go CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
whites in women. It is an excellent fecret, you cannot well fail in the ufe; they are 
_all under the dominion of Venus. 
There is another fort of wild blite, fomewhat like the other wild kinds, but have 
long {pike heads of greenifh feed, feeming by the thick fetting together to be all feed, 
This fort the fihhes are delighted with, and it is a good and ufeful bait. 
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| LO 90% 5 6% ann BUGLOSS,. 
THESE are fo well known to be inhabitants of every garden, that I hold it needs 
lefS to deferibe them. 
To thefe I may add a third fort, which is not fo common, nor yet fo well known, | 
and therefore I fhall give you its name and defcription. 
3 Name. ‘Tt is called langue-de-beef, but why they fhould call one herb by the name , 
of buglofs, and another by the name of langue-de-beef, is to me a queftion, feeing. 
one fignifies ox-tongue in Greek, and the other fignifies the fame in French. 
Description. The leaves thereof are {maller than thofe of buglofs, but much — 
rougher, the ftalk rifing up about a foot and a half high, and is moft commonly 
_ of a red colour, the flowers ftand in icaly rough heads, 
{mall yellow flowers, not much unlike to thofe of the dan 
_- away in dowmas that doth 
being compofed of many 
delion, and the feed flieth 
s_you may eafily know the flowets by the tafte, for they 
“Tusiz. They flower in June and Ju 
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them 
heat in fevers. The juice 
‘orefaid, and is put with 
= ions, and help the yellow 
