Of the Hiftory of Plants; 
namre of chat fex • which is very like to the other being the male, and one muft be fathered before 
the other b« ripe, elfe it will wither away, and come to no good purpofc. 3 
%The Place. 
WtCth W Sr °' V in a f2t dlU,§cd and VVaterie f_oile j or plaine and 
•f The Time. 
Hempe is fowne in March and Aprill 5 the firft is ripe in the end of Atigtifh the other in Iulv 
. ^ The Names. ’ ' 
This is named of thcGwdans : alio of the Latines Cannabis ; the Apothecaries keep that 
name :in higly Dutch, ,^#ec Ijattff: of the Italians Canape , of the Spaniards fanamo .■ in French 
Cbanun , of the Brabandeh, fecitlp : in Englifh, Hempe. The male is called Charle Hempe, and 
W inter Hempe : the feraStle, Batten Hempe, and Sommer Hempe 
, r. . W 'M. The Temperature and Vert ties. 
Fhe feed of Hempejfs ff.i^-ftriteth in his bookes of the faculties of Ample medicines, is hard 
o digeftion, hurtful! to the fto^iacke and head, and containeth in it an ill iuyee : notwithftandino- 
iome do vie to eate the lamt^parched, cum alijs tragematis , with other junkets. 
' It confumethwinde, as i he Hid Author faith in his bookeofthefacuiciesofmedicines andis 
lo great a drier, as that it drieth vp the feed if too much be eaten of it. 
Diofcorides faith, That tj| iuyee of the herbe dropped into the eares affwagech the paine there- 
of proceeding (as I take it) of obftruftion or flopping, as Galen addeth. 
The innei fubftance or pulpe of the feed prefled out in fbtne kinde of liquor, is giuen to thole 
that haue the yellow jaundice, when the difeafe firft appeares, and oftentimes with good fuccefle 
if the difeafe come ofobftnnftion without an ague , for it openeth the paftage of the <r a ll and di- 
lperfeth and concofteth the choler through the whole body. 
-r Matthiolus faith, that the feed giuen to hens eaufeth them to lay egges more plentifully. 
A 
Chap. zjp» Of rvilde Hempe. 
J Cannabis Spuria. 
Wilde Hempe. 
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t 2 Cannabis Spuriaaltera. 
Baftard Hempe. 
m The 
