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consisting of five leaves, like the flowers of Cinquefoil, 

 but large, ia the middle whereof standcth a small green 

 herb, which when the flower is fallen, groweth to be 

 round, being made of many long greenish purple seeds 

 (like grains) which will stick upon your cioaths. The 

 root consists of many brownish strings or fibres, smelling 

 somewhat like unto cloves, especially those which grow 

 in the higher, hotter, and drier grounds, and in free and 

 clear air. 



Place.'] They grow wild in many places under hedges 

 eides, and by the path-ways in fields; yet they rather 

 delight to grow in shadowy than sunny places. 



Time.'] They flower in May and June for the most part, 

 and their seed is ripe in July at the farthest. 



Government and Virtues.'] It is governed by Jupiter, 

 and that gives hopes of a wholesome healthful herb. It 

 is good for the diseases of the chest or breast, for pains, 

 and stitches in the side, and to expel crude and raw hu- 

 mours from the belly and stomach, by the sweet savour 

 and warming quality. It dissolves the inward congealed 

 blood happening by falls or bruises, and the spitting of 

 blood, if the roots, either green or dry, be boiled in 

 wine and drank ; as also all manner of inward wounds or 

 outwaid, if washed or bathed therewith. The decodlioa 

 also being drank, comforts the heart, and strengthens the 

 stomach and a cold brain, and therefore is good in the 

 Spring-time to open obstru6lions of the liver, and helpeth 

 the wind colic ; it also helps those that have fluxes, or are 

 bursten, or have a rupture; it taketh away spots or 

 marks in the face, being Avashcd therewith. The juice of 

 the fresh root, or powder of the dried root, hath the same 

 eflcft with the dccodtion. The root in the Spring-time 

 steeped in wine, doth give it a delicate savour and taste, 

 and being drank fasting every morning comforteth the 

 heart, and is a good preservative against the plague, or 

 any other poi' :)n. It helpeth digestion, and warmeth a 

 cold stomach, and openeth obstrudions of the liver and 

 spleen. 



It is very safe ; you need have no dose prescribed ; and 

 is very fit to be kept in every body's house. 



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