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ing reddifh towards autumn, but abiding on the branches all the winter, At the tops 
of the {talks and branches ftand large. yellow flowers, and heads with feed, which, 
being greenifh at the firft,,and afterwards reddih, turn tobe of blackith purple co- 
lour when they are thoroughly.ripe, with {mall brownith feed within them, and then 
yield a reddish juice or liquor, of a reafonable good {cent, fomewhat refinous, and of 
anvharth and {typtic tafte, as the leaves alfo and the flowers be, although much lefs, 
The root is of a brownith colour, fomewhat great, hard, and woody, {preading well 
in the ground. < ‘ , : i iis Sn Sete ‘ ‘ . 
~ Prac, It groweth in many woods, groves, and woody grounds, as parks and 
forefts, and by hedge fides, in many places in Great Britain. 
_. Time. It flowereth later than St. John’s or St. Peter’s wort. 
Description. THIS hath a thick thort greyith root, lying for the moft part 
= _ above ground, fhooting forth on all fides other fuch-like {mall pieces or roots, — 
_ Which have allof them many long and great ftrings or fibres under them, in the — 
| Gron nd, whereby it draweth nourifhment. From the heads of thefe roots fpringup 
st green leaves, which at firft are fomewhat broad and long, without any divifion i 
_ Government anp Virtuss, It is an herb of Saturn, and a great antivenerean. 
Tutfan purgeth choleric humours, as St. Peter’s wort is faid to do,for therein it 
worketh the fame effects, both to help the {ciatica and gout, and to heal burnings by 
fire. It ftayeth alfo the bleeding of wounds, ifeither the green herb be: bruifed, or 
the powder of the dry be applied thereto. It hath been accounted, and certainly is, 
a fovereign herb to heal any wound or fore either outwardly or inwardly, and there- | 
fore always ufed in drinks, lotions, balms, oils, ointments’ for any fort-of green 
wound, or old ulcers and fores; in all which the continual experience of former ages pia < 
hath confirmed the ufe thereof to be admirably good, though it be not fo much in 
“ufe now as when phyficians and furgeons were fo wife-as to ufe herbs more than now — 
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them, or denting on the edges ; but thofe that rife up after are more and — 
vided on each fide, fome to the middle rib, made of many leaves together 
_" »and thofe upon the ftalk in like manner are more divided, but {mallertowa 
Bg saiaco 2, , yard high or more, fometimes 
th many {mall whitith flowers, fometimes dafhed over at the edge 
ih colour, ofa little feat; which pafling away, there followeth | 
at is eafily carried away with the wind. The root ’ melleth 
flower, and is of more ufe in medicine, | 
