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and cxpcl urine and the stone, and to cause the stone 

 not to engender; tlie dccodtion of the berries in wine and 

 Avaler is the most usual way, but the powder of them 

 taken in drink is more eifedual. 



Chervil. 1/. (h. m. I.) 



It is called Cerefolium, Mirrhis, and Mirrha, Chervil, 

 Sweet Chervil, and Sweet Cicely. 



Descript.'] The garden Chervil doth at first somcMhat 

 resemble Parsley, but after it is better grown, (he leaves 

 are much cut in and jagged, resembling hemlock, be- 

 ing a little hairy and of a whitish green colour, sometimes 

 turning reddish in the Summer, M'ith the stalks also ; it 

 riseth a little above half a foot high, bearing white flow- 

 ers in spiked tufts, which turn into long and round seeds, 

 pointed at the ends, and blackish when they are ripe ; 

 of a sweet taste, but no smell, though the herb itself 

 smelleth reasonably well. The root is small and long, 

 and perishcth every year, and must be sown a-new in 

 Spring for seed, and after July for Autumn sallet. 



The wild Chervil groweth two or three feet high, 

 with yellow stalks and joints, set with broader and more 

 hairy leaves, divided into sundry parts, nicked about 

 the edges, and of a dark green colour, which likewise 

 grow reddish with the stalks; at the tops whereof stand 

 small white tufts of ilovvers, afterwards smaller and 

 longer seed. The root is white, hard, and endureth 

 long. This hath little or no scent. 



Place.'] The first is sown in gardens for a sallad herb; 

 the second groweth wild in many of the meadows of 

 this land, and by the hedge sides, and on heaths. 



Tinie-I Tticy (lower and seed early, and thereupon 

 are sown again in the end of Summer. 



Government cnul Virtues.'] The garden Chervil being 

 eaten, doth modi.Tately warm the stomach, and is a cer- 

 tain remedy (saith Tragus) to dissolve concealed or 

 clotted blood in the body, or that which is clotted by 

 bruises, 1a:ls, kc. The juice or distilled water thereof 

 being drank, and the bruised leases 1. id to the pace, 

 being laktn either in meat or drink, it is good to help 

 to provoke urine, or expel the stone in the kidnics, to 



