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Show RS THE E SECOND BOOKE OF TH HISTORI se The temperature. n d dirvet hey are temperate in heate an he : The vertues. ' for fallads and postherbes : but by the authotitieaf hath commendedit int eee. a Hippocrates 1 auingthe tafteandfauour of Hyperzeonferuing inthe nty eat Glancen,Nitander a us for Panax Chironium, who dothreckentint Trag by n take place thereoffor woundes , andis drive away the fveliag Herbas vulnevarias. fpplied, doth confume ti Theleaues ftamped with fiyt and wine, anda B ll. graue and e is vfeda gainft the {ton ofthe necke,called the Kings euilland 2 ' OfGromrel. % Thetime. They flower fromthe fommer Solftice, or from about the twelfe day of Iune¢ en ynto Atitumne,andin the meanefeafon the feedeis rip % The names. Gromell is called in Greeke 0:92 ofthe hardneffe of the feede: of diuers Gorzonium: of others Aegonychon, Leontion, ot Diofporenjot D iofpyran,as Plinzereadeth it, alfo Heracleos+ of the Arabians Miliumfoler in{hops,andamong theItalians A¢jjnm/olis:inS inFrench Gyemil, and Herbe aw.xperles : 0 Englith Gromell: of fome Pearle plat Lichwale, os % Thetemmperature. 2 Lithofpermum minus. Small Gromell. h\ BX) et VSN te The pplace. Thetwo firftkindes do growe in vntoil J plaaces, asb ythehigh waiesfides, and barren inthe ftreete at Soithfleetein Kent, as you go from thechurch vnto an houfe belonging toa tleman ofworfhip,called Mafter Willsam Syveanaidin fu pone other places Thetwolaftkindes growe vponthe fands andbach of the fea, athe yle of ” * uers,among the kinds ofwilde Bugloffethere growing, (hap.180. 1 Lit hofperIIR TALES. Great Geomell, ‘ofa whitecolour,g nto the form thratadditament Anchefa facie.The flower Sopewoort, ingin tufts atthe topoftthe ftalkes, like vnto degener, beins eitheemeinde-of ud Thereis alfoa degenerate kin de hereof called Anchufa |butaplatieparticit Buelofle, orakinde ofwil¢le Gromell orelfeakinde ofneither‘ofboth, “sand rootes botnkindes: it hath thefeeds andftalkes ofAilinmfolie or Gome ll chaff, which is Alkanet,and is altogicherof a red colour like the {2 iN The feede ofGromellis hot anddrie in the feconddegree. %& The vertues. beget of Gtomell pound, anddrunkein whitewine, breaketh,diiffolueth, anddriuethfoorth a the one,and prouokethvrine,andefpecially breaketh the ftone in the bladder, Of Chickweede. Chap.181. ere be diuers forts of Chickweedes , &: among which oneis greater and otherleffera nd lower The kindes. H and other. fome there be alfo which we maycallbaftarde Riclviedes: and firft ofthe beft ne Chickweedes, cr fometime higher ,a i] He great Chickweederifeth vp with ftalkes a cubite! steat many fromone f roote,long and rounde, flend 5 (alles growingoutoffeueryknot or ioi i with a couplee of besdeaie\longer then the leaues of Pellitorie of the wall,swhereunto theyare areverylike in fhape,but{mooth with- ne, andofalight greene colour : che Halkcseefome thingcléere, and as it were owthis ing, and aboutt! s they be oftentimesofa verylight red colour, % The ds(eription, ! ie ftalkes,befet with lonagbrow ad He great Gromell hath long,flendera Jeates ; among whichgrowe certaine beardedhuskes, bearingatthe firtt fall ee gray ftonie {ceede fomewhatfhining. *® ers; whichbeing paft, there fucceec is hard,and ofa wooddie fubftance. ; 2 ‘Thefecondkind¢éof Gromell hath ftrai round,wvooddie ftalks, full of of branches:! long, {mall,and fharpe,of a darke greene colotir; fmaller than the leauas great which comefoorth little white flowers ; which beingpait, there doth followiue mer hath,but {maller. Theres another kinde of Gromell 2Whi chhathleaues andftalkes phew isnot fo white, neither fo {moothand plainept ieee fomewhat rougher , like vntoa wilde kindeof Bueloffe, called zmchufay for oryof the wal: the flowe UE etleffer: in whofe pee . The rooteconfiftethof fin bi edeforthe moftpar itifh tbe »p of thebra:inches like the flowers ceedelong knops, but nor great, inwhich the ftrings like haires. 1vponthe grounde: the ftalkes are final], flen- unde,and alo iointed; fromwhich fle nder braunches do {pring leaues refembling sbut much!leffer, asis likewife the whole herbe, ee attaineth co the 1¢ fame: a4 flowers arein like fort little and white ; the knaps or feede headds arelike Glo" sthe rootes maruellc lender, ch groweth bythefea; thisis liketo thefeconde,but theftems nts. Theleanes in like fort be thicker: the knapsor feede heades id zounde,but fomewhat broade, in which arethreeor fowerfeedes contained. Hh 4 I Alfing |