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Show ee SS = 262 THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE*OF teining in it felfe one {mall round feede witha tenderroote,andfull of white hairie ftrings, The fernaleislike ynto the formerin leaues, ftalkes, and manerof growing, differing butin tk togithel flowers and feede: for thiskind hath a greater quantitic of flowers ~ rane little clufters of grapes,of ayellowifh colour. The feede for the moft partis loft thered, beforeit can bege into boiling leade, iT 1 Mercarialis mas. Male Mercurie, PLANTS. the f Theleaues ftamped with butter and applied to the fandament prouoketh to herbebrufed and made vpin maner ofapeflarie, clenfeth the mother,and helpe Holl ho Coffeinhis booke ofthe natureof plants faith,that the iuice of Mercurie; flane mixed togither,and the hands bathed therein defendeth them from burning if th 2 Mercurialis famina, Female Mercurie, Ofwilde Mercurie. Chap. 48. 1 Cynocrambe. Dogs Mercurie, 4 3 % Theplace, French Mercutieis fowen inkitchen gardens ‘a mnoiltmoilt (htih among potherbes,in vineyardes, and in dowie places , I founde it vndét the dtopping of thebifhops honfeat Rochefter, from whe Tbroughta plant ortwointo my garde ni,fince whichtime I cannot rid my garden fromits ; % The time, They flowerlandfourifh all the fommerlo ng. % Thex ed in i Greeke auviCosrs, and fpuct Berdvey, ames. Ttis called jnesce or Mercurie his herbe; whereupo it Mercurialis sand Theophraftsas wre :andin Diof nthane Mer a ub torides Pi Lonsitis called in Trali in Englifh French Mercurie: in Fren ch Mercuriale, Vj Saki and Foir elle, quia Ftid ern aluum redditGallobele.« cnitnfoix e & foizeus, wentris Oeci n i %& The temperature, Mereurieis hor di : (Gh en writeth)a digeftia ddtie,yernot abouethe feconi degreerichatha clenfing facultiesand Pqualitiealfo, Teiseieinesicscce i % The vertues. viedin oura ge in glifters,and thoughr Vely good to clenfe and fcoure away ott the exct? and other filthconteine 17 dinthe tes oh twife om % Te ferneth t Ruts! t i teti OF otherm! voiding out of thebelly noton o purge the belly being-ea « pavides TOP ely the exereni 1) Dyafeorides teththat the decoétion heerofpi cnts,but alfo phlegme and chole purgeth watetifhhumontrs, if tk %& The defcription, Ogs Mercurieis fomewhat like vnto the garden Mercurie fauing the leaues heertof ate gteater, andtheftalke not fo tender, and yet verybrittle, growing to the height of a male tongthout any braunchesat all, with fmall ycllowe flowers. The {eedeislike the feee 2 re, C} = Dildr, : + s valike the — Mercurie hath three or fower {talkes or mo: the leaves be fomewhat long,not much , Ai 4 - a feede alf aues of the Oliue teee,couered ouer witha foft downe or wooll, graie ofcolour:and the * 7 . alike thofe of;female Mercurie, They x Theplace. TowMinwoodsar nd copfes, in the borders of fieldes and among bufhes and ass hedges, €&s Mercur 7 C. . oc x 2 : Granefer ie etcurie Ihaue foundein many places about Greene-Hith, Swanes-combevillage, ae, ; ; 3 5 and Sonth-fleete inKent:? in Hampefteede woode:, and all the hedges thereabout, fow erg St Titles ¢ tom 1 ? ° London, tele““ourith lous; allthe fommer %& Thetime. long vntill the extreme fioft do pull them downe, R4 %& The |