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flowers are like thofe of camomile, but larger; there is alfo a fort of may-weed 
found in various parts of the kingdom, which hath double flowers, almoftas large 
as double camomile-flowers, which is called cotula flore pleno. | 
Piace. The ftinking may-weed groweth abundantly among corn, and will blifter 7 
the hands of the reapers; that which ftinketh not groweth alfo very pleouia, 
wild, in many places, and often amongft wild camomile. . 
TiME. They flower all the fummer months, fome earlier and ate later. 
GoverNMENT AND Virturs. May-weedis governed by Mars, yet Galen faith 
the fophi of the Egyptians confecrated camomile to the fun, which is much of the 
fame temperature, but the ftinking may-weed is more hot, and dry, and is ufed for 
the fame purpofes as camomile, viz. to diffolve tumours, “expel wind, and to eafe 
pains andachs in the joints and other parts ; itis alfo good for women whofe matrix 
is fallen down, or loofened from one fide to the other, by wafhing their feet with a 
decoction thereof made in water. It is likewife good to be given t to see to oe fuch 
as are troubled with the rifing or fuffocation of the: matrix. 
MAD-WORT. 
Prace: IT is often fown in gardens. The feed comes from Italy. 
Tims. It flowers and flourifhes in May ; the feed is ripe in Augutft. 
Quatitres ano Virtues. Itis dry, digefting, and {couring. It healeth the 
bite of a mad dog, the morphew, fun-burning, &c, It alfo heals wounds inwardly 
and outwardly, cancers, and filthy ulcers ; and digefteth clotted blood. 
MANDRAKE, 
THE mandrake is male and female. 
Prac. It grows in hot regions ; woods, mountains, and gardens. 
Time. It fprings in March, flowers in April; the fruit is ripein Auguft. 
Quaities AND Virturs. Itis of acold nature. The root is phlegmatic, and 
may be eaten with pepper and hot fpices, The apples are cold and moift, the bark 
of the root cold and dry, and the juice is good in all cooling ointments. The dried 
juice of the root, taken ina {mall quantity, purgeth phlegm and melancholy. In ~ 
collyriums, j it healeth pains of the eyes. In a- peffary, it draweth forth the dead 
child and fecundine. The green leaves, bruifed with axungia and barley-meal, 
heal all hot fwellings and inflammations; and, applied tothe parts, confume hot = 
eH and renee A fuppofitory made of the juice, put into the fundament, vee 
