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tlen, and defend it from the first Winter cold, will grow 

 and flourish. 



Place.'] They are only nursed in the gardens in Eng- 

 land, where they will grow very well. 



yV/rte.J It flowereth in June and July. 



Government and Virtues.'] it is an excellent plant under 

 the dominion of the Moon. 1 could wish such as are stu- 

 dious would labour io keep it in the gardens ; the leaves 

 being boiled and used in clisters, are excellent good to 

 mollify the belly, and make the passage slippery ; the de- 

 co6tion drank inwardly, is excellent and good for the 

 bloody flux ; the leaves being bruised, or rather boiled, 

 and applied like a poultice, are very good to unite broken 

 bones, and strengthen joints that have been put out; the 

 dcco(?tion of either leaves or roots being drank, and the 

 deccdlion of leaves applied to the place, is excellent good 

 for the king's evil that is broken and runneth ; for by the 

 influence of the Moon, it revivcth the ends of the veins 

 which are relaxed; there is scarce a better remedy to be 

 applied to such places as are burnt with fire than this is, 

 tor it fetches out the fire, and heals it without a scar; 

 this is an excellent remedy for such as are bursten, being 

 either taken inwardly, or applied to the place ; in like 

 manner used it helps the cramp and the gout; it is ex- 

 cellent good in heftic fevers, and restores radical moisture 

 to such as are in consumptions. 



Brionj, or Wild Vine. ^. (h, d. 3.) 



It is called Wild, and Wood Vine, Tamus or Ladies 

 Seal. The white is called White Vine by some, and the 

 black. Black Vine. 



Descript,'\ The common White Briony groweth ramp- 

 ing upon the hedges, sending forth many long, rough, 

 very tender branches at the begickning, with many very 

 rough and broad leaves thereon, cut (for the most part} 

 into five partitions, in form very like a vine leaf, but 

 smaller, rough, and of a whitish hoary green colour, 

 spreading very far, spreading and twining with his small 

 claspers (that come forth at the joints with the leaves) 

 very far on whatsoever standeth next to it. At the 

 several joints also (especially towards the top of the 

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