Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

¶Of Iusquiamo. cap. 87.

IVsquiamus in Gréeke, is in English called Henbane, and Canicularis in La∣tine, and hath that name Canicularis, for in either side of the stalke thereof grow∣eth as it were Crabs heads, as it fa••eth in Pomegranards, as Isidore saith li. 17

The mouthes thereof be departed & clouen, and haue diuers séedes lyke to Poppie séede This hearbe is called I••s••∣na, mad; for the vse thereof is perillous: for if it be eate or dronke, it breedeth madnesse, or slow lykenesse of sléepe.

Therefore this hearb is called common∣ly Mirilidium, for it taketh awaye wit and reason. Isidore sayth, that this is a venemous hearbe, and hath blacke séede, red or white, as ••linius saith and Dio∣scorides: the blacke is worst and vene∣mous, the red is lesse euill, and the white is least euill. Therefore the vse thereof accordeth most to medicine. & hath vertue to constraine and binde, and also to breed sléepe: and those that haue blacke seede, haue blacke leaues, and rough and hard, with Purple floures, with hard leaues, thicke and sad. Those that haue reddest seeds, haue white floures, and also butter floures, and leaues softer. And those that haue white seed, haue white floures & fat leaues & ful of iuyce: the hearb is cold in y^e third degrée, & dry in the second degree. Therfore it abateth swelling, & bindeth the wombe, and stauncheth bloud, and healeth tooth ache that commeth of heat, and abateth hot reume. Huc vs{que} Diosc. and Plinius.

And Aristotle in libro vegitabilium speaketh of Henbane seede and sayeth, that the seede of the Henbane is poyson, and slayeth among the Parthians, and is eaten at Ierusalem: and so by good ground or euill, where it groweth, the mallice thereof and venime abateth or increaseth. Magister in historia sup. Ex∣odum saith. That in the Crowne of the chiefe Bishop, sloode a floure lyke to an hearbe that the Greeks call Iusquiam••s. And vnder that floure in the vtter side

of the Crowne or Miter was a Circle of gold about the forhead, and the noll and the circle was distinguished in treble or∣der, and vpon the circle stoode golden flo∣wers like to Plantayne, from the Tem∣ple to the Temple. And so in that these hearbes were priuiledged, that the lyke∣nesse of them were worthy to be set in tokening and figure in the crowne and Myter of the chiefe Priest.

(Hiosciamus, blacke, yeolowe, and white: the blacke is most hurtfull.)

Notes

• Henbane.
• Additiō.