That the leaves of _Catapucia_ or Spurge, being plucked upward or downward, respectively perform their operations by Purge or Vomit, as some have written, and old wives still do preach, is a strange conceit, ascribing unto Plants positional operations, and after the manner of the Loadstone; upon the Pole whereof if a Knife be drawn from the handle unto the point, it will take up a Needle; but if drawn again from the point to the handle, it will attract it no more. That Cucumbers are no commendable fruits, that being very waterish, they fill the veins with crude and windy serosities; that containing little Salt or spirit, they may also debilitate the vital acidity, and fermental faculty of the Stomach, we readily concede. But that they should be so cold, as be almost poison by that quality, it will be hard to allow, without the contradiction of _Galen_ [SN: _In his Anatomia Sambuci._]: who accounteth them cold but in the second degree, and in that Classis have most Physitians placed them. That Elder Berries are poison, as we are taught by tradition, experience will unteach us. And beside the promises of _Blochwitius_, the healthful effects thereof daily observed will convict us. That an Ivy Cup will separate Wine from Water, if filled with both, the Wine soaking through, but the Water still remaining, as after _Pliny_ many have averred, we know not how to affirm; who making trial thereof, found both the liquors to soak indistinctly through the bowl. That Sheep do often get the Rot, by feeding in boggy grounds where _Ros-solis_ groweth, seems beyond dispute. That this herb is the cause thereof, Shepherds affirm and deny; whether it hath a cordial vertue by sudden refection, sensible experiment doth hardly confirm, but that it may have a Balsamical and resumptive Vertue, whereby it becomes a good Medicine in Catarrhes and Consumptive dispositions, Practice and Reason conclude. That the lentous drops upon it are not extraneous, and rather an exudation from it self, then a rorid concretion from without, beside other grounds, we have reason to conceive; for having kept the Roots moist and earthed in close chambers, they have, though in lesser plenty, sent out these drops as before. That _Flos Affricanus_ is poison, and destroyeth Dogs, in two experiments we have not found. That Yew and the Berries thereof are harmless, we know. That a Snake will not endure the shade of an Ash, we can deny. Nor is it inconsiderable what is affirmed by _Bellonius_ [SN: Lib. 1 observat.]; for if his Assertion be true, our apprehension is oftentimes wide in ordinary simples, and in common use we mistake one for another. We know not the true Thyme; the Savourie in our Gardens is not that commended of old; and that kind of Hysop the Ancients used, is unknown unto us, who make great use of another.