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to^refher unevenly dented about the edge. The flowers 

 are yellow, and weli-smelling also, made like other tre- 

 foil, but small, standing in long spikes one aboye another, 

 for an hand-breadth long or better, which afterwards turn 

 into long crooked pods, wherein is contained flat seedy 

 somewhat brown. 



Place.'] It groweth plentifully in many places of this 

 land ; as in the edge of Suffolk, and in Essex; as also in 

 Huntingdonshire, and in other places ; but most usually 

 in corn-fields, and in corners of meadows. 



Time.'] It flowereth in June and July, and is ripe 

 quickly after. 



Government and Virtues.'] Mellilot boiled in wine, and 

 applied, moUifieth all hard tumours and inflammations 

 that happen in the eyes, or other parts of the body and 

 the fundament^ or privy parts of men and women ; and 

 sometimes the yolk of a roasted egg, or fine flour, or 

 poppy-seed, or endive, is added unto it. Jt helpeth the 

 spreading ulcers in the head, it being washed with alee 

 made tliereof. It helpeth the pains of the stomach, being 

 applied fresh, or boiled with any of the afore-named things; 

 also the pains of the ears, being dropped into them ; and 

 steeped in vinegar, or rose-water, it mitigateth the head- 

 ach. The flowers of Mellilot or Camomile arc much used 

 to be put together iu clysters to expel wind and ease pains; 

 and also in poultices for the same purpose, and to assuage 

 swelling tumours in the spleen or other parts, and helpeth 

 inflammations in any part of the body. The juice dropped 

 into the eyes, is a singular good medicine to take away 

 the film or skin that cloudeth or diraneth the eye-sight. 

 The head often washed with the distilled water of the herb 

 or flower, or a Ice made therewith, is efl'eclual for those 

 that suddenly lose their senses ; as also to strengthen the 

 memory, to comfort the head and brain, and to preserve 

 Ihem from pain and the apoplexy. 



French Mercury. ?. {h. d. S.) 



This is a troublesome herb in those grounds, in which it 

 hath once got possession. 



Descript.] It riseth up with a square green stalk full of 

 joints^ two feet high, oy thereabouts "witii two leaves at 



