AND COMPLETE HERBAL; 13t 
plied in the fame manner, giveth eafe to pained joints, and profiteth very much for 
running and moift ulcérs, Gangrenes, miortifications, and the ike, for which it hath 
by often experience been found helpful. 
po CORAL WORT, 
IT is alfocalied by fome, toothwort, toothed violet, dog-teeth violet, and 
Dentaris. | 
Description. Of the many forts of this herb, two of them may be fund ¢ growing 
inthis kingdom ; the firft of which fhooteth forth one or two winged leaves upon 
long brownith footftalks, which are doubled down at their firft coming out of the | 
ground: when they are fulty opened they confift of feven leaves, moft commonly of 
a fadgreen colour, dented about the edges, fet on both fides the middle rib one a- 
@ainft another, as the leaves of the afh-tree; the ftalk beareth no leaves on the lower 
half of it, the upper half beareth fometimes three or four, each confifting of five 
leaves, fometimes but of three; on the top ftand four or five flowers upon fhort foot~ 
ftalks, with long hufks; the flowers are very like the flowers of ftock gilliflowers, 
of a pale purpleifh colour, confifting of four leaves apiece, after which come {mall 
cods which contain the feed: the root is very fmooth, white, and fhining, it doth 
not grow downwards, but creeping along under the upper cruft of the ground, and 
confifteth of divers fmall round knobs, ft together : towards the top of the ftalk 
there grow fmall fingle leaves, by éach of which cometh a fmall round cloven bulb, 
which when itis ripe, if it be fet in thé ‘ground, it will grow to be 4 root, and is 
efteemed a good way of cultivating the herb. 
As for the other coralwort which’ groweth in this nation, "tis more fearce than 
this, being a very fmall plant, not much unlike crowfoot, therefore fome think it to 
be one of the forts of crowfoot. I know noe ina you to: it, and there- 
fore fhall forbear the defcription. 
Prace. The firft groweth near Mayfield in Sulfex, it in a wood called High-reed, 
and in another wood there alfo, ‘called Fox-holes, 
Time. They flower from the latter end of April tothe middle of May, and pee 
the middle of July they are gone and not to be found. 
Government and Virtus. It isunder the dominion of the Moon. It cleanfeth 
the bladder and provoketh urine, expels gravel and the ftone, it eafeth pains in the 
fides and bowels; it is “excellent good: for inward wounds, efpecially fuch as are 
made in the breaft or ‘Tungsy by taking a drachm of the powder of the root every — 
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