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ycry short ; the flowers are so small they can hardly be 

 seen, and the seed as small as small as may be. 



P/ace.] It .is a common herb throughout the nation, 

 and rcjoiccth in barren, sandy, moist places. It may be 

 found plentifully about Hampstead-Heath liyde-Parkj 

 and in Tothill-fields. 



2vne [t may be found all the Summer-time, even from 

 the beginning of April to the end of Odlober. 



Government and Virtues.'] Its operation is very preva- 

 lent to provoke urine, and to break the stone. It is a 

 very good sallad herb. It were good the gentry would 

 pickle it up as they pickle up samphire for their use all the 

 Winter. I cannot teach them how to do it ; yet this I 

 can tell them, it is a very wholesome herb. They may 

 also keep the herb dry, or in a syrup, if they please. 

 You may take a drain of the powder of it in white wine ; 

 it would bring away gravel from the kidnies insensiblyj 

 and without pain. It also helps the stranguary. 



Parsnip. ? . (h. d. 1.) 



The garden kind thereo is so well known (the root being 

 commonly eaten) that [ shall not trouble you with any 

 description of it. But the wild being of more physical 

 use, 1 shall in this place describe it unto you. 



Descript.'] The wild Parsnip dilFereth little from the 

 garden, but groweth not so fair and large, nor hath so 

 many leaves and the root is shorter, more woody, and 

 not so fit to be eaten, and therefore more medicinal. 



Place.'] The name of the first sheweth the place of its 

 growth. The other groweth wild in divers places, as ia 

 the marshes by Rochester, and elsewhere, and flowereth 

 in July ; the seed being ripe about the beginning of Au- 

 gust, the second year after the sowing; for if they do not 

 flower the first year, the country people call them jNIad- 

 neps. 



Government and Firtues.] The garden Parsnips are 

 nnder Venus ; it nourisheth much, and is good and 

 wholesome, but a little windy, whereby it is thought to 

 procure bodily lust ; but it fatteneth the body much if 

 much used. It is conducible to the stomach and reins 

 and provoketh urine. The wild Parsnip hath a cuttiug> 



