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the body, head, eyes, and other parts, and for the par- 

 poses aforesaid. The leaves boiled in lye, and the head 

 washed therewith, healetn the itch, and the running sores 

 thereof, and maketh the hair black. The powder of the 

 leaves strewed on cankers and running ulcers, wonder- 

 fully helps to heal them. Sc ie use to condensate the 

 juice of the leaves, and some twe juice of the berries, to 

 keep for their use all the year, for the purposes afore- 

 said. 



Elites. ^ . (c.d. 1.) 



Of these there are two sorts commonly known, viz. White 

 and Red. 



Descript.] The White hath leaves somewhat like unto 

 beets, but smaller, rounder, and of a whitish green co- 

 lour, every one standing upon a small long foot-stalk ; 

 the stalk rises up two or three feet high, with such like 

 leaves thereon ; the llowers grow at the top in long round 

 tufts or clusters, wherein are contained small and round 

 Seeds; the root is very full of threads or strings. 



The red Blitc is in all things like the white, but that 

 his leaves and tufted heads are exceeding red at first, aud 

 afterwards turn more purplish. 



There are other kinds of Blites wiiich grow, differing 

 from the two former sorts but little, but only the wili 

 are smaller in every part. 



Place.'] They grow in gardens, and wild in many places 

 in this land. 



Ivne-I They seed in August and September. 

 Govcrnmejit and Firtiies.~\ They are all of thorn cooling, 

 drying and binding, serving to restrain the lUixcs of blood 

 in either man or ^yoman, especially the red : which also 

 stayeth the overflowing of the women's reds, as the white 

 Blites stayeth the whites in women. It i% an excellent 

 secret, you cannot well fail in the use; they are all under 

 the dominion of Venus. 



There is another sort of wild Blites like the other wiW 

 kinds, but have long and spiky heads of greenish seeds, 

 seeming by the thick setting together to be all seed. 



This eort the fishers are delighted with, and i* is a 

 good and usual baif,' ior fishes will bite fast enough at 



