay hath large fhining green leaues 6 C oned like a vine , and of the fame bllglﬁle th; deeply indented or cut,not mutll V“ (‘MW leaues of Geranium Fufcum,or black mg bill:the ﬂalks are bare or nakeflanot bcaro his leaues vpon the fame (talks, 0“ .°lignd, againll anothenas in the other Ofhls ecu. his {talks grow vp to the height of thrama‘ bits,bearing very ﬁne yellow ﬂoures, a‘ ﬁically fafhioned, and in fuch Iljaﬂnliirm to ped, that I can very hardly defcribet 5 heI_ You. They are fomewhat like VBIO ‘ ‘it one i met Monkes hood, open and h0ll°W.a end, firme and {hut vp at theothenhisrddic are many,compa6’r of a number 0 01.‘; Go_ or black ftringspfan ouerworne Yclfoldl-Hg lor, fpreading far abroad euery W3)’: °Onfu_ themfelues one within another vet)’ C_ the fedly. This plant groweth na_turallYd1“th it darke hilly forre{ls,& {hadowic W00 5> “dc are not trauelled nor haunted,bllt by W the and fauage beads, and is thought to bee O- flrongefl: and next vnto Thom in his P°.‘ms. “mg ‘lualitielof all the reii of the AC_‘:_"‘f€“: or Woolfes banes ;infomuch that 1 “an ‘of the ﬂoures be chewed in thcflﬂoliivit it it forth a aine refentl ct 0" blllfrnﬁth thgjawspand :on§il:,{ca9ﬁI;§;h°f, to well, and makin a certain mm 1. giddinelle in the head. This calleth to my remembrance an hillory of a cgertain Gentl€m3”.dmf,,, ling in Lincolnelhire, Calléd M 4561176, the true report whereof my very good friend Mr’ lciiewe Belfm, fomtimes Fellow of Kings Collcdge in Cambridge, hath deliuered vnto me: _ ‘- dwelling in Bo{lon,a {trident in phyﬁcl<_,hauing occa lion to ride through the fens of Linc found a root that the hogs had turned vp,which feemed vntohirn very ﬁrange and vnlrnfi that itwas in the fpring before the leaues were out 2 this he taf’red,and it {o inﬂamed limlgue, and lips, that it carried them to {well very extremely , fo that before he could E“ towne of Bolton, he could not fpeake, and no doubt had loll his life if that the Lord G 'bl€lT€cl thofe good remedies which prefently he procured and vfed . I haue here though‘ go exprelle this hillory, for two fpeeiall caufesgtlie ﬁrﬁ is, that fome induﬁrious anddillgent 0 net ofuaturc may be prouoked to leeke forth that venomous plantaor fome of his kiﬂdcs.’ certainly perfuaded that it is either the T/Sara Valoienﬁum, or Acommm lxmrmr where0f‘h‘5 ge W3“ Wﬂedrvsfhich two plants haue not at any time bin thought to grow natur,ally in Eng 3 other Caufe_is,for that Iwould warne others to beware by that gentlemans harme. l‘ D1011 that this toot which M’.Mabcwe tailed was of the Rammculusﬂammew major, dc

ﬁg? Ségiggtﬁﬁrigﬁlicclgggiyeafogegoinggfor that grows plentifully in fuch placesﬂnd

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‘ ‘ Tke Place. 1 '1: hiryeltlgw Iwolfcibane gmweth in H37 garden,but not wilde in England, or in any t 1C e or er y regio 9. \ .r _ 11 The Time. It ﬂoureth inthe end of Iune, fomwhat afte/E the other Aconites. . 17 T e Names. _ 3 3, This yellow Wolfs—b_ane is called of:Lo6el,.Aco77itum Imam Pomicum, or Pontick W olfst»e lzs S (6 There is mention made in Dzofcomfes his copies of three Wolfes-banes, of which the hlm lant I one,and Phylitians the other two. Marcellw Kirgiliu: holdeth opinion that the vfe of this p vtterly to be refufed in medicine- qr ‘Ike Nature 4mz'Vertue5. . d Hkcw 1l'e The facultie of this Aconite,as alfo of the other Wolfes-banes, is deadly to m3D.o“m to all other lining creatures. ll’-

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6 wolues deuoure,and are killed.

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His lrinde of Wolfes-bane(called /Iconimm Lycocffonum.-and of Dodomus, Acorzituén Ly-4 wffozzoizﬂere Dclpbz'mj,by reafon of the fhape and likenes that the ﬂoure bath with De!-

yea pbmmm, or Larks-f pul'.'31‘lCl in Englifh it is called black Wolfs-bane)hath many large

11 r c . g “£3 3 ‘VG’-"ydeep green or ouerwome colour,very deepely cut or jaggedmmong which rifeth vp our ‘V0 cubits highgwherupon grow ﬂoures falhioned like ahood,of a very ill fauored blewifh dgnialld the thruins or threds within the hood are black : the feed is alfo blaclr,and three corne- Vving in {mall husltsitheroot is thick and knobby.

A 1‘ 2 Aoonitum Lycoéionon cgruleumparvure. Small blew Wolfes-bane.

all I ibdfaizlllﬂmLy(.'0'(570‘?10ﬂ>ﬂ07'61)6’l b’ " _ 12 mg. Larks-heele Woolfs-bane.

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gig es "°"Y much jagged,and like vnto Na1>ci’Zm‘,Callecl in E.ngl1fb,H€lm.‘~3'5'ﬂ9L“C- The Homes 0'6

s _ - ‘ ' h auyzg‘ t e ‘OP Ofthc lialkesxof a blewilh colour, falrhioned alfo like a hood,.bUC Wide‘ 9P6“ t 3“

t 6 tell.-:the cods and feed are like vnto the othehthe root is round and final, falbloned like

. ' 8t%=bl wl1icaﬁe- 0.‘ {mall Rape Or Turnep : which moued the Germanes to call the lame 158? Oemeu,

1sinL ' " ‘ _ _ p_ . ,. . Mat is ‘ €s~ho db - — .ﬁ' ‘ ' {hape . . ::9[’“ifl‘1I3t<1)m.,t .aeiii:;hv:§ihcliliini::ih€lz;(::i¥eE§§ Eimgiitecselllent vertue,but mm ﬁemper ﬁdes ha-

whitcglsfféd among the hunters which feeke after wo'lues,the juice whereof they put into raw ﬂe {h B

like an Helmet ; which are fol

* —aﬁm,'_-[his Plant is m;_u¢,fa11y imowne in our,London gardens and elfewhere ;but natiirallig