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colour : He that knoAvs the common Clary cannot be 

 ignorant of this. 



Place.'] It grows commonly in this nation in barren 

 places; } ou may find it plentifully, if you look in the 

 fields near Gray's-lnn, and near Chelsea. 



Time.'] They flower from the beginning of June till 

 the latter end of August, 



Government and Virtues.'] It is something hotter and 

 drier than the garden Clary ; nevertheless it is under the 

 dominion of the Moon, as well as that : The seeds of it 

 being beaten to powder, and drank with wine, is an ad- 

 mirable help io provoke lust. A decoftion of the leaves 

 being drank, warm the stomach, and it is a wonder if it 

 should not, the stomach being under Cancer, the house 

 of the Moom. Also it helps digestion, scatters congealed 

 blood in any part of the body. The distilled water 

 hereof clcanseth the eyes of redness, waterishness and 

 heat : It is a gallant remedy for dimness of sight, to take 

 one of the seeds of it and put into the eyes, and there let 

 it remain till it drops out of itself, the pain will be no- 

 thing to speak on ; it will cleanse the eyes of all filthy and 

 putrified matter ; and in often repeating it, will take olf a 

 film which covereth the sight ; a handsomer, safer, and ea- 

 sier remedy by a great deal, than to tear it off with a 

 heedle. 



Cleavers. J . (c. m. 1.) 



It is also called Aparine, Goose-share, and Goose-grass. 

 Descript.] The common Cleavers have divers very 

 rough square stalks, not so big as the top of a point, but 

 rising up t-o be two or three yards high sometimes, if it 

 meet with any tall bushes or trees, whereon it may 

 climb, yet without any claspcrs, or else much lower, 

 and lying on the ground, full of joints, and at every 

 one of them shooteth forth a branch, beside the leaves 

 thereat, which are usually six, set in a round compass, 

 like a star, or a rowel of a spur: From between the 

 leaves or the joints towards the tops of the branches 

 come forth very small white flowers, at every end upon 

 small thready foot-stalks, which after they have lallen, 

 there do shew two small round and rough seeds joined 



