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138 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSIC CIAN, 
Abundant are the forts of this herb, that-to defcribe them al] would tire the pa 
tience of Socrates himfelf ; therefore fhall only defcribe the moft ufual. 
' ‘Déseriprion. The moft common crow-foot hath many dark green leaves, cut 
into divers patts, in tafte biting and fharp, biting and bliftering the tongue ; it bears 
many flowers, and thofe of a bright, refplendent, yellow colour. I do not remember 
that Lever faw any thing yellower. Virgins in ancient times ufed to make powder of 
them to furrow bride beds. After the flowers come {mall eee fomewhat fpiked 
and rugged like a pine-apple, “a 
_ Prace. They grow very common every where jules you turn your head i into a 
 begee, you cannot butifee them as you' walk. es 
Time. They flower in May and June, even till Seoecinber. 
a | GovernMENt AND Virtues. ‘This fiery and hot {pirited herb of Mars, is no 
_ way fitto be given inwardly, but an ointment of the leaves or flowers will draw a 
blifter, and may be fo ficly applied tothe nape of the neck, to draw back rheum from — 
the eyes. The herb being bruifed and mixed with a little muftard, draws a blifter 4 
as well and as perfectly as cantbarides, and with far lefs danger to the veffels of urine, 
which cantharides naturally delight to wrong. “a knew the herb once applied toa 
~ pettilential rifing that was fallen down, and it faved life even beyond hope; it were 
. Bead Keering an ointment and platter of it, fa it were but for that. 
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at cuCcKOW.- POINT. 
~~ EF is called alto n, janus, and barba-aron, calves- foot, ramp, ftarch-wort, We 
- -kow-pintle, | 
ie! *s-pintle, and wake-robin. : 
Description, This thooteth forth three, four, or five leaves at the moft, fiom 
ne TOOK, every one whereof is fomewhat large and long, broad at the bottom, next 
th  ftalk, and forked, but ending i in a point, without ; a cut on the edges, of a full 
a n-colour, each ftanding t upon a thick round ftalk, of a handful breadth long, oF 
hich, after two or three months that they begin to wither, ‘rifeth up 
nitill green ftalk, fpotte and ftreaked with purple, fomewhat higher 
ves 3a the top whereof ftandeth : a long, hollow houte or hufk, clofe at 
| from the middle upwards, a in a point 5 in the middle 
hutk j is on a the infide, ‘though green Fichodlt ; which 
n conse the otk ewitlt the claphet sheet coi 5 
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