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Show Cemkehedie THErBIRST BOOKECOP THE qe andthrutt togietogi fee andthrutt ke fee i elfe but aadeale fc cks thicke deale ofofflo foft, thicke and fmooth; fecming te be nothing 4 winde 10 wav with iccart ther,which being ripe curneth into adowne,andis catied away wit hthe wanes The rootes be liard, to be had, thicke and white, full offtrings and good to burne,where there is plentie thereof Typha. ich are fet: in forme ofa ftar,3bbut is li the former inflaape of leanes and flowers,whic The fecondislike twotogither, being ofawhitifh couples by ion proport the cans are orderly placed, and in good fallowe the feedes which are inclofed colour,declining to.crimfon: whenthe flowers be vaded,then flaxe, in rourid bullets like the {eede of » %e The place. Cats taile. It growethin pooles, and fuch like ftanding wa ters,and fometimes in running {treames, Thaue founda {taller kinde heerof growingin 2 Gramen Lencanthemum alterum, 1 Gramen Leucanthemum. Small Stitchwoort, Stitchwoort, the ditches and marfhie groundsin the Ifle ofShe. peygoing from Sherlandhoufe to Feugrfham, se The tame. Theyflower'and ‘beate their mace ortorch, in Tuly and\Auguit, ve The names. Theyare.calledin Greeke npn, in Latine Typha: of fome Ceffram Morionts : in French CVartes, Maffes : in Durch Lifehyapen, and Doren; in Ne eed SICee ee ettthtetdenchatieeendineUinenaaielinaaannd Saree LATE » 7 ? At 43 HISTORIE OF PLANTS. Ttalian (Mazza forda : in Spanifh Behordo, and Iunco amacorodaco : in\Eneglith’ Cats taile, and Reede mace, Of this Cats taile CAristophims maketh mention in his Dialog of Frogs, wherehe bringeth them foorth one talking with another, being veryglad that they had{pent the wholeday in skipping & leaping ster Cyperum and Phlewm, among Galingale and Cars taile. oud feemethto namethis plane Scirpus, for he termeth the mats madeofthe leaues, Catstaile mats, asinhisfixt booke Fastorum, tt Dominus, difcediteaitplanstrog. moramtts Sustulit, inplanfiro [eirpeamatta fut. ay 5 ; ; %& The nature. Itis cold anddric ofcomplexion, € vertues, A if ae downeftamped with fines greafe well wathed, healeth burnings B ’or fealdings with fire deleteteensReteeaathe doncfih Caste Some iti it exper; ; with the yelks of egshard fodden,, andfo eaten pees OFHippeglaleaoe powder,and mix difeafe in childrencalled in Grecke Epreesntan woh ne Bibolt pesieGiniedicina, againt into thecods, This medicine muttbe paeted ee the gut called Inteftinum cacun,\s fale quantitie whereof to be miniftred at one bragh ays ~ fatting for the {pace of thirtie daies,the not onely helpe children and ftriplings, but gr 1.3. This being vied, as before is {pecified, dot conuenientligature or truffings , and pechas e alfo, if in time oftheir cure, they ve to art appointed for that purpofe in chirurgerie ing plaifters yponthe greéued place; according This downein fome places ofthe Ile of Ely.a yard the lowe countries adioining thereto,is red and well fold,to make mattreffes of, gathes for owmen and poore D Teh people, alfo often prooued to healek bane heeles(as theyare termed) being 4p" plied to them,cither before or afte, C %i The place. They growein the borders,offields vpon bank fides and hedges, almoft euery where, %& Thetime. ‘Theyflouriflvall thefommer,efpecially in May.andIune, % The names. ) The Grecians call this plant stro: in Latine'Tote offéa » in Englifh All-bonie: whereof fee no reafon,exceptit be by the figure Amtomomia, aswhen we fayin Englith, He is anhoneft man, our meaning is, that he is aknane. For vndoubtedly this isa tender herbe, lightly braied or pound,hauing noduch bonie ortough fobftanee in-him, according to the fignification of his Greek¢ nate, Wherefore] takeit to be {0 called by-contraries :eommonly in Englith Stitchwoort, % The natures The feede ofStitchwoort, as Galen'writerh;is fharpe ox biting to him that taftethit:and ¢6 him that vfechit, very like to Mill, ; %e Thevertues, Of Stitchwoort. Chap 32 ° 3 ao Titchwoorr, OF (as Ruelli i E Sy ter i:ngpene Helosteuns, is: of twokindes, and hath round rendet ftalks fall ofi oints, lear another. The fowers b ¢white ae <{Eee Ateuery ioint grow two leaues one aga : ombact oF many {mall leaues,{erin the maner ofa {tat. «0 ¢ Theyare woontto drinke it in wine with the powder of Atornes, againft rhe paineththefide, A ftitches,and fuch like. Diuers report, faith Djofeorides, that the feede of Stitchwoorrbeing drunke, caufeth awoman B to bring foorth a manchilde,ifafter-the purgationof hir ficknes before the conceiue, fhe do drinke it fafting thrife ina dayjhalfe a dramatatime,ja three ounces Ofwater many dates togither, of |