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fresti ana green, to fodder the Lips of them and healethetn, as also to dry up themoisture of old and inveterate V leers, which binder them from healing, and socause them to heal quickly. The said Oyle is also Very profitable for all pricks orhurts in the Sinewes, as also for Cramp and Convulsions , if the places be therewithanoynted, and to heal V leers in the Secret farts of Man or Woman, or in WomensBreasts.lt gives much ease likewise to Women that are in great extremity of child-birth, in taking away the pain of the Wombe, and causing easie deliverance, if it beapplyed to the place; and being anoynted upon the BeDies of those Women that arebarretts reason of any superfluous humidity, it causcth them to becom e fruitfulItcureth the Piles and other paines ot the Fundament , if it be applyed withLint , such as the Chirurgions use; It is of great force to take away either burningsby Fire, or fealdings by Water ■ it taketh away those blemi/hes or fcarres that re-main of Wounds and Hurts, being healed, and taketh away the paines of the Fling-ing! of Bees and w-fpes. The Female is thought to come somewhat neer untothe Male both in temperature and venues , though the Form be sotnwhat different

CHAP. CCCXXV,

Of Doves-foot, or Cranes-bill*

The Names.

I T is called in Greek yt&.mv Geraniu ,which is a general name to all the Cranes-bills, whose small heads with long slender beaks pointing forth, do very muchresemble the Head and Bill of a Crane. It is called geranium also in Latinc, as al-so gruin alls, Rostrum Gruis, or Gruinum, and 'Rostrum Ciconia, for the like rea-son. But because there fee m»ny Plants belonging to this Family, therefore therebe divers Epithetes added to distinguish them,as Geranu m c*i U mbinum, GeraniumMustatum, geranium Arvenje,Geranium Batrachoides, five Cjratu <bgi Germa-riorum, Geranium Rupertianum, &c. We call them in English Doves-foot, MuskedCranes-bill, unsavoury Cranes-bill, Crowfoot Grants'bill,Herb Robert, Sic.

The Kindts.

Though there be divers Crants-biUs that grow no where in England,unless theybe fostered in Gardens,yet I shall name onely those which are spontaneous,md theyare eleven ; i. The Common Doves-foot or Cranes-bil: 2. Doves-foot withLeaves like unto the Vervain Mallow: z. Unsavoury field Cranes-bill: 4. Unsa-voury sield-Cranes-bill with white flowers5. Crowfoot Cranes-hill.• 6 . Red orbloody Cranes-bill: 7. Creeping Cranes-bill: 8. Musked Cranes-billr 9. HerbRobert: 10. Great Herb Robert: n.Rock Cranes-bill.

The Forme.

The Common Doves-foot , or (f-anes bill , groweth with divers small, round,pale,green Leaves, cut in about the edges, more than those of the Common Mallow, towhich they are compared, though they be much lesser,standing upon long reddishhairy Stalks, lying in a round compass upon the ground,amongst which rise up twoor three reddish,joynted,slender, weak, & hairy Stalks,with some such like Leavesas the former, but smaller! and more cut in up to the tops, where grow many verysmall, bright, red Flowers, of five Leaves a piece, after which cometh the Seed,which is like to a Cranes or Storks bill, whereby all that pertain to this Family areknown. The Root is Bender, with some Fibres annexed thereunto.

T he Plac es and Time.

The first groweth very frequently in most places of this Land, both in Gardens

and