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COCK'S HEAD, RED FITCHLINQ, ok MEDICK 

 FITCH,— (Ono6rycAi».) 



Vescrip. — This hath divers weak but rough stalks half 

 a yard long, leaning downwards, but set with winged 

 leaves longer and more pointed than those of lintels, and 

 whitish underneath ; from the tops of these stalks arise 

 up other slender stalks, naked without leaves unto the 

 tops, where there grow many small flowers in the manner 

 of a spike, of a pale reddish colour, with a little blue 

 among them ; after which rise up in their places round, 

 rough, and somewhat flat heaas. The root ia tough, 

 and somewhat woody, yet liveth and shooteth anew every 

 year. 



Place, — It groweth under hedges, and sometimeB in the 

 open fields in divers places of this land. 



Time. — They flower all the months of July and August, 

 and the seed ripeneth in the meanwhile. 



Oovemment and Virtues, — It is under the dominion of 

 V'enus, it hath power to rarif y and digest, and therefore 

 the green leaves bruised, and applied as a plaster, dis- 



Serse knots, nodes, or kernels in the flesh ; and if when 

 ry it be taJ^en in wine, it helpeth the strangury ; and 

 being anointed with oil it provoketh sweat. It is a 

 singular food for cattle, to cause them to give store of 

 milk ; and why then may it not do the like, being boiled 

 in ordinary dnnk for nurses ? 



COLUMBINES.— (^7ttt7<j^u».) 



These are so well known, growing almost in every 

 garden, that I think I may save the expense of time in 

 writing a description of them. 



Time,— They flower in May, and abide not for the most 

 part when June is past, perfecting their seed in the mean 

 time. 



Oovemment and Virtues, — It is also an herb of Venus. 

 The leaves of columbines are generally used in lotions 

 with good success for sore mouths and throats. Tragus 

 saith that a dram of the seed taken in wine with a 

 little saJQTron openeth obstructions o^ the liver, and is good 

 for the yellow jaundice, if the person after the taking 

 thereof be laid to sweat well in bed. The seed also taken 

 in wine causeth a speedy delivery of women in child- 

 birth ; if one draught sumoe not let her drink a second, 



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