CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
CONTAINING THE 
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“AMARA- DUC Graz : 
(Cant se Save te diverfe fhires in pi give divers names to cae 
and the fame herb, and that common name which it bears in one county, 
is not known in another ; J fhall take the pains to fet down all the names 
that I know of each herb. Pardon me for fetting that name firft which is moft: 
common to myfelf; befides amara-dulcis, fome call it morral, others stoic 
fome woody-nightfhade, and others felon-wort. 
Description. It grows up with woody ftalks even toa man’s height, ‘od fome- 
times higher : the leaves fall off at the approach of winter, and {pring out of the fame 
ftalk again at fpring time; the branch is encompaffed about with a whitith bark, 
and hath a peth in the middle of it, the main branch brancheth itfelf out into 
many {mall ones, with clafpers, laying hold on what’ is ‘next to them, as vines do; 5 
it bears many leaves, they grow in no order at all, or at leaftwife in no vulgar order ; _ 
the leaves are longifh, though fomewhat broad and pointed at the ends; many of 
them have two little leaves growing at the end of their foot ftalk, fome of eee: have 
but one, and fome none ; the leaves are of a pale green colour; the flowers are of 
a purple colour, or of a perfeé blue, like to violets, and they ftand many of them 
together in knots 5 the berries are green at the firft, but when they are ripe, they are 
very red; ‘if you tafte them, you hall find them juft as the crabs which we in sulle ee 
call gr ey viz. omens and bitter afterwards. eo saa: bees a 
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