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% CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
pity they are ufed no more in phyfic than they are. The black bilberries are Good 
in hot agues, and to cool the heat of the liver and ftomach ; they do lomewhat bind 
the belly, and ftay vomitings and loathings : the juice of the berries made into a fy- 4 
: rup, or the pulp made into aconferve with fugar, is good for the purpofes afore. 
faid ; as alfo for an old cough, or an ulcer in the lungs, or other difeafes therein, 
The red whorts are more binding, and ftop women’s courfes, { pitting of blood, or 
any other flux of blood or humours, being ufed as well outward] y as inwardly, 
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Description, 
BYFOIL, oo TWAYBLADE. 
THIS fmall herb from a root fomewhat fweet, thooting down- : 
wards many long ftrings, rifeth up a round green ftalk, bare or naked next the 4 
-Sround for an inch, two or three to the middle thereof, .as it is in age or growth, - 
~ 4s alfo from the middle upwards to the flowers, having only two broad plantane-like- f 
leaves, but whiter, fet at the middle of the ftalk, one againft another, and CO 
paffeth it round at the bottom of them. 
Pace. Itis an ufual inhabitant in woods, 
‘this land. ye 
. There is another fort grows in wet grounds and marfhes, which is fomewhat dif- C 
fering from the former: it is a {maller plant, and greener, having fometimes three ~ 
leaves; the fpike of flowers is lefs than the former, and the roots of this do run of f 
_ €reep inthe ground, | 
They are much ‘and often ufed 
green and old, and to confolidate o 
coppices, and in many other places in q 
by many to good purpofes, for wounds both 7 
t knit ruptures, being a plant of Saturn. | 
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SEA BIRCH. TRE Gp 
ee 1 DEscutPrion. THIS groweth a Soodly tall ftraight tree, fraught with many 
- . PONBAS and “branches. bending downward, the old 
a ree SQ unger being: much! browner - the leaves at firft 
Stee afte ike the beech leaves, but fmaller-and | 
= about the edges : it fmall fhort catkins, fomewhat like — 
tree,-which abideth on 
2 2 the branches a ‘time, until grown 
-and their feed with them, e i ae 
eee O. the juice of the leaves while — 
Sm OFthe water that ‘comes 'out of the tree, be- : 
ce eee ing 
