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sperm, especially the seed of them. They also kill worms 

 in children if ihcy drink the vrater fasting wherein they 

 have been sfeeped all night. Being roasted under the em- 

 bers and eaten wi(h honey, or sugar and oil, they much 

 conduce to help an inveterate cough, and expectorate 

 the tough phlegm. 'I'he juice being snuffed up in the nos- 

 trils, purgeth the head, and helpeth the lethargy; yet 

 the often eating them is said to procure pains in the head. 

 It hath been held by divers country people a great pre- 

 servative against infc6lion, to cat Onions fasting with 

 bread and salt ; as also to make a great Onion hollovp, 

 filling it with good treacle, and afterwards to roast it well 

 under the embers, which, after taking a^ay the outer- 

 most skin thereof, being beaten together, is a sovereign 

 salve for either plague or sores, or £,ny other putrified ul- 

 cer. The juice of Onions is good for cither scalding or 

 burning by lire, water, or gunpowder, and used with vi- 

 negar, takcth away all blemishes, spots and marks in the 

 skin ; and dropped into the cars, eascth the pains and 

 noise of them. Applied with figs beaten together, help- 

 eth to ripen and break imposthumes and other sores. 



Leeks are as like them in quality, as the pome-water 

 is like an apple; they are a remedy against a surfeit of 

 mushrooms, being baked under the embers and taken ; 

 and being boiled and applied very warm, helps the piles. 

 Jn other things they have the same property as the onionSj 

 although not so effeiSlual. 



Orpine. 3) . (c. d. 2.) 



This growelh to greater perfection by cultivation than it 

 is in its wild state. 



Descript.'\ Common Orpine riscthupwith divers round 

 brittle stalks, thick set with flat and fleshy leaves, with- 

 out any order, and little or nothing dented about the ed- 

 ges, of a green colour. The flowtrsi arc white, or whit- 

 ish, growing in tufts, after which come small chafly husks, 

 ■with seeds like dust in them. The roots are divers ihick, 

 round, white, tuberous clogs; and the plant growcth not 

 so big in some places as in others where it is found. 



Place.'] It is frequent in almost every county in this 

 landj audit is gh wished in gardens with us, >vbere it 



