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the morning, it is very profitable for pains in the head 

 that are continual ; and to stay, dry up, and consume all 

 thin riieums or distillations Irom the head into the stomach, 

 and helpeth much to digest raw himjours that are gathered 

 therein. It is very profitable for those that are fallen 

 into a continual evil disposition of the body, called 

 Cachexia, but especially in the beginning of the disease. 

 It is an especial friend and help to evil, weak and cold 

 livers. The seed is familiarly given to children for the 

 •worms, and so is the infusion of flowers in white wine 

 given them to the quantity of two ounces at a time : It 

 maketh an excellent salve to cleanse and heal old ulcers, 

 being boiled with oil of olive, and adder's tongue with it ; 

 and after it is strained, put a little wax, rosin, and tur- 

 pentine, to bring it to a convenient body. 



Cudweed, or Cottonweed. ?.(//.?« 2.) 



Besides Cudweed and Cottonweed, it is also called 

 Chaffweed, Dwarf Cotton, and Petty Cotton. 



Descrzpt.'] The common Cudweed riseth up with one 

 stalk sometimes, and sometimes with two or three, thick 

 set on all sides with small, long and narrow whitish and 

 •woody leaves, from the middle of the stalk almost up to 

 the top ; with every leaf standeth a small flower of a dua' 

 or brownish yellow colour, or not so yellow as others; 

 in which herbs, after the flowers are fallen, come small 

 seed wrapped up, with the down therein, and is carried 

 away with the wind ; the root is small and thready. 



There are other sorts hereof, which arc somewhat lesser 

 than the former, not much diflcrent, save only that the 

 stalks and leaves are shorter, so the flowers arc paler and 

 more open. 



Place.'\ They grow in dry, barren, sandy, and gravelly 

 grounds in most places of this land. 



Time.'] They flower about July, some earlier, some 

 later, and their seed is ripe in August. 



Government and Virtues.} Venus is lady of it. The 

 plants are all astringent, binding, or drying, and there- 

 lore profitable for deflu6tions of rheum from the head, 

 and to stay the fluxes of blood wheresoever, the decodtioa 

 being made into red wine and drank, or the powder 



