. 1 Of the Hiflorie of Plants.

C“?-14% ~ Ofljreat Figgeaavort, or.73rownewoart.‘~

‘J T/we Dejiription.

1 * He great Fig-wort fpringeth vp with flalkes foure {quart-, two eubits high. Of“ dfagg pui-plcvcolour, and hollow within: the leauesgrow alwaies by couples,as it were r_ ‘ one joynt, oppofite or fianding one right againfi another, broad, fharpe pointed,_fD1Pt

ed round about the edges like the leaues of the-greater Nettle,but bigger,blacker, and nothing: all {ringing whenthey be touched : the floures in the tops of the branches areof a darke purpjc ‘tilt: lour, very like in forme to little hel_mets_: then comm_eth .vp little fmall feed in pretty rounk as tons,but iharpe atlthe end : the root is whitilh,befet with little knobs and bunches as it were 0 andkernels. - e _ , Che;

2 There is another Figge-wort called Scrap/mlarza.Infica,_thathath many and great brannfi‘

trailing here and there vpon the ground, full of leaues, in faihion like the wilde or commoflh - file, but altogether without prickes: among the le.aues.appeare the floures in fafhion like a we: on the outfide of a feint colour,and within intermixt with purple ,which being fallen and Wific red,there come in place fmall knops very hard to breake,and _{harpe at the é)OlIlt as a bodkin:W_ [er comainerh a {mall teed like VUtO.Tl-m€.TilC whole plant perilheth at the rfl approach ofWiI‘i"_”: and mutt be fowen againe in Aprill,in good and fertile ground. 1: This 15 the Scraplmlma Cf x._ofClufim- 4.1

1 Stroplm/arid major. ‘ Great Fig-wort.

it 2 Scrophularialmlica. Indian Fig-wort.

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:1: 3 The flalke of this is alfo fquare,and fome yard high, {er with Ieaues like th0fC Ofthef V

hedge Nettle. but fomewhat larger and thicker. and a little deeper cut in : out of the bofomes

,thefe leaues come little rough f0Ot-flalkes f ome inch or two long, carrying fome foure or 5"‘ ho ’

low round flames of a greenifh yellow colour, with fome threds in them, being open at th€ ‘OP’

. . . . . he and cut inwith line little gafhes :the feeds are blackc, and contained in veflels like thofe of hf‘ R

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Of the Hifcorie of Plants.

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the rootis like that of the Nettle,and liues many yeares :it Homes in May, and pe in Iune.I haue not found no; heardof this Wilde with vs, but feen it flonrifliing 9 garden of my kinde friend M‘Iobn P.irkz'r7fim. Clptfittd calls it Lamium 2 . Pannonicam exaticzzm Baxrimze hath fet it forth by the name of Scrap/mlaria flare lzztw : whom in this I follow. 1

1] The Place.

_ The great Scrap/mlaria groweth plentifully in {hadowie Woods, and fometimes in rnoifl medowes,efpedially in greatefi abundance in a wood as you goe from London to Hernefey, and alfo in Stow wood and Shotouer neere Oxford.

The Grange Indian fig-woort was fent mee from Paris by Io/m Roéin the Kings Herbariitg and it now groweth in my Garden.

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They floure in Iune and Iuly-.

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Fig-wort or Kernel-wort is called in Latine Scropbulzzria major,that it might differ from the‘ leffer Celandine,which is likewife called Scro-

flm[.zria,with this addition minor, the le (let: it

is called of fome Mz//emoréia, and Caflmrzgula .- in Englifh,great Fig-wort, or Kernelavorr, but molt vfually Brown-‘wort.

‘ q] T A4: Vertuer.

Fig-woort is good againli the hard kernells which the Graecians call xleirfir = the Lfitlm‘-‘S. Strmmngand commonly Scraplmldd #1133 is: ‘ht? Kings Euill : and it is reported robe a remedy againit thofe difeafes whereof It t‘O0ke his name, as alfo the painefu” P1163 and fWCliiI'lg of the haemorrhoides. _ _

Diuersdo ra{hly teach: ‘hat 1f 1‘ bf‘ hanged about the make, or elfe carried about one, it keepeth a man in health.

h Some doliampe the r00tWith butffifs and fet it in a moifl: fhadowie place fifteene daies toge- I: et : then they doboyle it,firaine it,and keepe it, wherewith they anoint the hard kernels, and the xm°"‘°id.¢"— Veines,or the piles which are in the fundament,and that with good fticcelfe.

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C H A P. 246. 0fVermzizze.

qr TheDefcripn‘on.

'1 Tfie fialke of vpright Vervaine rifeth from the root lingle,cornered,a foot high,feldom‘e’i

aboue a cubit,and afterwards diuided into many branches. The leaues are longxgrfar

are mm b ter thanthofe of the Oke,but with bigger cuts and deeper :thc flouresalong the {PT 185 C’ Ie“{>°’Wh1t€.orderly placed : the root is long,with firings growing on it. ‘

corneredmepmg Vemaifle fendeth forth fialkes like vnto the former, now and then a cubit long»

ut witfimore flmderifor the mofi; part lying vpon the ground. The leaues are like the former,

deep

Purple withauer Cuts, and more in number. The fioures at the tops of the fpfigs am blfiwaand

order.

.very fmall as thofe of the lalt defcribed, and placed after the fame manner and

former. e root groweth firaight downe, being flender and long: 35 i5 am) I113 K005 0f the

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