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guts, the herb being boiled and ‘ufed in aclifter. If the herb be made into a poul- 
tice and applied to inflammations, it will eafethem. The juice dropped into the 
eyes is a familiar medicine with many country people to take away the pin and web 
(as the call it) in the eyes; it alfo allayeth the hear and blood-fhooting of them, 
Country people do alfoin many places drink the juicehereof againft the biting of an 
adder, and, having boiled the herb in water, they firft wath the place with thede- 
coétion, and then lay fome of the herb to the hurt place. The herb alfo, boiled 
' in {wines greafe, and fo made into an ointment, is good to apply to the biting of any 
venomous creature. It is held likewife to be good for wounds. The feed and flows 
ers boiled in water, and after made into a poultice with fome oil and applied, help 
hand fwellings and ra ace , 
mo, Be HEART TREFOIL 
BE SIDES the alias forts of trefoil, here are two more remarkable, and 
one of which may probably be called heart trefoil, not only becaufe the leaf i is tri- 
angular like the heart of aman, but alfo becaufe each leaf contains the ge icon 
of a heart, and that in its proper colour, -viz..a flefh colour, ee, 
_Pracs. It groweth near Bow, and parts’ adjacent... ; yap 
GovERNMENT AND Vigtvugs... It is under the dominion of the Sune xe it 
were ufed, it would be found as great a ftrengthener of the heart and cherifher of 
the vital {pirit as grows, relieving the bdy againft faintings and {woonings, fortify- 
| ing it scant oi fons and Better: and uae 4. ae heart againft the noifome va.” 
“PEARL TREFOIL. 
ET differs not Se feoee the common fort, fave only in this one pasmiaiedebes it hath 3 
‘a White fpot in the leaf like a pearl; it is particularly under the dominion’ of the 
Moon, and itsicon feweth that it is of fingular virtue gar S the pear], oripin and 
web, cee = ax 
Pe ed 
“TUTSAN, on PARKA -LEAVES. 
7 Rts sensei; IT hath hecwuill fhining ftalks, cretted all shel ength | = 
rifing to be two and fometimes three feet high, branching forth even Froak. peor 
tom, having divers. joints,. and. at each of. them two fair large leaves, of a aes 
bluifh: epreca colour on the upper fide, and of a yellowifh green wadderneat # ‘ 
