Lib. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants. y 1; , 
IT T he Vertues. 
The deco&ion of the leaues of Egrimony is good for them that haue naughty liuers and for 
fuchas pifle blond vpon thedifeafes ofthekidnies. 
The feed being drunke in wine (as Pliny affirmeth) dothhelpethebloitdy flixe. 
Diofccridcs addeth,that it is a remedy for them that haue bad liuers, and for fiich as are bitten 
with ferpents. 
The leaues being damped with old fvvines greafejand applied, clofeth vpvlcers that be hardly 
healed,as Diofcoridcs faith. 
t- Agrimony boiled in wine and drunkc, helpes inueterate hepaticke fluxes in old people, f 
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Chap. 24.2* Of Sanewoort. 
X. 2. Serratuht purpurea, put alb a. 
Saw-woort ' — L: 
z. JL-rraiuHiyiirjwreiJjjiue at-oa. 
Saw-woort with purple, or white floures, 
fyUvA. cA -ctia. c J J 
The Description, 
T He plant which the new writers 
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haue called Serratula differeth from 
£ etonica, although the Antients haue lb ca! led 
Betony ; It hath large leaues fomewhat fiiipc 
about the edges' like a faw (wherebf it tooke his 
name) rifing immediately from the root:a- 
mong which come vp ftalkes of a cubitehigh 
befet with leaues very deepely cut or jagped 
euen to the middle of the rib, not much vnfike 
the male Scabious. The ftalkes towards the 
top diuide themfelues into other fmall bran- 
ches j at the top whereof they beare floures 
fomewhat fcaly, like the Knapweed,butnotfo 
great nor hard:at the top of the knap commeth 
forth a bufhieor thrummy floure,ofa purple 
colour. The root is threddy, and thereby in- 
crcafeth and becommeth of a great quantity. 
2 Sawewoort with white floures differcth 
not from the precedent, but in the colour of 
the floures : for as the other bringeth forth a 
bulb of purple floures; in a manner this plant 
bringeth forth floures of the fame fafhion, but 
of a (now white colour, wherein confifteth the 
difference. 
$ Our Authour out of T abernamontanui 
gaue 'three figures,with as many defcriptions 
of this plant, yet made it onely to vary in the 
- — --- colour of the floures, being either purple, white 
or red ; blithe did not touch the difference which T abernamontanui by his figures expreft, which 
was, the firft had all the leaues whole, being only fnipt about the edges ; the lower leaues of the (e- 
condwere mod of them whole, and thofe vpon the ftalkes deepely cut in, or diuided, and the 
third had the leaues both below and aboueallcut in or deepely diuided. The figure which we 
here giue you expreffes the firft and third varieties, and if you pleafe, the one may be with white 
and the other with red or purple floures. $ 
f The Place. 
Sawe-woort groweth in woods and fhadowie places, and fometimes in medowes. They grow 
in Hampfted wood : likewife I haue feene it growing in great abundance in the wood adjoining 
to If! ington, within halfe a mile from the further end of the towne, and in fundry places of Efli-x 
andSuffolke. 
The Time. 
They floure in Inly and Auguft. 
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The 
