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fylvejhis and called by the Cretanes Scilobroubes , the 1 Italians call it Navonc faluatica'and Napofa/xatico, the 
French Navcttc, the Germans wilde Steck'xbenpCatT'atch wilde Steckrape ,and we in En&lifi wilde Navew. 
The Virtues. . 
This wilde Nave we as it is hotter and drier, efpecially the feede than the tame, fo it is more efFe&uall to pro- 
voke urine and womans courfes, helpeth the crudities of the ftomacke and torments of the bowelis, and put into 
the decodion w herein Horehound is boy led and taken it helpeth the yellow jaundife: the fame effeeft that Diof- -, 
corides and others give unto the feede of the manured Nave we, which is to expell venome and poyfon, not fuffe- 
ring them to doe any harme; the fame Galen it feemeth giveth to the wilde lort brought from Candy ^ and where¬ 
as C Mattbiolus faith,that the feede of the garden fort taken in a decoftion of Maiden hare or Lentilles, doth not 
onely drive forth the venome and infection of the (mall pockes,but of all other (potted or infectious fevers and di- 
feafes, and alfo defendeth the heart and fpirits from being inferred with thofe contagious and malicious vapours, 
fo the feede of this wilde fort is found to be as effeduall if not more forcible. 
Chap. XXVII. 
Ynfioria lurfa. Shepheardcs purie. 
JgfgSJ Have yet two kindes of heroes to entreate of, that fome referre to this Claflis, which I therefore bring 
in the end,becaule that in not plcafmg my felfe in io doing, I know not how I fhall pleafe others that 
are judicious, for I doc not finde either of them to have that acrimony in them that the reft have, for 
eife this might be referred to the kindes of it is in many other things fo like them. Hereof there 
are many more forts knowne now than formerly have becne, of which 1 fhall fpeake in this Chapter, and of the 
other in the next. 
i. Bur fa P aprii major vulgaris. The greater common Shcpheards purfe. 
The common Shepheards purfe hath divers (mall and long leaves, fomewhat deepely cut in on both (ides into 
feverall parts of a pale greene colour, among which rifeth up a fmall round ftalke parted into fome branches, ha¬ 
ving fmaller and lefle divided leaves on them to the toppes, where grow many white flowers one above another, 
after which follow flat whitifh powches or (eedc veftes, fmall at the bottomes, broad at the heads and parted 
like the Thlafyi, in each fide w hereof lieth a fmall brownifii yellow feede : the roote is fmall and white, and 
periflieth after (eede time, there is no (harpenefle, and but a very little heate either in herbe or feede of this - al¬ 
though fome attribute thereunto a little acrimony,but is drying and aftringent. 
2. Burfapafioris majorfolijs nonpuatis Great Shepheards purfe’with whole leaves. 
This other great Shepheards purfe hath a fmall root with fome fibres thereat, from whence rifeth ufuallybut 
one fmall ftalke a lpan long, branched into two or three parts,whole lower leaves are whole without divifion, 
having long footftalkes to them,and thofe upon the ftalke compaflc them at the bottomes, the flowers are white 
and the feede veflels flat like the former. 
i. Burpt pafiorii major vulgaris. 
Common Shepheardsputlc. 
3. Bur fa pafiorii minor . 
The fmaller Shepheards purfe. 
