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little crumpled and hairy ; round about the upper joints, 

 where the leaves grow thick, are sundry gaping flowers 

 of a ])alc reddish colour ; after which come the seeds 

 three or tour in a husk. The root is smaller and thready, 

 perishing every year ; the whole plant hath a strong scent, 

 but not stinking. 



White Archangel hath divers square stalks, non« 

 standing straight upwards, but bending downward, 

 •whereon stand two leaves at a joint, larger :iiid more 

 pointed than the other, dented about the edges, and 

 greener also, more like unto Nettle leaves, but not stink- 

 ing, yet hairy. At the joints with the leaves stand larger 

 and more open gaping white flowers, husks round about 

 the stalks, but not with such a bush of leaves as flowers 

 set in the top, as is on i\u\ other, wherein stand small 

 roundish black seed ; the root is white, with many strings 

 at it, not growing downward, but lying under the upper 

 crust of the earth, and abideth many years increasing ; 

 this hath not so strong a scent as the former. 



Yellow Archangel is like the White in the stalks and 

 leaves; but that the stalks are more straight and upright, 

 and the joints with leaves are farther asunder, having 

 longer leaves than the former, and the flowers a little 

 larger and more gaping, of a fair yellow colour in most, 

 in some paler, the roots arc like the white, only they 

 creep not so much under the ground. 



Place.'} They grow almost every where, the yellow 

 most usually in the wet grounds of woods, and sometimes 

 in the drier, in divers counties of this nation. 



Time.'] They Hower from the beginning of _the Spring 

 all the Summer long. 



Virtues and Use.] The Archangels are somewhat hot 

 and drier than the stinging Nettles, and used with better 

 success for the stopping and hardness of the spleen, than 

 they, by using the decoction of the herb in wine, and after- 

 wards applying the herb hot unto the region of the spleen 

 as a plaister, or the deco6tion with spuuges. Flowers of 

 the White Archangel are preserved or conserved to be 

 used to stay the wJiites, and the flowers of the red to stay 

 the reds in women. It makes the heart merry, drives 

 away melancholy, quickens the spirits, is good against 

 quartera agues, stancheth bleeding at the moutli and nose, 



