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Merfus Diaéoli. Diuels bit. 1 qt T//e Defeription.

: Iuels bit hath fmall vpright Y0-‘ind . flall-res of a cubite high, befet W?

p long leaues fomwhat broad,very 115‘ tle or nothing fnipt about the edgC9a{°m' what hairie and euen.The floures a_lf0 3" of a dark urple colour,fafhioned like I C floures o cabious:the' feeds are final 3“ downy, which being ripe are carried aVY“Y with the winde. The root is b1ackc,rh}° : hard and {hort,with many threddie firings

H fafltned thereto.The great part of the to“ feemeth to be bitten away:old fantaf’€_l‘ .t charmers report, that the diuel did bitclh for cnuie, becaufe it is an herbe that bill I

’ _’fo' many good vertues,and is {O benefifl‘ , to mankinde. qr T/replace.

Diuels bit groweth in dry med0W5 and

woods, 85 about waies {ides.I hauc 93"“ great {lore of it growing in Hampfieat " wood neer London, at Lee in Effex and 3 Raleigh in Effex, in a wood called Ham’ merell, and fuudric other places. ' q '1'l:eTim:. hbe It floureth in Augufl, and is hard ‘° .1. lcnowhe from Scabious’, fairing W115” 1 floureth. 1,] Tee Names. ‘ . It is commonly called Morfra D _ _ p ’ or Diuels bit,of the root(as it {E6915 15 bitten off : for the fuperflzitiolls people hold opinion, that the diuell for enuy that he b}"!3" n_1aDk_1nde,bit it olfibecatrfe it would be orherwife good for inany vfes:it is called of Fat/Ifi . {W -' 1“ {ugh-1_Durcb,@tutfels abbiffzin low-Dutch,Eu1!ncllk£ butzin French, Uuor: du /1 In Eng11fh.D1uels bit,and Forebit. it Faéim Colummz iudges it to be the Pjemeomors.ofD'/0f“”

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_ _ _ qr T be Temperature. hc Dmels bit 15 fomthing bitter, and of a hot and chic temperature and that in the later and 9“ fecond degree. — A ’ _ _ q Tie Vertues. ha, Thfifé 15 11055351 thing againfl old fwellings of the Almonds,and vpper parts of the throat t be hardly ripened. - - . ‘ . Ir clenferh away flimic flegme that flicketh in the jawes, it digellfeth and confumeth if 3 imdhc quickely taketh away the fwellings in thofe parts, if the decoétion thereof bee often held 1fl_t mouth and gargarized,e{pec1ally if a little quantitie of Mel Rofarum, or honie of Rof es be pl“ ’ it. ' i I t is reported to be good for the infirmities that Scabious ferueth for,and tobe of no leife fol” againft the Ptingings of venomous beafls,poi{‘ons,and peltilent difeafes, and to confume afid away plague fores,bemg {ramped and lard vpon them. ” And alfo to mitigate the paints of the matrix or mother; and to driue forth winde, if ‘ Brion thereof be drunke.

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_ q] The Deferiptiozi. r ’ Atfellon or-blacite Krrapweed is doubtleffe a kinde of Scabious, as all the others are in~ tituled with the name of Iacea ;yet for diflin &ion I haue thought good to let the‘m in V a feuerall Chapter,beginning with that kind which is called in Englifh Knapweed and- ‘ hqn, or Materfilm .- it hath long and narrow leaues of a blaclriih greene colour, in {hape like S . bit,-but lOnger,fet vpon {talks two cubits hi_gh,fomewhat bluntly cut or_(‘nipr about the ed: ~' 16 houres grow at the top of the flalkes,~beeing firfi {mall fcaly knops like to the knops of r€d“jfl011rC or Blew-Bottles,but greater : out of the midi’: thereof groweth a purple thrummy or Y floure.The root is thicke and lhort. A mg] The great Knapweed is very like vnto the former',but that the whole plant is much greater, Cal efiues brggegand more deeply cut euen to the middle rib : the floures come forth offuch like 3' eadsnoi an excellent faire purple colour,and much greater. be The third kinde ofMatfel1on or Knapweed is very like vnto the former great Knapweed 12194" ceegfe rnent'ioned,fauing that the floures of this plant are of an excellent faire yellow colour,pr0— I mg forth of a fcaly head or knop, befet with molt lharpe ptickes not to bee touched without’? t the floure is of a pleafing fmell,and very fweet 3 the root is long and lafling, and creepes far‘

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is viety4-I EB: mountain Knapweecl of Narborre in France hath a fkrong flemofz C”!-‘its i‘~‘i§;iT'a35d;, ‘ P C 1 “H950” CQuentry among the hedges and bufhes :‘ the leaues are very much ;3.gged‘

In t . . r * A Orme of Lmebztx or S-pleene-wort : the floures are like the refs of the Knapwteds _., of a purple

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