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

 four 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 | from among which rise up sometimes but 

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

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

 divers heads of leaves, Avhich 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 a i at 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. I 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. I 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 s 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 ; the former only in this, that it rises not so 

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

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

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

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



tilled water of the herb and root is more ' Place.~\ They grow, both of them, wild in 

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

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



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

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

 but scurvy humours in the stomach, and 5 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 I cleanses, digests, and discusses. The de- 

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

 so unhealthful ; yet for such as are troubled I 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 i 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. \ rheums, and defluxions from the head into 



RAGWORT I the eyes> . nose ' or lun S. s - The J uice 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-Ull old and filthy ulcers in the privities, and 

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



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

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



