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break, branched into ilivcrs parfs, and sometimes with 

 divers stalks, set full of brandies, whereon grow long, 

 rough, or hard rugged leaves, very much (ore or cut on 

 the edges in many parts, some biggrr, and some lesser, of 

 a dirty green culour. The flowers arc small and yciiowj 

 that grow on the tops of the branches in long spikes, 

 flowering by degrees; so that continuing long in flower, 

 the stalk v/ill have small round pods at the bottom, 

 growing upright and close to the stalk, while the top 

 flowers yet shew themselves, in which are contained small 

 yellow £ied, sharp and strong, as the herb is also. The 

 root groweth down slender and woody, yet abiding and 

 springing again every year. 



Place. \ This groweth frequently in this land, by the 

 ways and hedge-sides, and sometimes in the open flelds. 



Time.'] It flowereth most usually about July. 



Government and P'lriues.'] Mars owns this herb also. 

 It is singular good in all the diseases of the chest and lungs, 

 hoarseness of voice ; and by the use of the decoction 

 thereof for a little space, those have been recovered who 

 had utterly lost their voice, and almost their spirits also. 

 The juice thereof made into a syrup, or licking medicine, 

 with honey or sugar, is no less elTedlual for the same pur- 

 pose, and for ail other coughs, wheezing, and shortness 

 of breath. The same is also profitable for those that have 

 the jaundice, pleurisy, pains in the back and loins, and 

 for torments in the belly, or colick, being also used in 

 clysters. The seed is held to be a special remedy against 

 poison and venom. It is singular good for the sciatica, 

 and in joint-achs, ulcers, and cankers in the mouth, throat, 

 or beliiad the ears, and no less for the hardness and swelling 

 of the testicles, or women's breasts. 



Nailworf, or Whitlowgrass ^. (k. d. 2.) 



This plant derives its name from its virtues. 



Descript.'] This very small and common herb hath no 

 yoots, save only a few strings, neither doth it grow to be 

 above a hand's breadth high, the leaves are very small, 

 and somewhat long, not much unlike those of chickweed, 

 -among which rise up divers slender stalk?, bearing many 

 ■white flowers one above another, which are exQCcding 



