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They are effe5tuall againll the cough 5, they ealily digeit and confutne the grofle humors w hich are hard.- ly concocted : they purge colour and tough tlegme: they procure fleepe, and helpe the grlpings within the“ belly. ' ‘

It helpeth the Kings Euill , and . Buboes in the gtoiue, as Pliny faith. lfitbe drunke in \/Vine it pro- uokcth the termes ,and lacing put in Baths for women to {it ouer,it prouoketh the like etlects molt ex quifite- ly. The root put in manner of a pelfarie haltneth the birth.They couer with flelh,bones that be bare, bein vied in plaiflers. The roots boiled foft,and vfed plai- Fterwifefoften all old hard tumourszand the fvvellings ofthe throat call-“ed tmmx, that is, the Kings Elllll; and emplaifiered with honey it breaketh out broken bones.

The meale thereof healeth all the rifts of the Funda- ment,and the infirmitiesthereof called Cwdy/omita 5 and openeth H emotrhordes. The ‘JUICE fnuffed or drawne vp into the nofegprouolryeth fneeliug,and draw— ethdown by the nofe great {lore of filthy excrernents, which would fall into other parts by fecret and hidden wa.ies,and conueiances of the channels.

it profiteth being vfcd in a peffarie, to prouoke the termes,and willcaufe abortion.

It preuaileth much againlt all euil affeétions of the brelt and lungsabeing taken in a little fweet wine,with fome Spikenard30t in Whaywith a little Mafiicke.

The root of Xyrzz or Gladdon is of great force againlt wounds and fractures of the head : for it draw- eth out all thornes, fiubs, prickles, and arrowheads, without griefe; which qualitie it effeé‘teth (as Galen

faith)by reafon of his tenuitie of patts,and of his attrae‘ting,drying,and digefiing facultie,which chiefely conlilleth in the feed or fruit,which mightily prouoketh vrine. » _

The root giucn in Wine,called1n Phyficke PA]/'_z¢m, profiteth much againlt Convulfions, Rup- tures,the paine of the huckle bones,the flrangurxe, and flux of the bellie. Where note, That whereas it is {aid that the potion about-, named {tayeth the flux of the belly, hauing a purging qua- litie ., it muft be vnderfltood that it worketh in that manner as Rlmbaréarum and U! firum do, in that they concoct and take away the caufe of the laske 5 otherwifc no doubt it moueth vnto the fioole, as ii/améaré, c./Jflmmz, and the other Irides do. I-lereof the country people of Somerfet-{hire haue good experience, who vle to drinke the decoétion of this Root. Others doe take the infufion thereof in ale or fuch like, wherewith they purge themfelues, and that vnto very good purpofe and cfl’e£t.

The feed thereof mightily purgeth by vrine, as Galen faith,and the country people haue found it true.‘ ‘

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Xyr.i.t.

Stinking Gladdon.

CH A P. 4.4; Of ginger, qt ‘Me Dcforiptim. Inger is molt impatient of the coldneffe of thefe our Northernc regions,as my felfe haue

. found by proofe, for that there haue beene brought vnto me at feuerall times f undry plants « ~ g rhfireof, fggfh, greene,and full Of}ulCC, as well from the Weft Indies, as from Barbary and

other places 5 which haue fprouted and budded forth greene leaues in my gmden in theheate of

Summer-,but as {bone as it hath beene but touched with the lirft fharpe blait of Winter, it hath prefently periihed both blade and root. The true forme or préture hath not before this time been re: forth by any that hath written;but the world hath beene deceiued by a counterfeit figure, which the reuerend and learned Herbariit cmattbzm Loécl did fet forth in his Obferuations. T he rforme whereofnotwithflzanding I haue here exprefl'ed,wi»th the true and vndoubted piéture alfog

which

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t~' ‘ ~~ , - T” , . g r‘:)1:i;.:raIl rgaéelgoryne lranrills it tllC1llLIi1p:ell:l(l;‘1E1e‘l‘€0f. The caufe of whole fornjereru words lent vhto me i C-re 1Q*g?‘Ot K 6 ‘Bow 6 gk U! L IVL ‘me Gmgersmay aPPea"C by his own HOW hard am; Vncflcrtjfglieggyqléclldl rere tl1l;Sl:$1flglill‘inCCl : _ .

Qfier Guide than skill" ll 1 C 13 <l)'f'Cfr‘l llcfln Wm {S"'“l]1CmN propomop of plants amumgnone ,b,é:fi (kt): know who hm: déoutlynefté _ur 1(;)l'liT‘})eS emffent frpm friends or other meanig) the)’ an honelt and expert A oflirjehhriei ato fatlgliglesi Lgcwedmty Teams pafi or more’ Ondon the Pifime OfEinUeHV.I1iC11}1ébP}d go Ila t.qCIl1Tt?; lent me from Antwcfpe to Credit camy becaufe I wag f1,Ot,iGI.i].0mP.t pk.“ E1 €"trL:”,:i1n” .r-urn. yelratvne. I my felfe gaue him mwnand funaofjuiéa from thf: hsodiés-t(.) Am 161:6 f.x!.C;‘il{i Ohtefi Finger roots larotight grecne, in the {aid Dms Garéen But not man Cqwecrpf. an} ‘putt. ei,tdatlt1 16 fame had budded 8: grown me by my friend 3,35 ac; V f ‘ Erma ter ’ 9<*rceiue‘.,! t at t re piciture which was lent Dutch Herbarm Th tlnter ertf, an _ e oretnat time had been diawne and fer forthby an old “Cred not many y-eamS€I':&O;('3: flt1_fferr_ngzfE111spegor'auIy furtgcr toffPrf2tl abroad (which difco‘-W mngeaoffangoug mflpmrin th ring in . _e an , mt egar eu_o T/It mm of N_afl7at_1 Pnnce or,

- _ c, rough the means ofa worthy perlon(1fmy mctrrorre faile thee not) Scanner) xefiifgyilgfiyltryie he Opednfidlind Eooffed his hilt Yong buds and fhoots about She end mo“ Reed “fined Hdglmdfjlll/;S;a1]‘ ia hs 00% oot Jig 1, the Young and tlender fhoots Ur £l1:3COT!F1.. gm./tm, an CXpe«rt.HerbaYi{.i;4a 4d0rM)& t (ELL;-, t itkeoilticnient toinlpart t ms mtrczhynto lv-1r,_ law: ggcrmeu now thus much i 3111} rnafelrlo (SPF)? uccefle in Strigerrea to the end he rtriglit leat poa the great good and benenfi :1 If‘; Pain u an ong labouyed trauels which now he hath lfllla1’;£a3 to in my garden )6 _fl d 0 us countrey. The plant it felfe brought me to Middleborow and {en

al ti re through the hardneffe ofWinter,

Thu » . . , u 0mab:y”t1:;Cll:i11fllle I Tet downe, truly tranflated out of his owne words in Latine 5though too faf

m done to the commendation of my mean skill.

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The feigned figure of Ginger.

Z iirsiéerzit rvcrior mm.‘

The true figureof Ginger;

3,; T fie Place;

kc Ginger gmvveth in S pai.ne,Barbar

‘ omingo in the Indiegdigg )’,in the Canarie Iflands, and the-Azores; Our men who fag‘;

ed it vp there in fundry places Wilde. H i q The