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1131 Qf the Hifroiy o! Plants. L 1 b, 2. 
The Time. 
It flourifheth in Sommer, as the former Femes • the leaues decay in Winter, the toot conrinu- 
eth frefh and long lading ; which being brought into the garden profpereth as in his natiue foi [ e 
as my felfe haue proued. 
TbcNamcs. 
It is called in Latine ojmmda : it is more truly named Filix paluftris, or aquatilis : fome terme ic 
by the name of Filicaflrum : mod of the Alchimids call it Liman, i rnaior : Valerius Cor dus nameth 
it Filix latifolia : it is named inhigh-Dutch, (StOfj ftKtt : in low- Dutch, ©toot tI<UtlJ,toiIt fla= 
rett : in Englilh, Water-Feme, Ofmund the Water-man : offorne, Saint Chriftophers herbe and 
Ofmund. 
The Temperature. 
The root of this alfo is hot and dry, but lefle than they of the former ones. 
<*[ TheVertues. 
A The root, and efpecially the heart or middle part thereof, boiled or elfe damped, and taken with 
fome kinde of liquor, is thought to be good for thofe that are wounded, dry-bcaten, and bruifed • 
that haue fallen from fome high place : and for the fame caufe the Einpericks do put it in decocti- 
ons, which the later Phyfitians do call wound-drinks : fome take it to be fo effe&uall , and of fo 
great a vertue,as that it can diflolue cluttered blond remaining in any inward part of the body, and 
that it alfo can expellor driue it out by the wound. 
3 The tender fprigs thereof at their firftcomming forth are excellent good vnto the purpofes a- 
forefaid, andaregood tobeputintobalmes, oyIes,and confolidatiues, or healing plaifters, and 
into vnguents appropriate vnto wounds, pundures, and fuchlike. 
C h a p . Of Folypodie or wall' Feme. 
1 Polqpodium. 
or Polypod ie of the Wall, j 
IM-n- \TVoLCt pUUiJj 
1 T olyp odium querewum. 
Polypodie of the Oke. 
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