L 



Of the Hiftorie of Plant 



s. 



09 



h 



-tiireor nwi « * ; » --• - -- . / & — "•-•-,««« "*iuuu ue garnered beiore 



he other be ripe,e!fe it will wither away and come to no good purpofe. 



tD ^ The Place. 



Hempe, as Columella wnteth,delighteth to grow in a fat dunged and watery foile, or pfaine and 



mo 



| 



iMnd deeply digged. 



Hemp is foivne in March and A prill 5 the fir ft is ripe in the end of Auguft.tbe other in Iul v 



^ The Names. J ' 



This is named of the Grecians <*«*< . alfoof the Latines Cannabis .- the Apothecaries keep that 

 wme s in high Dutch Zmwt Ijatlff : of the Italians Canape : of the Spaniards Canamo : in French 

 Cimte ■ of the Brabanders &emp | in Englifli Hemp. The male is called Charle Hemp,and win- 

 tef Hemp : the female,barren Hemp^nd Summer Hemp. 



--.^1 The Temperature and Virtues . 



The feed of Hemp,as Galen writeth in his booke of the faculties of fimple medicines i< hard of 

 digeftion-hurtful to the ftomack and head.and contatneth in it an ill juicc.-not with ftand ins fome 

 do vfc to cat the fame parched/«zw djs tragematu,mth other junkets. 



The fame Author in his faid booke addeth, that it confumes winde, and is fo great a drier that B 

 kdriethvp the feed if too much be eaten of it. ' 



A 



fftiride 



(k Galen addcth)of obftruftion or ftoppin 



g- 



haue the yellow jaund iee 5 w hen thedifeafe firft appeares,and oftentimes with good fuccefle if the 

 difeafe come of obftruaion without an ague ; for it openeth the paflage of the galkand difp'erfeth 

 and concofteth the choler through the whole body. 



tMtithiolus laitb.that the feed ffiuento bens ranferh i-Tipiw »* 1«™ ««^o r««.«^i„_.:r..ii.. 



V 



E 



r 



HAP 



W 



I C*nndisjf>uria. 



Wilde Hempe 



Of wild e Hempe. 



£ 2 Cannabis (j> una alter 4 



\ 



Baftard Hemp. 





I 



I 



