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tliat they are somcthiug hairy, each leaf consisting of 

 five or six pair of such wings set one against the other 

 upon foot-stalks, broad below, but narrow towards the 

 end / one of the leaves is a little deeper at the bottom 

 than the other, of a fair, yellowish, fresh green colour ; 

 they are of a bitterish taste, being chewed in the mouth. 

 From among these ariseth up a stalk, green in colour, 

 round in form, great and strong in magnitude, live or 

 six feet in altitude, with many joints, and some leaves 

 thereat : Towards the top come forth umbles of small 

 yellow flowers,- after which are passed away, you may 

 find whitish, yellow, short flat seeds, bitter also in taste. 



Flace.~\ Having given you the description of the herb 

 from the bottom to the top, give me leave to tell you, 

 that there are other herbs called by this name ; but be- 

 cause they are strangers in England, I give only the de- 

 scription of this, which is easily to be had in the gardens 

 of divers places. 



lime.'] Although Gerrard saith. That they flower 

 from the beginning of May to the end of December, ex- 

 perience teacheth them that keep it in their gardens, that 

 it flowers not till the latter end of the Summer, and sheds 

 its seed presently after. 



Government and Virtues.] It is under the dominion of 

 Mars, hot, biting, and cholerick ; and remedies what 

 evils Mars afflicts the body of men with, by sympathy, as 

 vipers flesh attracts poison, and the loadstone iron. It 

 kills the worms, helps the gout, cramps, and convulsions, 

 provokes urine, and helps all joint-aches. It helps all 

 cold griefs of the head, the vertigo, falling sickness, the. 

 lethargy, the wind cholick, obstructions of the liver and 

 spleen, stone in the kidneys and bladder. It provokes the 

 terms, expells the dead birth : It is excellent good for the 

 griefs of the sinews, itch, stone, and tooth-ach, the biting 

 of mad dogs and venomous beasts, and purgeth cholcr 

 very gently. 



Alkanet. $ (tern, m, 2.) 



Besides the common name, it is called Orchaaet, aari 

 Spanish Bgloss, and by apothecaries, Enchusa. 



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