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say twift them round as you may a willow before they break. The flowers are very 
mall and yellow, after which comes {mall cods which contain the iced. 
' Pract. Itis a common herb, grows ufually by the way fides, and fometimes up- 
on mud walls about London, but it delights moft to grow.among {tones and rubbifh, 
Time. It flowers in June and July, and the feed is ripe in Auguft and Sep- 
tember. Se 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues. °Tis under the dominion of Mars, and is a plant 
of ahot and biting nature: the truth is, the feed of black creffes ftrengthen the brain 
exceedingly, being in performing that office little inferior to muftard feed, if atvall : 
they are excellent good to ftay thofe rheums which fall down from the head upon the 
lungs. You may beat the feed into powder if you pleafe, and make it up into an . 
-_lectuary with honey, fo have you an excellent remedy by you, not only for the pre- 
mifes, but alfo for the cough, yellow jaundice,and fciatica. The herb boiled into a 
poultice, is an excellent remedy for inflammations both i in womens’ breafts and in 
amen’s tefticles. 
DY scrnries CRESSES. 
Description. THESE are of two kinds; the firft rifeth up with a round ftalle 
about two feet high, fpread into divers branches, whofe lower leaves are fomewhat — 
larger than the upper, yet all of them cut or torn on the edges, fomewhat like garden 
creffes, but finaller : the flowers are fmall and white, growing on the tops of the 
branches, where afterwards grow hufks, with fmallith brown feed therein, very 
{trong and fharp in tafte, more than the creffes of the garden, The root is long, 
white and woody. 
The other fort hath the lower leaves whole, fomewhat long and broad, not torn 
at all, but only fomewhat deeply dented about the edges toward the ends, but thofe 
that grow higher up are lefs. The flowers and feed are like the former, and fo is the 
- oot likewife : and both root and feed as fharp as it. | 
- Pracz. Thefe grow by the way fides in untilled places, and ‘a the fides of 
old walls. | 
Time. They flower in the end of June, il their feed is ripein July. 
Government anv Virtuzs. It isa Saturnine plant: the leaves, but efpecially 
the roots taken frefh in the fummer time, beaten and made into a poultice or falve 
with old hog’s greafe, and applied to the places pained with the fciatica, to continue 
thereon four hours if it Re ng man, and cwo hours on.a woman, the Place afters oe 
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