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aney flower but only poddes, as here set downe yet yt may be 

 that y'' hath the flowers here underset and soe I thinck y* hathe. 



D. Symyns^ tould me, that y* groweth plentifully about the 

 bathes in Somerset shyre or Wyltshyre when he sawe yt in 

 pastures whereof when casually their catle chaunce to feed, they 

 become daungerus syck untyll ye herdsman or keper have well 

 starved them euen allmoste to svveate ; and thin y^ swellinge 

 and other accidents doe diminishe, allso they kepe y^ cattell from 

 drynck whyle they be yll. Thys ys Mr. D. Symyns observacon 

 of thys herbe in that countrye, as I took the same from hyme by 

 note.' 

 [Turner {Herbal, 1568, p. 156) figures the Widdowe Safifrone from Bath both 



in flower and seed, but appears not to have known of its dangerous qualities to 



cattle. He is eloquent about it in relation to man. 



' It is good to knowe this herbe that a man maye isschewe it. It will strangell 



a man and kyll him in the space of one daye, even as some kinde of Tode- 



stolles do. The roote is swete and provoketh men thereby to eate of it. If anye 



man by chaunce have eaten anye of thys, the remedye is to drinke a great 



draught of cowe milke.' 



'It stirreth up tossinges, wamlings, windinesse and vomiting' (Lyte, 1578, 



P- 367)-] 



150. Cepe. Onion. Allium Cepa L. 



' Unyones fynely slysed, and in faier water one night steiped ; 

 the water ys next morninge geven to chylderen which have the 

 w^ormes wonderfuU effectuallye helpeth them. Lonicerus, fol. 193. 

 Tragus allso first used yt, fol. 739.' 



151. Scillas.Cepamarina. 6'«7/awA';zaHuds. confused with 6*. itiaritima'L.{].) 



' The sea Onyone or purginge onyone plentifull in England 

 uppon the sea coastes. 



It ys allso knowen, and to be bought at the Apothecaries only, 

 by the names of Scylla, squylla or sea onyone : very muche used 

 in phisicke. The syrupe thereof purgeth very well clammye, rawe, 

 flegme, yet not without suspicione of some daunger and paynes. 

 And therefore yt ys the better used in S'" [? summer] tyme, when 

 all phisick muste be conveyed into our bodyes without offense of 

 taste, and worcke without sense of the least grypinge, or troble 

 that may, and muste be.' 

 169. [Error for 153.] 



Ascalonites antiquorum. Shallot. Alliuvi ascalonicutn L. 



' Ascalyones muche used by the poore husbandemen and 

 welsh men which love leeks wonderfull well. Theis rude people 

 which be acquaynted with thys harde hotte foode doe fynde noe 

 inconvenience therein, and the opinion of the very learned 

 alloweth the same for them to be right good and holesome that 

 the same allso ys to them meate and medicyne, because yt 

 norrisheth and so pryserueth them against all infectiones of the 

 hotte tyme of the somer when they doe moste use yt with cheese. 

 To those which seldome taaste theis hotter herbes they are con- 

 cluded to bee perilouse.' 



1 John Symings, M.D. of Oxford, F.R.C.P. 155-5 ; President of Coll. of 

 Physicians, 1569 and 1572; died at his house in Little St. Bartholomew's 

 Smithfield, 1588. (Munk, Roll R. C. P.) 



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