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or stiff, and the flov/ers of this are of a fine bluish, or pale 

 carnation colour, but of the manured kind, whitish. 



Government and Firlaes.~\ It is an herb of Venus, 

 Dioscorides saith, that the root bruised and boiled in wine, 

 till it be thick, and kept in a brazen vessel, and after 

 spread as a salve, and applied to the fundament, doth heal 

 the cleft thereof, cankers and fistulas therein, also taketh 

 av^^ay warts and wens. The juice of the leaves dropped 

 into the ears, killeth worms. The distilled water of the 

 leaves dropped into the eyes, taketh away redness and 

 mists in them that hinder the sight, and is often used by 

 women to preserve their beauty, and take away redness 

 aud inflammations, and all other heat or discolourings. 



Treacle :Miistard. S, (h. d. 3.) 



It is also known by the name of Treacle Wormseed. 



Descript.~\ It riseth, with a hard round stalk, about a 

 foot high, j)arted into some branches, having divers soft 

 green leaves, long aud narrow, set thereon waved, but 

 not cut into the edges, broadest toward the ends, some- 

 what round pointed, the flowers are white that grow at the 

 tops of the branches, spike fashion, one above another; 

 after which come round pouches, parted in the middle 

 w itii a furrow, having one blackish brown seed on either 

 side, somewhat sharp in taste, and smelling of garlick, 

 especially in the fields where it is natural, but not so much 

 in gardens ; the roots are small and thready, perishing 

 Ci\iiTy year. 



Mithridate Mustard S- Oi- d. 3.) 



GivF. me leave to add Mithridate Mustard, although, 

 it may seem more properly by the n-iine to belong 

 to M. in the Alphabet. 



Descript.'] This groweth higher than the former, 

 spreading more and higiier branches, whose leaves are 

 smaller and narrower, sometimes unevenly dented about 

 the edges. The tlowers are small and white, growing oil 

 long branches, with much sm;iller and rounder vessel* 

 alte^ them, and parted in the .<ame taanner, having smalle 

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