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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
HEART TREFOIL. 
Besipes the ordinary sort of Trefoil, 
here are two more remarkable, and one of 
which may be probably called Heart Tre- 
foil, not only because the leaf is triangular, 
like the heart of a man, but also because 
each leaf contains the perfection of a heart, 
and that in its proper colour, viz. a flesh 
colour. 
Place.] It grows between Longford and 
Bow, and beyond Southwark, by the high- 
way and parts adjacent. 
Government and virtues.| It is under the 
dominion of the Sun, and if it were used, it 
would be found as great a strengthener of 
the heart, and cherisher of the vital spirits 
as grows, relieving the body against faint- 
ing and swoonings, fortifying it against 
poison and pestilence, defending the heart 
against the noisome vapours of the spleen. 
PEARL TREFOIL. 
Ir differs not from the common sort, save 
only in this particular, it hath a white spot 
in the leaf like a pearl. It is particularly 
under the dominion of the Moon, and its 
icon shews that it is of a singular virtue 
_ against the pearl,or pin and web in the eyes. 
TUSTAN, OR PARK LEAVES. 
Descript.| Ir hath brownish shining 
‘round stalks, crested the length thereof, 
rising two by two, and sometimes three feet 
high, branching forth even from the bot- 
tom, having divers joints, and at each of 
them two fair large leaves standing, of a 
dark blueish green colour on the upper side, 
and of a yellowish green underneath, turn- 
ing reddish toward Autumn. At the top of 
the stalks stand large yellow flowers, and 
__ heads with seed, which being greenish at 
_ the first and afterwards reddish, turn to be 
of a blackish purple colour when they are 
_ ripe, with small brownish seed within them, 
and they yield a reddish juice or liquor, 
somewhat resinous, and of a harsh and | 
stypick taste, as the leaves also and the 
flowers be, although much less, but do not 
yield such a clear claret wine colour, as 
some say it doth, the root is brownish, some- 
what great, hard, and woody, spreading 
well in the ground. 
Place.| It grows in many woods, groves, 
and woody grounds, as parks and forests, 
and by hedge-sides in many places in this 
land, as in Hampstead wood, by Ratley in 
Essex, in the wilds of Kent, and in many 
other places needless to recite. 
Time.] It flowers later than St. John’s 
or St. Peter’s-wort. 
Government and virtues.| It is an herb 
of Saturn, and a most noble anti-venerean. 
Tustan purges choleric humours, as St. 
Peter’s-wort is said to do, for therein it 
workes the same effects, both to help the 
sciatica and gout, and to heal burning by 
fire; it stays all the bleedings of wounds, 
if either the green herb be bruised, or the 
powder of the dry be applied thereto. It 
hath been accounted, and certainly it is, 
a sovereign herb to heal either wound or 
sore, either outwardly or inwardly, and 
therefore always used in drinks, lotions, 
balms, oils, ointments, or any other sorts of 
green wounds, old ulcers, or sores, in all 
which the continual experience of former 
ages hath confirmed the use thereof to be 
admirably good, though it be not so much 
in use now, as when physicians and sur 
geons were so wise as to use herbs more 
than now they do. 
GARDEN VALERIAN. 
Descript.]| Tus hath a_ thick short 
greyish root, lying for the most part above 
ground, shooting forth on all other sides 
such like small pieces of roots, which have 
all of them many long green strings and 
fibres under them in the ground, whereby 
it draws nourishment. From the head of 
these roots spring up many green leaves; | 
