116 oulpeper's complsts hkrbal. 



There are two sorts hereof, in nothing unlike t&e for- 

 mer, save that the one beareth white, and the other blush- 

 coloured flowers. 



Place, — The first groweth as well in dry meadows and 

 fields as moist, in many places of this land : but the 

 other two are more rare and hard to be met with, yet 

 they are found growing wild about Appledore, near Rye, 

 In Kent. 



TiTM, — They flower not usoally until A ugust. 



Government and Virtues. — The plant is venereal, pleas- 

 ing and harmless. The herb or the root (all that the devil 

 hath left of it) being boiled in wine and drank, is very 

 powerful against the plague, and all pestilential diseases 

 or fevers, poisons also, and the bitings of venomous 

 beasts : it helpeth also all that are inwardly bruised by 

 any casualty, or outwardly by falls or blows, dissolving 

 the clotted blood ; and the herb or root beaten and out- 

 wardly applied, taketh away the black and blue marks 

 that remain in the skin. The decoction of the herb, with 

 honey of roses put therein, is very effectual to help the 

 inveterate tumours and swellings of the almonds and 

 throat, by often gargling the mouth therewith. It help- 

 eth also to procure women's courses, and easeth all pains 

 of the mother, and to break and discuss wind therein, and 

 in the bowels. The powder of the root taken in drink, 

 driveth forth the worms in the body. The juice or distilled 

 water of the herb, is very eflfectual for green wounds or 

 old sores, and cleanseth the body inwardly, and the seed 

 outwardly, from sores, scurf, itch, pimples, freckles, mor- 

 phew, or other deformities thereof, especially if a little 

 ▼itriol be dissolved therein. 



DILL. — (Anethum Graveoleni.) 



Descrip, — The common Dill groweth up with seldom 

 more than one stalk, neither so high nor so great usually 

 as fennel, being round and fewer joints thereon, whose 

 leaves are sadder and somewhat long, and so like fennel 

 that it deceiveth many, but harder in handling, and some- 

 what thicker, and of a stronger unpleasant scent ; the 

 tops of the stalks have four branches, and small umbles 

 of yellow flowers, which turn into sniall seed, somewhat 

 flatter and thinner than fennel seed. The root is some* 

 what small and woody, and perisheth every year after it 

 hath borne seed, and is also unprofitable, being never put 

 U>aQ7 use. 



