T Hifiorie of Plants. . VLIB. 7

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jintz. V Of the Hifiorie of Plants.

V . . l . 7 d, thfimfelues - but o ens-d of a bri ht Golden colour and thofe are ingirtb fifteenc or more little 4 .. . .! .I\za rowleauedRa W“ . 3 P ' > 9» t» ’ Y_ _ ii 3 14"“5»”*"4 ‘‘‘’’»§”fi’f” “‘ I g _ r:aues,which are of a flame colour aboue,and red vnderneath.The floures flie away in do.me, and

:;/iw ‘ gets: 1:! :>rl:1ekifh,arid like that of the former. The roots are made of many firings like thofe of 3 1 his broad leaued Rag-weed hath ftiffe crefied Ptalkes, which are fetwith broad wrinclcled afpe pointed leauespfa greene colour : the bottome leaues are the larger and rounder, the top 13:“: the le{Te,and more diuided. The floures grow at the top of the flalltes,in fhape and colour

me: I :1}: of the common Ragweed, but much bigger: They alfo turne into downe as the for. buétco Sea hag-wort groweth to the height of two cubits : the {ialkes be not reddifh as the other, the flontrariwife A fh-coloured,gray,and hoary : the leaues be greaterand broader than the other: am) thufffs grow at the top,of a pale yellow colour, couered on the cup or huske of the floure, as am e_ €auf:s,witl1 a certaine foft white downe or freefe: the floures vanifh into downe, and flie

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1 I zzcobmx. Rag-wort.

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L s {I The Platte. = T f afld Rag-wort groweth euery where in vntilled pafiures and fields, which are fomewhat rnoift C pf°‘auY.and nearevnto the borders of fields. 3} 2 3 ";Tl1efe gro.v vpon the Aufirian and Heluetian Alpes. II: he fourth lcinde of Ragwort groweth neere the fea fide in fundry places : I haue feene it in the e (1 bl? Margate,by Qxieakes hou(‘e,and by B yrchenton in the Ifle of Tenet : likewife it groweth geefe the Kings ferry in the Ifle of Shepey,in the way leading to Shirland hou_fe,where S‘.Edrwm1 aouéybciwelleth :and likewife at Queenborough caltle in the fame Ifle 5 and in other places. i I t 6 9°“ fit the former and later of theie places to finde out plants, yet could Inot fee this plant. growes in the garden of M‘.iR4Zy2/2.T:zggy,but I feare hardly wilde in this kingdome. 2]: Th on T/zc Time. E3’ flmlfe in Iuly and Augufhat which time they are carried away with the Down. The H . . ‘T/J6 Names.‘ _ . flab rl’t is called in Latine, H064 S.Iacabi or S Jawéz flax, and 14¢.-05.94 .- in high Dutch,_ San: hays 3blDlm_Icn: in low—Dutch, Q3!“ ERCDIJ5 ctuyt 2 in French, Fluer dc S. Jacques .= in rang- aor -[Wm his \/V0112 : the countrey people doecall it Stagget-wort, and Staner-wort, and alfo Pt “'0”. i and Rag. weed.In I-lolderneffe in York-{hire they call it Seggrum. 1 5' f€C_0n§l is lacaéaa Pannorzica 2.0fClufim. r 16 third is his Iacolma [atzf2lz'a.Gefi/cr calls it Coigififz momzzmi. i e fourth is named Ciner4ri4,or Afhcoloured S.I4me5 Wort : fome call it Erigeron Marimcm; ea Groundfell : of fome,Artem‘ji4 marina. 1: And by Proffver ullpz'nm,Artemz_’fia 4164. ,t 1]‘ The Temperature.

W vtvtprt is hot and dry in the fecond degree, and alfo clenfing, by reafon of the bitterne Hi:

2;: 3 14:05.24 larifolia. s ‘ . 4. Iacoéiea marina.

Broad leaued Ragweed. ‘ Sea Ragweed. or S

I .— qr T123 Vemm. _t is commended by the later Phyfitians to bee good for greene wounds, and old filthy vlcets 0 tlch are not fcoured,mundified,and made cleane 3 it alfo bfialeth them, with the juyce heere- mueempered with honey and May Butter, and boiled together vnto the forme of an Vnguent or mg‘ ‘S much cot_nmended,and not without cau{‘e,to helpe old aches and paines in the armes, hips, 3 lei‘-’»‘sb0llCd In hogs greafe to the forme of an ointment. g g 0 0teouer,the decoétion hereof gargariied is much fet by as a remedy againfi fwellings and ima C "v~'~‘--"a‘»,.-,-W , » ~ ' Umanons of the throat,which it wafteth away and thronghly healeth. _ . I;,‘1’/ M M p . V “we e leaues Pramped very {mall,and boiled with fome hogs greafe vnto the confumption of the D ".~ 0, .;:_:‘»-"§“ ‘_ I . .1 - eadding thereto in the end of the boyling a little Malticke and Olibanum,and then (trained, . . \ g - 0th away the old ache in the huckle bones called Sciatica. mend $53 Egvptiansdaith Proflzer Alpz'nw)vfe the Sea Rag-wort,for many things : for they com- 5 am) to he ecoétion made with the leaues thereof againfl the {lone in the kidnies and bladder, as L P elpe the old obfiruétions of the inward parts,but principally thofe of the wombe ; as alfo ‘ °°ldne(l'e,Prrangul ation,barrennell'e, inflation thereof,and it alfo brings down: the intercepted

co an3'l°S : wherefore women troubled with the mother are much ea fed by baths made of the leaues Oures hereof. :1: l - . .

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