the Paradife of Plants. 15 
bith, and upon old Mud-walls at Basil, Mompelier , and other places. They flower 
fometimes late, and fomerimes earlyer, but moft commonly in July, or therea+ 
bouts, : ESS 
ey SR Re on ce 
The Temperature, 
The three firft Sorts of Ery imum, as the moft in ufe, and effectuall, do tempe= - 
rately heat, coniifling of a chin fubftance, cutting and cleanfing with fome moyit 
parts joyned therewith, fo thar it doth make yifcous flegm eatie to be {pit forth, 
The Vertues, 
This Herb is of fingular efficacy in all cheDifeafes of che Cheft &Lungs,hoarfhes 
of yoyce, and, by the ufe of the Decoftion thereof for a little fpace; thofe have 
been recovered, who had utterly loft their yoyce, and therewith almoft their {pi- 
rits alio, The juyce thereof, made into a Syrup, or Lehoc, with Honey or Sugar, 
is no leffe effectual! tor the faid purpofe, and for all orcher Coughs, Wheefines, 
_and fhortneffe of Breath. The fame alfois profitably taken of thofe,that haye the 
aundies, the Pleurifie, pains in the Back and Loins,and fot Torments and wring- 
ings in che Blly, or in the Colon, which is called the Collick, being uled alfo in _ 
Glitters. The Seed is held ro bean remedy againtt poyfon, and venome, 
It is fingular good for the pains in the Hips, or Huck-bones, called the Hip-gout, 
lings in Womens Breafts, or in the Tefticles and Stones. There is to be had at the 
Apothecaries, a oe made of Hedge- Muftard, Elicampane,(olts-foor,Li quorice, 
and {uch other Ingredients, which , was invented again{t cold afflitions of the 
Breaft and Lungs, as Aithmaes, hi &c, and may Be sail eaten witha Li 
hoy et ti relief of thofe, which are ted wi any of the sfore= 
2 AD. CK. 
OF Colts-foot. 
The Names, 
B: all this while I had almoit forgot Colts-foot, which is fo called in 
Englith, from the fimilitude it hath with a Horles or Colts-foot, Ie is 
called in’ Greek @ixyov: and Tufilago, im Latine, 4 notifsima urilitare 
ae quam prabet in orthopnercis tu[si vexatis, of its notable qualities, ro 
cure Coughs, and other Difeafes of the Lungs. The Apothecaries call it Farfara 
and Ungula Caballina ; and of fome, Poputago, from the likenefle of itsLeaves 
0 thofe of the white Poplar, which was named of the Ancients Fa 
>pole; that rhis may be a ) 
them bring their Flowers before r 
ibi ante patres, ix being fomewhat prepofterous, and very rare 
Plants + aware cs ¢ why fomie Herbarifesthonght, ch 
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