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and flender green ftalks, of the bignefs of an ordinary riding wand at the bottony 
of moft, or bigger or leffer, as the roots are of growth; on which are fet divers 
branches of green leaves, fhorter and fmaller than fennel to the top; at the joints , 
whereof come forth fmall moffy yellowifh flowers, which turn into round berries, 
green at the firft, and of an excellent red colour when they are ripe, fhewing like 
beads of coral, wherein are contained exceeding hard black feeds. The roots are 
difperfed from a fpongeous head into many long, thick, and round ftrings, wheres 
. by it fucketh much nourifhment out of the ground, and encreafeth plentifully 
thereby. 
x ff D Prickty ASPARAGUS, SPARAGUS, or SPERAGE. 
Description. IT groweth ufually in gardens, and fome of it grows wild in 
Appleton meadow, in Gloucefter(hire, where the poor people do gather the buds, — 
or young fhoots, and fell them cheaper than our garden afparagus is fold in 
London. 
Tua. They do for'the moft part flower, and bear their berries late in the yeary — 
or not at all, although they are houfed in winter, 
GOVERNMENT AND Virtues. T hey are both under the dominion of Jupiter. 
The young buds or branches boiled in ordinary broth, maketh the belly foluble 
| and open, and boiled in white wine, provoketh urine, being ftopped, and is good 
: apes the Dr asgnanys or difficulty of making water, it expelleth the gravel and: 
fione scape’ the kidnies, and helpeth pains in the reins: if boiled in white wine of 
= > It 1s prevalent for them that have their arteries loofened, or are troubled 
weiett the hip gout, or {ciatica, The decoétion of the roots boiled . wine and taken, 
— clear the fight, and being held in the mouth, eafeth the tooth ach ; and 
ee taken fafting feveral mornings together, ftirreth up bodily jut in man or wo- 
ees teres fome:have written tthe contrary. The garden afparagus nou- 
ime effect in all the aforementioned dif- 
and the back and belly bathed 
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happen to the lower parts of the 
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