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followed by feeded cods, and in every refpect fike the firft, except being fomewhat 
fmaller, It is about a foot high, and perifheth yearly. AL ae 
Prace. They are fown and planted in moft of our Englith fower-gardens, but 
are feldom found growing wild. 
Time. The great caftle gilliflower bloffoms in ) March and April, “the fecond: 
year after it is fown ; but the fmaller. kind flowereth i in July and Auguft, the fame 
year in which it is firft fown, 
Government and Virtugs. They are of temperature hot and dry, of a fimilar 
nature with the yellow wall or gillifowers, and are plants of Mercury. The flowers. 
of the ftock gilliflower boiled in water and drank, is good to remove all difficulty 
of breathing, and helps the cough; they alfo provoke the courfes and urine,.and by. 
bathing or fitting over the decoétion, it caufeth perfpiration. 
 WALE, o YELLOW GILLIFLOWER. 
Names. THIS flower is fuppofed to be of the violet fpecies. Icis a fmall bufh 
_ or fhrub, called in Latin leucocia /utea, and by the apothecaries deyri, in Englifh yel- 
low and wall gilliflowers. 
Description. The yellow wall gilliflower is: green both winter and fummer; 
the ftalks ¢hereof are hard-and of a woody fubftance, and full of branches ; ; the 
leaves are thick fet thereon, long, narrow, and green; on the tops of ‘the ftalks 
grow the flowers, which. are of a very fair yellow colour, of a ftrong but pleafant 
fmell, and every-flower is divided into four fmall leaves: ; after thefe are patt, there 
come cods or hufks, which contain large, flat, and yellow feed. 
a5  Pracr. It grows in great quantities on the ruined walls of ftone buildings, and 
_ isvery-often-planted in gardens, though the garden kinds are generally double 
— flowered, which gives them a peculiar beauty the other. cannot boatt of. 
| “i & ‘Time. Tt generally flowers in March, April, and‘May. 
SOVERNMENT and Virtugs, They are hot and dry plants of the Sun, whole 
ethey: are under, being of fubtil parts. Being dryed and boiled in water, 
urine, and bringeth down the terms, it helpeth the /chirrus, or bard im- 
am, by meine ene perch a plaifter made oes the blof- 
5: = . en nin wine is a ee fpecific for Senide ‘sect the iment 
tac ens eter made of the fame, and conveyed into the ms- 
urpole. The juice dropped into the eyes, cleanfeth them 
from {pots and dimnefs,. and the root ee with vinegar, and applied to the fpleen, 
helpeth the hardnefs thereof, 
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