Chap. 7 :} 6. "Engajh Herbs. 1255 



Whitlow -Grafs Jagged. 



if. 



Jingle but f mallei Lcjf^ much like the former ; 



fpriniing forth, and lying on the Ground ,n a 

 round Compafs, one hj^J^j^^^J--, ^^*^*^ 1,1" „) 



"edges, growing o'n'fiort Footjlalks ; from the mid- 

 fmall round 'naked Stalks, with few, or rather 



reddijh Seed, but nothing fo hot or fharp cu 



riant IS Smaller than the former, having divers 

 Leaves tying on the Ground, leffer than the Greater 

 aforegoing, like unto the leffer Moufe-Ear, called 

 of a yellomfh green color ; from among which, 

 ^'''"' "L {rZofe {7f Stanching for? ' ^' " 



VI. The 



'[^lant ,Z 

 Leaves fp 



?Flixw5 full of fmall reldipSeed!^ jhaip 

 and hot in fafie oi Creffes. 



VII. The ?laces. The two firft are often found 

 to grow upon Brick and Stone Walls, and upon 

 old Tiled Houfes which are come to have much 

 Mofs upon theni i an^ ^°'|J^"'^f Mud Wa"lls 

 ThTtwl iTare fou°n7growing upon Open Hills, 

 and other like dry Grounds. 



VIII. The Times. They Flower very early in 



^ IX. The Qualities. They are all of them h 



XI. The Balfam, Ointment or CatafLfm, are 

 applyed to thofe Apoftems at the Fingers ends, 

 called Melons, and by the Roots of the Nails cal 

 led Whitlox^s, w hich it is faid they effeaually cure. 



CHAP. DCCXXXVI. 



Of WHORTLE-BERRIES. 



o R, 

 BILLBERRIES Heath and Marjh. 



inn HE Names. It is called in Greek 'A^c«a®- 



1 'U^c. in Latine Viti, Id^-, i. e. cxparte 



Idtquam vacant Phalacras ; Vitis Idaa Theophrafii : 



"\\. The Kinds. Tuthots'wiliel or'io'species 

 of them, or more 5 we fliall defctibe thofe only 



it is no Myrtle, nor Species ot a Myrtle.) Vitis 

 Idia vulgaris baccis nigris, Camerarij, Cluftj, iSf 



Currans, for that Noble Vine grows not on fo 

 high, or Snowy Mountains, but in the Plains and 

 Open Hills, being a Cultivated Vine.) raccinia 

 nigra, Dodon^i ^ Lobelij -, BagoU trimum genus 

 afalpini; Out Common Black Whorts or Bil- 

 berries. 2 ritis Id^a rubra (by all Writers there- 

 of) Vitis Idxa folijs buxeis Clufij , Radix Id^a 

 fruifu rubra Anguilara, (as he called the other 

 Radix Idsa fruliu nigra .- } Radix hUa Difcori- 

 dis Lugdunenfi ; and Vaccinia rubra _hy almoft all 



Box - Leaves. 3. Fitis Idaa tertia Clufij -, Myrto- 

 mails, Petromelis, Fyrus Cervina, Pyrafter Um 

 Gejneri, Sweet Whores or Bilberries. 4- f^^ccima 

 citeri fn^Zts^ oiy!olcun!^"coT£r^ 

 paluftris Bauhini ; Fitis Id<ea tertia Clufij ; Vacci- 

 nium paluftre; Matfh Whorts, of Bilberries. 



The Ttefcriptions. 



111. The firft, or Our Common Black Whorts, 

 fhooting forth in fever al places as it tubs. It is 

 a fmall Bu/h, which creeps as it were upon the 

 Ground, farce rifing a foot and half high, mth 

 feveral fmall dark green Leaves, fet on the green 

 Branches, which it fpreads abroad on both fides. 



