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small branches of whitish flowers, made of | leaves lying on the ground, very much 

 tour leaves a-piece ; after which come small i rent and torn on the sides in many places : 

 pods, like those of Shepherd's Purse, but j from among which rise up sometimes but 

 seldom with any seed in them. The root is ; one, and sometimes two or three square or 

 great, long, white and rugged, shooting up > crested blackish or brownish stalks, three 

 divers heads of leaves, which may be parted ; or four feet high, sometimes branched, 

 for increase, but it doth not creep in the j bearing divers such-like leaves upon them, 

 ground, nor run above ground, and is of ajat several distances upon the top, where it 

 strong, sharp, and bitter taste almost like \ branches forth into many stalks bearing 

 mustard. | yellow flowers, consisting of divers leaves, 



Place.'] It is found wild in some places, j' set as a pale or border, with a dark yellow 

 but is chiefly planted in gardens, and joys i thrum in the middle, which do abide a 

 in moist and shadowy places. ! great while, but at last are turned into down, 



Time.'] It seldom flowers, but when it \ and with the small blackish grey seed, are 

 doth, it is in July. | carried away with the wind. The root is 



Government and virtues.'] They are both ; made of many fibres, whereby it is firmly 

 under Mars. The juice of Horse-raddish * fastened into the ground, and abides many 

 given to drink, is held to be very effectual I years. 



for the scurvy. It kills the worms in chil- : There is another sort, thereof differs from 

 dren, being drank, and also laid upon the j the former only in this, that it rises not so 

 belly. The root bruised and laid to the j high ; the leaves are not so finely jagged, 

 place grieved with the sciatica, joint-ache, ! nor of so dark a green colour, but rather 

 or the hard swellings of the liver and spleen, | somewhat whitish, soft and woolly, and the 

 doth wonderfully help them all. The dis- \ flowers usually paler. 



tilled water of the herb and root is more Placed] They grow, both of them, wild in 

 familiar to be taken with a little sugar for j pastures, and untilled grounds in many 

 all the purposes aforesaid. j places, and oftentimes both in one field. 



Garden Raddishes are in wantonness by ! Time.'] They flower in June and July, 

 the gentry eaten as a sallad, but they breed : and the seed is ripe in August. 

 but scurvy humours in the stomach, and : Government and virtues.^ Ragwort is 

 corrupt the blood, and then send fora phy-l under the command of Dame Venus, and 

 sician as fast as you can ; this is one cause \ cleanses, digests, and discusses. The cle- 

 which makes the owners of such nice palates icoction of the herb is good to wash the 

 so unhealthful ; yet for such as are troubled ! mouth or throat that hath ulcers or sores 

 with the gravel, stone, or stoppage of urine, \ therein : and for swellings, hardness, or 

 they are good physic, if the body be strong ; imposthumes, for it thoroughly cleanses and 

 that takes them ; you may make the juice j heals them ; as also the quinsy, and the 

 of the roots into a syrup if you please, for j king's evil. It helps to stay catarrhs, thin 

 that use : they purge by urine exceedingly, j rheums, and defluxions from the head into 

 RAT 'a T j the eyes, nose, or lungs. The juice is found 



: by experience to be singularly good to heal 



IT is called also St. James'-wort, and \ green wounds, and to cleanse and heal 

 Stagger-wort, and Stammer- wort, and Se- jail old and filthy ulcers in the privities, and 

 grum. \ in other parts of the body, as also inward 



Descript.] The greater common Ragwort ; wounds and ulcers ; stays the malignity of 

 hath many large and long, dark green ' fretting and running cankers, and hollow 



