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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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! B. 2. 
The Vert lies. 
The feed of F lea-wort boyled in water or infu fed, and the decoAion or infu (ion drunkc,piir°-eth 
dowuewards aduft and cholericke humors, cooleth the mate of the inward parts, hot feauers bur- 
ning agues, and fuch 1 ike difeafes proceeding of heate, and quencheth drought and tliirft. 
The feed (tamped, and boyled in water to the forme of a plaifter, and applied, taketh away all 
fwelhngs of the ioynts, efpecially if you boyle the fame with vineger and oyle of Rofes, and apply 
it asaforefaid. ' r 
The fame applied in manner aforefiid vnto any burning heate, called S. Anthonies fire, or any 
hot and violent impto flume, affivageth the fame, and bringeth it to ripenefle. 
Some hold that the herbe ftrowed in the chamber where many fleas be, will driue them away • 
for which caufe it tooke the name Flea-wort : but I thirilce it is rather becaufe the feed doth refem- 
ble a flea fo much, that it is hard to difeerne the 011c: from the other. 
<JJ The Danger. 
Too much Flea-wort feed taken inwardly i^ry hurtful to mans nature : fo that I wifh you not 
to fallow the minde of Galen and Diofcoridijt in'ffcs point, being a medicine rather bringinga ma- 
ladie, than taking away the griefe : rememuring The old prouerbe, A man may buy gold too deare- 
and the hbny is too deare that is licktfrom thornes. 
f Diofcorides nor Galen mention no vfe ofthis inwardly ^ but on the contrari c,Diofcorides in his 
fixth oooke, which treats wholly of the curing and preuenting of poyfons, mentions this in the 
tenth chapter for a poyfon,and there fets downe the fymptomes which it caufes,and refers you to 
the foregoing chapter for the remedies . | 
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Chjip. 185. Of CJlaiie l (jillofloures. 
I Carjephy llus maximus multiplex. 
The great double Carnation. 
2 Qaryophyllus multiplex. 
The double Clone Gillofloure. 
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f "The Kindts'. 
: 1 ere are at this day vnder the name ofcaryophy/lus comprehended diners and fundry forts of_ 
plants, of fuch various colours, and alfo feuerall fhapes,that a great and large volume would 
