244 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



Place] It growctli naturally in many places of this 

 laml, as at Clare in Essex ; also near unto lOxeter iu 

 Devonshire; upon Ilochcstcr Common in Kent; in 

 Lancashire, and divers other places; but usually kept 

 in gardens. 



Tiiitc] It flowercth in the end of Juno, and in July. 



Government and Virtues.'] ilcre is another martial 

 licrb for you, make much of it. Pliny and Paul us 

 jG^filiueta say, that Pepperwort is very successful for the 

 sciatica, or any other gout or pain in the joints, or any 

 Other inveterate grief : the leaves hereof to be bruised, 

 and mixed -with old hog's grease, and ap[)Iicd to the 

 place, and to continue thereon four hours in men, and 

 two hours in women, the place being alterwards bathed 

 ■with wine and oil mixed together, and then wrapt up with 

 ■wool or skins, after they have sweat a little. It also 

 amendeth the deformities or discolourings of the skin, 

 and hclpeth to take away marks, scars, and scabs, or the 

 foul marks of burning with fire or iron. The juice hereof 

 is by some used to be given in ale to drink to wouien with 

 child, to procure them a speedy deliverance in travail. 



Periwinkle. $. (h. 2. d. I.) 



Of this there are two kinds, the Garden and the Common. 

 Desc7'ipt.'\ The common sort hereof hath many branches 

 trailing or running upon the ground, shooting out small 

 fibres at the joints as it runneth, taking thereby hold in the 

 ground, and rooteth in divers places. At the joints of 

 these branches stand two small dark green shining leaves, 

 somewhat like bay leaves but smaller, and with them come 

 forth aho the flowers, (one at a joint) standing upon a 

 tender foot-stalk, being somewhat long and hollow, 

 parted at the brims, sometimes into four, sometimes into 

 live leaves; the most ordinary sorts are of a pale blue 

 colour: some are pure white, and some of a dark reddish 

 purple colour. The root is little bigger than a rush, 

 bushing in the ground and creeping with his branches far 

 about, whereby it quickly possesseth a great compass, 

 and is most usually planted under hedges where it may 

 Ixavc room to run. 



