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turn into green berries inclosed with thin | good to many, both to ease the pains, and 

 skins, which change to be reddish when \ expel urine and the stone, and to cause the 

 they grow ripe, the berry likewise being : stone not to engender. The deception of 

 reddish, and as large as a cherry ; wherein j the berries in wine and water is the most 

 are contained many flat and yellowish seeds j usual way ; but the powder of them taken 

 lying within the pulp, which being gathered I in drink is more effectual, 

 and strung up, are kept all the year to bei 



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used upon occasion. 5 



Place,'] They grow hot naturally in this i IT is called Cerefolium, Mirrhis, and 

 land, but are cherished in gardens for their I Mirrha, Chervil, Sweet Chervil, and Sweet 

 virtues. j Cicely. 



Time.'] They flower not until the middle ; Descript.'] The garden Chervil doth at 

 or latter end of July ; and the fruit is ripe ; first somewhat resemble Parsley, but after it 

 about August, or the beginning of Sep- j is better grown, the leaves are much cut in 

 tember. ; andjagged,resemblinghemlock,beingalittle 



Government and virtues.] This also is a ; hairy and of a whitish green colour, some- 

 plant of Venus. They are of great use in \ times turning reddish in the Summer, with 

 physic: The leaves being cooling, may be; the stalks also; it rises a little above half 

 used in inflammations, but not opening as \ a foot high, bearing white flowers in spiked 

 the berries and fruit are ; which by draw- \ tufts, which turn into long and round seeds 

 ing down the urine provoke it to be voided j pointed at the ends, and blackish when they 

 plentifully when it is stopped or grown hot, \ are ripe; of a sweet taste, but no smell 

 sharp, and painful in the passage ; it is ; though the herb itself smells reasonably 

 good also to expel the stone and gravel out : well. The root is small and long, and 

 of the reins, kidneys and bladder, helping j perishes every year, and must be sown 

 to dissolve the stone, and voiding it by grit I a-new in spring, for seed after July for 

 or gravel sent forth in the urine ; it also i Autumn fails. 



helps much to cleanse inward imposthumes \ The wild Chervil grows two or three feet 

 or ulcers in the reins or bladder, or in those; high, with yellow stalks and joints, set with 

 that void a bloody or foul urine. The i broader and more hairy leaves, divided 

 distilled water of the fYuit, or the leaves j into sundry parts, nicked about the edges, 

 together with them, or the berries, green or j and of a dark green colour, which likewise 

 dry, distilled with a little milk and drank! grow reddish with the stalks; at the tops 

 morning and evening with a little sugar, is J whereof stand small white tufts, of flowers, 

 effectual to all the purposes before specified, J afterwards smaller and longer seed. The 

 and especially against the heat and sharp- [root is white, hard, and enduring long, 

 ness of the urine I shall only mention ; This has little or no scent, 

 one way, amongst many others, which; Place.~\ The first is sown in gardens for 

 might be used for ordering the berries, toiasallad herb; the second grows wild in 

 be helpful for the urine and the stone ; I many of the meadows of this land, and by 

 which is this : Take three or four good j the hedge sides, and on heaths, 

 handfuls of the berries, either green or} TimeJ] They flower and seed early, and 

 fresh, or dried, and having bruised them, \ thereupon are sown again in the end of 

 put them into so many gallons of beer or j Summer. 



ale when it is new tunned up : This drink, j Government and virtues J] The garden 

 taken dailv has been found to do much ' Chervil being eaten, doth moderately warm 



