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tilled water of it, adds beauty, or at leaft reftores it when it is loft. The flowers ate 
held to be more effectual than the leaves, and the roots of little ufe. An ointment 
being made with them, taketh away fpots, and wrinkles of the ain, fun-burning, and 
freckles, and adds beauty exceedingly ; they remedy all infirmities of the head yee 
ingof heat and wind, as vertigo, ephialtes, falfe apparitions, phrenzies, falling, ge 
nels, palfies, convulfions, cramps, and pains in the nerves ; the roots eafe pains if 
the back and bladder, and open the paffages of urine. The leaves are good in 
wounds, and the flowers take away trembling. If the flowers be not ace dried and 
Kept in a warm place, they will foon putrefy and look green ; have a fpecial eye over 
them. If youlet them fee the fun once a month, it will do them no harm. 
Becaufe they ftrengthen the brain and nerves, and remedy the palfies, the Greeks 
gave them the name of paralvfis. The flowers preferved or conferved, and the quan- 
tity of a nutmeg eaten every morning, is a fufficient dofe for inward difeafes; but for 
wounds, fpots, wrinkles and fun-burning, an oinment is made of the leaves, and | 
hog’s greafe. : 7 
OP Se a es ee oR Oe EA ee 
CALLED alfo water fengrene, knigh’s pond-water, water houfleek, pond- 
weed, and freth-water foldier. yee 
Daseription. It hath fundry long narrow leaves, with harp prickles on the edges 
_ of them, alfo very tharp pointed, the ftalks which bear flowers, feldom grow fo high 
_ vas the leaves, bearing a forked head like a crab’s claw, out of which comes a white 
fower, confifting of three: leaves, with divers yellowith hairy threads in the middle 
it taketh root in the mud, in the bottom of the water. 
_ Frace, Itgroweth plentifully in the fens in Lincolathire. 
oe Time. It flowers in June, and ufually from thence till Aueult. : 
Government axp Virtues. *Tis a plant under the dominion of Venus, and 
ws 2 great ftrengthener of the reins ; it is excellent good in that inflammation 
‘commonly called St. Anthony’s fire, it affwageth all inflammations and 
10. wounds 5 and an ointment made of it is. excellent good to heal them : 
7a better remedy growing than this for fuch as have bruifed their kid- 
mt Account piffing blood. A drachm of the powder of the herb 
‘Morn! ig 1s a very good remedy to ftop the terms, 
tf Bha eo CRESS E 5. 
Phath long leaves deepl ty Cut and jagged on both fides, nov much 
5 the alk’ are finall, very limber though very tough; YOU 
oe may 
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