114 OITLPIPEB'S OOMPLETE HEBBAIib 



tue green husk wherein the flowers stood turns itself down 

 to the stalk, and the head of down becomes as round as 

 a ball, with long reddish seed underneath, bearing a part 

 of the down on the head of every one, which together is 

 blown awaj^ with the wind, or may be at once blown awaj 

 with one's mouth. The root growing downwards exceeding 

 deep, which being broken off within the ground, will yet 

 shoot forth again, and will hardly be destroyed where it 

 hath once taken deep root in the ground. 



Place. — It groweth frequently in all meadows and 

 pasture grounds. 



Time. — It floweretb in one place or another almost all 

 the year long. 



Oovemment and Virtues, — It is under the dominion of 

 Jupiter, It is of an opening and cleansing quality, and 

 therefore very effectual for the obstructions of the liver, 

 ^1, and spleen, and the diseases that arise from them, as 

 the jaundice and hypochondriac ; it openeth the passages 

 of the urine both in young and old ; powerfully cleanseth 

 imposthumes and inward ulcers in the urinary passages, 

 and by its drying and temperate quality doth afterwards 

 heal them ; for which purpose the decoction of the roots 

 or leaves in white wine, or the leaves chopped as pot herbs 

 with a few alisanders, and boiled in their broth, are very 

 effectual And whoever is drawing towards a consumption, 

 or an evil disposition of the whole body called cachexia, by 

 the use hereof for some time together shall find a wonder- 

 ful help. It helpeth also to procure rest and sleep to 

 bodies distempered by the heat of ague fits, or otherwise : 

 the distilled water is effectual to drink in pestileniai fevers, 

 and to wash the sores. 



You see here what virtues this common herb hath, and 

 that is the reason the French and Dutch so often eat them 

 in the spring ; and now if you look a little farther, you 

 may see plamly without a pair of spectacles, that foreign 

 physicians are not so selfisn as ours are, but more com- 

 municative of the virtues of plants to peoples 



DARNEL (RED and WHITK)— (ZoKwm, Rxibrtm et 

 Allmm.) 



It is called Jura and Wary ; in Sussex they call it Crop, 

 it being a pestilent enemy amon^ the com. 



De$crip, —This hath, aU the winter long, sundry lonff, 

 <Ukt, and rough leaTefl» whicb, when the stolk riMth, which 



