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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
and almost transparent, they look as tho’ 
they were torn; the flowers are long, thick 
and whitish, set together almost like a 
bunch of grapes, which being gone, there 
succeeds for the most part sharp pointed 
grains altogether, containing a small white 
kernel in them. 
’ The second differs not much from this, 
save that it delights in more clear water; 
its stalks are not flat, but round; its leaves 
are not so long, but more pointed; As for 
the place we need not determine, for their 
name shews they grow in water. 
Government and virtues.| They are under 
the dominion of the Moon, and being made 
into a poultice, are excellent good for hot 
inflammations, swellings, cankers, sore 
mouths and throats, being washed with the 
decoction; it cleanses and strengthens the 
neck and throat, and helps those swellings 
which when people have, they say the 
almonds of their ears are fallen down. It 
is excellently good for the rankness of the 
gums, a safe and present remedy for the 
king’s evil. They are excellent for the stone 
and gravel, especially the nuts being dried. 
They also resist poison, and bitings of 
venomous beasts. 
CAMPION WILD. 
Descript.| Tur wild White Campion 
has many long and somewhat broad dark 
green leaves lying upon the ground, and 
divers ribs therein, somewhat like plantain, 
but somewhat hairy, broader, but not so 
long: The hairy stalks rise up in the mid- 
dle of them three or four feet high, and 
sometimes more, with divers great white 
joints at several places thereon, and two 
such like leaves thereat up to the top, send- 
ing forth branches at several joints also: 
All which bear on several foot-stalks white 
_ flowers at the tops of them, consisting of 
_ five broad pointed leaves, every one cut in 
: oe the end unto the middle, making them | suming the moist humours falling into | 
seem to be two a-piece, smelling somewhat 
sweet, and each of them standing in a 
large green striped hairy husk, large and 
round below next to the stalk: The seed is 
small and greyish in the hard heads that 
come up afterwards. The root is white 
and long, spreading divers fangs in the 
ground. 
The red wild Campion grows in the same 
manner as the white, but his leaves are not _ 
so plainly ribbed,somewhat shorter,rounder __ 
and more woolly in handling. The flowers 
are of the same form and bigness; but in 
some of a pale, in others of a bright red 
colour, cut in at the ends more finely, which 
the other. The seeds and the roots are 
alike, the roots of both sorts abiding many 
years. 
There are forty-five kinds of Campion 
more, those of them which are of a phy- 
sical use, having the like virtues with those 
above described, which I take to be the two 
chiefest kinds. 
Place.| They grow commonly through 
this land by fields and hedge-sides and 
ditches. 
Time.| They flower in Summer, some 
earlier than others, and some abiding longer 
than others. 
Government and virtues.] They belong 
unto Saturn, and it is found by experience, 
that the decoction of the herb, either in 
white or red wine being drank, doth stay 
inward bleedings, and applied outwardly, 
it does the like; and being drank, helps 
to expel urine being stopped, and gravel 
and stone in the reins or kidneys. Two 
drams of the seed drank in wine, purges 
the body of choleric humours, and helps 
those that are stung by scorpions, or other 
venomous beasts, and may be as effectual 
for the plague. It is of very good use in 
old sores, ulcers, cankers, fistulas, and the 
like, to cleanse and heat them, by con- 
makes the leaves look more in number than -_ 
