This groweth in many shadowie Woods both of Italy and Germany; for both Clusius hath described it, finding it in the Woods of Austria and Stiria; and Matthiolus setteth it downe, hauing receiued it from Anthonius Cortusus, who was President of the Garden at Padua, and found it in the woody mountaines of Vicenza, neare vnto Villestagna; whereon (as Matthiolus saith) there is found both with white flowers as well as with blew, but such with white flowers or blew we neuer could see or heare further of. The Time. It flowreth much about the time of the Beares eares; or rather a little later, and the seede is ripe with them. The Names. Clusius calleth it _Sanicula montana_, and _Sanicula Alpina_, and referreth it to the _Auricula Vrsi_, or Beares eare, which it doth most nearly resemble: but Matthiolus referreth it to the _Cariophyllata_ or _Auens_, making it to be of that tribe or family, and calleth it _Cortusa_ of him that first sent it him. Wee may call it eyther _Cortusa_, as for the most part all Herbarists doe, or Beares eare Sanicle as Gerrard doth. The Vertues. All the sorts of Beares eares are Cephalicall, that is, conducing helpe for the paines in the head, and for the giddinesse thereof, which may happen, eyther by the sight of steepe places subiect to danger, or otherwise. They are accounted also to be helping for the Palsey, and shaking of the ioynts; and also as a Sanicle or wound-herbe. The leaues of the _Cortusa_ taste a little hot, and if one of them bee laide whole, without bruising, on the cheeke of any tender skind woman, it will raise an orient red colour, as if some _fucus_ had beene laide thereon, which will passe away without any manner of harme, or marke where it lay: This is Cortusus his obseruation Camerarius in his _Hortus Medicus_ saith, that an oyle is made thereof, that is admirable for to cure wounds. CHAP. XXXV. _Primula veris & Paralysis._ Primroses and Cowslips.