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many long single leaves, cut in on both down to the ground, that it seems a pretty 

 sides into round dents almost to the middle, { bush, set with divers the like divided leaves 

 which is not so hard as that of polypody, up to the tops, where severally do stand 

 each division being not always set opposite | small whitish green heads, set with sharp 

 nnto the other, cut between each, smooth, j white pricks (no part of the plant else being 

 and of a light green on the upper side, and ' prickly) which are somewhat yellowish ; 

 a dark yellowish roughness on the back, | out of the middle whereof rises the flowers, 

 folding or rolling itself inward at the first! com posed of many small redaish purple, 

 springing up. \ threads ; and in the heads, after the flowers 



Place.'] It grows as well upon stone j are past, come small whitish round seed, 

 walls, as moist and shadowy places, about | lying down as others do. The root is small, 

 Bristol, and other the west parts plentifully ; j long and woody, perishing every year, and 

 as also on Framlingham Castle, on Bea- } rising again of its own sowing, 

 consfield church in Berkshire, at Stroud in i Place.'] It grows wild in the fields about 

 Kent, and elsewhere, and abides green all { London in many places, as at Mile- End 

 the Winter. ! green, and many other places. 



Government and virtues.'] Saturn owns it. ; Time.~\ It flowers early, and seeds in 

 It is generally used against infirmities ofjjulv, and sometimes in August. 

 the Spleen : It helps the stranguary, and 5 Government and virtues^] This, as almost 

 wasteth the stone in the bladder, and is ! all Thistles are, is under Mars. The seed 

 good against the yellow jaundice and the | of this Star Thistle made into powder, and 

 hiccough ; but the juice of it in women j drank in wine, provokes urine, and helps 

 hinders conception. Matthiolus saith, That j to break the stone, and drives it forth. The 

 if a dram of the dust that is on the back- 1 root in powder, and given in wine and 

 side of the leaves be mixed with half a dram j drank, is good against the plague and pes- 

 of amber in powder, and taken with the | tilence ; and drank in the morning fasting 

 juice of purslain or plantain, it helps the \ for some time together, it is very profitable 

 gonorrhea speedily, and that the herb and | for fistulas in any part of the body, 

 root being boiled and taken, helps all { Baptista Sardas doth much commend the 

 melancholy diseases, and those especially \ distilled water thereof, being drank, to help 

 that arise from the French diseases, j the French disease, to open the obstructions 

 Camerarius saith, That the distilled water j of the liver, and cleanse the blood from 

 thereof being drank, is very effectual against | corrupted humours, and is profitable against 

 the stone in the reins and bladder ; and \ the quotidian or tertian ague, 

 that the lye that is made of the ashes there- \ 



of being drank for some time together,* STRAWBERRIES. 



helps splenetic persons. It is used in out-* 

 ward remedies for the same purpose. THESE are so well known through this 



STAR THISTLE. 



land, that they need no description. 



Time.'] They flower in May ordinarily, 

 Descript.~] A COMMON Star Thistle has j and the fruit is ripe shortly after, 

 divers narrow leaves lying next the ground, j Government and virtues.'] Venus owns the 

 cut on the edges somewhat deeply into j herb. Strawberries, when they are green, 

 many parts, soft or a little woo'ly, all over? are cool and dry; but when they are ripe, 

 green, among which rise up divers weak J they are cool and moist : The berries are 

 stalks, parted into many branches, ali lying (excellently good to cool the liver, the blood. 



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