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which are three grain€5,l€lf€-I than the feeds of Stauefaker] to which defctiption this blew Bmdc’ weed is anfwerable. ay There be alfo other forts of Bindweed s,which be referred to Nil Auicemm ; which no Cl0l1b”nhis be kindes of Nz'l5fOr nothing gaine- faith it why they {hould not be fo. Therefore to concludes‘ .0 beautifnll Bind-weed,which we call Comzolwlm Ciemleu4,is called of the Arabians Nil :_ Of 5 ” 41° 7; H45 46 N2"! . about Alepo and Tripolis in Syria the inhabitants call it H4/mifémthe I talianS,C4”’£ mi /Azuwrea .- of the beautifull azured ﬂOLll'Cr-, and alfo Fiar dc mme,becaufe his beauty app€3T‘=5 m in the night. qf 7'6: Temperature. . th it Comjizlwilm Carulezmor Nz'l,as Auicen faith,is hot and dry in the ﬁrlt degreeibut Serapzo make to be hot and dry in the third degree. q]' The Vertim. _ _ _ out It purgeth and voideth forth raw, thicke, ﬂegmaticke, and melancholy humonrs :it driu_€5 .

all kinde of w0rmes,but it troubleth the belly,and caiifeth a readinelle to vomit,as Aviteﬁ faith’

. . . . - e worketh {lowly,as serapzo Wrltctilglﬂ whom more hcreofmay be found,but to little purP0l‘a“'he’ ' fore we thinke good to paffe it ouer. ,

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C aminonie of S yria hath many ﬂalkes tiling from one root, which are long: like the claf ping tendrels of the vine,by which it climeth and taketh hold 0 as are next vnto it. The leaues be broad, fharpe pointed like thofe Of hedge Bind-weed:among which come forth very faire white ﬂoures tending :08 bl” fafhion. The root is lorig,'thicke, andwhitc within: our of which is gathered 3

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\ llardnedais tiﬁiﬁigthatshe knowledge whereof more concerneth;Phyf1tion, bot? for his fhape and properties,

_ 13 cammonie which Pemz calleth Laifaria Mﬂﬂ7ri4que ‘U0/‘UM 4, that is, milky and climbing ind .’ . , - - - _ . 7 , inas.”,‘£f§§ ’§lfif3ii°ir’“r‘f ark‘%‘le8§'i§i°§ §§df°§f$ iilfiié L‘§3r§“§‘.fr§§’§3? 331:5 l.§i§’§’d“§.il" £°;“§T 3 ii is not 3“? Other he-iei ll: fdi nd wheieoffo fmall a quantity will do fo much good - neitliiercoirld t ofewhich ha-iieyc Cd 6 'tJ cl, re roued this herbe ﬁnde any {imple in refpecft ofhis vertues to °'Put in his room 3-rped if 1 ‘ail f Pth teat blame to all raétitioners who haue not endeuoured to beiftter acquaiti-t:[d wifhei-’liiesIlic:1rebe,§hiefely to auoid fire deceit of the crafty Drug-feller and rgeegegrf °°"fee::n :°;::':.°;z;,‘;‘?t:%$::;t;::d?s:t:::i:;:;::*a:2‘;::::::::15 ces he’°°f b r inmoiwlior pay fa itin and ill inixing thereof - I haue tl”lEl‘Cf0l:€\‘thOLi0i]Lt imd to fat d°Wl1eywheat lnlio [ elccoumibfthegili ent and no lelfe leairned obferuations of Fem: ion cemiﬂg this pla:t,%aI1‘i1:EIa5 Eritodr r 56 2 .Vid.§d»ze;/ Fig.2 72 . I ‘ sequin»; Qﬂfdrtiﬁcflm an Apothecary of Va. nice,being a molt diligent fearcher of Sim ples, that he might haue the right Scarnmony of An- tioch,trauelled into Syria,where from the citie of Aleppo he fent an 100. weight of the juyce of Scammony of Antioch, prepared and hard- ned into a lumpe,at the making whereof he was prefent himfelfe. This man fent alfo of the feeds thereof, which in all points anfwered the cornered feed of Valuéilzlr-, which being fowne in the beginning of the Spring at Padua and Venice,grew vp to the form ofa braue 8: good- ly Con-vo/wzlm,in leaues,ﬂ0t-1res{,and fhew fo like vnto our Czﬂiimpelas, that a man would haue ta- ken it for the fame without controuerGe,fauing that the root was great, and in bigneffc equall to the great Brionie,as alfo in tendemeffe. The outward bark of the root was of a dusky colour, and white within: the inner pith beeing taken forth feemeth in all mens iudgements :0 ha the fame and the belt allowed Turé-ztb njficimzrum .- and yet it differeth from Turbith, in that, that it is more brittle, and will more eaﬁly bee bro- ken, though the pith lﬂ $Cammony bﬁ no Ieffe gummie and full of milkie l“YCe,than Turbith. Further Pena reporteth , that afterward he fent of this feed vnto Antwetpe,where it grew very brauely.,the climing firings and branches grow- ing vp to the height of fine or fix cubits, not differing from that which was fowne in Italy. Alfo William Dries of Antwerpe, a molt excel- lent A p0thecary,did cut of the branches of his Antwerpian Scammonie from the root,and dri- Confmed rh . . ed them, lanted the feeds in his Garden, and to differ ’ e_ fuperﬂuous branched roots with the Turbith of Alexandria, and could not find them the mak.°' lfagree the one from the other in any point. But he that will know more cgicerning 11ie,in l : difference, choife and vfe of Scam mony, let him read Pena in his chapter of Scamm0-

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ace formerly cited, where he [hall firide many excellent fecrets worthy the noting °f

would know how tovfe fuch rare and excellent medicines. , ,

owin camm°“Y 0fValentia (whereof I haue plenty in my Garden) is alfoa kinda Of Bmdwfeds

. mtg nat“’3uY b)’ the Tea fide vpon the grauelly ihore, by the mouth of the riuer Rhodanus, at tlewh '3 Callﬁd L/{quart Mariana, where the Apothecaries of Montpellier gathﬁf oflt gleat Pl5‘11~ tioch. afle attempted to harden the milkie j uyce thereof, to vfe it in. (‘read Of Swmmony of An- a pole. 21 E133 Maﬂtbringeth forth many {lender branches,which will climbe and very well run vpon and mt; 3. e“_‘3l“PP0'tecl therewith, and mounteth to the height Of 506 0! ﬁx cubits,c1’imbing l’“‘3l1l~’€ the ﬁrll; kinde of Scarnmony. The leaues are grcﬁﬂﬁr fmooth, plaine, and fl1sr_;?c_<r=

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greatly vfed in Phyﬁcke : forwhich conﬁderation, there is not any plant growing vpon I