¶ The Names.
Scabious is commonly called Scabiosa; diuers thinke it is named 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which signifieth a scabbe, and a certaine herbe so called by Aëtius: I do not know, saith Hermolaus Barbarus, whether it be Scabious which Aëtius doth call psora, the smoake of which being burnt doth kill cankers or little wormes. The Author of the Pandects doth interpret Scabiosa to be Dioscorides his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Diosco∣rides describeth Stoebe by no markes at all, being commonly knowne in his time; and Galen in his first booke of Antidotes saith thus: There is found amongst vs a certaine shrubby herbe, hot, very sharpe and biting, hauing a little kind of aromaticall or spicy smell, which the inhabitants do call Colymbade, and Stoebe singular good to keepe and preserue winc: but it seemeth that this Stoebe doth differ from that of which he hath made mention in his booke of the faculties of medicines, which agreeth with that of 〈◊〉〈◊〉: for he writeth that this is of a binding quality without biting; so that it cannot be very sharpe.