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Hypociflti is much more binding : it is a fure remedie fo. » 44 luuumu . s 

 voiding of bloud^thewhites^he laske,and thebloudy Hix : butific b ereVuifit^T ° f fluxes > * s 

 part which is ouerweakned with a fuperfluousmoifture, it doth notably comf n ^en *at 

 the fame. ' 10rt an d ftrengthen 



It is excellent to be mixed with fomentations that ferue for the ftomack and lit,,. 

 It is put into the Treacle of Vipers, to the end it ftiould comfort and ftrengthenLu u ,- 

 as Galen wnteth. reD gtnen weake bodies, 





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Of other 'Plants reckoned fer dwarf e fades of Ciftus 



I. i. Htli&nthcmum Anglicumlut turn vtl album 



Englifh yellow or white dwarfe Ciftus. 





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■SI • tke V efiription. 

 He Englifh dwarfe Ciftus,calledof 



Lobelfanax Chiromum (but there is 

 another Panax ofChirom defection 



which I hold to be the true and right 1 4*4*, not. 

 withstanding hee hath inferted it amongft the 

 kindes of Ciftus, as being indifferent to joyne 

 with vs and others for the infertion)is a low and 

 bafe plant creeping vpon the ground, hailing 

 many fmall tough branches of a browne colour. 

 wherupon grow little leaues fet together by cou' 

 ples j thicke 3 fat,and ful of fubftance,and couered 

 Ouer with a fof t downe ; from the bofome where- 

 of come forth other lefler leaues : the floures be- 

 fore they be open are fmall knopsor buttons, of 

 a browne colour mixed with yellow, and beeing 

 open and fpred abroad are like thofe of the wilde 

 Tanfie f & of a yellow coIour,with forae yellower 

 chiues in the middle : the foot is thickc,and of 4 

 wooddy fubftance. 



The fecond is very like to the precedent, 

 fauing rhat the leaues are longhand do not grow 

 fo thicke thru A together , and are more woolly. 

 the flours are greater,and of a white color^hcr- 

 in the cfpeciall difference confiftetb.Therootis 

 like the former. 



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3 HelUnthcmum lutcum Germanicum. The yellow dwarfe Ciflus of Germany 



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