AND COMPLETE HERBAL, 40K 
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THIS herb is alfo called petafitis. | ’ 
Description. . It rifeth up in February, with a thick ftalk about a foot high, 
whereon are fet afew {mall leaves, or rather pieces, and at the tops a Jong fj piked head 
of flowers, of a blufh or.deep.red colour, according to the foil wherein it groweth ; 
and before the ftalk. with the flowers have abidden a month. above ground, will be 
withered and gone, and blown away with the wind, and the leaves will begin to fpring, 
which being full grown are very large and broad, being fornewhat thin and almoft 
round, whofe thick red footftalks, about a foot long, ttand towards the middle of 
the leaves; the lower part being divided into two round parts, clofe almoft one to ano- 
ther, and of a pale green colour, and hoary underneath : the root is long and fi pread- 
ing under the ground, being in fome places no bigger than one’s finger, i in others 
larger, rather blackifh on the outfide and white. within, and of a very bitter and 
unpleafant tafte. 
~ Prace anv Time. They. grow.in low, and wet grounds by ri rivers and water fides ; 
‘thei!’ flowers (as is faid) ities and, deraving in Eeby ar} and. March, before the 
leaves which appear in April. re ay 
’ GoVERNMENT AND Vabuair It is samen a Aodtinion of the Son ak Eierebbice 
“js a great ftrengthener of the heart, and chears the vital fpirits*. Its roots are by 
Jong experience! found to be very available againft the plague and peftilential fevers, 
-by provoking fweat; if the. powder thereof be taken in wine, it alfo refifteth the 
force of any:other, poifon: the root taken. with zedoary and angelica, or without 
.them, “helps the rifing of the mother; the decoction of the root in wine, is fingular 
good for thofe that wheeze much, or are fhort winded ; it provoketh urine alfo and 
womens’ courfes, and killeth the fat and broad worms in the bélly ; the powder of 
the root doth wonderfully help to dry up the,moifture of fores that are hard to be 
cured, and taketh away. all {pee and blemithes of the Akin, ae 
Pe 
2 BOO ENS RAS BF a8 Srey 
“THEY a are: salfo called perfonata, bardonay | lappa major, great Burdoen: and clot- . 
cinaie ss At is fo.well known. even. to the Jigtle t boys. who pull off the burs to throw" a 
“ftick on each other, that I Mail omit wens, any defeription of it. 
* The excelent F vcnstvs, in. his eee this hert; is moft exprefs, ceil records its virtues 
fe fevers 3 3 and this he {peaks not from tradition, but his own experience. — 
. Were it needful ‘to prove the | fun gives Tights” tis fcarce lefs —— or lefs obvious, than that ae 2 AG 5 : 
FEVEES, «PAF of a: Sok spate? 
“oot beyond all things el eures peli 
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