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2; The water penny-wort is hot and ulcerating, like crows-foot ; and is very dan. 
erous to cattle who may occafionally feed thereon. Dee : 
3. The baftard Italian navel-wort partakes of the true in cold and ain 
4. The juice of the wall penny-wort healeth all inflammations and Bie: tumours, 
as the eryfipelas, or St. Anthony’s fire ; it healeth kibed heels, being batheth there- 
with and the leaves applied. The leaves and root break the ftone, provoke urine, 
and cure the dropfy. Thediftilled water healeth fore kidneys, pains of the bowels, 
piles, gout, and king’s evil. 
5: The common or one-fummer’s navel-wort is diuretic, not very hot, but ex- 
ceeding. dry. It provoketh urine, and digefteth fliminefs in the joints. Two 
drachms drunk in wine will expel much urine from dropfical perfons ; and, ap- 
plied, will alfo eafethe gout. 
6,7. The fpotted and fmall red-flowered navel-wort are cold and moift, like 
houfe-leek. 
Puace. The firft fort croweth on ftone walls; the other forts are only found 0 on 
the Alps. 
Time. They flower in the beginning of the {fpring, but flourith all the winter. ~ 
Be xrwrvewore 
Aiaaes AND Kinps. OF this there are three kinds: 1. The sindidiaey nipplewort, 
€alled i in Latin lampfana vulgaris. 2. The nipplewort of Auftria, called lampfana 
papillaris. 3- Wild or wood baftard-nipplewort, foncho affinis oe stn folvacica. 
And i in Pruffia, as faith Camerarius, they call it papillaris. 
- Descript 10n. 1. The ordinary nipplewort groweth with many hard upright 
‘ ftalks, whereon grow dark-green leaves from the bottom to the top; but the higher 
| “the fmallers i in fome places without any dents in the edges, and in others with a few 
: jags therein, fomewhat like a kind of hankweed ; the tops ef the ftalks have. 
nal long branches, which bear many {mall ftar-like yellowifh flowers on 
hem, which turn into {mall feed thé root is fmall and fibrous; the plant yieldeth 
a bitter milk } 
2, The Auttri nipplewort hath flender, fmooth, and folid, ftalks, not calily 
broken, see wi feet high, whereon ftand, without order, fomewhat long and 
narrow leaves, proadeft in the middle, and fharp at the ends, waved a little about 
the edges, and compaffing them at the bottom, yielding a little milk ; from the 
upper joints, with the leav eS, grow forth {mall firm branches, yet a little bending, 
bearing each of them four ir five Jong green hufks, and in them {mail purplih 
flowers 
