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or three feet high, beset with many such like leaves 

 thereon, but smaller, and shooting forth sniall branches, 

 which with the stalks carry many small yellow Howers, 

 in a long spiked head at the top of them, Mhere after- 

 wards come tile seed, which is small and black, inclosed 

 in heads that are divided at the tops in four parts. The 

 root is long, white, and thick, abiding the Winter. The 

 whole herb changcth to be yellow, after it hath been in 

 flower aw hile. 



Plcice.2 It groweth every where by the" way-sides, in 

 moist grounds, as well as dry, in corners of fields and 

 bye-lanes, and sometimes all over the field. In Sussex and 

 Kent tliey call it Green Weed. 



T/we.] It Uowereth about June. 



Government and f-'irtues.'] Matthiolus saith, that the 

 root hereof cureth tough phlegm, digesteth raw phlegm, 

 thinneth gross humours, dissolveth hard tumours, and 

 opcnelli obstruttions. Some do highly commend it against 

 the bitings of venomous creatures, to be taken inwardly 

 and applied outwardly to the hurt place : as also for the 

 plague or pestilence. The people in some counties of this 

 land, bruise the herb, and lay it to cuts or wounds in the 

 hands or legs, to heal them. 



Wheat. $ . (k. 1. temp.) 



Alt, the several kinds are so well known, that it is need- 

 less to write a description. 



Government and rir/ues.l ^^ '^ under Venus. Dioscori- 

 dcs saifh, that to cat the corn of Green Wheat is hurtful 

 to the stomach, and breedeth worms. Pliny saith, that 

 the corns of Wheat roasted upon an iron pan and eaten, 

 are a present remedy fer those that are chilled with cold. 

 The oil pressed from wheat, between two thick plates 

 of iron or copper, heated, healeth all tetters and ring- 

 worms, being used warm; aad hereby Galen saith, he 

 hath known many to be cured. Matthiolus commendeth 

 the same to be put into hollow ulcers to heal them up, 

 and it is good for chops in the hands and feet, and to 

 make rutrged skin smooth. The green corns of wheat 

 bi;ing chewed and applied to the place bitten by a mad 

 dog, heals it ; slices of Wheat bread soaked in red rose 



