AND COMPLETE HERBAL fs 
or yellowifh-green, leaves, gteyifh underneath, lying above the ground unevenly 
dented about the edges, and fomewhat hairy, green, ftalks, two or three feet high, 
witha few fuch round leaves as grow below, but fmaller, and fomewhat branched at 
the top, whereon ftand pretty large white flowers of five leaves each, with fome yel- 
low threads in the middle, ftanding in a long-crefted brownifh-green hufk. After 
the flowers are paft, there arifeth fometimes a round hard head, forked at the top, 
wherein is contained fmall blackih feed ; but ufually they fall away without any feed; 
and it isthe kernels or grains of the root which are ufually called the white anne 
feed, and fo ufed. 
»Priace. ‘It groweth in many parts of Great Britain; in meadows and erally fandy 
places : it ufed to grow near Lamb’s Conduit, on the back-fide of Gray’s Inn, 
. Timez. _ It flowereth in May, and is then gathered, as wellfor that which is called 
the feed as to diftil, for it quickly perifheth down to the ground in hot weather, 
GovERNMENT AND Virtuss. Itis very effectual tocleanfe the reins and bladder, 
and to diffolve the {tone ingendered in them, and to expel it and the gravel by urine; 
to provoke urine alfo, and to help the ftranguary ; for which purpoles the decoction 
of the herb or roots in white wine, or the powder of the {mall kernelly root, which 
is called the feed, taken in white wine, or in the fame decoGtion made with. white - 
wine, is moft ufual. The diftilled water of the whole herb, roots, and flowers, i is 
moft commonly taken. It freeth and cleanfeth the ftomach and lungs from thick 
and tough phlegm. There are not many better medicines to break the a wy 
this, or to.cleanfe the urinary paflages, and cure the ane inal : st 
ie BURNET-SAXIFRAGE. “She. 
Based iprion. THE greater fort of our Englith wine Siete groweth up 
with divers long ftalks of winged-leaves, fet directly oppofite one to another on both 
fides, each being fomewhat broad, and a little pointed and dented about the edges, 
of a fad green colour. -At the tops of the ftalks ftand umbels of white flowers, after 
which comes fmall and blackith feed : the root is long and whitith, abiding long. 
Oar leffer bumet-faxifrage b hath much Bnet leaves than the former, and ~_— finally 
a8 the former. The umbels of the Howets hewitt sae TY fralt; and 
fo is the root, being alfo fomewhat hot to the tafte. —— 
‘Puace. Thefe grow in moft meadows in Eagwed, and are to be found ones 
edi in the grals fearcely, to be difcerned. caggen eh 
Tie.’ T hey flower about July, and the feed is ripe in » Avguit.. 
GovernMEN?. 
