10 Adam in¥den, Or, 
on Diofcorides callerth it Acutella, becaufe the thorns of it do prick thote thar 
unwarily gobyir. Itiscalled in Englith Refharrow Cansmock, Petty jWhin, 
and Ground Farfe, 7 
The Ksuds, 
The Sorts hereof according to Parkixfon are Eight. t. Common Reft Harrow 
with Purplifh flowers. 2, Reit Harrow with white Flowers. 3. The great yel- 
tow prickly Reft Harrow. ‘4. The leffer yellow prickly Reft Harrow, 5. Purplifh 
Reft Hatrow without thorns. 6, The greater Pm te gentle Reft Harrow, 7, 
Variable yellow gentle Reft Hartow. 8. The lefler gentle Rett Harrow, 
The F orme, 
Common Ref} Harrow rifech up with divers tough woody twigs about halfa 
yard long; fet at che joynts without Order with little roundifh Leaves, fome- 
times more then two or three at -a place, of 2 dark green colour, without thorns 
whilft they-aré young, but afterwards armed in {undry places with fhorc and 
fharp thorns. The flowers come forth at the tops of the Twigs and branches, 
whereof it is full, fafhioned like Peafe or Broom Bloffoms, but lefler, flatter, 
and {omewhat clofer, of a faint purplifh colour ; after which come {mall Pods, 
containing fmall, flac, and round feed: the soor is blackifhon the outfide, and 
whitifh within, very tough and hardto break, when it is freth and green ; and 
as hard ‘as a horn when it is dryed, thrufting down deep into the eround, and 
fpreading likewile,every piece being apt to grow again,if ic be left in the grounds 
-- The Places andTimie, — 
The first and che fife grow in many places of this Land, ag well in’ the Arablé 
as wafteround : The fecond with white flowers sroweth near unto Darb .Gef- 
ner faith, the third groweth onthe hill Gemma ; and Columna faith,the fourth 
groweth in the kingdom of N¢p/es, and about Briftow in England, as Lobel and 
Others affirm, The fixth feaventh and ‘eight with their varieties, row. as well 
flower about she beginning or middle of Fx/y, and their fed is ripe in Angus, 
__ The Temperature, 
Galen Saich that cee of Ref? Harrow is hot in the third deor having 
cleanfing,and cmting faculty therein alfo, gree having fome 
(The Vertwes atid Signarniré, 
A Deco&ion of Ref Harrow, made with Vinegar, and caroledin 
eafeth the Toothach, > sang when it cometh of Rheum, The Sd me 
OE Se pon thie hy ‘d callous brims of Ulcers, or. the faid powder mixed 
with “any other TENE be Tecan pelied doch confiume the hardneffe, and 
fuceheteae Depeche power takeninWine for Many daies together 
Cures the Hethiy Rupee sate Peininagh a! little and little, “The decoction 
of the Liver and Spleen,and other parts 
cute the blind Hemorthoides or Piles, ' The 
sre they become prickly, are Pickled up co 
breath ; and to take awaythe fwvell of Winein them that have drunk 
ot 
. ch; and a g gravel and fone boyled in Oxvme 
iptiorof the one half; it is Sra Coke Oxymel to the €on- 
falling Sickneffe, The 
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