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seed, or roots, are all very good in deco6lions, drinks, 

 or lotions, for inward or outward wounds, or other sores. 

 And tlie powder strewed upon any cut or wound in a 

 vein, stayeth the immoderate bleeding thereof. The de- 

 co6lion of the root in water, whereunto some pomegra- 

 nate peels and flowers are added, injected into the ma- 

 trix, stayeth the immoderate flux of the courses. The 

 root thereof with peilitory of Spain, and burnt allum, of 

 each a little quantity, beaten small and made into paste, 

 with some honey, and a little piece thereof put into 

 an hollow tooth, or held between the teeth, if there be 

 no hollowness in them, stayeth the defluxion of rheum 

 upon them, which causeth pains, and helps to cleanse 

 the head, and void much olVensive water. The distiHed 

 water is very effectual to wash sores and cankers in the 

 nose or any other part, if the powder of the root be ap- 

 plied thereunto afterwards. It is good also to fasten the 

 gums, and to take away the heat and inflammations that 

 happen in the jaws, almonds of the throat, or mouth, if 

 the decoiSion of the leaves, roots, or seeds bruised, or 

 the juice of them be applied; but the roots are most ef- 

 fectual to the purposes aforesaid. 



One Blade. O (h. d, IJ 



This small and singular plant is called One Leaf, One 

 Blade, or Single Leaf: It is a kind of lilly of the valley, 



Descript.j Jt never beareth more than one leaf, but 

 only when it riseth up with its stalk, which thereon bear- 

 eth another, and seldom more, which are of a bluish 

 green colour, broad at the bottom, and pointed with 

 ribs or veins like plantain ; at the top of the stalk grows 

 many small flowers star-fashion, smelling somewhat sweet; 

 after which cometh small red berries when they are ripe. 

 The root small, of the bigness of a rush, lying and creep- 

 ing under the upper crust of the earth, shooting forth in 

 divers places. 



Place.^ It grows in moist, shadowy grassy places of 

 woods, in many parts of this realm. 



Time.'] It flowereth about May, and the berries are 

 ripe in June, and then quickly perisheth until the next 

 year, and it springeth from the same again. 



