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The Greekes call this, **™»t>« ♦»«•'» » in Latine it is called Centaurium minus • vet ?//*» nam^K • 

 LiBtdton^ by reafonot his great bitterneffe^/r,™. Theltalians in Hetruriacall it *w,7/ 

 in Spani(h,C«*«r/.i • in low Dutch, CcttOf?! * « Englifo, fmall, little, or common Cenorie. in 



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hot and 



temperature hot and dry 



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A Being boyled in water and drunke it openeth the ftoppings of the liuer, gall, and fpleene it he! 

 peth the yellow jaundife, and likewife long and lingering agues: it killeth the worries in the bel" 



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ally pcrforme whatloeuer biting things can. 



Diofiorides, and Galen after bim report, that the deco&iondrawethdowneby fiege cholerand 

 thicke humors,and helpeth the Sciatica • but though we haue vfed this often and luckily,yet could 



the eife&s aforefaid. 



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C This Centoric being (lamped and laid on wbileft it is frelli and greene, doth heale and clofc vp 



greene vvounds,cleanfcth old vlcers,and perfectly cureth them, 

 & The juyce is good in medicines for the eies ;mixed with hony it cleanfeth away fuch thing* as 



hinder the fight • and being drunke it hath a peculiar vertueagainft the infirmities of the finues, as 



Diofcorides teachetb. 



E The Italian Phy fitians do giue the pouder of the leaues of yellow Centorie once in three dales 



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tftiut hath thus writ 



Flos mi hi fuaue rubefy fed inefi qnoque fuccm amaru*, 

 J>)ui jttvat obfefftm bile ^tr it que jecur. 



My floure is fweet in fmell,bitter ray juyce in tafte, 

 Which purge cholerand helps Iiuer,thac elfe would waftc. 







Chap. 164. Of Qalues fnout, or Snapdragon, 





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Hepurple Snapdragon hath greatand brittle ftalks, which diuideth it felfe into many 

 fragile "branches,* hereupon do grow long leaues (harpe pointed,very greene,hke mo 

 thof e of wildc flax.but much greater,fet by couples one oppofite againft another.Tte 

 floures grow at the top of the ftalkes, of a purple colour, famioned like a fogs ™uth or ra rixri 

 dragons mouth,from whence the women haue taken the name Snapdragon. The feed M*. 

 chained in round huskes fafcioned like a calues fnout, (P 1 ^^^^^ £S 

 fnout) or in mine opinion it is more like vnto the bones of a (heeps head that natn Deene long 



3 The vellow Snapdragon natn a long inirac wuuuuj .«-,». -- --- « . fa mc t0 

 to-from which rife* vp a brittle ftalke of two cubits and a halfe W^JgSSJftnner, but 

 thetopintod uers branches, whereupon do grow long greene :Ieaue ^."^^ colo«i 

 greater and longer. The floures grow at the top of the ma me branches,of a pleaiant yei 



in fliape like vnto the precedent. . , ..„.;„ n a nire' the leaues are 



4 Vfmallorwiide Snapdragon differed not ^J^^^dreb are alfo 

 Ieuer and narrower : the floures purple, but altogether fmaller : the beads or ieea 



er kinde hereof which hath many (lender branches W^^SK 

 the eround- the leaues are much fmaller than thefe of the laftdefenbed: the floures 

 fels! e alfo Hke,but lefler,and herein confifts the oncly difference. * f <jht 



like thofe of the former. 

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