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om is The Forme, 
Common Polypody of the Oak is a mall Herb.conifiting of nothine birt Rooks 
-and Leaves, bearing neither F.ower nor Seed, It hath ture or tour Leaves fii 
from a Root, every one tingly by themselves, of abour an hand breadth, ehick 
are winged, coniitiing of many imail narrow Leaves. cut into the middie Rib, 
ftandinz on each fade of the ttalk, large beiow, and {mat ler anc {maller. ‘up tothe 
top; not dented or notched on the edges ata!l, (as the Male Ferin is) of a fad 
green colour, and {mooth on the upper fide ; bur on the under tide, fomewhar 
rough, by reafon of fome yellowith ‘pots tet thereon, The Root is fitiatler chet 
ones iittie finger, yet long and creeping aflope, whereon are certain little khags z 
and holes, as are on thetayl ofthe Fith Palypus; = = | 
_ There hath been of late dayes, fucha flaughter of Oaks, and other Trees ‘all _ 
over this Land, that fhou'd I nominate any particular place, I mi seby 
feem to bea deceiver, 1 fhall theref ) en? 3 
well upon old rotten Trunks, or { 
Tow, or any other, as in 
Wiis, 
fes, and 
| Te is hot and dry in the feconid id Degree, as may be gathie 
— Tarfbnelstharic harhin thes” Peay ba 
Oe aie ai 
the Signature and Vertues, 7 
on the undet fides of the leaves Of Polypodyias alfo-the 
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uF With it./\ Dram or two of theP 
Cup of Honyed water, worketh get 
d Water, both of Roots and Leavés, ig 
