158 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



SO tliiis have 1 made an apology for Nuts, Mliich cannot 

 speak for themselves. 



IlaAvk-Avccd. ^. (c. d. 2.) 



Of this there arc several kinds, but their virtues are 

 similar. 



Descn'pt.'] It hath many large loaves lying upon the 

 ground, much rent or torn on the sides into gashes like 

 Dandelion, but with greater parts, more like the smooth 

 Sow Thistle, from auiong which riseth a hollow, rough 

 stalk, two or three feet high, branched from the middle 

 upward, whereon are set at every joint longer leaves, 

 little or nothing rent or cut, bearing on their top sundry 

 pale, yellow llowers, consisting of many small, narrow 

 leaves, broad pointed, and nicked in at the ends, set in a 

 double row or more, the outermost being larger than the 

 inner, which from most of the IJa-.vk-wceds (for there are 

 ii;any kinds of them) do hold, which turn into down, 

 and with the small brownish seed is blown away ■with 

 the wind. The root is long, and somewhat greater, "with 

 many small fibres thereat. The whole plant is full of 

 bitter milk. 



Flacc.~] It groweth in divers places about the field-, 

 sides, and the path-ways in dry grounds. 



Titne.^ It flowereth and llies away in summer months. 

 Government and Virtues.~\ Saturn owns it. Hawk-, 

 weed (saith Dioscorides) is cooling, somewhat drying and 

 binding, and therefore good for the heat of the stomach, 

 and gnawiiigs therein ; for inflammations, and the hot 

 Jits of agues. The juice thereof in wine, helpcth di- 

 gestion, discusseth wind, hindereth crudities abiding in 

 the stomach, and helpcth the diificulty of making water, 

 the biting of venomous serpents, and stinging of the 

 scorpion, if the herb be also outwardly applied to the 

 place, and is very good against all other poisons. A 

 scruple of the dried root given in wine and vinegar, is 

 proiitable for those who have the dropsy. The decoc- 

 tion of the herb taken with honey, digcstcth the phlegm 

 in the cliest or lungs, and with hyssop helpeth the cough. 

 The decoftion thereof, and of w ild succory, made with 

 wine, and taken, helpcth the wind colic, and hardness 



