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than dill, fet thick on both fides of the ftalks; and of a good fcent.. Among thefe: 
leaves rife-up round ftiff ftalks, with'a few joints and leaves,’and at the tops an 
umbel of fine pure white flowers, at the edges whereof fometimes will be feen a fhew: 
of reddifh bluth colour, efpecially before they'be full-blown, and are fucceeded by: 
finall fomewhat-round feed, bigger than the ordinary fennel, and of a browner co- 
lour, divided into two parts, and crefted on the back, as moft of the umbelliferous: 
feeds are. ; 
Piace. It groweth wild in Lancafhire, Yorkfhire, and other Northern coun- 
ties; and is alfo planted in gardens., 
\GovERNMENT AND Virtuss, Itisanherb of Venus. Galen, faith, the roots of 
{pignel are available to provoke urine; but, if too much thereof be taken, it cauf- 
ethheadach. The roots boiled in wine or water, and drunk, help the ftranguary | 
and {toppings of the urine, the wind, fwellings and pains in the ftomach, and all 
joint-achs. If the powder of the roots be mixed with honey, and the fame taken, 
as a licking medicine, it breaketh tough phlegm, and drieth up therheum that falleth. 
onthe lungs. The roots are accounted very effectual againtt the ftinging or biting 
of any venomous creature, and is one of the imgredients in mithridate and other 
antidotes for the {ames 
Cb/ SPLEEN WORT, orm CETRACH: 
Description. THE fmooth fpleenwort, from a black, thready, ‘and buthy, 
root, fendeth forth many long fingle leaves, cut in, on both fides i into round dents,. 
almoft to the middle, which is not fo hard as that of f pollipody,. each divifion being 
not always fet oppofite unto the other, but between each, fmooth, and. of a light 
green on the upper fide, and a dark yellowifh roughnefs on the back, ‘folding or 
rolling itfelf inward at the firft: Springing up. 
Prace. It gtoweth as well upon ftone-walls as moift, and fhadowy places about 
Briftol and other‘ ‘the Welt parts: plentifully; as alfo on Framingham caftle, on » 
Beckonsfield church in Berkfhire, at Strowd in ‘Kent, and elfewhere, and abideth 
green all the winter. .  mcnes 5a 
GovERNMENT AND ie a os Be oad It ‘. gcherally afed againft in- 
firmities of the fpleen; it helpeth the ftranguary, and wafteth the ftone in the blad- 
der, and-is good?againft the yellow jaundice and the hiccough; but the ufe of ir 
in women hindereth conception, Mathiolus faith, that, ifa drachm of the duft, 
that is oh the back fide of the leaves, be mixed: with half a drachm of amber~ 
in powder, and'taken with’the juice’of purflane or/plantane, it will help therun- 
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