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from Ihc opposite point. The leaves are winged, and much 

 indented at the edges. The flowers grow at the top of the 

 branches, of a brown yellow colour, spotted with black 

 fpots, having a substance w ithin (he midst of them lilic 

 that of a daisy : If you rub them between your fiugers, 

 they smell like rosin or cedar when it is burnt. The seeds 

 are long, and easily stick to any woollen thing they touch. 



Plac€.~\ They delight not in heat, and therefore they 

 are not so frequently found in the southern parts of Eng- 

 land, as in the northern, where they grow frequently : 

 You may look for them in cold grounds, by ponds and 

 sides of ditches, as also by running waters ; sometimes you 

 shall find them grow in the midst of the waters. 



Time.'] They all Uower in July or August, and the 

 seed is ripe presently after. 



Government and Virtues.'] It is a plant of Jupiter, as 

 well as (he other Agrimony: this belongs to the celestial 

 sign Caccer, It hcale(h and drieth, cutteth and clcanseth 

 thick and tough humours of the breast, and for this I 

 hold it inferior to few herbs that grow. It helps the 

 cachexia or evil disposition of the body, the dropsy and 

 yellow jaundice. It opens the obstructions of the liver, 

 mollifies the hardness of the spleen, being applied out- 

 wardly. It breaks imposthumes, taken inwardly. It is 

 an excellent remi'dy for the third day ague. It provokes 

 \irine and the terms. It kills worms, and cleanseth the 

 body of sharp iiumours, which are the cause of itch and 

 scabs ; the herb being burnt, the smoke thereof drives 

 away flies, wasps, &:c. It strengthens the lungs ex- 

 ceedingly. Country people give it to their cuttle when 

 they are troubled with the cough, or broken-winded. 



Alehoof, or Ground-Ivy, ? (Ii. d. 1.) 



Several counties give it several names, so tliat there is 

 scarce an herb growing of that bigness, that has got so 

 many. It is called Cats-foot, Ground-ivy, Gillgo-by- 

 ground, and Gill-creep-by-ground, Turahool, Hay-maids, 

 and Alchoof, and Jack-by-the-Hedge, 



Debcripi.l This well known herb lieth, spreadeth, and 

 creepeth upon the giound, shooteth forth roots at the 

 corucri of teuder joiuUd stalks, set with two round leaves 



