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the ftalks, .with fome Shorter leaves with them, hooded after the fame manner as the 
others, but many, of afair yellow colour, in fome paler, in fome whiter. The feed 
is contained in large hufks ; the root is fmaller and flender, perifhing every year, 
eoPrace. » They grow in meadows and woods generally, throughout England. 
Time. They arein flower from Midfummer till Auguft. 
GovERNMENT AND Virtuzs. They are both under the dominion of the Main, 
‘The redrrattle is reckoned good to heal fiftulas and hollow ulcers, and to flay the 
flux of humours to them, or any other flux of blood, being boiled in red or white 
wineand drunk. - 
“The yellow rattle, or cocks-comb, is held to be good for thofe that are otaaie’ 
‘nich a cough; or dimnefs of fight; if the herb, being boiled with beans, and. fome 
honey put thereto, be drunk, ordropped into the eyes, it draweth forth any skin, dim- 
mee” ot film, fromthe fight, without trouble or pain. , Se ig a : 
REST-HARROW, on “CAMMOAK. | 
Duscrirrion. COMMON teft-harrow rifeth up with divers rough woody 
twigs, two or three feet high, fet at the joints without order, with a little-roundifh 
Jeaves; fometimes more than two or three at a place, of a dark green colour, withc 
thorns while they are young, but afterwards armed i in fundry places with fhort.. and 
fharp thorns. The flowers come at the tops of the twigs and branches, whereof it is 
full, fathioned like peafe, or bloom bloffoms, but {maller, flatter, and fomewhat 
clofe, of a faint purplifh colour: after which come fmall pods, containing {fmall, flat 
~ and round, feed. The root is blackifh on the outfide,and whitifh within: very rough 
‘and hard to break when it is frefh and green, ‘and as hard as an horn when it- is dried, 
thrufting down deep into the ground, and tpreadiing ostithined ‘ewery sAcrab en Ca 
to grow again if it be left in the ground. 
Pract gE, It ‘groweth i in many Plaves‘o of Srett ae as well i in naabie i in pines 
ground. ae 
‘Ti ME. Tt flowereth i in general about the beginning or middle of ays ‘and the 
Red is ripe in Auguit. S 
: “Government anp Virtues. It is under the dominion of Mars.” It is good 
‘to provoke u urine and to break and expel the ftone, which the powder of the bark’ of 
the root taken i in wine performs  effeetually. Mathiolus faith, the fame helpeth the 
“ifeate called hérnia’carnofa, the flefhy rupture, by taking the {aid powder for foe 
_months together conftantly, and that it hath cured fome which feemed incura 
“any other means than by cutting or burning. The decoétion the of, mac 
fome vinegar, and gargled in the mouth, eafeth the tooth ach, efi 
