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i  Gpantity of fallet Oyl for the {pace of ten or twelve dayes: Both the 
= mairable alstatans mae I sb td a others whe 
7: Adam in Eden : Or, gia 
The Forme. ™ a 
The « common Ladies Be/(traw rifeth up with divers f mall, brown fquate | Palki: 
ftanding up 4 ,at firft, but after it cometh to be about a foot,or half a yard 
which is its. ufuall dimenfion, the tops thereof leanea little downwards, bein High, 
commonly branched forth i into divers parts full of joynts,and with divers very fine 
fmal! Leaves at every one, fet at equal! diftances like Wood-roof, but much leffe, 
and hardly rough at all: at the tops of che branches doe grow forth from feveral 
joynts, many long tufts or branches of yellow flowers, fet one above another very 
thick together, confifting of fourLeaves a piece, of a ftrong and refinous, 
‘unpleefant fmell. The Seed is {mall and black,! ke Poppy feed, two for the moft ; 
being joyned neer together. The root is fomewhat red, which having many fm: 
threds fatned unto ‘t, taketh faft hold of the earth, and creepeth a little way alfos 
‘but that which maketh it moft to increafe is, that after the face are weighed | 
downe there the bese A the Pome. it pakech poo againe atthe 
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The firft is frequently tobe found in many places of this Land | in a dry cs, 
lofes, and Medowes, and fometimés in thofe that are. wet, though I "eink ie 
known to moft, bur the place that I particularly remember to abound t Me 
is Butlers Clofe at Adderbary Towns end ; the fecond was found in Italy, andthe 
third in Germany, on divers bills there, the fourth is a {pontaneal of our own Land, 
and groweth in the Abbey Orchard at Saint Albans, and i in divers other places; 
: ee che Hever "aw 
se i the Seed is ripe in Fuly and Auguft. 2 
The Temperature. 
Ladies ye efpecially that with yellon dowers, inhi is spits eo 
is dry and fomething Dente as Galen faith. 
The Vertues. 
fay that dic ecodi 
Ange hot weather, 
Bn ieee The Flowers and Herbe likewife made into an 
yl, are availeable for the fame purpofes, asalfo for burnings with 
dings with Water; for the dry Scabbe,and the Jtch in Children : : The! 
om is Fa be made with the Flowers and Herbe boyled in Hoggs-greale o 
ee Waxe melted therein, after it. is ftreined; the. 
sade lik ‘ with the Herb in Flower, by being fetin the Sun with a 
and Oyic may beufed, either hefore a journey is taken, for prevention, 
a the feet being firft bathed with the deco@tion, and then anointed vith ete si 
_ them, and this isthe fureft way.. The deco@ion' of theHerb taken in 
__ ufed by divers to help to proveke Urine, and thereby to fret and breakthe sa a 
— sd eaeghe helpeth co ftay ssmard Bleedings, and alfo to heal i, 
