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were folded or plaited at firft, and then crumpled in divers places, and a little hairy, 
as the ftalk is alfo, which rifeth up among them to the height of two or three feet, 
with fuch-like leaves thereon, but f{maller, and, being weak, is not able to ftand up- 
right, but bendeth down to the ground, divided at the top into two or three {mall 
‘branches, with fmall and yellowifh green heads, and flowers of a whitith colour 
- breaking out of them, which being palt, there cometh finall yellow féed like poppy- 
feed ; the root.is fomewhat long and black, with many ftrings or fibres. | t 
- Prace. It groweth naturally in many paftures and woodfides, in Hartfordhhire, 
Wiltthire, and Kent, and other places of this land. 
Time. It flowereth in May and June, and remains green all the winter. 
’ GoveRNMENT AND Virtus. » Venus claims the herb as her own... Ladies’ mantle 
is very proper for thofe wounds that have inflammation, and is very. effectual to ftay 
bleedings, vomitings, fluxes of ‘all forts in men or women, and bruifes by falls or 
otherwife, and hel peth ruptures ; itis alfo good for fome diforders in womens breafts, 
caufing them to grow lefs and hard, being both inwardly and outwardly applied. 
The diftilled water, taken for twenty days together, helpeth conception ; and ajbath, 
made of the decoction of the herb, will fometimes prevent mifcarriages. It is one 
of the moft ufeful wound-herbs, and therefore highly prized and praifed by'the Ger- 
‘mans, who, in all wounds, inward and outward, drink the decoction thereof, and 
wafh the wounds therewith, or dip tents therein, and put them into the wounds. It 
quickly healeth green wounds, not fuffering any corruption to remain, behind; and 
it cureth old fores, though fiftulous and hollow. oF 
Blo LAVENDER. 
Ti is fo well known, being a an inhabitant of almoft every garden, that it needeth 
| “no defcription. adie 
_ Time. It flowereth about the end of June and the beginning of July. seus 
~ Goversaent AND VIRTUES. Mercury owns the herb, and it carries ‘its effects 
‘very potently. Lavender is of fpecial ufe for pains of the. head and brain that pro- 
ceed of a cold caufe, as the apoplexy, falling ficknefs, the drowfy or fluggifh ma- 
Jady, cramps, convulfions, palfies, and often faintings. It ftrengthens the ftomach, 
and freeth the liver and {pleen from ob{tructions, provoketh womens couries, and 
-expelleth the dead child and after-birth. The flowers of lavender fteeped in wine 
_are efficacious in obftru@tions of urine, or for thofe troubled with the wind oF 
cholic, if the places be bathed therewith. -A decoétion made with the flowers of 14- 
vender, horehound, » fennel, and afparagus roots, and a little cinnamon, is ufed 1° 
help the falling-ficknefs and — of the brain: to gargle the mouth with the 
Sta: - decoction 
