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to make sweet powders, and fill sweet bags ; and little 

 use tbcy are put to in physic^ although they have some 

 ])Tirging quality ; the wild Roses also are few or none 

 of them used in physic, but are generally held to come 

 near the nature of the manured Roses. The fruit of the 

 ■wild briar, which are called Hips, being thoroughly ripe, 

 and made into a conserve with sugar, besides the pleasant- 

 ness of the taste, doth gently bind the belly, and stay 

 dcfludtions from the head upon the stomach, drying up 

 the moisture thereof, and helpcth digestion. The pulp of 

 llie hips dried into a hard consistence, like to the juice of 

 liquorice, or so dried that it may be made into powder 

 and taken in drink, stayeth speedily the whites in women. 

 The briar ball is often used, being made into powder and 

 drank, to break the stone, to provoke urine when it is 

 stopped, and to ease and help the colic, some appoint it 

 to be burnt, and then taken for the same purpose. In the 

 middle of the balls are often found certain Avhite worms, 

 which being dried and made into powder, and some of it 

 drank, is found by experience to kill and drive forth the 

 vyorms of the belly. 



Rosa Solis, or Sun-Dew. <•) in «s. (h. d. 4.^ 



It is also called Red. rot, and Youth-wort. 



Descript.'] It hath divers small, round, hollow leaves, 

 somewhat greenish, but full of certain red hairs, which 

 make them seem red, every one standing upon his own 

 foot-stalk, reddish, hairy likewise. The leaves are con- 

 tinually moist in the hottest day, yea, the hotter the sun 

 shines on them, the moister they are, with asliminess that 

 will rope (as we say) the small hairs always holding this 

 moisture. Among these leaves rise up slender stalks, 

 reddish also, three or four fingers high, bearing divers small 

 •white knobs one above another, which are flowers; after 

 which in the heads are contaied small seeds. The root is 

 a few small hairs. 



Pluce.1 It groweth usually in bogs and wet places, and 

 sometimes in moist woods. 



Time.'] It flouereth in June, and then the leaves are 

 ittmt to be gathered. 



