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*Many take it 
for Archan- 
gell. 
The fevenand twentieth Booke 
Ferne kill punaifes or wallice, and aferpent. they will not harbour: and therefore itis good for G 
thofe who are to lie in fufpected places, to make them pallets of Ferne leaves, or atleattwife to 
Jay them under their beds, The verie fmoke. alfo of them when they be burned, doe chafe away 
ferpents, Moreover, Phyficians have made fome difference and choife even in this herb alfos for 
the beft is counted that of Macedonie: & the next to itin goodnefle, commeth from Caffiope. 
As touching the hearbe called in Latine Femur bubulum, that is to fay, Ox-thigh, it is veric 
good for the finews, if being new gathered, it be ftamped and incorpotrat in vinegre and fale. 
* Galeopfis, otherwife called by fome Galeobdolon ot Galion, hatha ftem and leaves like un- 
to thenertle,but that they are more {mooth and mild in hand; which if they be bruifed or ftam- 
ped,yceld a ftinking {mell ; and it beareth a purple floure : it groweth every where about hedges 
and path-waies, The leaves and ftalks both, ftamped and applied with vinegre, heale all hard tu- 
morsand cancerous fores : likewife the wens called the Kings evill: they refolve flatimpoftumes, 
and the {wellings behind the ears: now the manner is to foment the faid infirmities with their de- 
coction, Being laidtoo with fale, they heale ulcers tending to putrifaction, andgangrens, 
As touching Glaux, in old time called Eugalacton, it isan hearbe in leafe refembling Tree- 
trifolie, and the Lentill, but that the backe-partof the leafe in Glaux is whiter. The braunches, 
which be in number five or fix,and chofe fpringing direCtly from the roct,verie{mall,doecreepe 
along the ground : the floures which it putteth foorth be of a purple colour: Andthis hearbeis 
found growing ordinarily neare the fea fide. Being boiled in a grewell made of fine wheat floure, 
it caufeth nources that drinke it,to have plentie of milke inthei brefts ; butthen they muftpre- 
{ently goeto a baine or hot-houfe. ! . tib + 
Cuap. Xe 
e& Of Glaucion, Of Paonie, and Cudweed or Cottonwort,called allo Chamazclone 
Of Galedragon,Holcus, Hyofirs,Aclosteon,and Hippopbafton. ball! 
Laucion groweth naturally in Syria and Parthia: a lowhearbe, tufted thicke with leaves, 
much like unto Poppie, butthat they be {aller and looke more foule and greafie; ofan 
unpleafant and {tinking fmell ; bitter alfo in taft, ftypticke, and altringent: grains it bea- 
reth of a iaffron colour, whereout is drawne the juice Memithra,called by the Grecks Glaucium 
aifo,as well as the hearbe, Now forto get thisjuice,they ufe to cover the graines in mudorclay, 
and put them in an earthen pot which they fet in an oven ; where, after they are well heats they 
ufcto prefie out of it the forefaid juice, And nor onely it,but the leaves alfo if they beftamped, 
aremuch ufed forthe fux of humoursto the eies, efpecially fuch as fall togither all at once in 
preat violence. And of this hearbe or juice there is a certaine collytie compounded, which the 
Phyficians call Diaglaucion: a good medicine alfo for nources to drinke in water, if they have 
loft their milke and wouldrecover it againe. 
Pionie, which fome in Greeke call Glycyfide,others Pzonia,ot Pentorobos,hath one main 
{tem two cubits high, andthe fame accompanied with two or three more leffe ftalks of a reddifh 
colour,and the rind refembleth that ofa Bay mee: the leaves be veric like unto VWVoad,were they 
not fatter,rounder,and fmaller : feed it beareth in certaine huskes like grains,and thofe be partly 
red and partly blacke. Of Pxonie there bee two kinds : The femalcis that thoughtto be, to the 
root whereof there fticke eight long bulbs commonly, orfix at leaft: The male hath more of 
them hanging to it,by reafon it ftandeth not upon one fingle and entire root onely, but of ma- 
ny, and thofe run downe 4 fpan deepe, and bee white withall. Thefe roots are found tobe aftrin- 
gent and flypticke at the tonguesend. As for the female, the leaves thereof doe fent of myrrhe, 
and grow fomewhat thicker than thofe of the male. They love both,to grow in woods. It is 
commonly faid, That the roots muft bee digged up in the night feafon, for feare that the 
Wood {peight or Hickway fhould fee them: for inthe day time the faid bird would flie in their 
faces that carie it away,and be ready to job out their eyes.In the very drawing alfo of thofe roots 
out of the ground, there isfome daunger, Jeaft Fe 5 Bs or tiwill fall out of their bodies 
who are employed about that bufineffe, But I fuppofe all this to bee bura fabulous and vaine in- 
vention,devifed onely to make folke beleeve it is an hearbe of wonderfull operation. Moreover, 
the graines are diverfly ufed : for the red, being taken to the number of fifteene or thereabour,in 
fome grofle or hardwine, doe {tay the monethly flux of the reds in women: aioe: =: 
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