AND COMPLETE HERBAL, 30% 
PRIMROSES 
tT HE SE are fo well known that they need no defcription. Of the leaves of 
j primrofes i is made an excellent falve to heal green wounds, 
Wf? PR IVE T. Bs | a6 
- Description. THE common privet runs up with many flender beste to es 
a tolerable height and breadth, and is frequently ufed in forming arbours; bowers, 
and banqueting-houfes, and fhaped fometimes into the forms of men, horfes, birds, 
&c. which, though at firft requiring fupport, grow afterwards ftrong enough of 
themfelves. It beareth long and narrow green leaves by couples, and {weet-fmelling 
white flowers in tufts at the ends of the branches, which turn into fmall black berries 
that have a purplith j juice within them, and fome feeds: ae are flat CHER | one fide, 
, mh a hole or dent therein. Poa, GP Oe 
> Prace. It groweth in divers wobiis in Grene Briel. > See 
_» Time. The privet flowereth i in Juneand July, and the berries are ripe in in Augut 
oa and September. j 
- GoveRNMENT anpD Virtus, It 4s under the igilocsioe of the moon, ask but 
‘Sisle ufed in ‘phyfic in thefe times, except in lotions to wath fores and fore mouths, 
and to cool inflammations and dry up ftuxes; yet Mathiolus faith, it ferveth every 
purpofe for which the cyprefs tree, or oriental privet, is approved of by Diofcorides 
.and Galen. He further faith, that the oil extraéted from the flowers of privet 
by infufion, and fet in the fun, is very ferviceable in inflammatory wounds, 
and for the head-ach when arifing from a hot caufe. There is a fweet water alfo dif- 
tilled from the flowers, which is good for all thofe difeafes that require cooling and 
: ‘drying, and therefore helpeth all fluxes of the belly or ftomach, bloody fluxes, and 
__ ‘Women’s coures, being either drunk, or otherwife applied ; as alfo for thofe that 
oid blood ; at their mouth or at any other place; likewife for diftillations of theums — vat 
inthe « % eeciaty if it gers tutty. | =e 
-POMECITRON DPREE. f 
Di SCR 1PTION, $s. The Gipcer pomecitron tree, han ee This 
dot = not grow very high in fome — butrather with a a crooked body, Lg ee 
fe ee ies at 
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