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 Yellow floured Fig-wort. 



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 a wood as you goe from London to Hernefey, 

 and alfo in Stow wood and Shotouer neere 

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The ftrange Indian fig-woort was fent mee 

 from Paris by John Robin the Kings Herbarifly 

 and it now groweth in my Garden, 



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Fig-wort dr Kernel-wort is called in Latine 

 Scrophularia major^that it might differ from the 

 lefler Celandine,which is likewife called Scro- 





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which the Grecians call *!©?** « the Latines, 

 Strumasjind commonly Scrof hulas 5 that is, the 

 Kings Euill : and it is reported to be a remedy 

 againft thofe difeafes whereof it tooke his 

 name,as alto the painefull piles and fvvelling 

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Diuers do rafhly teach, that if it be hanged 

 about the necke 3 orelfe carried about one 3 it 

 keepeth a man in health. 



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Some do ftampe the root with butter, and fet it in a moift (hadowie place fifteenedaiestoge- G 

 it : then they do boy le it,ftraine it,and keepe it> wherewith they anoint the hard kernels, and the v 



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He ftalke of vpright Vervaine rifcth from the root fuigle.coraeredja foot hiVLfeldome 1 



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af c little to ter tha , n thofe of the Oke,but with bigger cuts and deeper : the floures along the fprigs 

 * Cre ^ vvhltej ? rderI y P laced : the root is long,with firings growing on it. 



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eping Veruaine fendeth forth ftalkes like vnto the former, now and then a cubit long 



^ered m* S clUdluc icuactn rortn Italkes like vnto ttie tormer, now 

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