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forth one or two flowers upon sharp foot-stalks, pease fa- 

 shion, either white or whitish, or purplish red, lighter 

 or deeper, according as the pease that follow will be, that 

 are contained in small thick aud short pods, wherein liu 

 one or two pease, more usually pointed at the lower end, 

 and almost round at the head, yet a little cornered or 

 jharp. The root is small, and perish eth yearly. 



place and Time, — They are sown in wardens or fields as 

 pease, being sown later than pease, aud gathered at the 

 lame time with them, or presently after. 



Ooverv.meTU and Virtues. — They are both under the 

 dominion of Venus. The? are less windy than beans, but 

 noarish more ; they provoKe urine, and are thought to in- 

 creaae sperm ; they have a cleansing faculty, whereby they 

 break the stooe in the kidneys ; to drink the cream of them 

 being boiled in water is the best way. It moves the belly 

 dowDwards, provokes women's courses and urine, and in- 

 ereaaee both milk and seed. One ounce of cicers, two ounces 

 of French barley, and a small handful of marsh-mallow 

 roots clean washed and cut, being boiled in the broth of a 

 chicken, and four ounces taken in the morning, and fast- 

 ing two hours after, is a good medicine for a pain in the 

 sideti. The white cicers are used more for meat than 

 medicine, yet have the same effects, and are thought more 

 powerful to increase milk and seed. The wild cicers are 

 80 much more powerful than the garden kind, by how 

 much they exceed them in heat and dryness ; whereby they 

 do more open obstructions, break the stone, and have all 

 the properties of cutting, opening, digesting, and dissolv- 

 ing ; and this more speedily and certainly than the former. 



CINQUE FOIL, OR FIVE- LEAVED GRASS, called 

 ALSO FIVE-FINGERBD QRABS.—{FotmUUla,) 



Detcrip. — It spreads and creeps far upon the ground 

 with long slender strings like strawberries, which take 

 root again and shoot forth many leaves made of five parts, 

 and tometimes seven, dented about the edges and some- 

 what hard. The stalks are slender, leaning downwards, 

 and bear many small yellow flowers thereon, with some 

 yellow threads in the middle standing about a smooth 

 green head, which, when it is ripe, is a little rough, and 

 eoDtaiueth small brownish seeds. The root is of a black- 

 jab brown colour, as big as one's little finger, but growing 

 long with some threads thereat ; and by the small strings 

 it quickly spreadeth over the ground. 



