210 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



gard tlioy arc well onoiigh known) are especially to dissolve 

 wind in the stomach, lo help the colic, and those that are 

 short-winded, and are an especial remedy tor those that 

 have venereal dreams and pollutions in the night, being 

 outwardly applied to the testicles or privates. The juice 

 dropped into the ears easeth the pains of them, and dc- 

 stroyeth the worms that breed therein. They are good 

 against the venomous biting of serpents. The juice laid 

 on warm, helpeth the king's evil, or kernels in the 

 throat. The decoftion or distilled water helpeth a stink- 

 ing breath, proceeding from corruption of the teeth, and 

 snult'ed up the nose, purgeth the head. Pliny saith, that 

 eating of the leaves hath been found by experience to 

 cure the leprosy, applying some of them to the face, and to 

 help the scurf or dandritl" of the head, used with vinegar. 

 They are extreme bad for wounded people; and they say 

 a wounded man that eats mint, his wound will never be 

 cured, and that is a long day, 



Misselto. ©. (k. d. 2.) 



This is properly a shrub, which groweth upon other 

 trees, having no proper root of its own. 



Descript.l It riseth up from the branch or arm of the 

 tree whereon it groweth, with a woody stem, putting itself 

 into sundry branches, and they again divided into many 

 other smaller twigs, interlacing themselves one within 

 anather, very much covered with a greyish green bark, 

 having two leaves set at every joint, and at the end like- 

 wise, which are somewhat long and narrow, small at the 

 bottom, but broader towards the end. At the knots or 

 joints of the boughs and branches grow small yellow 

 flowers, which run into small, round, white, transparent 

 berries, three or four together, full of a glutinous mois- 

 ture, with a blackish seed in each of them, which Avas never 

 yet known to spring, being put into the ground, or any 

 where else to grow. 



Placc.~\ It groweth very rarely on oaks with us ; but 

 upon sundry other, as well timber as fruit-trees, plenti- 

 fully in woody groveSj and the like, through all this 

 land. 



