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ftandeth a {mall flower, of a dun or brownith yellow colour, or not fo yellow as 
others; in which herbs, after the flowers are fallen, come {mall feed wrapped up with” 
the down therein, and is carried away with the wind. The root is {mall and thready. 
There are other forts hereof, which are fomewhat lefs than the former, not much 
different, fave only that the ftalk and leaves are fhorter, fo the flowers are paler, 
and more open, ; : 
Puact. They grow in dry, barren, fandy, and gravelly grounds, in molt laces 
of this land. 
Tims. They flower about Selo fome earlier and fome later, and their ed is ripe: 
in Auguft. 
.. Government anv Virtues, Venus is lady of it. The ee. are all aftrin- 
gent, or binding and drying, and therefore profitable for defluctions of rheum from: 
the head, and to ftay fluxes of blood wherefoever. The decoétion being made into: 
red wine and drank, or the powder taken therein, alfo helpeth the bloody flux, and 
eafeth the torments that come thereby, ftayeth the immoderate courfes of women, and. 
is alfo good for inward or outward wounds, hurts, and bruifes, and helpeth children 
both of burftings and the worms, and the difeafe called tenafinus, which is an often — 
provocation to the ftool, and doing nothing, being either drank or injected, The 
green leaves bruifed and laid to any green wound, faye the bleeding, and healeth 
“it up quickly ; the decoétion or juice thereof doth the fame, ard helpeth all‘old and. 
filthy ulcers quickly. The juice of the herb taken in wine and milk, is (as Pliny 
faith) a fovereign remedy againft the mumps and quinfey ; and further faith, that. 
whofoever fhall fo take it, fhall never be troubled with that difeafe again *, 
AG COW 1 PR 
‘KNOWN alfo by the name of peagles. 
Both the wild and garden cowflips are fo well known, that I will = trouble: 
-myfelf nor the reader with any defcription of them. — 
Time. They flower in April and May. | : 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues. Venus lays claim to the herb as her Own, and it 
= is under the fign See and our city dames know well enough the ointment or he . 
me 
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* The tops of this plant, before it has reached its « full growth, have the fame virtue. I Tare ee 
‘it ufed only in one place. ’Tis frequent in Charlton Foreft, in Suffex, and was given with fuccefs : : sae i s 
for that almoft incurable difeafe the chin-cough. Beat it up into a conferve, very fine, witha 
eae oF fags, and let the bignefs of a pea be eaten at.a time, 
