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it /1_{£'le‘pmo‘}’i7orc zz/50. i V\/hite Swallownwoort.

2 Afclepzluﬂore nigrlh Blaclte Swallow.woort.

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Both thefe liindes do grow in my garden,but not wilde in Englandsyet I haue heardit 1”‘ that it groweth In the fields about Northampton, butgs ya; I am not certajne ofj;_

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y ﬂoureahont Iune,in Aurumne the downe hangeth out of the cods,and the feed falleih (0

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s. _ . 1} The Names." ma, It is called of the later Herbariﬁs Virzcetoximm : of Ruellim, Hedmilir :in High Dutch: a

lame hooitele, that is to fay in Latinc,Hirm¢a’z'mzri4 :in Englilh, SwaIlow-woQ1-1; gofour Gentle‘

Wome“ it 1.5 Called Silken Ciﬂie;-/Eﬁulapiw (who is {aid to be the ﬁrft inuentor ofphyﬁckv Whom

therefore the Greekes and Gentiles honored as a god) called it after his owne name 1.44/‘WM’ O

_ V . V”. :1’Ff‘“_"’PW herbs. for that he was the ﬁrft that wrote thereoﬁ and now it is called in (11095 W” ‘ mdrtzz.

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and dry 5 they are thought to be good againﬁ 90)’ fog’ y

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. . Di?’/30””?! Wfifetb-, That the roots of AfqcTle}>z'.¢: grsnvigllow-woort boiled in wine and the dc-C0 Etion drunlce,are a remedy agaigﬁ the g . ‘ 2

— . ‘ ' 11 h it‘ ‘ nda“‘”” deadly poyfon,b,eing one of the efpeciatli‘c:i{,§::[),f¢?;egI:ien{!¥ ;1§ee1‘an§2§lngs ofserpemsaa D

‘B inafsizltiiiliirgigfg 1:13: in formeriofa Pultigcme the cum for“ of the P395 or ‘jugs: an

The roots of Swallow-w§o;t are hot

C H A P. 354.. Of Iudian SW1/onézwoort.

qr?/zepcri‘ . y 3. " I ‘Here groweth in that part of_ Virginia, orNoi_erri1i)bze,;a, whereour Englifh men dwellevtﬁ b(1.‘£'h tending there to ereét a certaine Colonic) a kincle o_f gift/eyiiaa, or swallow-W00“? > the

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hhe Sairagesihgii rmffiinck : there ril‘eth vp from a fingle crooked root, one vpriglit Piallc a foot high,

_ender, and ofa green}: {I} colounwhereupon do grow -faire broad leaues {harp pointed, with niany

S or nerues rurinino thmwxh the fame like thofe of Ribwort or Plaintaine, fer together by com P 55 at certaine difizriices. ’I'he lloures come forth at the top of the (talks, which as yet are not ob- feruechby ygakm the man that brought the feeds 8; plants hereof did not regard themmfter which, there come in place tw0c0d3(f(:idOm€ more) (harp pointed like thofe of our Swallowwoort, but greater, Prul-‘fed full ofa moﬁg pure ﬁlke ofa lhining white colour : among which Iilke appearerh a f 00g tongue (which is the feed) refembling the tongue Ofa bird: 0” ‘that Ofthe herb‘? C31‘-<34 "iels tongue. The cods are not only full of ﬁlke,but euery nerue or ﬁnew whcrewith the leaues eribbed are ukewife mo“ Pure gum" . and alfo the pilling of the ﬂems,euenas ﬂax is tome from 11}S allts.'l‘his conﬁdemd b¢h01d the jhﬁice of God, that as he hath {hut vpthofe people and mi. tions in inﬁdelity and nakédﬂﬁs {O hath he not as yet giuen them vnderfhiiiding to eouer their nae ﬁe nell'e,nor mater wherewith ti) do the f&m€3I’10tWith Branding the earth is couered ouer with this iflsfsw ieh dailyyphey tread vnder their feet, which were fufﬁcient to apparell many kmgclomes, ‘Y “-We carefully manurediéind Cherifheda

W. 7:‘! , w '- 0 e V ?f4»c.€‘,ﬂue :7‘ mcetaxzwm Indzanzmt.

:1: Ayzacymm S jriacnziz Clrrﬁ 1’ — Indian Swallow~wort.

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ih *5 This plan: which is kept in fome gardens by the name of Virginia Silke gra li'c,I take to be dame of V3, ﬁk th gcidelfar of Alpinuaéand the vlpocymm Sjriumm of Cluﬁ-m‘ .- at Padua they can it Ef;da zmiim gy rgafonofthehotmillz)’ ilxice. Bauliinus hath vet)’ vnfirlyhamed it Lzz,:zi/mm , ) _ - , -,.. *' 114. r gyptzacum laﬁej-‘ccn: [iliqua Afclepiadtk. But he is to be pardoned -,i0_r ’I0}74””“ l/4"”l“:‘ Raf” if :Pci16.p.46 of his Animad &‘ Fxerc Uvtedice, or Roﬂz rzaéilia i4tri5a,hath taken vpon him t 5;) W 1 ~ 1‘ inuenti . ’ . I I ‘ ' V f h ithei-any W3)’ ‘ — '*-“ ‘rm _ on of this abfurd denominatioml may call it abfurd. or t at me _ 76 _ \r ' lltie it refembleth or articipateth any thing withaDot,:l<e. I 113“? 81”“ V051 the ﬁ’~."'h:“' of out A _ _ _ P , h _ . _ . _.thcr‘former the co 3 are oiieny W uthor with his title and that of Cluﬁur with his . in . . 5‘ - — eu°"Dre{’c-inth later th 1 , sand ﬂoures reafonably well but that they are t00_:€W in num~ be: 9, ’ ° ° eaue . ’ fine‘ Ian:1tOOkth§scl~Cii::r§n—- _ . nd fer too far afunder. Vponthe {ightof the growing and Hon _:> P g , . , X H0“ 3 e root is lone and creeping ~ the ﬁalks two or three cubits high, fql‘-3"‘3> h‘3’h""V’ 3 33>?’ (‘sand of a lighcpgreen colour, fending out towards the IOP form: few branches 2