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Tt'/«e.] It flowercth in the end of July, and seedeth ia 

 August. 



Government and Virtues.'] It is an herb of the Sun, 

 tinder the sign Taurus. If Saturn offend the throat 

 (as he always doth if he be occasioner of the malady, and 

 in Taurus is the Genesis) this is your cure. It openeth, 

 cureth, and digesteth humours, and mightily provoketh 

 women's courses and urine. Haifa dram at a time of 

 the dried root in powder taken in wine, doth wonderfully 

 ■warm a cold stomach, helpeth digestion, and consumetk 

 all raw and superfluous moisture therein ; easeth all 

 inward gripings and pains, dissolveth wind and resistetli 

 poison and infection. It is a known and much praised 

 remedy to drink the decodtion of the herb for any sort of 

 ague, and to help the pains and torments of the body and 

 bowels coming of cold. The seed is effectual to all the 

 purposes aforesaid (except the last) and worketh more 

 powerfully. The distilled water of the herb helpeth the 

 quinsy in the throat, if the mouth and throat be gargled 

 and washed therewith, and helpeth the pleurisy, being 

 drank three or four times. Being dropped into the eyes, 

 it taketh away the redness or dimness of them ; it like- 

 wise taketh away spots or freckles in the face. The 

 leaves bruised, and fried with a little hog's lard, and laid 

 hot to any blotch or boil, will quickly break it. 



Lungwort. V. (c d. 1.) 



This is a kind of moss that groweth on sundry sorts of 

 trees, especially oaks and beeches. 



Descript.'] It hath broad, greyish, tough leaves di- 

 versely folded, crumpled, and gashed in on the edges, 

 and some spotted also with many small spots on the upper 

 side. It was never seen to bear any stalks or flowers at 

 any time. 



Government and Virtues.'] Jupiter seems to own this 

 herb. It is of great use to physicians to help the diseases 

 of the lungs, and for coughs, wheezings, and shortness 

 of breath, which it cureth both in man and beast. It is 

 very profitable to put into lotions that are taken to stay 

 the moist humours that How to ulcers, aad hinder their 



