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the edges, and fometimes a little waved ; fometimes plain, fmooth, and pointed, 
fometimes a little hollow in the middle, and round pointed, of a fad green, and fome- 
times a bluifh colour, every one ftanding by itfelf upon a long foot-ftalk, which is 
brownith or greenifh alfo, from among which rife {mall flender ftalks, bearing a few 
leaves thereon like the other, but longer’and lefs for the moft part; at the tops 
whereof grow many whitifh flowers with yellow threads in the middle, ftanding a- 
bout a green head which becometh the feed-veffel. The feed is reddith, tafting 
fomewhat hot: the root is compofed of many white ftrings, which ftick deeply i in 
the mud, wherein it chiefly delighteth ; yet it will grow in upland and dry grounds ; 
and tateth, a little brackifh, or falt, even there, but not fo much as where it hath 
falt water to feed upon. 7 
Prac. It groweth all along the Thames fide, on the Effex and Kentith fhores, 
from Woolwich round about the fea coafts to Dover, Portfmouth, and even to 
Brifto], where it is in plenty ; the other, with round leaves, groweth in the marfhes 
in Holland in Lincolnhhire, and other places of Lincolnfhire by the fea-fide. 
2. Dutch fcurvy-grafs is moft known and frequent in gardens, and hath divers 
frefh, green, and almoft round, leaves, rifing from the root, not fo thick as the for- 
mer, yet in fome rich ground very large, not dented about the edges, nor hollow in 
the middle, every one ftanding ona long foot-ftalk ; from among thefe rife up divers 
long. flender. weak ftalks, higher than the former, and with more white flowers, 
which turn into fmaller pods, and fmaller brownifh feed, than the former : the root 
is white, fmall, and thready: the tafte of this is not falt at all, but hot, aromatical, 
and fpicy. 
_ Time. It flowerethin April or May, and the feed is ripe foon after. . 
_. GoyernMenT anp Virtues. Itis an herb of Jupiter. The Englith feurvy- 
3 te is more ufed for its falt tafte, which doth fomewhat open and cleanfe; but the 
_ Dutch fcurvy-grafs is of better effect, and chiefly ufed by thofe that have the fcurvy, 
- efpec ially. to purge and cleanfe the blood, the liver, and the fpleen, for all which dif- 
_eafes it is of fingular good effect, by taking the juice in the fpring every morning 
| fafting i inacupofdrink. The decottion is good for the fame purpofe, and the herb, 
tunned up in new drink, either by itfelf, or with other things, openeth obftruétions, 
evacuateth cold clammy and phlegmatic humours both from the liver and the fpleen, 
wafting and confuming both the fwelling and hardnefs thereof, and thereby bringing 
to the body a more lively colour: The juice alfo helpeth all foul ulcers and fores in 
the mouth, if it be often gargled therewith; and, ufed wigs it cleanfeth the 
skin from fpots, marks, or a 
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