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into the eyes, or cloths wet therein and applied, taketh away the heat and inflam. 
mations in them. an 
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rete, Were 
O F thefe are many kinds growing here in England, which are. fo well known, 
that they need nodefcription. Their difference is eafily known by the places where 
they grow, viz. 
Pract... Some grow in. “fille, fome in meadows, and fome among ‘the corn, 
others on heaths, greens, and wafte grounds, i in many places. 
Tims. They all flower in July and Augutt, and their feed is ripe quickly after. 
_GovgRNMENT AND Virtuzs. Mars rules them, Thiftles are good to provoke 
urine, and to amend the rank fell of the armpits, or of the whole body, beiug boil- 
ed in.wine and. drunk; and are faid alfo to help a {tinking breath, and to ftrengthen 
the ftomach. Pliny faith, that the, juice bathed on the place: that wanteth hair, it 
being fallen off, will caufe it to grow again {peedily. 
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Wid ikbascnets THISTLE. 
Description. IT rifeth up with a tender fingle hoary green ftalk, bearing 
thereon four or five long hoary green leaves, dented about the edges, the points 
whereof are little or nothing prickly, and at the top ufually bur one head, yet 
fometimes from the bofom of the uppermoft leaf there fhooteth forth another fmal-_ 
ler head, {caly and fomewhat prickly, with many reddifh purple thrums in the mid- 
dle, Which, being gathered frefh, will keep the colour a great while, and fade not 
from the ftalk ina long time, while it perfecteth the feed. The root hath many long 
ftrings fattened to the head, or upper part, which is blackifh, and perifheth not. 
~ There is another fort, little differing from the former, but that the leaves are more 
green above and more hoary underneath, and the ftalk, being about two fect high, 
bearing but one large fealy head, with threads and feeds as the former. — 
“Piace. They grow i in many ag meadows of this land, as well in the fouthern 
as in the northern: parts. 
Time. comes Hower abe July or Augutt, 4nd their feed ripeneth S pder 
after, 
Gednawas NT AND: atid! ‘Tt is under Capricorn, and therefore under both : 
Satutn and Mars ; ; one rids’ ‘melancholy by fympathy, the other by antipathy. - 
Their virtues are but few,’ but thofe’ not to be defpifed; for the decoétion of the 
thiftle 
