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Place, — The wild kind groweth in divers parts of this 

 land, plentifully by the field sides and untillea places. 



Time. — They flower and seed in the end of summer. 



Government and Virtues. — Wild carrots belong to Mer- 

 cury, and therefore break wind and remove stitches in the 

 side, provoke urine and women's courses, and helpeth to 

 break and expel the stone ; the seed also of the same 

 worketh the like eflfect, and is good for the dropsy, and 

 those whose bellies are swollen with wind : helpeth the 

 colic, the stone in the kidneys, and rising of the mother ; 

 being taken in wine, or boiled in wine and taken, it help- 

 eth conception. The leaves being applied with honey to 

 running sores or ulcers, do cleanse them. 



I suppose the seeds of them perform this better than 

 the rootis : and though Qalen commended garden carrots 

 highly to break wind, yet experience teacheth they breed 

 it first, and we may thank nature for expelling it, not 

 they ; the seeds of them expel wind indeed, and so mend 

 what the root marreth. 



CABAW AY.— (Carwm Carui.) 



Descrip. — It beareth divers stalks of fine cut leaves 

 lying upon the ground, somewhat like the leaves of car- 

 rots, but not bushing so thick, of a little quick taste in 

 them, from among which riseth up a square stalk, not so 

 high as the carrot, at whose joint are set the like leaves, 

 bmt smaller and flatter, and at the top small open tufts or 

 umbels of white flowers, which turn into small blackish 

 seed, smaller than the aniseed, and of a quicker and bet- 

 ter taste. The root is whitish, small, and long, somewhat 

 like unto parsnip, but with more wrinkled bark, and much 

 less, of a little hot and quick taste, and stronger than 

 the parsnip, and abideth after seed time. 



Place. — It is usually sown with us in gardens. 



Time. — They flower in June and July, and seed quick- 

 ly after. 



Oovemment and Virtuei. — This is also a Mercurial 

 plant Carraway seed hath a moderate sharp quality, 

 whereby it breaketh wind and provoketh urine, which 

 also the herb doth. The root is better food than the 

 parsnips ; it is pleasant and comfortable to the stomach, 

 and helpeth digestion. The seed is conducing to all cold 

 griefs of the head and stomach, bowels, or mother, as also 

 the wind in them, and helpeth to sharpen the eye-sight 



