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Show 332 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L13.2, the floures andfeed: for this kinde hath a greater quantitie of floures and feed growing together Cuar. 52. like little clufters ofgrapes, ofa yellowifh colour. Thefeed for the moft partis loft beforeit cay begathered, Male Mercurie, 332 Of Wilde Mercurie. £ 1 Cynocrambe. Dogs Mercury: 2 Mercurialisfeming, f 3 Mercurialis mas. el Ofthe Hiftory of Plants: Lips 2 ‘T 2 Phyllon arrhenogonon, fine marificum, Male childrens Mercury, Female Mercurie, HW / 3 Phyllon Thely gonon, fine Feminificum. Childrens Mercurie, the female. | The Defiription, §| The Place. | , Py French Mereutieis fowen in Kitchen gardens among pot-herbes;in Vineyards, and in moi Ogs Mercurie is fomewhat like vnto-the garden Mercury, faving the leaues hereofare greater, and | fhadowie places :] found it vnder the dropping of rhe Bifhops houfe at Rochefter; from whientt I brought 2 plant or two into my. garden,fince which time I cannotrid my gardenfromit. @ The Time, 3 They floure and flourifh all the Sommer long. y : = brittle, yet very and the ftalke not fotender, : , ; : growing to the height of a cubit, without any brauchesatall,with {mal yellow floures, ye y G The Names. . Latines The feedis likesghe female Mercurie. $Itis alfo foundlike the male Mercurie, as youfee ir callit . herbe ;whereupon the zi his gu BEDS called in Anieste, AN iput ipa Cerne, or Mercurie é } 3 i Greeke, Mercurialis : it is called in Italian, Mercorella : in Englith Fre ares Mercurial glifh,French Mercurie ; in French, | | Eluidem q u i a Vignoble, > and Foirelle. ni foi meus vermin ee oremvocant oirelle, 4quia Fluidam laxamue aluum reddit. it, Gallabelga enimfoixe crhe foizeus, thembothexpreft in the figure, andfo there is both male & female of this Mercury alfo.¢ 2 Malechildrens Mercury haththree or foure ftalkes,or moe : the leaues be fomwhat M ; long,not muchvnlike the leaues of theoliue | The Temperature. ercury : eae sae : 7 “ Gal creury is hot and dry, yet not aboue the fecond degree : it hath a cleanfing facultie, a0 ( Aen writeth) a digefting qualitie alfo, 5 Q The Vertues. Itisvfed svfed jin our age in clifterc tiene eecements andotherfilet urage in clifters,and thought very goodtoclenfe and{coure awaythe excrement ae ‘containedin the gurs.It ferueth to purge th > belly. b e i n s eaten otherwifets™ voiding out of th bh 5 f gethe elly, be ing eaten or other ‘ 5 the decd@ion the belly hereof, not only the excrements, hleeme and andchole jofcorides top teth,that e r an but al{ allo phlegme choler. Diofco t The leaned f — “8 ert purgeth waterifh humors, : < amped w er.anc — r. . tree, couered ouer with a foft downe or wooll grayofcolour ; and the feed alfolike thofe ofSpurge, growing twotogether, being fir ofan afh-colour,butafter turne toa blew, + 3 Thisismuchin thapelike to the laft defcribed, but the ftalkes are weaker, and. hauc moteleaues vpon them, the floures alfo mall and mofly,and they grow vpon long <s,whereas thefeeds of the other are faft- herbebruifed . aha and Rade made vwsesuitees,and * appliedtothe Bi fundament,prouokethtotheae ft Cofteus inhis boo! ee manner of a peflary scleanfeth the mother, and helpeth c« flane mis of somerhien: ithe Ate es plants faith,that the iuyce ofMercurie, Holliho = see De eer ane the hands bathedtherein.defendeth ing, if the) the them fromburning,if therein,defendeth the into boyling leade, s ned toveryfhortones:the {eed is contained inround little heads, being fometimes two, otherwhiles three or more inaclufter. + ® Ee 3 q The a |
