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\ green colour ; the flowers are of a purple 

 I colour, or of a perfect blue, like to violets, 



(CONSIDERING divers shires in thisna-j a nd they stand many of them together in 

 tion give divers names to one and the j knots : the berries are green at first, but 

 same herb, and that the common name j when they are ripe they are very red ; if 

 which it bears in one county, is not known | you taste them, you shall find them just as 

 in another; I shall take the pains to set | the crabs which we in Sussex call Bitter- 

 down all the names that I know of each sweet, viz. sweet at first and bitter after- 

 herb: pardon me for setting that name first, 

 which is most common to myself. Besides 

 Amara Dulcis, some call it Mortal, others 

 Bitter-sweet; some Woody Night-shade, 



wards. 



PlaceJ] They grow commonly almost 

 throughout England, especially in moist 

 and shady places. 



and others Felon-wort. j Time.'] The leaves shoot out about the 



Descript.'] It grows up with woody stalks \ latter end of March, if the temperature of 

 even to a man's height, and sometimes! the air be ordinary ; it flowers in July, and 

 higher. The leaves fall off at the approach of | the seeds are ripe soon after, usually in the 

 winter, and spring out of the same stalk at> next month. 



spring-time: the branch is compassed about j Government and virtues.'] It is under the 

 with a Avhitish bark, and has a pith in the < planet Mercury, and a notable herb of his 

 middle of it : the main branch branches | also, if it be rightly gathered under his in- 

 itself into many small ones with claspers, j fluence. It is excellently good to remove 

 laying hold on what is next to them, as j witchcraft both in men and beasts, as also 

 vines dc : it bears many leaves, they grow { all sudden diseases whatsoever. Being tied 

 in no order at all, at least in no regular \ round about the neck, is one of the most ad- 

 order : the leaves are longish, though some- 1 mirable remedies for the vertigo or dizziness 

 what broad, and pointed at the ends : many j in the head ; and that is the reason (as 

 of them have two little leaves growing at the | Tragus saith) the people in Germany corn- 

 end of their foot stalk; some have but one, j monly hang it about their cattle's necks, 

 and some none. The leaves are of a pale : when they fear any such evil hath betided 



