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Government and Virtues.'] They arc under the dominioa 

 of the Moon, and being made into a poultice, are ex- 

 cellent good for hot inllammations, swellings, cankers, 

 sore mouths and throats, being washed with the de- 

 codlion ; it cleanseth and strengtheneth the neck and 

 throat, and helps those swellings which when people 

 have, they say the almonds of their ears are fallen down; 

 it is excellent good for the king's evil; they are excel- 

 lent good for the stone and gravel, especially the nuts 

 being dried ; they also resist poison, and bitings of ve- 

 nomous beasts. 



Campion Wild. Tj . (c. d. 3) 



There are forty-five kinds of Campion, those of them 

 ■which are of a physical use having the like virtues with 

 the following, which I take io be the two chiefest kinds. 



Descript.'] The Wild White Campion hath many long 

 and somewhat broad dark green leaves lying upon 

 the ground, and divers ribs therein, somewhat like 

 plantain, but somewhat hairy ; broader, and not 

 so long ; the hairy stalks rise up in the middle 

 of them three or four feet high, and sometimes more, 

 with divers great white joints at several places thereon, 

 and two such like leaves thereat up io the top, sending 

 forth branches at several joints also; all which bear on 

 several footstalks white flowers at the top of them, con- 

 sisting of five broad-pointed leaves, every one cut in on 

 the end unto the middle, making them seem to be two 

 a-piece, smelling somewhat sweet, and each of themi 

 standing in a large green striped hairy husk, large and 

 round below next to the stalk; the seed is small and 

 greyish in the hard heads that come up afterwards, the 

 root is white and long, spreading divers fangs in the 

 ground 



The Red Wild Campion growcth in the same manner 

 as the White, but his leaves are not so plainly ribbed, 

 somewhat shorter, rounder, and more woolly in handling. 

 The flowers are of the same form and bigness ; but in 

 some of a pale, in others of a bright red colour, cut in 

 at the ends more finely, which makes the leaves look 



