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Sampliire. %. (h. in. 2.) 



This is used inore by the cook than bj' the apofhecary. 



Descript.'] Rock Samphire groweth up with a tender 

 green stalk about half a yard, or two feet high, branch- 

 ing forth almost from the very bottom, and stored with 

 sundry thick and almost rf^und (somewhat long) leaves, 

 of a deep giecn colour, sometimes more on a stalk, and. 

 sappy, and of a pleasant, hot, and spicy taste. At the 

 toj) of the stalks and branches stand umbels of white 

 flowers, and after them come large seed bigger than fen. 

 iiel seed, y^t somewhat like it. The root is great, white, 

 and long, continuing many years, and is ol an hot and 

 spicy taste also. 



nace.~\ It groweth on the rocks that arc often moist- ■ 

 ened at the least, if not overflowed with the sea water. 



Time.'] x\nd it flowereth and seedeth in the end of 

 July and August. 



Government and Virtues.] It is in an herb of Jupiter, 

 and was in former times wont to be used more than now it 

 is ; the more is the pity. It is Avell known almost to every 

 body, that ill digestions and obstructions are the cause of 

 most of the diseases which the frail nature of man is sub- 

 ject to ; both which might be remedied by a more fre- 

 quent use of this herb. If people would have sauce to 

 their meat, they may take some for profit as well as for 

 pleasure. It is a saie herb, very pleasant both to taste 

 and stomach, helping digestion, and in some sort open- 

 ing obstructions of the liver and spleen ; provoketh urine, 

 and helpeth thereby to wash away the gravel and stone 

 engendered in the kidnies or bladder. 



Sanicle. ?. (/?. 2. d. 3.) 



Tins is \iy some called Butterwort, 



Descript.'] Sanicle sendeth forth many great round 

 leaves, standing upon long brownish stalks, every one 

 somewhat deeply cut or divided into five or six parts, 

 and some of those also cut in somewhat like the leaf of 

 crow's-foot, or dove's-foot, and finely dented about the 

 edges, sraoothj and of a dark shining colour, and some- 



