a1 cuLPe ern’: ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
plantane, but rather hairy, broader, and not fo long ; the hairy <a rife us in Ney 
iniddle of them, three or four feet high, and ested aa more, with divers i 
joints at feveral places thereon, and two fuch like leaves thereat a t : fe 
fending forth branches at feveral joints alfo, all which bear on feveral footfta 3, 
white flowers at the tops of them, coniifting of five broad pointed leaves, every oné 
Cut in on the end unto the middl et making them feem to be two apiece, {melling 
fomewhat fweet, and each of them ftanding i in large green, ftriped, hairy hufks, large 
and round below next to the ftalk ; the feed is {mall and greyifh in the hard heads 
that come up afterwards ; the root is white and long, {preading divers fangs in the 
ground, ; 
The red wild campion croweth j in the fame manner as the white, but its leaves are 
not fo Plainly ribbed, fhomewhat fhorter, rounder, and more woolly in handling; — 
the flowers are of the fame fize and form, but fome are of a pale, and others of a 
bright red colour, cut in at the ends more finely, which makes the leaves feem more 
in number than the other : the feed and the roots aré alike, the roots of both forts 
abiding many years. : 
~ There are forty-five forts of campions more, thofe of them which are of phyfical 
ufes, having the hike virtues with thefe above defcribed, which I imagine to be the 
two chief kinds. 
Peace. They grow commonly hough thiskingdom in ficlds, and be hee 
fades and ditches. 
: “Time. ‘They flower j in fummer, 
Linge than others. 
~ GoveRNMentT anp Virtues. 
_ nce that the decoétion of the he 
fome earlier than others, and foie: abiding 
They lca! to > Batra, and it is found by experi 
rb, either of the white or red, being drank, doth 
u tay inward bleedings, and appli 
ied outwardly it doth the like; alfo being drank, it 
 Aelpeth to expel urine, being. 
hs : topped, and gravel or ftone in the reins or kidfies: 
cits of the feed. drank in wine, 
thofe that are ftung by fcorpions, or other venomous beafts, and may be 4s 
| ‘Plague : : it is of very good ufe inold fores, ulcers, cankers, fiftulasy 
leanfe and heal them, by confuming the moift humours eae into 
ng = putrefaction of humours offending them. ; 
PLACk 
purgeth ‘the ‘body of choleric humours, and — 
