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religion I ever read of. Baccuinus, Pena, and Lozez, commend the fyrup made 
of the juice of it and fugar taken inwardly, to be excellent for the {fpleen. Alfo 
this is certain, that it moft wonderfully breaks the ftone; fome take it jn fyrup 
or decoction, others inject the juice of it into the bladder with a fyringe: my opinion 
is, that the falt of it taken half a drachm in the morning, in a little white or rhenifh 
wine, is better than either; that it is excellent for the ftone, appears in this which 
I have feen tried, viz. That a ftone that hath been taken out of the body of a 
man, being wrapped in chamomile, will in a fhort time diffolve. ee 
WATER CALTROPS 
THEY are called alfo, tribulus aquaticus, tribulus lacuftris, tribulus marinus, cal- 
trops, faligot, water nuts, and water chefnuts. 
Dsecription. As for the greater fort, or water caltrop, it is but very rarely 
found here: two other forts there are which I fhall here defcribe. The firft hatha 
long, creeping, and jointed root, fending forth tufts at each joint, from which joints 
arife long, flat, flender, knotted ftalks, even to the top of the water, divided to- 
wards the top into many branches, each carrying two leaves on both fides, being, 
about two inches long, and half aninch broad, thin and almoft tranfparent, they look 
as though they were torn, the flowers are lone, thick, and whitifh, fet together ale 
moft like a bunch of grapes, which being gone, there facceed for the moft part, 
four fharp pointed grains altogether, containing a fmall white kernel in them. 
The fecond differs not much from this, except that it delights in more clear water ; 
its ftalks are not flat, but round ; its leaves are not fo long, but more pointed... As 
for the place we need not determine, for their name fheweth that they grow in 
| the water. - *; SH Saeed 
-* GOVERNMENT anD Virtues. It is under the dominion of the Moon, and being 
made into a poultice, is excellent good for hot inflammations and fwellings, cankers, 
fore throats, and mouths, being wafhed with the decoéi ion, it cleanfeth and ftrength- 
eneth the neck and throat much, and helpeth thofe {wellings, which when people 
have, they fay the almonds of the ears are fallen down; it is excellent good for the. 
ftone and gravel, efpecially the nuts being dried ; they alfo refift poifon, and bitings 
of venomous beafts. } uote 3 Hose Hie 3 gee 
C2 WILD CAMPION S. 
Description. THE wild white campion, hath many long, and fomewhat broad # 
es lying upon the ground, with divers roots therein, fomewhat like gigs 
