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ground, will plentifully spring up before AVintcr, if iL 

 have nioisltire. The root is round and most usually 

 smooth, greyish without, ar.d white "within, Iiavin^ 

 small ubrcs at the head of the root, and bottom of the 

 stalk. 



Place.'] It growctli very plentifully in many places in 

 this land, but especially in all the west parts thereof, 

 upon stone and mud walls, upon rocks also, and in stony 

 places upon the ground, at the bottom of old trees, and 

 sometimes on the bodies of them that are decayed and 

 rotten. 



Ti?nc.'\ It usually flowereth in the beginning of May, 

 and the seed ripening quickly after, &heddcth itself; so 

 that about the end of May, usually the leaves and stalks 

 are withered, dry, and gone until September, and the 

 leaves spring up again, and so abide all Winter. 



Government and Virtues. V enus challcngeth the herb 

 under Libra. The juice or the distilled water being 

 drank, is very clVeftual for all iuHanunations and unna- 

 tural heats, to cool a fainting hot stomach, a hot liver, 

 or the bowels: the herb, juice, or distilled water there- 

 of, outwardly applied, healoth pimples, St. Anthony's 

 fire, and other out.ward heats. The said juice or water 

 telpeth to heal sore kidnies, torn or fretted by the 

 «tone, or csulceratcd within; it also provoketh urine, 

 is available for the dropsy, and helpeth to break the 

 stone. Being used as a bath, or made an ointment, it 

 cooleth the painful piles or ha?morrhoidal veins. It is 

 no less eife(5tual to give ease to pains of the gout, the 

 sciatica, and the inflammations and swellings in the 

 privates; it helpeth the kernels or knots in the neck or 

 throat, called the king's evil ; healing kibes and chil- 

 blains if they be bathed with the juice, or anointed with 

 ointment made thereof, and some of the skin of the leaf 

 upon them ; it is also used in green wounds to stay the 

 bloodj and to heal them quickly. 



Knapweed. T2 • (^' ^' ^•) 



AtTHOUGH this is well known in some parts, it may be 

 necessary to give a description thereof. 



