toucheth by reafon ofhis roughnefie. $ This is found with the Ieaues whole, and alfo with therm 
parted into three parts : the firft varietie was expreft by our Authors figure ; and the fecond is ox- 
prefl by this we giue you in the place thereof. £ 
2 There is another wilde Hempe growing in the water, whereof there be two forts more, de- 
lighting to grow in the like ground, in fhew differing very little. This fprings vp with long round 
ftalkes,and fomevvhat reddifh, about two cubits high, or fomething higher : they are befet with 
long greene Ieaues indented about the edges, whereof you lhal fee commonly fiueor feuen of thofe 
Jeaues hanging vpon one ftem like the Ieaues of Hempe, but yetfofter. The floures are little, of a 
pale reddifh colour, confiding of foft round tufts, and Hand perting vpon the top of thefprigges, 
which at length vanifh away into downe : the root vnderneath is full of threddy firings of a mean 
bigneffe. 
i Eupatorium Camabinumfcemina. 
Water Hempe, or Water Agrimony. 
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d 2 Eupigorium Cannabinnmmas . 
Common Dutch Agrimonie, 
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The Place. 
They grow about thebrinks ofditches,runningwaters,and Handing poolcs,and in watery pla- 
ces almoft euery where. 
T be Time. 
' They floure and flourifh in Iuly and Augufl : the root continues, but the flalkes and Ieaues wi- 
ther away in Winter. 
^1 The 'Names. 
The baflard or wilde Hempes, cfpecially thofe of the water, are commonly called Hepatorium 
Cannabinum .• of diners alfo Eupatorium, Leonhar. Fttchfius nameth it Eupaforium ■^Adulter mum : of 
moft, camubina, of the likenefle it hath with the Ieaues of Cannabis, Hempe, and Eupatorium lAui* 
''enme. It is thought alfo to be that which Boptifta Sardus doth terme Tcr\ola : in high-Dutch, 
feimiguntl Utaut ; that is to fay in Latine, S. met at Ctmigund/e herba, S. Cunigunds herbe : in Low- 
Dutch, ISoelfeCng Imitt tin Englifh, Water Hempe, Baftardand water Agrimonie. Itiscalled 
'Hep at or mm, of the ficultie, being good for Hepar, the liner, d I haue named the fecond Common 
Dutch Agrimonie, becaufe it is commonly vfed for Agrimonie in the fhops of that countrey, d 
TheTempcrature. • 
The Ieaues and roots of thefe herbes are bitter, alfo hot and dry in the fecond degree : they haue 
t'ertue to fcoure and open, to attenuate or make thinne thicke and grolfe humours, and toexpellor 
irlriue them forth by vrine: they clenfe and purifie the bloud. ^ ^ 
