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humidity, and by the fluxe of moift and fharpe humours, arc cither fpreading or long in curine. f Qr 
purpofes, the juice of the hcrbe, or the powder drunke in water,wherein hot fleele hath becne often quenched- 
or the decoftion of the dry or greene herbe in wine or water drunke, or the feede, j'uice, or decoftion nr.,' 
to the outward places, to wa£h or bathe them, or to have tents dipped therein, and put into them arc effe- 1 
Chip. XL. 
Fctronychia. Whitlow wort, or Whitlow graffe. 
Lthoogh difclaimeth all the forts of Paronychia expreffed by all other An thours, referring s 
them all to Lome one or other hcrbe,and although thofe that I fhall fet forth here by that name, doe i 
not fully anfwer the defeription oiDitfcoridci, yet becaufe divers worthy Authours have fo called : 
them, and I had rather if they have erred,erre with them, then be Angular in error with Bauhinus, 
let them therefore receive their place here at this time. 
r. Paronychiamajor. The greater Whitlow wort. 
The greater Whitlow wort hath very many leaves lying on the ground,in a round compaffe one by another, of ( 
tnrec inches long, and one broad a peece, rough, hairy, ofadarke greene colour, and fomewhat dented about : 
tne edges, itandmg upon (hortfootellalkes, from the middle of whom rife up one or two fmall round naked 1 
taUtes, with few or no leaves thereon, fearfe able to (land upright, but bending downewards.at the tops wher- ■ 
fharpe as the n WhlK " owers,a ^ er come fmall lon S P°ds containing fmall reddifh feede,nothing fo hot and 1 
. a. Parmjchia altera minor, Theleffer Whitlow-wort. 
„ „' S , that ‘^mailer, hath likewife divers leaves lying on the ground, leffer then the former, fomewhat 
me unto tne idler Mouleare, called Cats foote, but not fo hoary, yet a little hairy, and of a ycllowifh greene 
4 . Fnonjcbia alint twaia/bhm. 4 . Fmnythu mififdiji. 
lagged Whitlow gufle. 
3* P& r Qfiychii sllfines folio. 
Common Whitlow grafle. 
colour from which fprmg divers (mail [fraight and creffed flalkes, halfea 
a®" ° r more * branching forth at the toppes, where ftand divers 
white flowers, unto whom doe follow very (lender long pods, like thofe 
of Flixeweed, full of fmall reddifh feede, as fharpe and hot in taflc as 
Creffes, the roote is fmall,hard and wooddy. 
3« Paronychiavulgario Alftnes folio. 
Common Whitlow graffe. 
This is a very fmall herbe, feldome tiling to be an handbreadth high ha= 
vmg many fmall and fomewhat long leaves, lying next unto the roots, 
fomewhat like thofe of Chickeweede, butfomewhat longer and whiter 
from whence rife divers (lender naked (lalkes, bearing many white flowers 
{„„„ t-L! r ■ . -• • one above another, exceeding fmall, after which come fmall flat Douches' 
JethenofanyT^ wherein is contained very fmall feede, of a fharpe taftc, the rootes are a few fmall 
T . .• sari .-1 F * r °”T ch '“ , f oH l s tagged Whitlow graffe. 
fmah cuu m,Yinp Sft ffe ' h . a .* fa,Ile pale °rreddifh; greene leaves, cut in on the edges into two or three 
Md fuch lik^l f 5 f, me ' lke “ nt0 the . leaves of Rue > or hcrfa e grace; it hath fewer Italkes then the former, 
ad fHch like leaves but finallcr, fet thereon in home places, with feme white flowers at the tops of the flalkes, 
which 
