62 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
among which ftand long broad leaves of a reddith green colour, and Qippery. The 
flowers are not properly flowers, but tufts, very beautiful to behold, but of no fenell, 
of a reddith colour; if you bruife them, they yield juice of the {ame colour ; being 
gathered, they keep their beauty a long time; the feed is of a fhining black colour. - 
Time. They continue in flower from Augutt till the time the frofts nip them. 
Govenhauwr anp Virtues. It is underthe dominion of Saturn, and is an ex- 
cellent qualifier of the unruly actions and paffions of Venus, though Mars alfo _ 
_fhould joia with her. The flowers dried and beaten into powder, ftop the terms ia 
women, and fo do almoft all other red things. And by the icon, or image of every — 
herb, the antients at firit found out their virtues. Modern writers, they laugh at them 
for it, but 1 wonder in my heart how the virtue of herbs came at firit to be known, 
if not by their fignatures, the moderns have them from the writings of the ancients, 
the ancients had no writings to have them from. But to proceed, the flowers ftop 
all fluxes of blood whether in man or woman, bleeding either by the nofe or wound, 
There is alfo a fort of Amaranthus which bears a white flower, which ftops the : 
whites in women, and the running of the reins in men, and is a moft gallant anti- © 
venerian, and a fingular remedy for the French pox. 
el Sa ANEMON &, 
€ ALLED alfo wind-flower, becaufe they fay the flowers never open but when — 
the wind bloweth: Pliny is my author, if it be not fo, blame him. ‘The feed allo, 
if it bears any at all, flies away with the wind. | 
Peace ano Time. They are fown ufually in the gardens of the curious, and 
flower in the fpring time. As for defcription | fhall pafs it, they being well knowa 
mg, and bringeth away many watery and phlegmatic humours, — 
mt for the lethargy. And when all is done, let phyficians — 
‘the pills in the difpenfatory purge not the head like to hot 
in 5 made into an ointment, and the eyelids anointed — 
tions of the eyes, whereby it is palpable that every 
ght; the fame ointment is exceeding good to cleanfe — 
GARDEN 
