after." That writing-ink can be made of the green fruit of alder trees. That the bark of the same tree is useful for making "a blacke dye for the courser sorts of things," and that the leaves put under the bare feet of travellers are "a great refreshing unto them." That the rose of Jericho opened the night our Saviour was born, and that placed in any house it will open when a child is born. That mouseare if given to any horse "will cause that he shall not be hurt by the Smith that shooeth him." That purslane is not only a sovereign remedy for crick in the neck, but also for "blastings by lightening, or planets and for burnings by Gunpowder or otherwise." That country folk in Kent and Sussex call sopewort "Gill-run-by-the-streete." That agrimony leaves will cure cattle suffering from coughs, and that wounded deer use this same herb to heal their hurts. That a decoction made of hemp will draw earthworms out of their holes and that fishermen thus obtain their bait. That crops of woad may be cut three times in the year, and that dyers' weed will change to green any cloth or silk first dyed blue with woad, "and for these uses there is great store of this herbe spent in all countries and thereof many fields are sowen for the purpose." That country-folk use goose-grass as a strainer "to clear their milke from strawes, haires, and any other thing that falleth into it." That St. John's wort is used by country-folk to drive away devils. That "Clownes woundwort" owes its name to a labourer who healed himself therewith of a cut with a scythe in his leg. That willow-herb, being burned, "driveth away flies and gnats and other such like small creatures which use in diverse places that are neere to Fennes, marsh or water sides to infest them that dwell there in the night season to sting and bite them, leaving the marks and spots thereof in their faces which beside the deformity, which is but for a while, leaveth them that are thus bitten not without paine for a time." That from turnesole (heliotropium) are made "those ragges of cloth which are usually called Turnesole in the Druggists and Grocers shoppes and with all other people and serveth to colour jellies or other things as every one please." That when French ladies coloured their faces with an ointment containing anchusa the colour did not last long. That no "good gentlewoman in the land that would do good" should be without a store of bugloss ointment either for her own family "or other her poor neighbours that want helpe and means to procure it," and that beyond the sea in France and Germany it is a common proverb "that they neede neither Physition to cure their inward diseases nor Chirurgion to helpe them of any wound or sore that have this Bugle and Sanicle at hand by them to use." That this is equally true of the herb self-heale. That country-folk use sanicle to anoint their hands "when they are chapt by the winde." That goat's rue is good for fattening hens. That Herbe True