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352. Isatis sylvestris Vaccaria dicta. Saponaria Vaccaria L. 



' I sawe yt grow in the garden of the very honorable the Lord 

 Abergavenny, his garden in Kent a^. 1584.' 



[A casual introduction from Continent.] 



374. Aloe. Sempervivum marinum. Alo'esuccotrma\^2iVa..oxA.Perryi'&2^&[. 



' Aloe or aloe succotrina best knowen by that name. To be 



bought at th'apothecaries only : a singuler, good and very safe 



purger. W. & L. 



Amonge all other medicines the use of Aloe marvelous well 

 pleaseth me. Noe man nedeth to feare the heat thereof, euen 

 in the Somer tyme. Although the vulger phisiciones speake their 

 pleasure. Baptista Montanus, Veronensis, Consultat. xci. De 

 preservat. a calculo. The weight thereof is 3'^^ before supper 

 halfe one hower or lesse.' 

 396. Perfoliatum vulgatius, flore luteo, fo. umbilicato. 



Hare's Ear. Bupleuruin rotundifolium L. 

 ' Thorowe waxe or Perfoliata. Is unto chylderen broken use to 

 give the seed hereof in mylke meates, allso the destilled water 

 thereof with good success. Tragus, fol. 484,' 

 438. Coronopus repens Ruellij & Cornu Cervi alterum vulgi. 



Wart-cress. Coronopus Ruellii All. 

 ' The Englyshe in moste places call this Swynes Cresses and not 

 Harteshornes in aneye place to my knowledge.' 

 459. Alsine, sive Hippia major. Stellaria aquatica Scop. (J.) 



'The great Chyckweede.' 



' Of Chyckweede thus writeth Lonicerus, foR 168. ^. viedia L. 

 The distilled water of Chyckweede in virtew ys equall with 

 Purselane ; wyth wine or simple alone wythe good successe yt ys 

 geven to those which pyne, and waste with longe sycknesse. 

 Unto chylderen in immoderate and unnaturall heate yt ys good 

 to give because yt coaleth the inwarde heate and mitigateth or 

 quyte takethe awaye those terrible accidentes whiche chylderen 

 have by suche extreame heates as Crampes, palsies, tortures and 

 schreamynges, schrychynges, cryinges, startlinges, bowynges and 

 sudden bendinges sometymes forwardes sometymes backwarde 

 and suche like accidentes which chylderen be subject unto. 

 Lonicerus, fol". 168°. 



The decoction of Chyckweede or y^ Decoctyone of the rootes 

 of great grasse or of purslane, or ye rootes of Male fearne with 

 spotted leaves aney one alone sodden in water with a lytle whyte 

 wyne or male or possit ale ys excellent in my proofs against ye 

 agew and worm in chylderen. Fiorananta lib". (Capricei medi- 

 cinali).' 

 474. Nummularia sive Centimorbia. Lysiniachia Nummularia L. 



' Herbe twopence (allso Woundeworte). 



' In water w^h suger, yt ys geuen againste the exulceratione of 

 the Breast and Lunges, yt helpeth the coughe and those which 

 hardely breathe. Chylderen which hardely receaue medicines 

 trobled with a drye coughe are cured herebye. Lonicerus, fol. 

 208. Tragus, allso, foK 808.' 

 529. Crista Galli Her bariorum. 



Yellow Rattle. Rhinanthus Crista-galli L, 

 ' Ratle grasse in meddowes very vulger.' 



