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 fomewhat like the head of avine. The root is fomewhat great, and blackifh, and 
; —s when it groweth toward feed-time ; and perifheth in the winter. een 
| There is another fort, little Uidierin from the former; wd in that i it je beste 
Whit flowers. . 
“Piacz. The firft groweth vila almoft every where, T ‘de ak whit flowers 
a about Lewes, in Suffex, 2 9 ; Pn ee 
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Time. ‘They flower in fammer, and their feed i is ripe quickly after. 
Coven wwhey AND Virtees, This is an herb of the Sun, ‘Tt isan dpeciige™ 
medy againft the biting of the viper and all other venomous bealts or ferpents, as . 
m _againtt poifon and poifonous h herbs. 
s- Diofcorides and others fay, that whofoever fhall 
xe of the herb or root before they be bitten fhall not be hurt by the poifon. of al y 
“ferpent. ‘The roots or feed are thought t to be moft.. effectual to comfort the heart, 
and expel fadnefs, or caufe lefs melancholy ; 3 it tempers the blood, and allayeth hot 
_ fits of agues. The feed drunk in wine procureth abundance of milk in women’s 
eet breajts. The fame alfo eafeth the pains in the loins, back, _and kidneys. The dif 
tilled 1 water of the herb when it is in flower, is excellent to” ee applied, either ine 
wardly or outwardly, for all the griefs aforefaid. There is a fyrup made thereof, 
: red effectual for comforting the heart, and expelling fadnefs a and melancholy. a 
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y YALL- FLOWERS, on WINTER GILLY¥-FLOWERS. 
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gscRipTion. The common as wall-flowers, Bob wild abroad, have ~ 
{mall, long, narrow; and dark-green, leaves, fet without order upon fmall 
d whitith sae tala which bear at the tops divers fingle yellow fiowers one. 
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