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breads if the roote be taken in wine, it likewise eafeth the paines of the ftomacke and belly, and the biting of ve- 
nemou’s beads and Serpents, procure* womens coHrfes and the urine being dopptd: the leaves being bruifed 
and applied daieth the bleeding of the piles or hemorrhoidall veines, theheate alio and [welling of the funda- 
ment and brin°eth thofe hard tumours and impodumes to npenefie, which doe hardly yeeld to be eadly cured: 
the dned roote D mixed with honey and put into foule ulcers clenleth them throughly : ithelpethlikewife thofe 
that are burden, or that have convuldons and crampes, and the gout, being bruifed and applied with the meale of 
Darnell and fame vinegar ; and being uled with vinegar.it take* away the morphew or difcolouring of the skin, 
or the leprve alfo.-the j'uycc of the leaves and rootes clcareth the eye-fight.and Qiarpneth it, and alfo the rheume 
fallen into them, applying it to the forehead.-the feede alio of any of thefe forts doc the like, but if it be that leede, 
which is called Cachrys that is forbidden to be taken inwardly, byreafon of the caudicke and burning qualitie 
therein to indame the mouth and throatebcing taken or drunke. 
i* Spondyliumvu'gare. 
Ordinary Cow Parlncppe. 
Chap. XLIIII. 
Spbandjliam. Cow Parfneppc . 1 
though formerly there was but one fort ofthe Cow-Parfiieppes knowne and divulged to the world, 
1 yet there are now divers others found out, fomc in our ewne land, andfomein others, all which 
tsyisrsjs-i lliall be entreated oftogether in this Chapter. 
$$$$§%£ i, Sphondyhttm vulture. Ordinary Cow Parlncppe. 
The ordinary Cow Parfneppe groweth with three or foure large fpread winged rough [eaves, lying often 
upon theeround orelieraifed a little from'it, with long round hairy footeftalkes under them, parted ufually 
into live divifions, the two couples [landing each again!! other, and one ac the end, and each divifion or leafe being 
almoll round, yet cut in fotnewhat deepely on theedges, in fome leaves and places, and not lodeepe in others, 
and of a whirl* greenc colour, fmelling fomewhat ftrqngly ; among which rife* up a round crclled hairy (hike 
two or three foote high, with a few joynts and leaves thercon, a nd branched at the toppe,where Hand fomewhat 
largeaimbells of white flowers, but fometitries a little reddifb, 
and after them flat whitifli thinne winged feedes, two alwayes 
joyned together, as is ufuall in moft of thefe umbelliferous 
plants: the roote is long and white, with two or three long 
(fringes growing downc into the ground, imelling like wife 
Clrongly and unplealant. 
2 . Sphondjlium majtu five Acanthitf Germanic* Major, 
The great Cow Parfneppe of Germany. 
This greater fort difjfcrcth onely from the former, in the large- 
nefle both of leaves andftalkes, being neere twifeas large, I 
meane every Angle leafe or divifion, which are feldome a^ove 
three on a great long foote ftalke, abave halfe a foote long, unto 
the leafe, which is hairy and rough, of the like evill greene co¬ 
lour, and a little fouldcd in or crumpled, and dented betides on 
theedges, the flowers and feede are alike, but larger, aslfaid, 
growing higher, of an hotunplcafanttafte; but not fo unplea¬ 
sant as the other .* the roote is white, and like the other but 
greater. 
g. Sphondylium rnajus a liftd Laciniatis folijt. 
lagged Cow Parfneppe of our owne Land. 
This Jagged Cow Parfneppe groweth as high or rather higher 
than the laft, and with greater ftalkes, and a white hairinefle on ' >/! 
them, the lower leaves grow very large and much fpread, divi¬ 
ded into five parts or winged leaves, two couple Handing dire- 
&ly each againft another, but of another forme, for each ofthele 
leaves or divifions are parted into diftinft parts, yet clofely joy- 
ned at the botcome, the two fides leaves or divifions being not 
of halfe that length that the middlemoft is, which is in fomea- 
bove fixe inches long, in others above five, and not above halfe 
an inch broad, each of them having a deeper cut or notch at the 
bottome, than is on the reft of the leafe, which yet is dented 
ivich greater notches chan in mud uluallherbes, the upper or 
end leafe being ufually parted into five long divifions or leaves, 
dented in the like manner, little or nothing hairy, but of a dee¬ 
per greene colour on the upper fide, and grayifh underneath, the 
umbells of white flowers are as large as in the laft, and the flat 
thinne, white, feede is fo like, but a little whiter, that they are hardly difeerned one from another, but onely in 
the cafte and fmell, which is little or nothing in either: the roote is great, thicke, and white, living with me after 
feede time,and fpringing anew every yeare. 
4 . Sfbondjlium Alfinumyarvum. Small mountaine Crow Parfneppe. 
This fmall fort hath a ftalke a foote high, parted into two or three branches, and pale gitene great leaves on 
them, fome whereof are parted into thre© divifions, and others into five, being fomewhat round fome ofthenv 
