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2,90 Of the Hifcorie of Plants.

T) The leaues ofzzzcint/M beat to p0L1ClCX',aDd giuen in the decreaﬁng of the Moon to the qllaﬂtlglg of a fpoonfulhtakes away werts and {rich lll(€ excrefcence,in what part of the body foeuer they 2 the which medicine a certaine Surgeon of Padua did much vfe, whereby he gained great furns 0 mony,as reporteth that aritient phyﬁtion Iozzcbim Camerarim of Noremberg, a fanioiis city in G5‘; many . And Matt/2291215 aﬁirmesathat he hath known fome helped of werts,by once eating the lean

hereof in a fallad.

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CH A P. 32. Of 13azmz'e/ion.

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‘He lieaibe which is commonly called Dandelion doth fend forth from the root long leaiies deeply cut and gaihed in the edges like thofe of wild Succorie, but frnoothert vpon euery {talke ﬂandeth a_ﬂoure greater than that of Siiccorie,but double,&: tlllcke

{Est togcthenofeolour ye1low,and fweetin fmell,which is turned intoa round downy blowbal I139!‘ is carried away with the wind. The root is long,llender,and full of milky juice, when any part 0 is broken,as is the Endiue or Sticcorie,but bitterer in raft than Succorie.

1: There are diuers varieties of this plangconﬁfting in the largeneffe,{mallneli'e,deepenefTC;°‘ fhallowneife of the diuiﬁons of the leafe,as alfo in the fmoothneffe,and roughne ffe thereof. 13

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long,cu:1ike thofe of broad leafed Siiccory:tI1ef_talks are not vnlikqbeing diuided into bra‘, 4 as thofe of Dandelion, but lefler,which alfo vaniiheth into down when the feed 13 MP5) hm

long and white root. _ 5, ¢ 3 There is another Dem Lem:/5 or Dandelion,whieh hath many knotty and tuberoii 1

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1 ° 31056 Of the AfPhOJ1lsthC leauts are not lb deepely cut in as thofe of the common Dandelion,

utlaro , M, L r . t . . my Y“~‘11GW:Wh1Ch Th f ‘ {I 7/we Place. M nmchety (:15: n oiind often in medowes nee: Vgt/j(?3V‘;a'te't ditches, as alfo in gardens and high Wgyes - me. The)’ ﬂ°l“€ H101’: times in the yearepfpeciagéy the winter be not extreme COlda Thefe plants belong to the Succory whihh T/jeapizzzﬁta and Plin call A I - I; ' #4‘ Fuclzﬂm thinketh that Dandelion is Hydipnoi: Pliny" of which lie write];hdibriz,ll)ir<s Ag hm 11.30%: _at .. _ _ is _V ao'.0oean cm ._ al: :::1;l:rp;2ght<i)nb§i: V;l1li(::l;;nC::rO§sbf;)8dC:éCEfEg.SuCCO;l€,3fld that Dandelion is T:z;zixzz. ‘er; who citing Paulm for a witgne-fl'e cgncernign I tli fa llugas f emptlfl [dmmwns In his I43.c7h?p‘ mlwwriteth Oﬂindiue and Succori Di“ 5 (gfthc 1 cu vt1%S,{_e_ttet d owne thefe words which . andeuomit is called in hi 1] DmChe;m1ke:raut.inekaterg Ylitians o alfo call it Dem Lcoamot lztaw cauramse depreﬂrg of D55; 5151 M fin En mh'Da dwi. "EC ]’§Ba..g?mw“.° in French’ PIJ '3'?‘ a ocalled of forne aﬁd in {ho S %am'xMM 5, 11 be ion .an of iuers,PifI'abed. The ﬁrfi is e, is Dem Lw W >M Z. P f 5 , expat ‘mama z,Roﬂrzma parcraaum, and Vr/izana. The 0- azzjpeyzmﬁum 0 Lo cl,and Czcborcurtx Cotajlantmapalzmrmmo f Mm/1191,,“ Dandelion is [ike in t m C t ‘H ‘give Temperizture and;/ertue:._ d I ~ . net more and d h eh plral me to uccorie,t1atis to ay, to wil e Endiue._ It _iscold,_but it; with it mndath 0t v_v1t_ al c eanl'e,and open by reafonof the bitternellewhich it hath }0yned the weake It erefore it is good for thofe things for which Succory is. 1 Boiled it ﬂzrengthens Oiled with‘?->‘macke,and eaten raw it [tops the belly,and helpes the Dyfentery, efpecially beeing in vineger it isentile{s5Th.e )I.1lC€ driinke is good againlt tl]e.VI)u0ll:1ﬂtal‘iC etfuﬁon of feed : boyled of the whale plizghgigaiplit tl'lClf)81nt?thadt.}1'OL’iblCS fome in making of water: a decoétion made 4 ps e ye ow yaun i e.

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