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Oi‘ the Hiliorie of Plants. L I B. 2.2%
T be Place.
The three firfir grow in rnofi: gardens «,butI the yellow kinde groweth not common, except in th€
arclens of curious Herbarifts. _ _
zit The fourth and fifth grow wilde among cljorne in diuers places. 11
qt 7‘ c Time.
That which hath continued the whole Winter doth floure in May. and the. ref’: of Summ€f1' 3:; terwarciss and that which is planted later, and in the end of Summer, floureth in the Spring 0 I following yeare : they do hardly endure the 1; yburzis of out cold Winter.
q] e Amer. . . '
Snapdragon is called in Greeke, ¢Lv"zI'{i5Ir0! : in Latine all:o,z;1z2tirr/mmm: of/Ifulems, Cam: c_ere5r1z;:: Herée Sz'mizz7r4,Vemtfla mi770r,0pzile'5grz1ta, and Orofltium : it is thought to‘be Lea lzeréa, which C? me/14,125. I o. reckons among the floures .- yet Gefzzer hath thought that this Leo is Colaméme, W111}: for the fame caufe he hath called Leontoflrmzierm : but this name feemeth to vs to agree better W1‘ Calucs fnout than with Columbine; for the gaping floure of Calues fnout. is more lilse to Ly(?{‘[: fnap than the floure of Columbine : it is called in Du_rch,£D3,fit1t: in Spat1lfi'1,C'z15c%!tz'£t67’W7"" 1 Englifh,Calues fnout,Snapdragon,and Lyons fnap: in French, Yefie dc chzergana Tc e de Veer!-
qr T/ae Temperature.
They are hot and clry,and of fubtill parts.
The Vcrtues. _ _ b A The feed of Snapdr-agon(as Galen faith) is good for nothing in the vfe ofPhyl'icl:e—,and the hi” it felfe is of like faculty with Buémium or Star-wort,but not fo effeétuall. In B They report (faith Diofiarider) that the herbe being hanged about one preferueth a man fY° being bewitched,and that it malteth a may gracious in the fi ght of people. .5 C ‘ Aymleim writeth,that the diftilled water, or ti]€‘CieCO€’£lOlf) of the herbe and root made in wzfffila‘ a fpeedy remedy for the watering of eies proceeding of a hot caufe,if they be bathed therewith-
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CRAP. 165. Of Tode» ex.
2 Linariepurpurea odorata. Great Tode-flax. _ Sweet purple Tode-flax.
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I Immlb _ k_ T be De{Zrip.*iei¢. 6 no. > ' I . . fl ' .’ . . I grow mlana 41 mac Of‘/Ifilftrr/717155579’, hath lmalhflender, blackrfh {’ralke3.-frorn which do 7 the fa lyk Orig narrow leaues like Hair. The floures be yellow, with a fpurhanging at is [6 be {Gene in thfélfiol e vnto a Larkes fpur, barring a mouth like vnto a frogs mouth, euen fuch as lembleth Ewaw mmon Snapdragon 3 the whole plant before it come to Home {'0 much re- 4 ‘”"’a‘h3t the one is hardly kriowne from the other,but by this old verfe:
1? [F414 lazffcfcrit, five lafie Limria crefeit.
it Eflr/A with milke doth flow, Toacl-flax without rriilke doth grow. 1:
e fecond itinde of Tode flax h h l ‘ - ' ' ‘ dj . - at eaues like VBt(?B€//t»5m41or,Ol' the teat D fi , b ‘i ; fer with rraiI;iiir\;f(1))l:,1re[;’:‘:‘1‘:)J‘:1r§!é§,€lCilk:boitrt tillje efdges.T_he flalke is f mall and tendengofa cirljitclriglht, anging theréar the flou yn 0 t ‘e ormer in ihape. The root is long , with many threds 3 The th_ 8 b _ res are 0 a realonable fweet fauour.
HIP: kinde ‘jfltnzrijffiéléfifiilfe a kinde of _Tode-flax,_hath frnall and narrow leaues like vn to the - 6| 6 Is a cubit high,befetwith floures of a purple colour, in rafhion like
mere‘ ab - _ root 1-: fmL;tnt1;g:l13;::3:ie)th the taile or fpurre at the end of the floure which the other hath. The
.L . _ ' 3 Lmarzapurpuretmltera,
Variable Todflflax. 1' 4 Liemria Valentina Clef
Tode-flax of Valentia.
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1‘ V . . fialkel? Lmm“ Valentina ha
Y three and three
th Ieaues like the lelfer Centorie, growing at the bottome ofrlie’ °fa foot h
. _ abut higher vp towards the top without an certaine order - the flalkes are ditiscalldb‘ . 3 . Y _ _; - - . ‘i Y ClMfiw,Velentzna,for that it was found by himfelfe in Agra V4/Win V P3196, where it beareth yellow floures about the top of the flalke 11146 C0111- reth at Valenria in Mafclhth Odfthe fi0ure is downy,or mo{fie,and the taile of a purple €010“?-‘It floue Ortherne parts. ‘an g‘°W€th In the medowes there,and hath not as yet been feene in the {e
5 Ofjiris [6 i from which fit: ilrith nzjuch vnlike the common . mewhat more wide and
much ,and long roots,witl_i fome threds or firings hanging at the fame; T es very tough and pliant, befet towards the top with floures not oad—flax,but of a pale whrtifh colour, and the inner part of the mouth’ °P°“a‘ and the leaues like the common 'Iode-iiax .‘ V F 1‘ 6 45?"?