Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
mouldie or kibed hceles, and that alfooile ofrofes boiled in a hollow turnep vnder the hot em- 
bers doth cure the fame. 
The young and tender ihootes or fprings of Turneps at their firft comming forth of the E 
ground, boiled and eaten as a fallade, prouoke vrine. 
The feed is mixed with counterpoifons and treacles : and being drunke it is a remedie againft F 
poifons. 
They of the lowe countries doe giue the oile which is prefled out of the feed, againft the after G 
throives of women newly brought to bed, and alfo minifter it to young children againft the 
vvormes, which it both killeth and driueth forth. 
The oile waihed with water doth allaiethe feruent heat and ruggedneiTeoftheskin. FI 
Chap. 2 . Of Vpllde Turneps. 
f TheKindei. 
T Here be three forts of wilde T urneps ; one our common Rape which beareth the feed where- 
of is made rape oile, and feedeth finging birds:the other the common enemy to corne,which 
call Charlock j whereof there be two kindes, one with a yellow, or els purple floure, die 
other with a white floure : there is alfo another of the water and mariih grounds. 
*J 7ht Defer if tiott] 
W mJfo deeul v g! S a ^ CS,h f 6 1 ° n & bro ‘ ld > and rou g b leau « Me thofe of Turneps, but 
tie oftwo P cdlr?if^ra he -j dgeS 'J le r^ alkeS flenderand brittle, fomewhathai- 
thereon doe grow little yellowifh' tbeil ?^ ll ! cs at tbe * 0 P “ t0 man y armes or branches, 
X " ~ and 
