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AND COMPLETE HERBAL, 1S oo ay 
* Water-crefs pottage is a good remedy to cleanfe the blood in the fpring, and help 
head-achs, and confume the grofs humours winter hath left behind ; thofe who would 
live in health, may make ufe of this; if any fancy not pottage, they may eat the 
herb asa fallad. 
Se Oss ae WORT. 
Deseritption. COMMON crofs-wort groweth up with {quare hairy brown ftalks 
little above a foot high, having four fmall, broad, and pointed, hairy, yet fmooth 
green leaves, growing at every joint, each againft other crofsways, which has.caufed 
the name. Toward the tops of’the ftalks at the joints, with the leaves in three or 
four-rows downward, ftand fmall, pale, yellow flowers, after which:come fmall, 
blackifh round feeds, four for the moft-part, fet inevery hufk ; the root is very {malt 
and fullof fibres or threads, taking good hold of the ground, and fpreading with the 
branches a great deal of ground, which perifh not in perigpen. anova the saves die 
every year, and {pring again anew. ; 
Peace. It groweth in many moift oad as well lecadions! as untilled paghed : 
~ about London, in Hampftead church-yard, at Wye in Kent, annd fundry other 
places. Es 
Time. It fowereth from May all the fummer long, in one place or another, as 
they are more open to the Sun ; the feed ripeneth foon after. 
GoveRNMENT AND Virtues. Itis under the dominion of Saturn, This isa fin- ~ 
gular good wound herb, and is ufed inwardly, not only to ftay bleeding of wounds, 
but to confolidate them, as it doth outwardly any green wound, which it quickly 
drieth up and healeth. The decoétion of the herb in wine, helpeth to. expeClorate 
phlegm out of the cheft, and is good for obftruétions in the breaft, ftomach, or | 
bowels, and helpeth a decayed appetite. It is alfo good to wath any wound or. fore 
with, to cleanfe and heal it. The herb bruifed and then boiled, and applied out-. 
wardly for certain days together, renewing it often, and in the mean time, the decoc-: 
tion of the herb in wine, taken inwardly every day, doth certainly cure the rupture _ 
in any, fo as it be not too inveterate ; but very fpeedily, if it be freth and lately taken, 
f0 cROWFOOT. ee 
| MANY wane names this furious biting herb. hath obtained ; it is called frogs 
foot, from the Greek name Larrakion, crowfoot, gold-knobs, gold-cups; miaie ae e a 
ie troil-Howers, polts, locket-goulions, and butter-flowers, - 
