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seed is easily shaken out of the ear, the 
husk itself being somewhat rough. 
Place.| The country husbandmen do 
know this too well to grow among their 
corn, or in the borders and pathways of 
the other fields that are fallow. 
Government and virtues.] It is a mali- 
cious part of sullen Saturn. As it is not 
without some vices, so hath it also many 
virtues. The meal of Darnel is very good to 
stay gangrenes, and other such like fretting 
and eating cankers, and putrid sores ; It also 
cleanses the skin of all leprosies, morphews, 
ringworms, and the like, if it be used with 
salt and raddish roots. And being used 
with quick brimstone and vinegar, it dis- 
solves knots and kernels, and breaks those 
that are hard to be dissolved, being boiled 
in wine with pigeon’s dung and linseed: 
A decoction thereof made with water and 
honey, and the places bathed therewith, is 
profitable for the sciatica. Darnel meal 
applied in a poultice draws forth splinters 
and broken bones in the flesh: The red 
Darnel, boiled in red wine and taken, stays 
the lask and all other fluxes, and women’s 
bloody issues; and restrains urine that 
passes away too suddenly. 
DILL. 
Descript.| Tur common Dill grows up 
with seldom more than one stalk, neither 
so high, nor so great usually as Fennel, 
being round and fewer joints thereon, 
Whose leaves are sadder, and somewhat 
long, and so like Fennel that it deceives 
many, but harder in handling, and some- 
what thicker, and of a strong unpleasant 
Scent: The tops of the stalks have four 
branches and smaller umbels of yellow 
flowers, which turn into small seed, some- 
What flatter and thinner than Fennel seed. 
The root is somewhat small and woody, 
 Perishes every year after it hath borne 
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Place.| It is most usually sown in gar- 
dens and grounds for the purpose, and is 
also found wild in many places. 
Government and virtues.] Mercury has 
the dominion of this plant, and therefore to 
be sure it strengthens the brain. The Dill 
being boiled and drank, is good to ease 
swellings and pains; it also stays the belly 
and stomach from casting. The decoction 
thereof helps women that are troubled with 
the pains and windiness of the mother, if 
they sit therein. It stays the hiccough, 
being boiled in wine, and but smelled unto 
being tied in a cloth. The seed is of more 
use than the leaves, and more effectual to 
digest raw and vicious humours, and is 
used in medicines that serve to expel wind, 
and the pains proceeding therefrom. The 
seed, being roasted or fried, and used in 
oils or plaisters, dissolve the imposthumes 
in the fundament; and dries up all moist 
ulcers, especially in the fundament; an oil 
made of Dill is effectual to warm or dis- 
solve humours and imposthumes, and the 
pains, and to procure rest. The decoction 
of Dill, be it herb or seed (only if you boil 
the seed you must bruise it) in white wine, 
being drank, it is a gallant expeller of wind, 
and provoker of the terms. 
DEVIL’Ss-BIT. 
Descript.] Tuts rises up with a round 
green smooth stalk, about two feet high, 
set with divers long and somewhat narrow, 
smooth,dark green leaves,somewhat nipped 
about the edges, for the most part, being 
else all whole, and not divided at all, or but 
very seldom, even to the tops of the 
branches, which yet are smaller than those _ 
below with one rib only in the middle. 
At the end of each branch stands a round 
| head of many flowers set together in the 
same manner, or more neatly than Scabions, 
and of a bluish purple colour, which 
— fmm there follows seed which falls 
