ib. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants.’ 
The later age vfe the roots and graines for rhe piles, which being often bathed with the i nice C 
I! mixed with wine, or with the fickmans vrine,are drawne together and dried vp, and the mine Quite 
U taken away. * f 1 
There be alfo who thinke,that if the herbe be but carried about one that hath the piles the pain D 
| forthwith ceafeth. • r 1 * 
Chap. 294. Of Marjh eS Marigold . 
The Defcription. 
1 7r^ r ^ Marigold hath great broad leaues ibrnewhatroiind,fmooth,ofa gallant green'e 
IV I colour, fleightly indented or purld about the edges : among which rile vp thicke fat 
iialkes, hkewife greene; whereupon doe grow goodly yellow floures glittering like- 
go d, and like to thofe of Crow-foot, but greater: the root is fmal!,compofed of veriemanie 
firings. r 
I Calth/t ptilufiris miior. 
The great Marfh Marigold, 
1- I q\_ ^ 1A < i 
2 Calthapaluftris minor. 
The fmall Marfh Marigold. 
\ 
2 The fmalier Marfti Marigold hath many round leaues fpredvpon the ground, ofadarke 
tgreene colour : amongft which rife vp diuers’ branches, charged with the like leaues: thefloures 
grow at the coppes of the branches, of a mod fhining yellow colour : the root is alfo like the for- 
pmer. 
? The great Marfh Marigold with double floures is a ftrauger in England, his natiue Coun. 
’trey fhould feemetobein the furtheft part of Germanie.by the relation ofa man of thofe Coun- 
tries that 1 hatie had conference withall the which hee thus deferibed :it hath (faith hee) leaues, 
t roots, and ftalkes like thofe of our common fort, and hath double floures like thofe of the garden 
!' Marigold, wherein confifteth the difference. 
t Camcrtiritu writes iuft contrarie to that which our Authour here affirmes ; for hee faith, In 
.'^singUafuafpowenon folnmplenio\fed tderatis eti.imfiorihus pajfimjefe offert . But I feare that both our 
Authour 
