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made into an oil, and the eyes anointed tlierewitJi, takcth 

 away the dimness and nioistness. It is likewise good lor 

 the pains in the sides and cramps. The decottion thereof 

 taken for four days together, driveth away and curefh 

 both tertian and quartan agues. It is also good against 

 all diseases of the brain, as continual head-ach, failing, 

 sickness, melancholy, drowsiness and dullness of the 

 spirits, convulsions and palsies. A dram of the seed taken 

 in powder, purgeth by ntine, and iygood against the yel- 

 low jaundice. The juice of the leaves dropped into the 

 cars, krllcth the worms in them. The tops thereof, when 

 they are in Uower, steeped twenty-four hours in a 

 draught /of white wine, and drank, killcth tlic worms in 

 the belly. 



Slinking Gladwin. Tj . ' (h. d. 3.) 



Tins is one of the kinds of Flower-de-luce. 



Dcscrtpt.1 It has divers leaves arising from the roots, very 

 like a FlOwer-de-luce, but they are sharp-edged on both 

 sides, and thicker in the middle, of a deeper green colour, 

 narrower and sharper pointed, and a strong ill scent, if they 

 be bruised between the fingers. In the middle riseth up a 

 reasonable strong stalk, a yard high at the least, bearing 

 three or four flowers at the top, made somewhat like the 

 flowers of the flower-de-luce, with three upright leaves, 

 of a dead purplish ash colour, with some veins dis- 

 coloured in them ; the other three do not fall down, nor 

 are the three other small ones so arched, nor cover the 

 lower leaves as the P^lower-de-lucc doth, but stand loose 

 or asunder from them. After they are past, there come 

 up three square hard husks, opening wide into three parts 

 vhen they are ripe, -wherein lie reddish seed, turning 

 black when it hath abided long. The root is like that of 

 the Flower-de-luce, but reddish on the outside, and 

 whitish within, very sharp and hot in the taste, of as evil 

 scent as the leaves. 



Piace.'] This groweth as well in upland grounds as in 

 Inoist places, woods, and shadowy places by the sea-side 

 in many places of this land, and is usually nursed up in 

 gardens. 



