80 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
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Place.| They grow in divers corn fields, 
and in borders about them, and in other 
fertile grounds about Southfleet in Kent 
abundant; at Buchrite, Hamerton, and 
Richmanworth in Huntingdonshire, and in 
divers other places. 
Time.| They are in flower about June 
and July, and the whole plant is dry and 
withered before August be done. 
Government and virtues.] It is a Lunar 
herb. The leaves bruised and applied with 
barley meal to watering eyes that are hot 
and inflamed by defluctions from the head, 
do very much help them, as also the fluxes 
of blood or humours, as the lask, bloody 
flux, women’s courses, and stays all man- 
ner of bleeding at the nose, mouth, or any 
other place, or that comes by any bruise 
or hurt, or bursting a vein; it wonderfully 
helps all those inward parts that need con- 
solidating or strengthening, and is no less 
effectual both to heal and close green 
wounds, than to cleanse and heal all foul 
or old ulcers, fretting or spreading cankers 
or the like. This herb is of a fine cooling, 
drying quality, and an ointment or plaister 
of it might do a man a courtesy that hath 
any hot virulent sores: "Tis admirable for 
the ulcers of the French pox; if taken in- 
wardly, may cure the disease. 
FOX-GLOVES. 
Descript.] Ir has many long and broad 
leaves lying upon the ground dented upon 
the edges, a little soft or wooly, and of a 
hoary green colour, among which rise up 
sometimes sundry stalks, but one very 
often, bearing such leaves thereon from the 
bottom to the middle, from whence to the 
top it is stored with large and long hollow 
reddish purple flowers, a little more long 
and eminent at the lower edge, with some 
__ white spots within them, one above another 
__ with small green leaves at every one, but 
all of them turning their heads one way, 
and hanging downwards, having some | 
threads also in the middle, from whence 
rise round heads, pointed sharp at the ends, — 
wherein small brown seed lies. The roots 
are so many small fibres, and some greater 
strings among them; the flowers have no — 
scent, but the leaves have a bitter hot taste. ) 
Place.| It grows on dry sandy ground — 
for the most part, and as well on the higher — 
as the lower places under hedge-sides in © 
almost every county of this land. 
Time.| It seldom flowers before July, — 
and the seed is ripe in August. 
Government and virtues.] The plant is — 
under the dominion of Venus, being of 4 
gentle cleansing nature, and withal very 
friendly to nature. The herb is familiarly 
and frequently used by the Italians to heal 
any fresh or green wound, the leaves being 
but bruised and bound thereon; and the : 
juice thereof is also used in old sores, to — 
cleanse, dry, and heal them. The decoc- | 
tion hereof made up with some sugar oF 
honey, is available to cleanse and purge 
the body both upwards and downwards, — 
sometimes of tough phlegm and clammy — 
humours, and to open obstructions of the — 
liver and spleen. It has been found by 
experience to be available for the king’s — 
evil, the herb bruised and applied, or an 
ointment made with the juice thereof, and 
so used; and a decoction of two handfuls 
thereof, with four ounces of Polipody in 
ale, has been found by late experience to 
cure divers of the falling sickness, that have _ 
been troubled with it above twenty years. — 
I am confident that an ointment of it is . 
one of the best remedies for a scabby head — 
that is. | 
FUMITORY. 
Descript.| Our common Fumitory is 4 
tender sappy herb, sends forth from one 
Square, a slender weak stalk, and leaning — 
downwards on all sides, many branches 
