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and cleared, cleanses the skin from all man- 
ner of spots, marks, and freckles that rise 
either by the heat of the sun, or the malig- 
nity of humours. As for the Broom and 
Broom-rape, Mars owns them, and is ex- 
ceeding prejudicial to the liver; I suppose 
by reason of the antipathy between Jupiter 
and Mars, therefore if the liver be dis- 
affected, minister none of it. 
BUCK’S HORN PLANTAIN. 
Descript.| Tuis being sown of seed, 
rises up at first with small, long, narrow, 
hairy, dark green leaves like grass, without 
_ any division or gash in them, but those that 
follow are gaslied in on both sides the 
leaves into three or four gashes, and pointed 
at the ends, resembling the knags of a 
buck’s horn, (whereof it took its name) and 
being well ground round about the root upon 
the ground, or order one by another, thereby 
resembling the form of a star, from among 
which rise up divers hairy stalks about a 
hand’s breath high, bearing every one a 
small, long spikey head, like to those of the 
common plantain, having such like bloom- 
ings and seed after them. The root is 
single, long and small, with divers strings 
at it. 
Place.| They grow in sandy grounds, as 
in Tothill fields by Westminster, and divers 
other places of this land. 
Time.] They flower and seed in May, 
June, and July, and their green leaves do 
in a manner abide fresh all the Winter. 
Government and virtues.] It is under the 
dominion of Saturn, and is of a gallant, 
drying, and binding quality. This boiled 
in wine and drank, and some of the leaves 
put to the hurt place, is an excellent 
remedy for the biting of the viper or adder, 
which I take to be one and the same: The 
Same being also drank, helps those that are 
_ troubled with the stone in the veins or kid- 
; ‘neys, by cooling the heat of the part af- 
Dror ru and eee them; also sek 
stomachs that cannot retain, but cast up 
their meat. It stays all bleeding both at 
mouth or nose; bloody urine or the bloody- 
flux, and stops the lask of the belly and 
bowels. The leaves hereof bruised and 
laid to their sides that have an ague, sud- 
denly eases the fit; and the leaves and 
roots being beaten with some bay-salt and 
applied to the wrists, works the same ef- 
fects. The herb boiled in ale and wine, and 
given for some mornings and evenings to- 
gether, stays the distillation of hot and — 
sharp rheums falling into the eyes from the 
head, and helps all sorts of sore eyes. 
BUCK’S HORN. 
Ir is called Hart’s-horn, Herba-stella, and 
Herba-stellaria, Sanguinaria, Herb-Eve, 
Yerb-Ivy, Wort-Tresses, andSwine-Cresses. 
Descript.| They have many small and 
weak straggling branches trailing here and 
there upon the ground; The leaves are 
many, small and jagged, not much unlike 
to those of Buck’s-horn Plantain, but much 
smaller, and not so hairy. The flowers 
grow among the leaves in small, rough, 
whitish clusters: The seeds are smaller and 
brownish, of a bitter taste. 
Place.| They grow in dry, barren, sandy 
grounds. 
Time.| They flower and seed when the 
rest of the plantains do. 
Government and virtues.| This is also 
under the dominion of Saturn; the virtues 
are held to be the same as Buck’s horn 
plantain, and therefore by all authors it is 
joined with it. The leaves bruised and ap- 
plied to the place, stop bleeding. The 
herbs bruised and applied to warts, will 
make them consume and waste in a short 
time. 
BUGLE. 
Besiwes the name Bugle, it is called 
Middle Confound and Middle Comfrey, — 
Brown Bugle, and by some Sicklewort, and — 
