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ther, being taken in wine; boiled in wine and taken, it helpeth conception: the 
leaves being applied with honey to running fores or ulcers, do cleanfe them. I fup- 
pofe the feed of them perform this better than the root ; and though Gaten com. 
mended garden carrots highly to break wind, yet experience teacheth that they breed 
it firft; and we may thank nature for expelling it, not they. The feeds of them xe.. 
pel wind indeed, and fo mend what the root marreth. 
CARR A Woe 
Description. IT beareth divers ftalks of fine cut leaves lying upon the ground, 
fomewhat like the leaves of carrots, but not bufhing fo thick, of a little quick tafte, 
from among which rifeth up a fquare ftalk not fo high as the carrot, at whofe joints 
are fet the like leaves, but fmaller and finer, and at the top fmall open tufts or um- 
bels of white flowers, which turn into fmall blackifh feed, fmaller than annifeed, and 
of a quicker and hotter tafte; the root is whitith, fmall, and long, fomewhat like 
unto a parfhip, but with more wrinkled bark, and much. lefs, of a little hot and 
guick tafte, and ftronger than the parfnip ; it abideth after feed time. 
Piacez. Itis ufually fown with us in gardens. 
Time. They flower in June and July, and feed quickly after. 
Government and Virtues, This is alfo a mercurial plant. Carraway feed 
hath a moderate fharp quality, whereby it expelleth wind, and provoketh urine, 
which alfo the herb doth: the root is better food than the parfnip, and is pleafant 
and comfortable to the ftomach, helping digeftion: the feed is conducing to all: 
the cold griefs of the head and ftomach, the bowels or mother, as alfo the wind in ’ 
them, and helpeth to fharpen the eye fight. The powder of the feed put into a’ 
poultice, taketh away black and blue fpots of blows or bruifes; the herb itfelfor 
with fome of the feed bruifed and fryed, laid hot in a bag or double cloth to the 
lower parts of the belly, eafeth the pains of the wind-cholic: the roots of carraways 
eaten as men eat parfnips, ftrengthen the ftomachs of aged people exceedingly, and 
they need not make a whole meal of them neither; it is fit to be planted in every 
man’s garden. Carraway comfits, once only dipped in fugar, and half a fpoonful of 
them eaten in the morning fatting, and as many after cach meal, is a moft admirable 
reitialy for fuch as are troubled with wind. 
2 OR A DT Ne. 
Duce THIS hath divers ‘tender, round, whitith, green ftalks, witha 
_ Greater joints than ordinary i in other herbs, as it were knees, very brittle and caly- 
tobreak, from whence grow branches with large, tender, long, leaves, aii ed 
