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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
B. 2. 
7 'be Virtues. 
The floures of yellow Maids baire,as Diof corides writeth, is vfed in ointments againft burnings, 
and it ftancheth bloud : it is put into the Cerote or Cere-cloath of Rofes : it is fet a funning in a 
glalfe,with Oyle OHue,vntill it bewhite : it is good to anoint the wearied Traueller: the root 
thereof drunke in wine ftirrethvp bodily luft ; and the floures Imelledvntoworkethe fame effect. 
Theherbe thereof is vfed for Rennet to make cheefe, as tMatthiolus reporreth, faying. That the 
people ofTufcanie or Hetruriadovfe to turne their milke, that the Cheefe which they make of 
Sheeps and Goats milke might be the fweeter and more pleafant in tafte,andalfo more wholfome, 
efpeci ally to breake the (tone, as it is reported . 
The people in Chefhire, efpecially about Namptwich, where thebeft cheefe is made, do vfe it 
in their Rennet, efteeming greatly of that cheefe aboue other made without it. 
We finde nothing extant in the antient writers, of the venues and faculties of the white kinde> 
but are as herbes neuer had in vfe either for phyficke or Surgerie. 
t The figure that was formerly in the third place wa* of the GaUium album minus of Tabern- which commonly hath but two lcaues at a k?ynt, yet fomedmes it i» 
found with three. 
Chap. 4 65. Of Feme. 
The Kindes. 
"T Here be diners forts of Feme, differing as well in forme as placeof growing ; whereof there be 
two forts according to the old writers, the male and the female and.thefc.be properly called 
Feme : the others haue their proper names, as flhall be declared. 
