Fhsatmn Botanicnm. 
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The Piece, 
The firfl: groweth more frequently than the male on barren heaths, and tody hedge Tides, &c. the other nvo 
rather on moiftrockes and in the (haded hills. 
b The Time. 
The/ flcutifhatthe fame and perifh in Winter, I meane the leaves. 
1 The Names. 
It is called in Sreeke and ymphee-pteri, in Latine -.Filix f^mma : the firft 
is generally by mod anchors called Filix femme, yet Ctfncr i» herns calleth it CM as, and Baahmus in hjs P.eax 
FT -reJfu limmU, ohtafts »« <*»«<*: the fecond is called by 7 balim FiUxfamve* alter.a tem.fehe: the lad is 
cabed by Bel,him,, in his Pm**, Filix ramofa mi»or pirmxlU de*mu which C*famh,ftma calleth Pteridtr.m 
mefculum as Thalixt noteth it likewife, it is called in I,alia. Felcefamma, in Spamjh Helecho and Freed Faxgvre 
fawn .. i n fngh Gre-jf? FarnkrMt, in low fD/ttch Vuren lVif[ken i and we in Fnghjh Brak or common 1 erne. 
T'n e rootes of both thefe forts of Feme arc fomewhat bitter with fome afiriflion, being bruited and boyled in 
Vedeor bonyed water, and drunke, killeth both the broade and long wormej in the body; the lame alio abate* 
the fwellin^ and bardnefle of the fpleene : thegreene leaves eaten, are fayd to open the belly and move* it 
downwards yet it trouble* the itomacke, and purge* chollericke and water,fir humours t they are very dan- 
oerws w women with childe, by deftroying the birth, and provoking aborfement, yet is it but a fable to beany 
danee unto them to goe or ftride over it: for Lecnee (heweth that the greeke text is faulty in that word, which 
b ed that ctront • yet the ufc of it procure* barrennefie in them : the rootes being broiled and boyled m oyle or 
Hons oreafe, make* an oyntment very profitable toheale woundspunflures or pnekesm any part; and the pow¬ 
der of them ufed in fowle Vulcers, dryethup their malignant moilture, andcaufeth their fpcedier healing: the 
es hereof with orher things that goe into the oyntment, called grippe are appointed as helping hydropicke 
nerions • the fume of Feme being burned driveth away Serpents, Gnats, and other noifomc Creatures that in the 
L n nv Countries much moled bo* Grangers and inhabitants that lye in bed in the night time, with them faces 
nnrovered Thev ufe in Warwick* {hire,above any other Country in this Land, infteed of Sope, to wafh their 
clothes to cither the female Feme (for that is molt frequent with them) about midfomer and to make it upi into 
pood bid balls, which when they will ufe them they burne them in the fire, untill it become blewilh, which be- 
jngtien layd by, will diffolve into powder, of itlelfe, like unto Lime •• fourc of thefe balles being diffolved 
water is fufficient to wadi a wholebucke full of cloathes 4 
Cha?. III. 
OfmttncU regalif five Filixfiorida. Ofmund or Watcr Feme. 
a Lthoueh this Feme, doth never grow naturally but in Bogs, wet Moores, and the like watry places, 
and therefore may fitly challenge to be placed with thofeof the like nature : yet became 1 would 
not tranfpofe it alone, from the reft of this Tribe, let it take his place here with the reft ofit Ferries. 
Itfhootcth forth inthefpring time (for in the winter the leaves perifh) divers rough hardftalkes 
halfe round and hollowifti or flat on the other fide, two foote high, having divers branches of 
