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which in fenny countries do, in the night time, trouble 

 and mosest people iying in their beds with their faces uq#^ 

 covered ; it causeth barrenness. 



Water Fern. Tj. (c, d, 1.) 



This is also called Osmond Royal, 



Descript.'] It shootcth forth, in Spring-time (for in the 

 Winter the leaves perish) divers rough hard stalks, half 

 round and yellowish, or flat on the other side, two feet 

 high, having divers branches of winged yellowish greeu 

 leaves on all sides, set one against another, longer^ 

 narrower, and not nicked on the edges as the former. 

 From the top of some of these stalks grow a long bush of 

 small and more yellow, green, scaly aglets, set in the same 

 manner on the stalks as the leaves are, which are ac- 

 counted the flower and seeds. The root is rough, thick 

 and scabby, with a white pith in the middle, which is 

 called the heart thereof. 



Place.l It groweth on moors, bogs, and watery places.^. 

 in many parts of this land. 



Time.'\ It is green all the Summer, and the root only 

 abideth in the Winter. 



Government and yirtues.~\ Saturn owns this plant. 

 This hath all the virtues mentioned in the former Ferns^ 

 is much more efte<?lual than they, both for inward and 

 outward griefs, and is accounted singular good in wounds, 

 bruises, or the like. The decoftion to be drank, or 

 boiled into an ointment of oil, as a balsam or balm, and 

 so it is singular good against bruises and bones broken, 

 or out ot joint, and giveth much ease to the colic and 

 splenetic diseases; as also for ruptures or burstings. The 

 deco6lion of the root in white wine, provoketh urine 

 exceedingly, and cleansetb the bladder and passages of the 



Fever*feWy or Featherfew. ?. (h. g. d* 3.) 



This grows wild, but is cultivated in gardens, for the 

 beauty of the flower. 



Descript.'] It hath large fresh leaves, much torn or cut 

 oa the edges. The stalks are hard and roundj set witlk< 



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