Of Herbe Terrible.

| 1 Alypum montis ceti. | 2 Tarton Raire Gallo-prouincia. | | :--- | :--- | | Herbe terrible. | Gutwoort. |

The description.

Herbe Terrible is a small shrub two or three cubits high, branched with many small twigs, hauing a thinne rinde, first browne, then purple, with many little and thinne leaues like Myrtus. The flowers are rough like the middle of Scabious flowers, of a purple colour. The roote is two fingers thicke, browne of colour, and of a wooddie substance: the whole plant very bitter, and of an vnpleasant taste like Chamelea, yea somewhat stronger. Tartonraire, called in English Gutwoort, which groweth by the sea, and is Catharticall not of any long continuance among vs, and a stranger, very goodly to beholde, and therefore in the mother toong of the Massilians, is called Tartonraire, of that abundant and vnbrideled facultie of purging, which many times doth procure Dysenteria, and such like immoderate fluxes, especially when one not skilfull in the vse thereof, shall drinke the powder of the leaues, delaied in any liquor. This plant groweth in maner of a shrub, like Chamelea, and bringeth foorth many small, tough, and pliant twigs, set about with a thinne and cottonie hairinesse, and hath many leaues of a glistering siluer colour, growing from the lowest part euen to the top, altogether like Alypus before mentioned: and vpon these tough and thicke branches (if my memorie faile not) do growe small flowers, first white, afterward of a pale yellow: the seede is of a russet colour: the roote hard and woody, not very hot in the mouth, leauing vpon the toong some of his inbred heat & taste, somewhat resembling common Turbith, and altogether without milke.

The place.

These plants do grow vpon the mountains in Fraunce, and other places in the grauelly grounds, and are as yet strangers in England.

The time.

They flourish in August and September.

The names.

There are not any other names appropriate vnto these plants more than is set foorth in the title.

The vertues.

There is nothing either of their nature or vertues, more then is set forth in the descriptions.