the Paradifeof Plants. = = ag 
ftringes, which being faftened to the borcome of the ftalk, feedeth ic with faftici- 
ent nutriment in the Sammer,but not in the Winter, for then the ftalk perifheth. 
The Places and Time. 
The firft groweth in our Land as frequently as any Plant whatfoever, by 
Brooks and other Water-courfes, but is teldome tound far trom the Water fide, 
unleffe it hath been purpotely removed into a Garden or fo; The fecond grow- 
eth in the like places of Germany about Bafil, and will abide in Gardens, if it be 
brought thither for rarity fake. They flower in 7ulyand Auguft, and their feed 
is ripe fhortly after. 
: : The Temperature. ae ty 
It is faid chat Water-Betony is hot and dry, but the operations chac proceed 
therefrom, do fpeak it rather to be of a cold quality. 3 
<—e 3 The Vertues. 6 singe ake 
M:. Langham, a well experienced and induftrious Pra&itioner of Phylick, in 
his Garden of Health,doth in divers of that Chapter,which he writes con+ 
pay cgumanies <a paris it for the Piles or Hemorrhoides. whether the 
or 
Root be eaten, ped, and er thereunto, or the Leaves and Seed-ca> 
fes bruifed and ct a outwardly likewife, or che Powder of it drunk, or 
ftrewed thereon.- The Leaves, Stalkes, Seed, Kooror Juyce, are likewife good 
whatfoever 
Night. The leavs 
pote, The juyce 
effe€tual to cure 
es, &c. 
to the laft Tranfitiony paffe unto thole parts which areordained for Generation, ax 
ball peck of (uch Simples as provoke Luft. Secondly. of fuch as abate Luft. Third 
‘prov ke WomensCourfes. Fourthly, of {uch as top Womens ¢ i 
