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and leaify the dryness and roughness of the tongue and 

 throat. It helpeth hoarseness of the voice, and diseases 

 of the breast and lungs, caused by heat, or sharp salt hu- 

 mours, and the pleurisy also. The mucilage of the seed 

 made with plantain-water, whcreunto the yolk of an egg 

 or two, and a little populeon are put, is a most safe and 

 sure remedy to ease the sharpness, pricking, and pains of 

 the haemorrhoids, or piles, if it it be laid on a cloth, and 

 bound thereto. It helpeth all inflammations in any part 

 of the body, and the pains that come thereby, as the head- 

 ach and megrims, and all hot imposthumes, swellings, 

 or breaking out of the skin, as blains, wheals, pushes, 

 purples, and the like j as also the joints of those who are 

 out of joint, the pains of the gout, and sciatica, the 

 bursting of young children, and the swelling of the 

 navel, applied with oil of roses and vinegar. It is also 

 good to heal the nipples and sore breasts of women, be- 

 isig often applied thereunto. The juice of the herb with 

 a little honey put into the ears, helpeth the running of 

 them, and the worms breeding in them: the same also 

 mixed with hog's grease, and applied to corrupt and filthy 

 ulcersj cleanseth and healeth them. 



Flux- Weed. Tj . {temp. d. S.) 



Of this also there are two kinds ; diflfering in nothing, 

 save only that one hath somewhat broader leaves; they 

 have a strong evil savour, being smelled unto, and are of 

 a drying taste. 



Descript.'} It riseth up with a round upright bard stalk, 

 four or five feet high, spread into sundry branches, wher«- 

 on grow many greyish green leaves, very finely cut and 

 severed into a number of short and almost round parts. 

 The flowers are very small and yellow, growing spike 

 fashion, after which come small long pods, with small 

 yellowish seed in them. The root is long and woody, 

 jMjrishing every year. 



Place.'] They flower wild in the fields, by hedge-sides 

 and highways, and among rubbish and other places. 



Time.'] They flower and seed quickly after, namely, ia 

 June and July. 



