m8. CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
together upon a head: the root is compofed of many fimall kernels like grains 
of corn, fome twice as long as others, of a whitifh colour, with fome fibres ar the. 
end of them. 
Prace. It groweth for the moft part in the moift corners of fields, and places 
near waterfides, yet will abide in drier grounds, if they are but a little fhadowed. 
Timez. It flowereth about March or April, and is quite gone in May, fo that it 
cannot be found until it fprings again. ; 
GoveRNMENT anp Virtues. It is under the dominion of Mars; and behold 
here another verification of that learning of the ancients, viz. that the virtue of an 
herb may be known by its fignature, as plainly appears in this ; for if you digup 
the root of it, you fhall fee the perfect image of that difeafe which is commonly — 
called the piles. It is certain from-good experience, that the decoction of the leaves 
and roots doth wonderfully help the piles and hermorrhoids, as alfo kernels by the 
€ars and throat, called the king’s evil, or any other hard wens or tumours. Pilewort 
made into an oil, ointment, or plaifter, readily cures both the piles, hermorrhoids, 
and the king’s evil; the very herb borne about one’s body, next to the fkin, helps 
in fuch difeafes, though it does not touch the place grieved. Let poor people 
make much of this for thefe ufes, for with this I cured my own daughter of the 
King’s evil, broke the fore, drew out a quarter of a pint of corrupt matter, and in 
one week made a complete cure without a {car, cas 
The Orpinary smart CE NEA U2: Y. 
‘Description. THIS groweth up moft ufually with but one round and fomes 
what crefted ftalk, about a foot high, or better, ranching forth at the top into 
many {prigs, and fome alfo from the joints of the ftalks below ; the flowers that 
Rand at the tops as it were in an umbel or tuft, are of a pale red, tending toa care 
ow colour, conlifting of five, fometimes fix {mall leaves, very like thofe of St. 
s tw Opening themfelves in the day-time, and.clofing at night, after which — 
Me S feed in little fhort hufks, in form like wheat corns: the leaves are {mall 
BS hat round : the root is fmall and hard, perifhing every year. The whole — 
