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The said Pears boiled with a little honey, helps much the 

 oppressed stomach, as all sorts of them do, some more, 

 some less ; but the harsher sorts do more cool and bind 

 serving well to be bound in green wounds, to cool and 

 stay the blood, and heal up the wound m ithout farther 

 trouble, or inllammation, as Galen saith he found it by 

 experience. The wild Pears do sooner close up the lips 

 of green wounds than others. 



Schola Salerni adviseth to drink much wine after Pears, 

 or else (say they) they are as bad as poison ; nay, and 

 they curse the tree for it too ; but if a poor man lind his 

 stomach oppressed by eating Pears, it is but working 

 hard, and it will do as well as drinking Avine, 



Pellitory of Spain. $. (/^ d. 3.) 



Common Pellitory of Spain, if it be planted in our gar- 

 dens, it will prosper very well ; yet there is one sort 

 growing ordinarily here wild, which I esteem to be little 

 inferior to the other, if at ail. 1 shall not deny you the 

 description of them both. 



Descript.] Common Pellitory is a very common plant, 

 and will not be kept in our gardens without diligent look- 

 ing to. The root goes down right into the ground, bear- 

 ing leaves, being long and finely cut upon the stalk, ly- 

 ing on the ground, much larger than the leaves of the ca- 

 momile are. At the top it bears one single large ilower 

 at a place, having a border of many leaves, white on the 

 upper side, and reddish underneath, with a yellow 

 thrum in the middle, not standing so close as that of ea- 

 rn omile doth. 



The other common Pellitory which groweth there, hath 

 a root of a biting taste, scarce discernible by the taste 

 from that before described, from whence arise divers 

 brittle stalks, a yard high and more, with narrow long 

 leaves finely dented about the edges, standing one above 

 another up to the tops. The flowers are many and white 

 standing in tufts like those of yarrow, with a small, 

 yellowish thrum in the middle. The seed is very 

 small. 



Place.] The last groweth in fields, in the hedges sides 

 and paths, almost every where. 

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