AND COMPLETE HERBAL. gt 
Gia to comfort the heart and fpirits of thofe that are in a confumption, or troubled 
with often fwooning, or paffions of the heart ; the diftilled water is no lefs efe&ual 
to all the purpofes aforefaid, and helpeth the rednefs and inflammations of the eyes 
being wafhed therewith; the dried herb is never ufed, but the green ; yet the afhes 
thereof boiled in mead, or honey water, is available again{t inflammations and ulcers 
in the mouth or throat, to wafh and gargle it therewith. The roots of buglofs are 
effectual, being made into a licking eleCtuary for the cough, and to condenfate thin 
phlegm, and rheumatic diftillations upon the lungs. 
Le » ise 
IT is called fyanus, I fuppofe from the colour of it; hurt fickle, becaufe it turns 
the edge of the fickles that reap the corn; blueblow, corn- flower, and blue-bottle. 
' Description, I fhall only defcribe that which is mott common, and in my opi- 
nion moft ufeful : its leaves {pread upon the ground, being of a whitith green co- 
lour, fomewhat cut on the edges like thofe of corn-{cabious, among which rifeth up 
a {talk divided into divers branches, befet with long leaves of a greenith colour, 
either but very little indented, or not at all; the flowers are of a blue colour, from 
whence i it took its name, confifting of an innumerable company of fmall flowers, fet 
in a fcaly head, not much unlike thofe of knapweed,; the feed is fmooth; bright, 
and fhining, wrapped up in a woolly mantle: the root perifheth every year. 
Pracr. They grow in corn fields, amongft all forts of corn, peafe, and beans, 
but not in tares; if you pleafe to take them up from thence, and tran{plant them 
in your garden, efpecially towards the full of the Moon, they will ary more double | 
than they are, and many times change colour. 
“Time. They flower from the beginning of May, to the end of ‘apie ts 
GovernMENT and Virtues. As they are naturally cold, “dry, and binding, fo 
are they under the dominion of Saturn. The powder or dried leaves of the blue- 
bottle or corn-flower, is given with good fuccefs to thofe that are bruifed by a fall, 
or have broken a vein inwardly, and void niuch blood a at the mouth ; being taken i in 
the water of plantane, horfetail, or the greater comfrey, it is a remedy againft the | 
poifon of the fcorpion, and ‘refifteth all venom: and poifons : the feed or leaves. 
taken i in wine is very good. againft. the plague, and all infectious difeates, and is 
y good in peftilential fevers. “The j juice put into frefh or green wounds, doth | 
quickly clofe the lips of them together, and i is very effectual to heal all ulcers and | | 
fores in the n Sie out! 15 thej juice dropped into the eyes, taketh away the heat and. ine = 
rhs the liftilled water of ‘the herb snes the’ fame’ Pe erties 
may “be uted for the effeats scien : 
- BRANK | 
