the ParadifeofPlants. —— 165 
Filins Cafar landed with his Souldiers and abode there 2 cettain time : which 
very probably was by them called Romania, and corruptibly therefrom R 
or Romney , and for thé growing of it in that plate, it is reported that the fouldi- 
ers brought jome of the feed with them dnd towed it there, for their‘nteto tub 
and chafe theit Limbs: when through extream cold they thoutd be ftiffe and be- 
nummed : being told before they: came from home, rhat the climate ot Britain 
was {0 extream “cold, that it was norto be endured, wirhour forme triction and 
Fibbing to warm their blood, and to ftir up marural! heat : fince which time it is’ 
thought i it hath continued there,rifing yearly ofits own towing, It groweth 
a\{o in the ftreets of Bardzey in L » the other three forts grow in waft 
grounds, by hedges and Wall fides, and 1 many other whtilted: places s yet they: 
will be alfo found i in moft Gatdens, where if they be fuffeted’ or neolesed bac: ry 
white, it will be hard to ridthem out again, They flowet and feedin the end. 
of Summer ; and the leffer ‘is fo plentiful; ¢ that it will feédand fhed, and fpfing, 
and feed again, gare ripe feed twice in one year, ifit be tec grow, | 
The Te emoperatire, 
Alrhough Nettles do ‘hurt and fling while they 4 
the hair or rough down meee feat a and might be the 
exulcerating, - e1nle O ppl 
0 be hot oe : 
a roots OF Tea es of nettles boyled or the Juyce of either of pre ot boty 
aay into an electuary, with hony or Sugar is fate and ture medicine, co‘6pen the 
Pipes. and Paflages of che Lungs, which is the caufe of ot wheeling and fhortnefle 
of breath, and helperh to rate tough | flegme, % as allo to raife the Impo- _ 
ftumated Plurifie and fpetad it by fpitting : the fame helpeth the {welling ofthe 
Almonds of the Throat, the Mouth and? Throassbeing gargled therewith, The 
juyce is alfo effectual rofettle the Palate of the mouth inits place, andro heal 
and temper the inflammations and foreneffe of the Mouth and Throat. The de- 
coétion of che leaves in wihe being drimk; is ar good to provoke Womens 
Courtes, and fettle che fuffocation or (trangling of the Muther, and all other di- 
feafes thereof, as alfo. applyed outwardly. with alittle Myrrh. The famealfo 
or the feed srovoketh Urine, nd tesa the Grajel or Stone in the Reins or 
