16 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



help. The juice or the water dropped, or tents wet 

 therein, and put into filthy dead ulcers, or the powder of 

 the root (in uant of either) doth cleanse and cause them 

 to heal quickly, by covering the naked bones w ith flesh ; 

 the distilled water applied to places pained with the gout, 

 or sciatica, doth give a great deal of ease. 



The wild Angelica is not so eflictual as the garden ; al- 

 though it may be safely used to all the purposes aforesaid. 



Amaranthus. f^ . (c. d. 2.) 



Besides its common name, by which it is best known by 

 the florists of our days, it is called Flower Gentle, Flower 

 Velure, Floramor, and Velvet Flower. 



Descripi.^ It being a garden flower, and well known 

 to every one that keeps it, 1 might forbear the descrip- 

 tion ; ^et, notwithstanding, because some desire it, I shall 

 give it. It runneth up with a stalk a cubit high, streaked, 

 and somewhat reddish toward the root, but very smooth, 

 divided towards the top with small branches, among 

 Avhich stand long broad leaves of a reddish green colour, 

 slippery ; the flowers are not properly flowers, but tuft's, 

 very beautiful to behold, but of no smell, of a reddish co- 

 lour ; if you bruise them, they yield juice of the same co- 

 lour; being gathered, they keep their beauty along time; 

 the seed is of a shining black colour. 



Time.^ They continue in flower from August till the 

 time the frost nips them. 



Guverninent and Virtues.'\ It is under the dominion of 

 Saturn, and is an excellent qualifier of the unruly a6iions 

 and passions of Venus, though Mars also should join with 

 her. The flowers dried and beaten into powder, stop the 

 terras in women, and so do almost all other red things. 

 And by the icon, or image of every herb, the ancients at 

 first found out their virtues^ Modern writers laugh at 

 tli^m for it; but I wouder in my heart, how the virtue of 

 herbs came at first to be known, if not by their signatures ; 

 the moderns have them from the writings of the ancients; 

 the ancients had no writings to have them from; but to 

 proceed. The flowers stop all fluxes of blood, whether 

 in man or woman, bleeding either at the nose or wound. 

 There is also a sort of Amaraathus that bears a white 



