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eare them^ and easeth mach pain in the bowek. The 

 roots are likewise effectual to help mpturea or burstiDgs, 

 being used with other things available to that purpose, 

 taken either inwardly or outwardly, or both ; as also 

 bruises or hurts by blows, falls, or the like, and to stay 

 the bleeding of wounds in any part inward or outward. 



Some one holds that one leaf cures a quotidian, three a 

 tertian^ and four a quartian ague, and a hundred to one if 

 it be not Dioscorides, for he is full of whimsiea The 

 truth is I never stood so much upon the number of the 

 leaves, or whether I give it in powder or decoction : if 

 Jupiter were strong, and the Moon applied to him, and 

 his good aspect at the gathering I never knew it miss the* 

 desired effect. 



GIVES.— (iiWtum ScKaenopratum.) 



Oallkd also rush leeks, chivefl, civet, and sweth. 



Temperature and Virtuet. — I confess I had not added 

 these had it not been for a country gentleman, who by a 

 letter certified to me that amongst other herbs I had left 

 these out They are indeed a kind of leeks, hot and dry 

 in the fourth degree, and so under the dominion of Mars. 

 If they be eaten raw (I do not mean raw opposite to 

 roasted or boiled, but raw opposite to chemical pre))ara- 

 tion) they send up very hurtful vapours to the brain, 

 causing troublesome sleep and spoiling the eyesight ; yet 

 of them, prepared by the act of the alchymist, may b« 

 made an excellent remedy for the stoppage of urine. 



CliABY.—iSalvia Sdarea.) 



Deecrip. — Our ordinary garden clary hath four square 

 ■talks, with broad, rough, wrinkled, whitish, or hoary 

 green leaves, somewhat evenly cut in on the edges, and of 

 a strong sweet acent, growing some near the ground, and 

 some by couples upon stalks. The flowers grow at certain 

 diftanoea, with two small leaves at the joints under them, 

 somewhat like unto flowers of sage, but smaller and of a 

 whitish blue colour. The seed is brownish and somewhat 

 flat or not so round as the wild. The roots are blackish 

 and spread not far, and perish after seed time. It is 

 usually sown, for it seldom rises of its own sowing. 



Place, — This j^roweth in eardeus. 



Time. — It flowereth in June and July, some a little 

 later than others, and their seed is ripe in August or 

 UMreabouta. 



