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BESIDES the common name above written, it is called cheefe rennet, becaufe it 
performs the fame office ; as alfo gallion, pertimugget, and maid’s hair, and by fome, 
wild rofemary. 
Description. This rifeth up with divers fmall, brown, and {quare upright ftalks, © 
a yard high, or more, fometimes branched forth into divers parts, full of joints, 
and with divers very fine {mall leaves at every one of them, little, or nothing rough 
at all: at the tops of the branches grow many long tufts or branches of yellow 
flowers, very thick fet together, from the. feveral joints which confift of tour leaves 
each, which {mell fomewhat ftrong, but not unpleafant : the feed is {mall and black 
like poppy feed, two for the moft part joined together ; the root is reddifh with. 
many fimall threads faftened unto it, which take ftrong hold of the ground, and 
creepeth a little; and the branches leaning a little down to the ground, take root 
at the joints thereof, whereby it is eafily encreafed. 
‘There is alfo another fort of lady’s bed-ftraw growing fiequently in England, 
which beareth white flowers as the other doth yellow ; but the branches of this are 
fo weak Sead onc it be fuftained by the hedges, or other things near which it 
groweth, it will lie down on the ground: 
the leaves are a little bigger than the 
pa | Na ee fo plentiful as thofe ; and the root hereof is alfo 
—Puace. They grow in 
fides of hedges. 
Timez. They flo 
meadows and paftures, both wet and dry, and by the | 
Saat Adsid wer in sand Ba the moft bert and the feed is ripe in July 
_ Government anp Virtors, 
They are both herbs of Ven 
‘neth t Bess Oe 4 of Venus, and therefore 
a pier oe external which fhe rules. The decoétion 
‘tayerh ‘inward Ha Re: beet = fret and break the ftone, provokes 
Hi sre tm healeth inward wounds: the herb or flowet - 
