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3 lagged Speare-wort hath a thicke,fat,ho1lowllalke, diuiding it felie into diuehrsygbdrzlgs like whereon are fer fomtimes by couples two long leaues,{harpe pointed, and cut about 6 “EC thofc the teeth of a {aw-.The ﬁoirres grow at the top of the branchespl a yellow colour,in forni the field Crowfoot : the rootconﬁlteth of a numberof hairy ﬁrings. '

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rotiedgligiﬁﬂ to be the true Apium rifiugzhough diuers thinke that Pxglfazilla is the fame:of lome it is C“.u.e t of 3 45oemorrlzoz‘a’zznmz) rifeth forth of the mud or wateriﬂi mire from a threddy root, to the heége grow €UbiVif°me.tim€Sshigher. ’ The flalke diuideth it felfeginto fundrybratiches,whereuP°n 0‘, fom‘ leaues deeply cut round about like thofe of Doties-footgand not vnlike to the cut.M31 °”/"5 he bran’, .“’h3‘ great“: and of a moltbright fhining greene colohr; the ﬂoures grow at th6 WP oft Ch€Ss0f a yellow colour,like vnto the other water Crow-i'eet. ‘ “ “ ' é __ ’ q)" 'TbcP[zzce. salmol The)’ grow 13 m/Olﬁ and daF1km1,placcs, iii brinkes or water comics, and fuch likﬁ Place ettery where. ‘ . ~ I

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Then ﬂoure in May when othéft Crowfeet do. Ill The Names. .. _ Speare-wort is called of the later Herbarifts 'Flammziliz_, and It/zzmzcalzir Flamrrzcu afcd CID m,m,;,,, ,,\,,,L.»W.o.—, or broad leaned CrOW—fOQt:OfOIl1€rs,Rzzmi7mi[m[ongzfolii4S§9Ifl0ng C newombe-’ foot: in low Dutch, GF‘gelton1ett:i.n Eiiglifh, Speare Crow-foot;lSpeareewOf§;E“g ﬂier t Y1“ caufe itis dangerous and dead ly for lheepe 5 and that if they feed of the fain?6-.1““ 5' ' uers,fretteth and bliflereth their guts and intrails. ‘ ’ " l f qr ‘I/it ‘_Tt'm;7crzztzn'c ofzzli t/ye Cranwfeet.

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W‘f‘j3€V:3S Galen faith, are of a very iharpe and biting quality, infomuch as they raife blifters P3108 : and they are hot and dry in the fourth degree. ‘ t tithe 1 qt The V £’I’m€.$‘ ﬂfzl/[I/JG Cram-feet. ‘ 0 - . . - Vzelgaﬂd bliltet, and raifeth vp wheales, bladders, caufeth skars, crulls, and ouglie vlcers : it is T 1:lncraggedwarts,corrupt_uailes,and ﬁich like excrefcenfes,to caufe them to fall away. ad_ C-aues ltamped and applied vnto any pellilentiall or plague fore, or carbuncle, flaieth the B . ma nature of the fame, and caufeth the venomous or peltilentiall matter to breath forth, by a parts and pa ﬂages in the skin.

deﬁiilgltiiges further {tom the heart,and other of the fpirituall parts, as hath beene declared in the M “‘

Ofrh . . . . e teeth;Wl‘llCl1 medicine feldome faileth ; for it caufeth greater paint: in the ﬁnger than was in

° t . 0°‘ shy the meaneswhereof the reater paine taketh awa the leller. _ g ‘ . Y . - fuch H1 mg beggers do vfe to Ptampe the leaues,and lay it vuto their legs and arms,which caufeth E pime thy vlcers as we dayly fee (among fuch wicked vagabonds) to moue the people the more to

nz‘ Tnilgklnde of Crow-foot of Illyria,being taken to be Apium rifm offome, yet others thinke /!co- 1: the ﬁn “Vdcbioider to be it. This plant Qmoi Yeth the fences and vnder{latiding,and draweth together

by theme? and rnufcles ofthe Face in fuch llrange manner. that thofe whobeholding fuch as died Ira e taklnghereoﬁhaiie fuppofed that they died laughing 5 fo Forceably hath it drawne and con- whe the names and ﬁnewes, that their faceshaue beene drawne awry,as..though they laughed,

re . . . . 9-Scontrartwife they haue died with great torment.

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eaues or roots of Crow—feet {ramped and applied to any part of the body, coufeth the skin