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¶ The medicinable vertues of other floures and herbs seruing for Chaplets. Also of Erynge. [unspec M]
AMong those hearbes which beare pricks, * Erynge or Eryngion, is singular: for a soueraigne * 1.1 hearbe it is against serpents, and all poysons whatsoeuer, as if it grew for nothing els. But to
come to particulars, for stings & bitings of venomous creatures, the root therof to the quantity [unspec A] of one dram, is taken in wine. And in case (as most times it falleth out) that a feuer follow vpon such accidents, then the patient must drinke it with water. A speciall and effectuall property it hath against certain land-snakes called Chersydri, and venomous todes, if it be reduced into a liniment, and so applied to the sore. But Heraclides the Physitian is of opinion, That if the said root be boiled in the broth of a goose, it is of more efficacie than all other, against the Toxica and Aconita But whereas others do boile it in sheere water against the poisons Toxica; Appol∣lodorus would haue a frog sodden withal. The herb it selfe is of substance hard, branching much, full of leaues, and those beset with pricks. A stem or stalk it carieth, parted by knots and joints, a cubit high & somwhat more. Moreouer, as there is white Erynge, so you shal haue of it black: The root is odoriferous. Eryngion verily commeth vp ordinarily of seeds and by setting. But it [unspec B] groweth also in rough and stony places of the own accord. And that which we see along the sea shore is harder and blacker than the rest, leaued also like common Ach or Persely.
•…•…ea holly.