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the matter of the stone in the Madder, and the iilcerf 

 thereof' also. 'I'he roots bruised and applied do conso- 

 lidate wounds. The seed doth more powerf'iilly expel 

 urine, and stayeth the lask and voinitinp. The distilled 

 vatcr alone, or with a little m ormsced, killeth the worms 

 in children. 



The way of use is to bruise the roots, and having well 

 boiled them in white wine, drink the decodlion ; 'tis 

 opening, but not purging, very safe; 'tis a remedy 

 against all diseases coming of stopping, and such are 

 half those that arc incident to the body of man; and 

 altliough a gardener be of another opinion, yet a physician 

 holds half an acre of them to be worth five acres of Carrots 

 twice told over. 



Dove's Foot. S- C^'- d- ^•) 



This is also called Crane's Bill, from the appearance of 

 the seed-vessels. 



Descript.'] This hath divers small, round, pale-green 

 leaves, cut in about the edges, much like malloAvs, 

 standing upon long, reddish, hairy stalks, lying in a round 

 compass upon the ground ; among which rise up two, or 

 three, or more reddish jointed, slender, weak, hairy 

 stalks, with such like leaves thereon, but smaller, and 

 more cut in up to the tops, Avhere grow many very small 

 bright red flowers, of live leaves a-piece ; after which 

 follow small heads, with small short beaks pointed forth, 

 as all other sorts of those herbs do. 



Place.'] It groweth in pasture ground, and by the path 

 sides in many places, and will also be in gardens. 



2V/«(?.] It flowereth in June, July, and August, some 

 earlier, and some later ; and the seed is ripe quickly 

 after. 



Govermnent and Virtues."] It is a very gentle, though 

 martial plant. It is found by experience to be singular 

 good for the wind colic, as also to expel the stone and 

 gravel in the kidnies. The deco6tion thereof in wine, is 

 an excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, 

 hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve 

 and cx))el the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, 

 also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers, and 



