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in Kent, near Linlinstone in Kent; also in a chalk-pif, 

 hard by a paper-mill, not far from Dartford in Kent. 

 Tlic scroiul growedi also in divers places in Kent, as 

 about Sontlifleet and LongQcld ; upon Barton's Hills in 

 Bcdfordishirc ; also not far from St. Albans, upon a 

 piece of v aste chalky ground, as you go out of Dunsta- 

 ble way towards Gorhambury. 



Thne.'\ They llower in August. 



Guvcrnment ami Virtues.'] They arc under tlie domini- 

 on of Mars, and ol them the most principal herbs he is 

 ruler of. They resist putrefactions, poison, and a more 

 sure remedy cannot be found to prevent (he pestilence 

 than it is ; it strengthens the itomach exceedingly, helps 

 digestion, comtorts the heart, and preserves it against 

 faintings and swoonings. The power of the dry roots 

 help the biting of mad dogs and venomous beasts, opens 

 obstruclions of the liver, and restoreth an appetite of 

 their meat to such as have lost it. The herb steeped in 

 wine, and the wine drank, rcfrcshcth such as be over- 

 weary with travel, and grow lame in their joints, either by 

 cold or evil lodgings ; it helps stitches, and griping pains 

 in the sides ; is an excellent remedy for such as are 

 bruised by falls; it provokes urine and the terms ex- 

 ceedingly, therefore let it not be given to women with 

 child ; the same is very profitable for such as are troubled 

 with cramps and convulsions, to drink the decoftion ; 

 also they say it breaks the stone, and helps ruptures most 

 certainly ; it is excellent in all cold diseases, and such as 

 are troubled with tough phlegm, scabs, itch, or any 

 fretting sores and ulcers ; it is an admirable remedy to 

 kill the Avorms, by taking half a dram of the pow'der in 

 a morning in any convenient liquor; the same is ex- 

 cellent good to be taken inwardly for the king's evil. 

 It helps agues of all sorts, and the yellow jaundice, as 

 also the bots in cattle : when kine arc bitten on the ud- 

 Kler by any venomous beast, do but stroke the place 

 with +he decoction of any of these, and it will instantly 

 heal them. 



