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and external, wliich she rules. The decoction of the for- 

 mer of those being drank, is pood to fret and break the 

 stone, provoke urine, stayeth inward bleeding, and healcth 

 inuard wounds. The herb or {lower bruised and put up 

 Into the rosfrils, stayeth their bleeding likewise. The 

 flowers and herbs beinj; made into an oil, by being jet 

 in the sun, and changed after it liath stood ten or twelve 

 days ; or into an ointment, beina; boiled in Axun^a^ or 

 sallad oil, with some wax mcUnl therein, after it i!^ strain- 

 ed ; either the oil made ihorcof, or the ointment, dp help 

 burnings Avith fire, or sealdings with water. The same 

 aho, or the decoction of the herb and flower, i> good lo 

 bathe the feet of travellers and lacquies, whose long 

 'running causeth weariness and stiffness in their sinews 

 and joints. If the decoction be used warm, and the 

 joints afterwards anointed with ointment, it helpeth the 

 dry scab, and the itch in children ; and the herb with the 

 white flower is also very good ibr the sinews, arteries, and 

 joints, to comfort and strengthen them after travel, cold, 

 and pains. 



Beets. ^ and 1/ (temp. h. d. 2.) 



Ot Beets there arc two sorts, which are best known ge- 

 nerally, and whereof I shall principally treat at this 

 time, viz. the white and red Beets, and their virtues. 



Descrtpi.'j The common Avhite Beet hath many great 

 leaves next the ground, somewhat large, and of a whitish 

 green colour. The stalk is great, strong, and ribbed, 

 bearing great store of leaves upon it, almost to the very 

 top of it. The flowers grow in very long tufts, small at 

 the end, and turning down their heads, which are small, 

 pale, greenish yellow buds, giving cornered prickly seeds. 

 The root is great, long and hard, and when it hath given 

 seed, is of no use at all. 



The common red Beet diifcreth not from the white, 

 but only it is lesser. The leaves are difl'erently red, some 

 only with red stalks or veins; some of a fresh red, and 

 others of a dark red. The root thereof is a deep red, 

 spungy, and eaten whea boiled either alone or mixed -with 

 sallad. 



