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or rather, as it were, fticking flat oneto another, very unevenly cut in on the edges, 
and crumpled : from among which arife {nvaJl flender ftalks, an inch or two high at 
moft, bearing {mall flowers at the tops, fomewhat refembling ftars. 
--GovERNMENT AND Virtues., It.is under.the command of Jupiter, and under the 
fign Cancer. It isa fingular good herb for all the diieafes of the liver, both to cool 
anécleanfe it}: and -helpeth-inlammations in any part ; it is likewife ferviceable in 
the yellow jaundice: being bruifed and boiled in {mall beer, and drunk, it cooleth 
the heat of the liver and, kidneys, and helpeth the running of the reins in men 
and the whites. in women; it is a fingular remedy to ftay the {preading of tetters, 
ring-worms;: and»other fretting and running fores and fcabs, and is an excellent 
remedy. for fuch’ whofe. livers are-corrupted by furfeits, which caufeth their bodies 
to breakout ; for it fortifies the liver exceedingly. : 
LOOSE “STRIFE, .on ‘WILLOW-HERB.. 
Description. THE common ‘yellow. loofe-ftrife groweth to the height of 
four or five feet, with great ‘round ftalks a little crefted, diverfly branched, from 
the middle of them. to the tops, into great . and Jong branches, on all of which, at the 
joints, there crow ‘Tong and narrow leaves, but broader below, and ufually two at 
ajoint, yet fometinhes three or four, fomewhat like willow-leaves, fmooth on the 
edges, and of a ‘faint green colour; from the upper joints of the branches, and at 
the tops of them allo, ftand many yellow flowers of five leaves apiece, with divers 
yellow threads in the middle, which turn into fmall round heads, containing {mall 
cornered feeds. ‘The root “creepeth — under ground, ‘almoft like couch-grafs, but 
Greater, and fhooteth up every fpring, with brownifh heads, which afterwards grow 
up into two ftalks ; ; it ‘hath no fcent nor tafte, but only aftringent. ‘ 
Prace. It groweth in moft parts of the kingdom, in moift meadows, and by the 
fides of eas 
Tm. It flowereth from June to Augutt. . 
Vinturs. | This herb is ‘good for all manner of bledding at the mouth 
or nofe, or wounds ; all fluxes of the belly, as ‘well as the bloody flux, given 
either to drink, or adminiftered as a clyfter; it ftayeth alfo the abundance of 
‘women’s courfes, It isa fingu ular good herb for green wounds, to ftay the bleeding, 
and quickly clofes together the lips of the wound, if the herb be bruifed, and the 
juice only applied. It is often ufed in gargles for fore mouths, as alfo for the fecrep 
‘parts. The fmoke thereof,’ on its being burnt, driveth away flies and gnats, which 
inthe night-time infeft the habitations of people er ee inthe 
fenny countries, 
na eens a i Pe 
LOOSE. 
