A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.

Of Dictamus.

DIctamus is an Herbe which groweth in Crete and is very wonderfull in losening & vnbinding the straights of the bodie. Tullie gathereth this to be true by the maner of the Deare or Harte, who being stricken in the ri•• with anye Dart or Arrowe, so that it sticketh hard fast: they streight wayes hunt after and hasten to the water bankes of the F••n where this Herbe groweth, and finding this, eateth it as a present remedie to haue thereby helpe in such a distresse: which Herbe being once eaten, they shake out the Dart or Arrow out of their ribbes as they list.