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CHAR XV 



Of Mosses. 



The Kindes 



THe Sorts of thefe are very numerous ; * * * I fhall therefore 

 for brevity fake, fet down thofe which I find to be ufeful and 

 let the reft alone ; and the first is Our common ground-Moffe. 

 2. Cup-Moffe. 3. Club-Moffe. 4. Oak-Moffe. 5. Apple-Tree 

 Moffe. 6. Moffe of a Dead Mans Skull. * * * 



The Places and Time. 



The common Moffe groweth more or leffe everywhere, but espe- 

 cially in fhadowy places, and is ufed in flating of houfes, in fome 

 Countries. * * * but the last which is the Moffe of a dead Mans 

 Skull is oftner brought out of Ireland * * * 



The Signature and Vertues. 



A Decoction of the long Moffe that hangs upon Trees, in a 

 manner like hair, is very profitable to be ufed in the falling off of the 

 hair, and this it does by Signature. * * * My Lord Bacon faith, 

 that there is a fweet Moffe growing upon Apple-Trees, which is of 

 excellent ufe for Perfumers, who if they knew it, would greedily 

 catch after it. The Moffe that groweth upon dead Mens Skulls 

 * * * becaufe it is rare, and hardly gotten * * * [Is] more set by, 

 to make * * * Weapon-Salve * * * but as Crollius hath it, it 

 should be taken from the Skulls of thofe which have perifhed by a 

 violent death. 



CHAP. XXVIII 



0/ the Poplar Tree. 



The Najues. 



BEcaufe Ivy is a plant that feldom groweth but where Trees 

 grow, I have placed a tree next it, and that is the Poplar 

 Tree: their leaves being alfo fomewhat alike; * * * In 

 Englifh Afpe, and Afpentree, and may alfo be called, Tremble^ after 

 the French name; becaufe the leaves wag, though there be no wind: 

 and therefore the Poets and others have feigned them to be the matter, 

 whereof womens tongues were made, which feldom ceafe wagging. 



