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aimost every one who can but write at ail maj describe 

 them from his own knowledge. 



Time, — They flower in August, and seed not long after. 



Oocemment and Virtues,— ^t is an herb of Mars, and 

 under the sign of Aries. Now, In handling this herb, I 

 shall give you a rational pattern of all the rest ; and if 

 you please to view them throughout the book, you shall 

 to your content find it true. It helps giddiness and 

 swimming of the head, or the disease call^ vertigo, be- 

 cause Aries is in the house of Mars. It is an excellent 

 remedy against the yellow jaundice and other infirmities 

 of the gall, because Mars governs choler. It stren^hens 

 the attractive faculty in man and clarifies the blood, 

 because the one is ruled by Mars. The continually 

 drinking the decoction of it helps red faces, tetters, ana 

 ringworms, because Mars causeth them. It helps the 

 plague, sores, boils, and itch, the bitings of mad dogs and 

 venomous beasts, all which infirmities are under Mars. 

 Thus you see what it does by sympathy. 



By antipathy to other planets it cureth the French pox. 

 By antipathy to Venus, who governs it, it strengthens th* 

 memory, and cures deafness by antipathy to Saturn, who 

 hath his fall in Aries, which rules the head. It cures 

 quartan agues and other diseases of melancholy, and ad- 

 mits choler, by sympathy to Saturn, Mars being exalted 

 In Capricorn. Also it provokes urine, the stopping of 

 which is usually caused by Mars or the Moon. 



CABEOTS.— (Doucui Garota,) 



Gardxh carrots are so well known that they neea no de- 

 scription ; but because they are of less physical use mma 

 the wild kind (as indeed almost in all herbs the wild are 

 most effectual in physic, as being more powerful in opera- 

 tion than the ^rden kinds) I shall therefore briefly de- 

 scribe the wila carrot. 



Ducrip. — It groweth In a manner altogether like the 

 tame, but that the leaves and stalks are somewhat whiter 

 and rougher. The stalks Ijear large tufts of white flowers, 

 with a deep purple spot in the middle, which are contract- 

 ed together when the seed begins to ripen, that the mid- 

 «lle part being hollow and low, and the outward stalk ris- 

 ing night maketh the whole umbel look like a bird's nest ; 

 Ik* loot small, long, and hard, and unfit for meat, being 

 tOHMwhat sharp ami strong. 



