Chap. 1 50. Evglijl) hcvh 



of Agues, and allay the flvironeft of the H\ 



^'!^X. TI^c Acii Aqueflus T,m7ure. Take Sprh 

 Water, a s^llon : Oil of Vitnol.or Oil cf Siilph 



hio it cjthe foudcr of the Root, fix ounces : digcfi 

 m a gentle Sand heat for a Month, Jhahng the 



cle, it Itops'inward bleedings, and Itrengthens and 

 Red Fort Wine, it makes a good Lotion to 

 cfle'aually deltroys the Putridit>- ( if any ) ri 



CHAP. CL, 



0/CONSOUND Saracens. 



n to the Grcf/^j 



imea, (b^^dTiiftd 



ufe ufed by tl 



X and therefore among them we have no name 

 ir it. The iMtins call it Confohda ( ftom Confoli- 

 Soder, Clofe, or Glew up : ) Confohda Sa- 



Solidago, and Herba 

 anfolfda ^SartemcayTrT^T^l ^m£xlctJcon- 



fohdd Surucemca, vel Germanica Siitquofa, Codded 

 Saracens, or German Confound, or Wound-Wort. 



Thefe Plants the Germans generally call Vulneraria 

 Turcica, Turkifh Wound Wort. 



III. The Defcriptions. The firft ( which is the 

 True Saracens Confound) has a Roet confifiing of 

 many fibres or Strings, fet together and growing 

 from a Head, which perijh not in Winter, but con- 

 tinue, though the Stalks fade and iye away, without 

 fomuch as a Leaf appearing in that Sea/on : From 

 Uaroes, fnipt aboutlhe" ed^f, Uke tTth2 of7he 

 Almond or Peach Tree, or Willow Leaves, but not 

 offuch a whitijh green color : From amiifi thefe 

 Leaves rifes up a Stalk or Stalks, very high, grow- 

 ing fometmes to a Man's height, rvhich are of a 

 irownifh, or brownifh green color, and hollow, ha- 

 ving many long and narrow green Leaves ( as before 

 defcribed ) fet thereon. At the tops cf the Stalks 

 grow many pale yellm Star-like Flowers, fianding 



fCansoii^ • 



IM.The fecord, or Greater Saracens Confound, 

 i a Root compofed of a great Bufh of white Fibres 

 1 breads, growing very deep and Jtrongty m the 

 ground, andjhooting forth firings on all Ms which 

 produce new Plants, encreafing in a little tme, and 

 over-running a great quantity of ground. From this 

 Rootfprings forth a head of Leaves, which isfome- 

 what brown at the firji Jhooting out of the ground, 

 ' "^fi y '^^^ ^'^"i "f '^^ Root before the 



h^i' ^i^'thf}M'\L ma 



D '^'Kh^'r ^'' ""aforeJZ at thfhTai of7}^ 

 lheif"-d, "^ ""''* '^' ^'"'^'^ ^^ 



'otherZand^a iZe 'dei7ed{lZfZ iTcs. 



Tet]d:M§IhtiiS^^^^^ 



_ V. Th\i\Ai^,o7^Q^l^rY^%s'TRoot which 



perifh Annually, fpringingjorth afrefh from the 

 t?l7%Z' r^^flhrf^rmTr, oTTJhcrlUen 



