AND COMPLETE HERBAL: 5 
yellowifh, frefh, green colour; they are of a bitterifh tafte being chewed in the 
mouth. From among thofe rifeth up a ftalk, green in colour, round in form, great 
and ftrong in magnitude, five or fix feet high in altitude, with many joints and 
fome leaves thereat; towards the top come forth umbels of fimall yellow flowers, 
after whichare paffed away, you may find whitifh, yellow, fhort, flat feeds, bitter 
alfo in tafte. 
’ Pracer. Having given you the defcription of the herb from the bottom to the 
top, give me leave to tell you that there are other herbs called by this name; but - 
becaufe they are ftrangers in England, I gave only the defcription of this which is 
eafy to be had in the gardens of divers. 
Time. Although Gerrard faith, that they flower from the beginning of May 
to the end of December, experience teacheth them that keep it in their gardens, that 
it flowers not till the latter end of the fummer, and fheds its feeds prefently after. 
~GoveRNMENT AND Virtues. It is under the dominion of Mars; hot, biting, 
and choleric; and remedies what evils Mars affli€s the body of man with by fym- 
pathy, as viper’s flefh attracts poifon, and the loadftone iron, It kills the worms, 
helps the gout, cramp, and convulfion 5 provokes urine, and helps all joint-achs 5 
it helps all cold griefs of the head, the vertigo, falling ficknefs, and lethargy 3 the 
wind cholic, obftruétions of the liver and fpleen, ftone in the kidnies and bladder 
It provokes the terms, expels the dead birth; it is excellent good for the grief of : 
the finews, itch, fores, and tooth-ach; the biting of mad dogs and venomous 
seis and purgeth choler very gently. 
ALKANE T,. 
BESIDES the common name, it is called Orchanet and resis Deal, ad 
apothecaries, anchufa. 
Description. Of the many forts of this herb, there is Fite one to cc com- 
monly in this nation, of which one takes this defcription ; , it hath a great and thick 
root of a reddifh colour, long, narrow, and hairy leaves, green like the leaves of 
buglofs, | which lie very thick upon the ground, and the ftalks rife up compaffed 
about thick with leaves which are lefs and narrower than the former, they are 
tender and flender, the Garcon aus ealeniy Saal sanh of 5 emma ic: olour 5 
the feed is greyith. Seed 25 eee Hah Woe eg 
che, and in many places in ¢ the weft coune bat 
ess It. grows ir in Kent near I 1 Roc 
