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Time.'] It flowers about the beginning; have; of a sad green colour, from among 

 or middle of July, and the seed is ripe in; which rise up divers stalks two or three 

 August. \ feet high, sometimes set with the like leaves, 



Government and virtues. ,] It is under the; but smaller and smaller upwards, branched 

 .dominion of Mars. It is singularly good j from the middle into divers stiff stalks, 

 to provoke urine when it is stopped, and to | bearing sundry yellow flowers on them, 

 break and drive forth the stone, which the i made of four leaves a-piece, as the others 

 powder of the bark of the root taken in wine j are, which afterwards yield them small red- 

 performs effectually. Matthiolus saith, j dish seed, in small long pods, of a more 

 The same helps the disease called Herma | bitter and hot biting taste than the garden 

 Carnosa, the fleshy rupture, by taking the i kinds, as the leaves are also, 

 said powder for three months together con-| Place.'] It is found wild in divers places 

 stantly, and that it hath cured some which! of this land. 



seemed incurable by any other means than | TimeJ] It flowers about June or July, 

 by cutting or burning. The decoction j and the seed is ripe in August. 



thereof made with some vinegar, gargled in 

 the mouth, eases the tooth-ache, especially 

 when it comes of rheum ; and the said de- 



Government and virtues.'] The wild Roc- 

 kets are forbidden to be used alone, in re- 

 gard their sharpness fumes into the head, 



coction is very powerful to open obstruc- ? causing aches and pains therein, and are 

 tions of the liver and spleen, and other j less hurtful to hot and choleric persons, foi 

 parts. A distilled water in Balneo Maria, ; fear of inflaming their blood, and therefore 

 with four pounds of the root hereof first i for such we may say a little doth but a 

 sliced small, and afterwards steeped in a j little harm, for angry Mars rules them, and 

 gallon of Canary wine, is singularly good j he sometimes will be restive when he meets 

 for all the purposes aforesaid, and to cleanse | with fools. The wild Rocket is more strong 

 the urinary passages. The powder of the ; and effectual to increase sperm and vene- 

 said root made into an electuary, or lozenges, jrous qualities, whereunto all the seed is 

 with sugar, as also the bark of the fresh* more effectual than the garden kind. It 

 roots boiled tender, and afterwards beaten i serves also to help digestion, and provokes 

 to a conserve with sugar, works the like ; urine exceedingly. The seed is used to cure 

 effect. The powder of the roots strewed \ the biting of serpents, the scorpion, and the 

 upon the brims of ulcers, or mixed with I shrew mouse, and other poisons, and expels 

 any other convenient thing, and applied, * worms, and other noisome creatures that 

 consumes the hardness, and causes them to \ breed in the belly. The herb boiled or 

 heal the better. 1 stewed, and some sugar put thereto, helps 



ROCKET '^ cou S n * n children, being taken often. 



| The seed also taken in drink, takes away 



IN regard the Garden Rocket is rather j the ill scent of the arm-pits, increases milk 

 used as a sallad herb than to any physical $in nurses, and wastes the spleen. The seed 

 purposes, I shall omit it, and only speak j mixed with .honey, and used on the face, 

 of the common wild Rocket. The des- : cleanses the skin from morphew, and used 

 cription whereof take as follows. jwith vinegar, takes away freckles and red- 



Descnpt.~] The common wild Rocket! ness in the face, or other parts; and with 

 has longer and narrower leaves, much more; the gall of an ox, it mends foul scars, black 

 divided into slender cuts and jags on both land blue spots, and the marks of the small- 

 sides the middle rib than the garden kinds' pox. 



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