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seed is easily shaken out of the ear, the 

 husk itself being somewhat rough. 



Placed] The country husbandmen do 

 know this too well to grow among their 

 corn, or in the borders and pathways of 

 the other fields that are fallow. 



Government and virtues.] It is a malicious 

 part of sullen Saturn. As it is not without 

 some vices, so hath it also many virtues. 

 The meal of Darnel is very good to stay 

 gangrenes, and other such like fretting and 

 eating cankers, and putrid sores : It also 

 cleanses the skin of all leprosies, morphews, 

 ringworms, and the like, if it be used with 

 salt and raddish roots. And being used 

 with quick brimstone and vinegar, it dis- 

 solves knots and kernels, and breaks those 

 that are hard to be dissolved, being boiled 

 in wine with pigeon's dung and Linseed : 

 A decoction thereof made with water and 

 honey, and the places bathed therewith, is 

 profitable for the sciatica. Darnel meal 

 applied in a poultice draws forth splinters 

 and broken bones in the fleshc The red 

 Darnel, boiled in red wine and taken, stays 

 the lask and all other fluxes, and women's 

 bloody issues ; and restrains urine that 

 passes away too suddenly. 



DILL. 



Descript."] THE common Dill grows up 

 with seldom more than one stalk, neither 

 BO high, nor so great usually as Fennel, 

 being round and fewer . joints thereon, 

 whose leaves are sadder, and somewhat 

 long, and so like Fennel that it deceives 

 many, but harder in handling, and some- 

 what thicker, and of a strong unpleasant 

 scent : The tops of the stalks have four 

 branches and smaller umbels of yellow 

 flowers, which turn into small seed, some- 

 what flatter and thinner than Fennel seed. 

 The root is somewhat small and woody, 

 perishes every year after it hath borne 

 seed : and is also unprofitable, being never 

 put to anv use. 



PtaceJ] It is most usually sown in gar- 

 dens and grounds for the purpose, and is 

 also found wild in many places. 



Government and virtues J\ Mercury has 

 the dominion of this plant, and therefore to 

 be sure it strengthens the brain. The Dill 

 being boiled and drank, is good to ease 

 swellings and pains ; it also stays the belly 

 and stomach from casting. The decoction 

 therefore helps women that are troubled 

 with the pains and windiness of the mother, 

 if they sit therein. It stays the hiccough, 

 being boiled in wine, and but smelled unto 

 being tied in a cloth. The seed is of more 

 use than the leaves, and more effectual to 

 digest raw and vicious humours, and is 

 used in medicines that serve to expel wind, 

 and the pains proceeding therefrom. The 

 seed, being roasted or fried, and used in 

 oils or plasters, dissolve the imposthumes 

 in the fundament ; and dries up all moist 

 ulcers, especially in the fundament ; an oil 

 made of Dill is effectual to warm or dis- 

 solve humours and imposthumes, and the 

 pains, and to procure rest. The decoction 

 of Dill, be it herb or seed (only if you boil 

 the seed you must bruise it) in white wine, 

 being drank, it is a gallant expeller of wind, 

 and provoker of the terms. 



DEVIL'S -BIT. 



Descript J] THIS rises up with a round 

 green smooth stalk, about two feet high, 

 set with divers long and somewhat narrow, 

 smooth, dark green leaves, somewhat nipped 

 about the edges, for the most part, being 

 else all whole, and not divided at all, or 

 but very seldom, even to the tops of the 

 branches, which yet are smaller than those 

 below, with one rib only in the middle. 

 At the end of each branch stands a round 

 head of many flowers set together in the 

 same manner, or more neatly than Scabions, 

 and of a bluish purple colour, which 

 being past, there follows seed which falls 

 away. The root is somewhat thick, but 



