JL I 3.- z. 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
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Antihunt. 
Dill. 
The Time, 
Itbringeth forth fioures and feed in Au- 
guft. 
The Names. 
Dil is called in Greek -am*., in Latine like- 
wife Aneihum , and Anetum : in high-Dutch, 
©pllen : in ldvfc'-Dutch,©iHe : in Italian, Am- 
tho : in Spanifh, Eneldo : in French , Anet ■■ in 
Englifh, Dill, and Anet. 
*(f The Temperature. 
Dill,as Galen faith, is hot in the end of the 
fecond degree, and dry in the beginning of the 
fame, or in the end of the firft degree. 
«J TheVertucs. 
ThedecoAion of the tops of dried Dil, and 
likewife of the feed, being drunk e, ingendreth 
rnilke in the brefts of nurfes,allayeth gripings 
and windinefle , prouoketh vrine , inereafeth 
feed,ftayeth the yeox,hicket,or hicqnet,as Di. 
ofcorides teacheth. 
The feed likewife if it be fmelled vntortay- 
eth the hicket , efpecially if it be boyled in 
wine, but chiefely ifitbe toy led in Worme- 
wood Wine, or Wine and a few branches of 
Worme-wood, and Rofe leaues , and the fto- 
macke bathed therewith. 
Galen faith, that being burnt and layd vpon 
moiftvlcersjit cureth them, efpecially thofe 
in the fecret parts, and likewife thofe fub Pra- 
putie, though they be old and oflong continu- 
ance. 
Common oyle, in which Drills boykd or funned,as we do oyle of Roles, doth digeft, mitigate 
paine, procureth fleepe,bringeth raw and vnconcoAed humors to perfe A digeftion,and prouoketh 
bodily lull. 
Dill is of great force or efRcdcie againft the fuffocation or ftrangling of the mother, if, the wo- 
man do receiue the fume thereof being boyled in wine, and put vnder a clofe ftoole or hollow feat 
fit for the purpofe. 
B 
Chap. 413. Of (far tfto ales. 
The Vefcription. 
C Arinvaieshaue an hollow ftalke foure fquare,of two cubits high, full of knots or ioynts • from 
which proceed fundry other fmall branches, fet full of leaues very finely cut or iagged, like 
vnto thofe of Carrots or Dill : at the top of theftalkes grow fpokie white tuffs like thofe of 
i Dill rafter which commeth the feed, fharpe in eating, yet of a pleafanttafte .-the root is like that 
of Parfley, often white, feldome yellow, and in tafte like vnto the Carrot. 
fl The Place. 
It groweth almoft euery where in Germanie and in Bohemia, in fat and fruitfuil fields, and in 
1 medowes that are now and then ouer-run with water : it groweth alfo in Caria, as Diofcorides fhew- 
. eth, from whence it tooke his name . 
fj The Time, 
It floureth and feedeth from May to the end 0/ Auguliv 
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