AND COMPLETE HERBAL. oy 
Nature AND Virtues. They are fomewhat cold and drying, and aré more ufed 
. for food, both for man and beaft, than for phyfic; yet, being quilted in a bag with 
bay falt, made hot in-a frying-pan, and applied as warm as can be endured, they eafe 
pains and ftitches in the fide, and the-cholic in the belly. A poultice made of the 
meal of oats.and oil of bays, helpeth the itch, leprofy,, and fiftulas, and difcuffeth 
hard impofthumes. Oatmeal boiled in vinegar, and applied, takes away fpots and 
freckles in the face or other parts of the body. | It-is alfowfed in-broth or milk, to 
bind thofe who have a la{k, or other flux; and with fugar it is good for them-that > 
havea cough.or cold, Raw catimeal is an unwholefome diet. ty 
ONE-BLADE, 
Description. -THIS fmall plant never beareth more 6 that one leaf, except only 
when it-rifeth up with its (talk, in which cafe ‘it beareth another, but feldom more, 
which are of a bluifh green colour, pointed, with many: ribs or veins therein, like 
plantain ; at the top of the ftalk grow many {mall white flowers, in the form of a'ftar, 
fmelling fomewhat {weet ; after which come fmall berries, of a reddith colour when 
they are ripe. The root is fmall, of the bignefs of a rufh, lying and pan pecad 
the upper cruft of the earth, fhooting forth in divers places. ~~ 
‘Prace It groweth in moift, se Oil ‘and igs eae of Me see in mot parts 
of the kingdom, 
Tims. It Aowereth seule May ; ; the berries we ripe in Fae it then peel) 
a until the next year, when it fpringeth afrefh from the old root. — 
~ GovernMENT AND Virtues. It isa precious herb of the fun. Halfa a as, | 
or at moft a drachm, in powder of the roots, taken-in wine and vinegar, of cach 
equal parts, and the party laid dire&tly down to fweat thereupon, is held to be a fo- 
vercign remedy for thofe that are infeéted with the plague, and havea fore upon 
them, by expelling the poifon and infeétion, and defending the heart and {pirits 
from danger. It is an exceeding good wound-herb, and is therefore ufed’ with 
Others of the like nature, in making compound balms for curing wounds, either 
_ whether they are frefh and green, or old and Lee and peeiely if the finews 
have been burnt, 
Pena and Lobel feverally made experimens ¢ of the quality of this plant, - upon two. 
dogs, and found i it was not dangerous, | but effectual to expel the deadly operation. of ue 
corrofive fublimate ape arfenic.. 
