The Place. All these grow naturally on Mountaines, in many shadowie places of the Alpes, in Germany, and elsewhere. The Time. The first flowreth (as is said) in Ianuary, and February, and sometimes vntill March be well spent, and the seede soone ripe after. The other three flower not vntill Iune and Iuly. The Names. The first is vsually called _Aconitum hyemale Belgarum_. Lobelius, calleth it _Bulbosus vnifolius Batrachoides_, _Aconitum Elleboraceum_, and _Ranunculus Monophyllos_, and some by other names. Most Herbarists call it _Aconitum hyemale_, and we in English thereafter, Winters Wolfesbane; and of some, Yellow Aconite. The second is called by most Writers, _Aconitum luteum Ponticum_: Some also _Lupicida_, _Luparia_ and _Canicida_, of the effect in killing Wolues and Dogs: And some, because the flower is more white then yellow, doe call it _Aconitum flore albido_, we call it in English, The whitish yellow Aconite, or Wolfesbane, but some after the Latine name, The yellow Wolfesbane. The third is called generally _Napellus_, and _Verus_, because it is the true _Napellus_ of the ancient Writers, which they so termed from the forme of a Turnep, called _Napus_ in Latine. The fourth is called _Aconitum Salutiferum_, _Napellus Moysis_, _Antora_ and _Anthora, quasi Antithora_, that is, the remedy against the poisonfull herbe _Thora_, in English according to the title, eyther wholsome Helmet flower, or counterpoison Monkes hood. The Vertues. Although the first three sorts of plants be very poisonfull and deadly, yet there may bee very good vse made of them for sore eyes (being carefully applyed, yet not to all sorts of sore eyes neither without discretion) if the distilled water be dropped therein. The rootes of the counterpoison Monkes hood are effectuall not onely against the poison of the poisonfull Helmet flower, and all others of that kinde, but also against the poison of all venemous beasts, the plague or pestilence, and other infectious diseases, which raise spots, pockes, or markes in the outward skinne, by expelling the poison from within, and defending the heart as a most soueraigne Cordiall. It it vsed also with good successe against the wormes of the belly, and against the paines of the Wind collick. CHAP. XXVII. _Ranunculus._ The Crowfoote.