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seed is easily shaken out of the ear, the I Placed] It is most usually sown in gar- 



nusk itself being somewhat rough. 



Place.] Thu country husbandmen do 



dens and grounds for the purpose, and is 

 also found wild in many places. 



know this loo well to grow among their { Government and virtues.] Mercury has 

 corn, or in the borders and pathways of j the dominion of this plant, and therefore to 

 the other fields that are fallow. be sure it strengthens the brain. The Dill 



Government and virtues] It is a malicious 

 part of sullen Saturn. As it is not without 



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being boiled and drank, is good to ease 

 swellings and pains ; it also stays the belly 



some vices, so hath it also many virtues, and stomach from casting. The decoction 

 The meal of Darnel is very good to stay therefore helps women that are troubled with 

 gangrenes, and other such like fretting and : the pains and windiness of the mother, it 

 eating cankers, and putrid sores : It also j they sit therein. It stays the hiccough, 

 cleanses the skin of all leprosies, morphews, j being boiled in wine, and but smelled unto 

 ringworms, and the like, if it be used with( being tied in a cloth. The seed is of more 

 salt and raddish roots. And being used j use than the leaves, and more effectual to 

 with quick brimstone and vinegar, it dis-l digest raw and vicious humours, and is 

 solves knots and kernels, and breaks those \ used in medicines that serve to expel wind, 

 that are hard to be dissolved, being boiled land the pains proceeding there-trom. The 

 in wine with pigeon's dung and Linseed : 1 seed, being roasted or fried, and used in 

 A decoction thereof made with water and oils or plasters, dissolve the imposthumes 



honey, and the places bathed therewith, is 

 profitable for the sciatica. Darnel meal 



in the fundament ; and dries up all moist 

 ulcers, especially in the fundament ; an oil 



appJied in a poultice draws forth splinters j made of Dill is effectual to warm or dis- 

 and broken bones in the flesh : The red < solve humours and imposthumes, and the 

 Darnel, boiled in red wine and taken, ; pains, and to procure rest. The decoction 

 stays the lask and all other fluxes, and j of Dill, be it herb or seed (only if you boil 

 women's bloody issues ; and restrains urine | the seed you must bruise it) in white wine, 

 that passes away too suddenly. j being drank, it is a gallant expeller of wind, 



; and provoker of the terms. 



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Descript.] THE common Dill grows upj 



with seldom more than one stalk, neither j Descript] THIS rises up with a round 

 so high, nor so great usually as Fennel, j green smooth stalk, about two feet high, 

 being round and fewer joints thereon, \ set with divers long and somewhat narrow, 

 whose leaves are sadder, and somewhat j smooth, dark green leaves, somewhat nipped 

 long, and so like Fennel that it deceives | about the edges, for the most part, being 

 many, but harder in handling, and some- \ else all whole, and not divided at all, or but 

 what thicker, and of a strong unpleasant I very seldom, even to the tops of the 

 scent: The tops of the stalks have four j branches, which yet are smaller than those 

 branches and smaller umbels of yellow I below, with one rib only in the middle, 

 flowers, which turn into small seed, some- 5 At the end of each branch stands a round 

 what flatter and thinner than Fennel seed. \ head of many flowers set together in the 

 The root is somewhat small and woody, j same manner, or more neatly than Scabions, 

 perishes every year after it hath borne j and of a bluish purple colour, which 

 seed ; and is also unprofitable, being never j being past, there follows seed which falls 

 put to any use. * away. The root is somewhat thick, but 



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