‘AND COMPLETE HERBAL. Vie 
fkin, cleanfeth it from morphew, freckles, fpots, or marks whatfoever, leaving the 
place : freth, fair, and lovely, for which purpofe it is much ufed by the Italian ladies, 
and. is the principal ingredient of moft of the cofmetics — wath, advertifed 
--by,perfumers at.a high price. 
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eayciak iPTION:. ROCK SAMPHIRE groweth with a tender green ftalk, about 
half a yard or two feet at the moft, branching forth almoft from the very bottom, 
and ftored with fundry thick, and almoft round, fomewhat long, leaves, of a deep 
green colour, fometimes. three together, and: fometimes more, on a ftalk, and: are fap- 
PY; and of a pleafant, hot, or fpicy, tafte. At the tops of the {talk and branches ftand 
umbels of white flowers, and after them come large feed bigger than fennel feed,»yet 
fomewhat alike. The root is great, white, and long, continuing many am andi is 
of an hot fpicy tafte. 
Piacz. It groweth on the rocks that are often moiftened by sie re 
- Ting. . It flowereth and feedeth in the end of July and Augutt. 
GOVERNMENT AND Virtues. It is an herb of Jupiter, and was a Sakai times 
wont to be ufed more than it nowis. Itis a fafe herb, very pleafant both to the tafte 
and ftomach, helping digeftion, and i in fome fort opening the obftructions. of the 
liver and fpleen, provoking urine, and helping thereby to wafh away the gravel and 
ftone. 
SA N FG -5g “BE: 
; Deserirrion. THE andtnar) fanicle fendeth forth many pdieat round Teaires, 
ftanding upon long brownifh ftalks, every one eut or divided into five ot fix parts, 
and fome of thofe alfo cut in, fomewhat like the Jeaf of a crow-foot ot dove’s-feet, 
finely dented about the edges, {mooth, and of a dark green fhining colour, and 
times reddith about the brims, from among which rife up fmall round ¢reen ftalks, 
without any joint or leaf thereon, except at the top, where it branches forth into res 
: flewers, having a leaf divided into'three of four parts at tha¢ joint with the flowers, «+. 
which are fmall and white, farting out of {mall round greénith yellow heads, many 
ftanding together in a tuft; in which afterward are the feeds contained, which are 
{mall round rough burs, fornewhat: like the’ feeds of clover, and ftiek in the fame man- ik 
ner upon any thing that they touch. The root is compoied of many black ftrings ~- a 
of fibres fet together at at a a fitte long head, ‘which abideth with the green, lays all & 
the ¥ winter. ging 8 
~Puacz. ‘Tei is found in many  hitowy. de. and. abe places, in England. Fe 
Time. Ir flowereth in June, and the feed is ripe shortly after. 
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