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the Paradife of Plants. 3 31 
The Vertues. ; 
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Articbecks have been in all Agescounted to be very Iufly Meat, and are cer~ 
tainly found to be foin ours, or elfe they would not be fo much defired by lu- 
curious perfons, to whom I commend them not, but rather co thofe which are 
married, and cannot fo far ufe the a& of generation, as to have the benefit of 
“Children, forthey procure bodily luf both in Men or Women, whether they be 
well boyled, and eaten with Butter, Vinegar, amd Pepper, or the boyled ha 
tomes put into Pyes and Baked, and fo they are very reitorative, and 
the Stomack, and though the Aesor staat junk they ftay the involuntary courfe - 
thereof called No&urnall jon; Some write that the young buds of Arti- 
chocks fteeped in Wine, and drunk, ( Imean the Wine, not the Artichocks .) doth 
the fame, and provoketh Urine exceedingly, purging away thereby the ranke 
and rammith favour of the whole Body, but efpecially of the arme-holes, if the 
Decostion of the Root having the Pith taken out, being made in Wine,, or the 
diftillacion thereof bruifed and diftilled in Wine in an Alembick be taken. The 
young fhoots may be boyled and eaten as Aparagus and fo may the heads while 
they are yet very fall buds, but it is more profitable to lec them grow to. be 
more fubftantiall, The aes wie ia lice pals and then fold in 
the Winter, is eaten raw of divers with Vinegar, Oyle, ¢ epper, but be fare 
there be falt too, or elfe it will not be right. — ais ett 2 afd a 
- CHAP. CGLXVIIL a 
yi ae 
Of Sea-Holly. es 3 
ne ee 
. 7 e's 2 Se _ 
rae? | “ea bee ; 
bt late ek phot : 
have fabuloufly fuppoted, who fay, that a Goat cropping 7 i ch a 
Holly maketh the whole flock to follow him till he have vomited it up, or 
till the Heards-man hath given him fomewhat to caafe him fo todo.. The 
‘Latines follow the Greeks in this, as they do in many other names, be the conf 
of their denomination right or wrong, and call it Eryngium alfo, from whe 
the Sh gle conmapely salt i¢ Icing So Brey. In Koglith it is termed Sea~ 
fe divers of the forts are 
Holly, becaufe div rts are prickly, fomewhat like Helly, and for that 
- Diofeorides maketh bat one fort of Erynginm, but divers others have been dit 
vered fince histime, fothat there is 1 Ordinary Sea Holly. 2 Upland Sea~_ 
Holly. 3 Hungary Sea Holly. 4 The {mall fmooth baftard Sca-Holly, 5 | m 
baftard Sea-Holly of Spam, a 
bie pa Sea-Holly cometh mF with Leay which the fir are fofe 
_ and gentle, yet as grow older, becoine very hard Sry nae 
Ep onica as heeds with here sidcvews nie coiat Hicking {22 bei a 
blewifh green colour, ftanding every onc upon a long foot-ftalk, fr oe ; 
rifeth up a round and ftrong ftalk, yet {omewhat crefted, having feyerall joynt 
