8. We cannot omit to declare the gross mistake of many in the Nominal apprehension of Plants; to instance but in few. An herb there is commonly called _Betonica Pauli_, or _Pauls Betony_; hereof the People have some conceit in reference to St. _Paul_; whereas indeed that name is derived from _Paulus Ægineta_, an ancient Physitian of _Ægina_, and is no more then Speed-well, or _Fluellen_. The like expectations are raised from _Herba Trinitatis_; which notwithstanding obtaineth that name from the figure of its leaves, and is one kind of Liverwort, or _Hepatica_. In _Milium Solis_, the Epithete of the Sun hath enlarged its opinion; which hath indeed no reference thereunto, it being no more then _Lithospermon_, or _Grummel_, or rather _Milium Soler_; which as _Serapion_ from _Aben Juliel_ hath taught us, because it grew plentifully in the Mountains of _Soler_, received that appellation. [SN: _Why the Jews ear is used for sore Throats._] In Jews-ears something is conceived extraordinary from the Name, which is in propriety but _Fungus sambucinus_, or an excrescence about the Roots of Elder, and concerneth not the Nation of the _Jews_, but _Judas Iscariot_, upon a conceit, he hanged on this Tree; and is become a famous Medicine in Quinsies, sore Throats, and strangulations ever since. And so are they deceived in the name of Horse-Raddish, Horse-Mint, Bull-rush, and many more: conceiving therein some prenominal consideration, whereas indeed that expression is but a Grecism, by the prefix of _Hippos_ and _Bous_, that is, Horse and Bull, intending no more then Great. According whereto the great Dock is called _Hippolapathum_; and he that calls the Horse of _Alexander_, _Great-head_, expresseth the same which the _Greeks_ do in _Bucephalus_. 9. Lastly, Many things are delivered and believed of other Plants, wherein at least we cannot but suspend. That there is a property in _Basil_ to propagate Scorpions, and that by the smell thereof they are bred in the brains of men, is much advanced by _Hollerius_, who found this Insect in the brains of a man that delighted much in this smell. Wherein beside that we find no way to conjoin the effect unto the cause assigned; herein the Moderns speak but timorously, and some of the Ancients quite contrarily. For, according unto _Oribasius_, Physitian unto _Julian_, The _Affricans_, Men best experienced in poisons, affirm, whosoever hath eaten _Basil_, although he be stung with a Scorpion, shall feel no pain thereby: which is a very different effect, and rather antidotally destroying, then seminally promoting its production.