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of snch wings set one again«t the other npon foot-stalks, 

 broad below, but narrow towards the end ; one of the 

 leaves is a little deeper at the bottom than the other, of a 

 fair, yellowish, fresh green colour ; thej are of a bitterish 

 tatote ueing chewed in the mouth. From among these 

 anseth up a stalk, green in colour, round in form, great 

 and stroug in magnitude, five or six feet in altitude, with 

 many joints and some leaves thereat : towards the top 

 come forth umbles of small yellow flowers, after these 

 are passed away, you may find whitish, yellow, short flat 

 seeds, bitter also in taste. 



F/ace^ — Having given you the description of the herb 

 from the bottom to the top, give me leave to tell you that 

 there are other herbs called oy this name ; but because 

 they are strangers in England, I give only the description 

 of this, which is easily to be had iu the gardens of divers 

 places. 



Titus, — ^Although Gerard saith, That they flower from the 

 beginning of May to the end of December, experience 

 teacbeth them that keep it in their gardens, that it flowers 

 not till the latter end of the summer, and sheds its seed 

 presently after. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is under the dominion of 

 Mars, hot, biting, and choleric ; and remedies what evils 

 Mars atflicts the body of a man with, by sympathy, as vi- 

 pers^ flesh attracts poison, and the loadstone iron. It kills 

 the worms, belps tne gout, cram|>s, and convulsions ; pro- 

 yokes uriue, and helps all joiut aches. It helps all cold 

 griefs of the head, the vertigo, falling sickness, the lethar- 

 gy, the wind colic, obstructions of the liver and spleen, 

 stone in the kidneys and bladder. It provokes the terms, 

 expels the dead birth : it is excellent for the griets of the 

 eiuews, itch, stone, and tooth-ache, the bite of mad dogs 

 and venomous beasts, and purgeth choler very gently. 



ALKANET.— (iincAiwa Tinctoria.) 



Besides the common name, it is called orr^hanet, and 

 Spanish bugv.^sH, and by apothecaries, euchusa. 



Dttcrip. — Of the many sorts of this herli, there is but 

 one known to grow commonly in this nation ; of which 

 one takes this description : — It hath a great and thick root 

 ot a reddish colcmr ; long, narrow, hairy leaver, green like 

 the lei^ves of h'lgloss, which lie very thick upon the 

 ground ; the .stalks rioa up compassed round about, thick 



