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Of the Hifiorie of Plants.

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E The root of Polypody boiled with a little hony,water,and pepper-,and thequantity 0“

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Diofcoridcs wri_teth,_'I'hat it is of power to purge, and to draw forth choler and ﬂegme. addeth, That it likewrfe purgeth Melancholy : others fuppofe it to be without any purg _ at all, or elfe very little ;of which minde is Iabamzer Marmrdar, who thinketh it purgeth vcr)’ gem ly ; which thing is confirmed by Experience, the Miftreife of things. For in very deed; P°1YP9' dy it felt; dpth not purge at all,but only ferueth a little to make the belly foluble, being ptoilfad the brot 0 an old cocke with Beets or Mallowes or other-like thin -ove to the 0° .5 Eheir ﬂipperineﬂe. Ia/747;;¢e5 Mcfut’ reckoneth vp Phlypodie among tligdiitehthtirrigs that do efP“-’,“:'“i[);

ry 8: make thin: eraduenture he had ref ed’: to a certain kind of Arthritis che in the 1'01“ 52 which not one «mi; part of the body, but igany together are molt commonlgrtaouched : for which it is very much corn mended by the’ Brabanders and other inhabitants about theriuer Rhene an the Maze. In this kinde of difeafe the hands, the feet, and the joints of the knees and elbow“ doe fwell. There is joined withall a feebleneffe in mouing, through the extremitie of the pain: fom" times the vpper parts are lelfe grieued, and the lower more; the humors do alfo eaﬁly run (‘Om one place to anothenandi then fettle. Againﬂ this difeafe the Geldres and C leuelandersd decocftion of Ioolypodie, whereby they hope the fuperﬂuous humors may be walled 39d and that not by and by,but in continuance of time; for they appoint that this decocftioﬂ (11 taken for certain daies together. ’ 1!

But this kinde of gout is fooner taken away either by bloud-letting or put ations. 0f b)’ 'b.°t f and afterwards by fweat: neither is it hard to be cured, ifthefe general reme ies be vfﬁd I” “mg for the humors do not remaine ﬁxed in thofc joints, but are rather gat ered together, than fetid‘

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about them . Therefore the body muft out of hand be purged, and then that which remaincs is to be W3

and conﬁrmed away by fuch things as procure fweat. V a , . Furtherm0re,Diofwria’e: faith that the root of Polypodie is very good for members 0"‘ ‘ﬂow,’

and for cha s between the fin ers.

. . . _ _ _ _ _ 1 i an giuen,emptieth the belly ofcholericke and pituitous humors. Some boile it in water and Wm’

giue to the quantitie of three ounces for fame purpofes with good fucceife.

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1 . Ovr Author hm (35 in W393’ °‘h°'-' Pmes) ‘knit knots fomewhat intricate :0 1"°{‘1:>3s'1/‘yd

9 _ ﬁrft he confounds in the Names and Nature the Polypodie of the Oke 0:16 '3’

P°d1€sW1th the Pryoperis or Oke-Ferne ; but that I haue now put backe to the former Ch“?

ﬁt place. Then in the fecond place did he giue the Defcription of the Dryapteris of the

taken from the!1C€: pag. 3 6 3 . Then were the Plaee,Time,Names, 8cc. taken cm of the W-,,,. D’J‘’}'’"” “"4144 0fDm’m«m,bcing Pempng. lz'6.s. ca}I.4.. but the ﬁgure was of the Filimlafz ",4, fetrrea 4. ofT46ca-nammtamvs. Now I will in this chapter giue you than a rm‘: of I113 Jdvtrfd t11€D that of Dadomm, and thirdly that of Tragm - for I take them to be different and ‘his 13

be that Egmed by Cfur Author out of Taéernamonthnus. 1: ,

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His kinde of Fern ll ~ - . , . h fem‘ berm fpokeeﬁ2:31:31‘gﬁiifiirﬁiiigiiiiZfgiﬁléiihafﬁeidikcihggezf is _ aboue a foot high,being a’ very {lender and deliéate tender herb The [canes are 0 ly ;aggcd_,that in {hew‘they refemble feathers, ﬁat round about a {ma 1] rib 6, ﬁnue . the b3 being fprinkled not with ruﬂét or browne markes or f peckes as the other Fernes aré, but as "W painted with white {pots or marks,not ftanding out of the leaues in fcales a§‘=[hc {pots in the man Ferne,but they are double in each leafe clofe vnto the middle rib or ﬁnue Th root is 1ong.b‘°W ’ and fomewhat hairy,very like vnto Polypody,but much flenderer of a fh. r (f and cauﬁicke ta :1}: R:(2ir_1elebtiu: aﬂ‘i_rmed that he found the vfe of this deadlyubeing Pu} into rgcﬁicincs in fie; fcflftrflf YP 16, y the ignorance of fome Apothecaries in Daupheniein France. M“ Goodytrhat 1f’)

. . . , _ . 3 3 :3 ]C:CfCrlptlOn,tOgCth€I with a plant of this Ferne, which 1 haug [bought goodher H ff 3539310115 5'' '

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2?. .0-rjlﬁjiteﬁtis‘ 4154 150%. Tree Ferne.

White Oke-Ferns".

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”.r1¢_{ j:'“'>’*3S as the roots of Palypadium do,almoi% asbi as a wheat {’rraw,and about ﬁue,ﬁx,or feu_en in in; gilgrcole b lacke without,and white within,‘o a binding taﬂ.-e.inc_1ining to fweetneﬂE:,w__ith frog qmwable company offmall blacke ﬁbres like hairesgrowing thereuntof‘. The {talkes {PT mg

*3 ’-‘00ts in fundry places, in number variable , according to the lengthand increaﬁi‘ Of the

X» “U6 feen (mall plan'ts'hatie but one or two’ and fome bigoer plants fourteene Of 5ff€€€1€-.2 y ﬂue , :, _ . .

le 4‘ but a twofold diuilion , thepﬁalke growingf,-Om the r-Om ’ and the nerue bearing the

‘C ' - I ‘ , One {is ‘erg? ‘Wk is won: ﬁue,ﬁx,or feuen inches long,no bigger than a bet???" 9}’ {max glam‘ Ptalk, ibg “.85 are the male Fernes,the rel} round,frnooth,and 'green.Th€ 5”} Palm Ofnerues grom

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or er “EC “‘¢h€S from the root,and fo do all the ref’: grow by c0UP’€5a31m0f1 exacftly one againﬂ length = "1 number about eight, nine, or ten couples, the longef} feldome exceeding an inch in any me-k he leaues grow on the nerues alfo by Couples, eight or nine couples on a nerue, without, , s or

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C rriots Cree pe in‘ the ground or myte neere the turfeor vpperpart thereoﬁ and fold amovngif

indenturespfa yellowifh green colour. The Feme may be laid to be like Pdjgpadiam.