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a remedy against the bitings and stingings of venomous 

 creaturesj Feeing boiled in water and vinegar and drank: 

 boiled in water and drank, it provoketh urine, helpetU 

 the colick, bringeth down women's courses; and made 

 up into a pessary with honey, and put up into the body, 

 draweth forth the dead child. It is much commended 

 against the cough, to expectorate tough phlegm ; it 

 much easeth pains in the head and procureth sleep ; being 

 put into the nostrils, it procureth sneezing, and thereby 

 purgeth the head of phlegm ; the juice of the root ap- 

 plied to the piles or haemorrhoids, giveth much ease; 

 the deco(ftion of the roots gargled in the mouth, easeth 

 the tooth. ach, and helpeth a stinking breath. Oil called 

 Oleum Irinum, if it be rightly made of the great broad 

 flag Flower-de-luce (and not of the green bulbous blue 

 Flower-de-luce, as is used by some apothecaries) and 

 roots of the flagg)' kind, is very effedtual to warm and 

 comfort all cold joints and sinews, as also the gout and 

 sciatica, and mollifieth, dissolveth, and consumeth tumours 

 and swellings in any part of the body, also of the matrix; 

 it helpeth the cramp, or convulsions of the sinews ; the 

 head and temples anointed therewith, helpeth the catarrh, 

 or thin rheum distilled from thence; and used upon the 

 breast or stomach, helpeth to extenuate the cold lough 

 phlegm ; it helpeth aiso pains and noise in the ears, and 

 the stench of the nostrils : the root itself, either greea 

 or in powder, helpeth to cleanse, heal, and incarnate 

 wounds, and to cover the naked bones with flesh again^ 

 that ulcers have made bare ; and is also very good to 

 cleanse and heal up fistulas and cankers, that are hard to 

 be cured. 



Fluellin, or Luellin. D . (c. m, 2.) 



Theue are two kinds of Fluellin, of which take the follow- 

 ing description. 



Descript.^ The first shootelh forth many long branches^ 

 partly lying upon the ground, and partly standing up- 

 right, set with almost red leaves, yet a little pointed, 

 and sometimes more long and round, without order 

 thereon, somewhat hairy, and of an evil greenish white 

 colour; at the joints all along the stalks, and with the- 



