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Biftort groweth in great aboundance in Weftmerland 



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ny gardens s and alfo fent vnto me for my garden. 



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They flourc in May 3 and the feed is ripe in Iunc. 





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n ^J The Names. 



ijioru is called In English, Snakeweed :infomeplaces,Oifterloi 

 kewee<iand rhere vfed for an excellent poc-herbe. It i*called Bifl, 



Chcfhire, Pafli 



Biftort doth coole and dry ih the third c 



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ort put into the nofe preuaileth much againft the difeafe called Pety 



venomous beaft,be ins drunke in wine or the 



B Theroot boiled in wine and drunke ftoppeth the lask and bloudy fiix ; it ftayeth alfo tbeoucr- 

 much flowing of womens mqnethly ficknefles. 



C The root taken as a fbrefaid ftaieth vomiting,and healeth the inflammation and forenefle of the 



hkewifc faftneth loofe teetb,being holden in the mouth for a certaine fpacr, 



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and at fundry times. 



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hap. 86. Of Scuruy^graJJe or Sp 



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ringeth forth Ieaues vpon fmall 

 diadv from the 



in number,of a fhining green co!our,fomwhat broad,thicke,bollow like a littlefpoon, 



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ftalkes of a fpan high, whereon grow many little white floures s after which comes the iecd,fma!I 

 and reddifh,contained in little round pouches or feed-veilels : the roots be fmall,white ; and thred- 

 die: the whole plant is of a hot and fpicy tafte. 



2 The common Scuruy-grafie or Spoonwort hath Ieaues fomewhat like a fpoon, hollow in the 

 middle^but altogether vnlike the former : the Ieaues hereof are bluntly toothed about the edges, 

 fharpe pointed and fomewhat long : the (talks rife vp among the Ieaues * of the length of Ujfc a 

 foot, whereon do grow white floures with (ome yellownefle in the middle : which being paft,there 

 fucceed fmall feed-velTels like vnto a pouch^not vnlike to thofeof Shepheards purfe,green at the 

 firft,next yellowi(h,and iaft ly when they be ripe of a browne colour,or like a fi Iberd riut.T** root 



of a little turfc. 



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and in manv oth 



it nam Din round or late growing many miles Irom the lea iide,vpon a great nil in JLanu»«»- 

 led Ingleborough hill -which may feem ftrange to thofe that do not know that it will b< * c ? n r; t 

 with any foile,place ? or clymewbatfoeuer. For proofe wbereof,my felfe haue fowne the ^ 6 \ ca 

 in my garden, and giuen them vnto others, wi th whom they flourc, flourifh, and bring V«m ■ 



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naturally as by the fea fide,and likewife retain the fame hot fpicy taft 



Woolwich 



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Portfmouth,Briilow,and manv other olaces aloneft the W'efte 



ward the North I haue not heard that any of this kind hath growne. 



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