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chopped as pot-herbs with a few alifanders, and boiled in their broth, is very effectual. 
- And whoever is drawing towards confumption, or an evil difpofition of the whole 
body, called cachexia, by the ufe hereof for fome time together, will find a wonderful 
help. It helpeth alfo to procure reft and fleep to bodies diftempered by the heat of 
ague fits, or otherwife ; the diftilled water is effectual to drink in peftilential fevers, 
and to wafh the fores. | 
You fee here what virtues this com mon herb hath, and that is the reafon the French 
and Dutch fo often eat them in the fpring; and now if you look a little further, 
you may plainly perceive that foreign phyficians are more liberal in omen ager 
their knowledge of the virtues of plants than the Englith, 
D Ae oR TM: toe PB, 
TT isalfo called juray, and wray ; ; in Suffex they call it crop, it being a peftilent ; 
enemy amongit corn. 
Description. This hath all the winter long, fundry long, fat, and rough leaves, 
which when the ftalk rifeth, which is flender and jointed, are narrower, but {till 
- fough; on the top groweth a long fpike, compofed of many heads, fet one above 
another, containing two or three hufks, with fharp but fhort beards, or hawns at the 
ends ; the feed is eafily fhaken out of the ears, the hufk itfelf being fomewhat 
tough. 
' Ptace. The country hufbandmen know this too well to grow among their corn; 
Or in the borders and pathways of other fields that are fallow. 
_ Government anp Virtuss. Itisa malicious plant of fullen Saturn. As it is 
Not without fome vices, fo hath it alfo many virtues. The meal of darnel is very 
_ good to ftay gangrenes, and other fuch-like fretting and eating cankers, and putrid 
ores ; ; it alfo cleanfeth the fkin of all leprofies, morphews, ringworms, and the like, 
fi it be ufed with falt and raddifh-roots. And being ufed with quick brimftone and 
vinegar, it diffolveth knots and kernels, and breaketh thofe that are hard to be dif- 
_ folved, being boiled in wine with pigeon’s dung and linfeed; a decoction thereof 
~ Made with water and honey, and the place bathed therewith, is profitable for the {ci- 
- atica. Darnel meal applied in a poultice, draweth forth fplinters and broken bones 
_ from the flefh ; the red darnel boiled in red wine, and taken, ftayeth the lafk and all 
, other fluxes, and womens’ oe iffues 5 and reftraineth urine that paffeth away 
ebay Sele 
eee ML 2. | 
PD Went san, THE common dill groweth up with feldom more than one. ftalk, 
‘either fo nigh, nor fo great ufually as — being round, and with fewer joints 
: thereon 
