Of wilde Mercurie.

| 1 Cynocrambe. Dogs Mercurie. | 2 Phyllon Thelygonon. Childrens Mercurie. | |--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|

The description.

Dogs Mercurie is somewhat like vnto the garden Mercurie, sauing the leaues heereof are greater, and the stalke not so tender, and yet very brittle, growing to the height of a foote, without any braunches at all, with small yellowe flowers. The seede is like the female Mercurie. Childrens Mercurie hath three or fower stalkes or mo: the leaues be somewhat long, not much vnlike the leaues of the Oliue tree, couered ouer with a soft downe or wooll, graie of colour: and the seede also like those of female Mercurie.

The place.

They grow in woods and copses, in the borders of fieldes, and among bushes and hedges. The dogs Mercurie I haue founde in many places about Greene-Hith, Swanes-combe village, Graues-ende, and South-fleete in Kent; in Hampsteede woode, and all the hedges thereabout, fower miles from London.

The time.

These flourish all the sommer long vntill the extreme frost do pull them downe.

The names.

Dogs Mercurie is called in Greeke κυνοκράμβη: in Latine Canina, and Brassica canina, and Mercurialis syluestris: in English Dogs Cole, and Dogs Mercurie. Childrens Mercurie is called Phyllon theligonon, and Phyllon Arrhenogonon.

The vertues.

These wilde kinds of Mercurie are not vsed in Phisicke, notwithstanding it is thought they agree as well in nature as qualitie with the other kinds of Mercurie.