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3 Vrticaminor. The place. 
Small Nettle. - 
hamvj’ . Nettles grow in vntilled places, and the firft in 
thickewoods,andisaflrangerin England, not- 
witbftanding it groweth in my garden. 
The fecond is more common, and groweth of 
it felfe neere vnto hedges, bullies, brambles, and 
old walls, almofteuery where. 
The third alfo commeth vp in the Time pla- 
ccs, which notwithftanding groweth in gardens 
,,^7^ and moiit earable grounds. 
11 1 ^ ' '*• , a[f ThcTime. 
* They all flourilli in Sommer : the fecond fuf- 
fereth the winters cold : the feed is ripe, and may 
be gathered in luly and AuguR. 
*f TheJSlames. 
It is called in Greeke , in Latine, Vrticn, 
ab vrenety^ of his burning and Hinging qualitie: 
whereiipon Muer faith, 
— nec immerffo nomen Jumpfiffe videtnr, 
Titff a quod exurat digitpsvrlica tenextu. 
Neither without defert his name hee feemes to 
g«, , 
As that which, quickly burnes the fingers tou- 
ching it. 
And of diuers alfo .wa, becaufe it Ringeth with 
hurtfull downe : in high-Dutch, 0 e([fl;in Ita- 
lian, Or licit * in Spanifh, Horttga ■ in French, Or- 
ue .-.in Englifh, Nettle The firft is called in 
„„„ KT . .. . , low Dutch Woomft^e j&tteletl, that is, Romm* 
. . 1 k 0 ?°. man N ’ ctcJc : and bkewife in high-Durch t©a!ft!)e ^effelcn ,that is Jtdicn vrticajta- 
. * set . cI 5 ’ be ? aufe Jt IS rar , e,al ' d § ro ' vetl1 but in few places, and the feed is lent from otherccun- 
mes and fowne in gardens for his vertues :it is alfo called ofdiuers Vrtcamos and of V , offer 
n Vni ? a fy lu r e ft r ! s > ° r ' Vllde Nettle, which he faith is more rough, with broader and longer leaues, 
an w ith the feed of Max, but Idler. Pliny maketli the wilde Nettle the male, and in his 2 r booke, 
P>* p Jf T ' th , that “ is milder and gentler : it is called in Englilh Romane Nettle, Greeke Nct- 
e, Male Nettle. The fecond is called Vnicafamina ^ and oftentimes Vrtica maior that it maydtf- 
ter from the third Nettle : in Englilh, Female Nettle, Great Nettle, or com non Nettle. The 
third is named in high-Dutch : in the Brabanders Wh,We J&rtelmfi cal lea 
o tie uigingqualitie: in Englilh, Small Nettle, Small burning Netr e : but whether this be 
, 1Ch,V/ ^ «lleth'G«™,orratherth e firft, let the Students confider. There is in the 
wUde Nettle a more Ringing qualitie, which, faith he, is called C.ma, with a llalke more Ringing, 
haumg nicked leaues, 0 s 
U TheTemperaturc., 
Nettle is of temperature dry, a little hot, fcarfe in the firR degree : it is of thin and fubti! parts- 
lor it doth not therefore burne and Ring by realon it is extreme hot, but becaufe the downe of it is 
ltitte and hard, piercing like fine little prickles or Rings, andentring into the skin : for if ip be wi- 
thered or boyled it ftingeth not at all, byreafon that the ftiffenefle of the downe is fallen away. 
The Virtues. 
Being eaten, as Viofcoridss faith, boyled with Peryw inkles, it maketh the body fo!uble,dom<r it a 
by a kinde of cleanfing qualitie : it alfo prouoketh vrine, and expelleth Rones out of the kidneves: 
being boyled with barley creame it bringeth vp tough humours that fticke in thecheR,as it is 
thought. 
. Being Ramped, and the iuyee put vpinrothenoRhrils,itRoppeth the bleeding of the nofe:the B 
myce is good againR the inflammation of the Vuiila. 
The feed of Nettle Rirreth vp luft,efpecially drunke'with Cute : for (as Galen fai'th)it hath in it C 
a certaine windinefle. 
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