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quantitie of one dram weighnfortie daies together,doth walte and confume away the hardne C 0 the fpleene,remoueth wearifomeneITe,helpeth the ihortneﬂé and difficulty ofbreathingswieth t .6 hicket, procureth bloudy vrine after the fixth day, and caufeth women to haue fpeedy trauc 1 1“ childe bearing. V _ V‘

The leaues be of the fame force : which being drunlre thirty daies together,arc reported to make men barren, and deﬂroy their natural! feed.

The ﬂoures fieeped in oile, and {er in the Sun, are good to annoint the body that is benummﬁdr and growne very cold. _ f b The_dii’tilled water ofthe ﬂoures are giuen to be drunke with good fucceife againfi the plmng ° loud. l

A fyrrup made of the floures is good to be drunke againft the difcafes of the lungs and {Flame that is ftopped,being drunke with a little wine. _ i _

Notwithllanding the words of Galen (or rather ofbodamtw) it is certainly found by €XP€V_’cnche; that the water of Honifuckles is good againlt the foreneiie of the throat and uvula :and wrtht _ fame leaues boyled, and the leaues or ﬂoursdiltilled, are made diuers good medicines agamﬂ C31 kers,and fore mouthes, as well in children as in elder people, and likewife for vlcerations and {C3 C dings in the priuie parts of man or woman 5if there be added to the decoétion hcreoffomc 3110” or Verdigreace if the fore requiregreater clenﬁng outwardly, prouided alwaies that therﬁ 5 Yerdigreace put into the water that muit be in jeéted into the fecret parts.

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' » bout fuch things asﬁand neerevnto it, butonely 3 » Idfmrium lutczrm. leaneth and lieth vpon thofe things that are prepag. Yellow Iafrnme. red to fuﬁain it about arbors and banqueting hou- fes ingardcns , by which it is held vp : the lialkes g_> ‘, 4; thereof are long,round,branched, jointed or kneed, A and ofa green colour,hauing within a white (‘pon- “ geous pith.The leaues fiand vpon a middle rib, re: together by couples like thofe of the afh tree, but much fmallcr,of a deepe greene colour : the Homes grow at the vppermoﬂ: part of the branches , ﬂan- ding in a {mall tuft far fer one from another, fweet in fmell,of colour white: the feed is ﬂat and broad like thofe of Lupines,which feldom come to ripe; neffe : the root is tough and threddy. ' 2 Loéel reporteth,That hee law in a garden at BruiTels,belonging to a reuerend perfon called M’) Bﬂifbt, a kinde of Gelfemine very much dilfering from our Iafmine,which he nourifhed in an earthen pot : it grew not aboue (faith he) the height of a cubit,diuided into diuers branches, wherupon did grow leaues like thofe of the common white Iail mine,but blacker and rounder. The ﬂoures in fhew were molt beautifulhihaped like thofe of the com- mon Iafmine,but foure times bigger, gaping wide open, white on the vpper ﬁde, and of a bright red on the vnder iide. , ’ 3 There is a ltinde hereof with yellow ﬂouresg but fome doe defcribe for the yellow lafmine, the {hrubby Trefoil,¢‘al-led off0m€s7’iﬁ’l5“mﬁ"ﬁ”T4”I; and of others,Palemdnium .-but’ this yellow Iafnrine is one,and that is another plant, differing from the’ pa, pl kindes oflafmine, as {ha the declared in his pro: fa(},i°‘°°- The yellow Iafrnine differs not from the common white Gefmrne in leaue 5,5311“. not white 11° the ﬂours : the only difference is,that this plantbrings forth yellow ﬂ0Lll’Saand the other

Ofilh There is liltewife another fort that differs not from the former in any rfeperii but in the color the deir{i”°“'° 5 for this plant hath ﬂoures of a blew colour, and the others not ('0, wherein conﬁﬁeth‘ Ge“. _ 1}’ The Place. . g _ r itgm ctmne is foitred in gar‘dens,and is vfed for arbors,& to couer banqueting houfes in gardens: whit WES not w 11d in Englandﬁlat I can vnderﬁand of, though M‘yLyte be of another opiniotnthe Darrseagafélgine is common in moﬂ places of England : the reft are ﬁrangets,and.no't {cent in there Th The Time. El’ bring forth their pleafant flames in Iuly and Augult.

T/re N zzmes. V “g the Arabians scrapie was the ﬁrll: that named Gefl'emine,z?.¢m6ac/3.- it is called Iafmimm, “ﬁgand alfo Gefjémimm .- in Engli{h,lal°m1ne,Geife'm1ne,and Geﬂ'e.— 1 whiteete Is in Diofcorides a compoiition of oile ofIafrnine,which he faith is made in Perﬁa of the for DZ-§°l1r_es of Violets,which Violets feem to be none other than the floures of this G_elIemine 5' fcem ﬁf“W{es hath often reckoned faire and elegant ﬂoures among the Violetsgfo that it mun not

Vnknouiange that he calleth the flames ofleffemine Violets,efpecially feeing the plant‘ it felfwas ‘‘ to h1m,as is euident.

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,h The Oile which is made ofthe ﬂours hereof waﬁeth away raw humors,and' is good againll’ cold: 11‘ ms 5 but in thofe that are of a hot conftitution it caufeth headache, and the ouermuch fmell. .