S4G THE ENGLISH PHVSICIAN ENLARGE!?. 



Place.l It groTrelh in many groves, and small 1o\t 

 •woods, in divers places of this Jaud, as in Kent, Hunting- 

 don, Cambridge and jNorthamptonsiiircj as also near 

 watercourses in other places. 



Time.'] It flowereth in June and July, and the seed is- 

 fipe in Angust. 



Government and Virtues."] There is not a straw to 

 clioosc between this and St. John's Wort, only St. Peter 

 inusthaycit, Jest he should want pot herbs; it is of the 

 saiTiC property of St. John's Wort, but somewhat weak, 

 and therefore more seldom used. Two drams of the seed 

 taken at a time in honied water, pursjeth choleric humours 

 (as saith Dioscorides, Pliny and Galen) and therefore 

 belpeth those that are troubled with the sciatica. The 

 leaves are used as St. John's Worf, to help those places oX 

 the bofiy that have been burnt with fire. 



Pimpernel. G. (/;. c?. S.) 



Tills is a pretty ornament to meadows and corn fields, 



Descript.1 Common Pimpernel hath divers weak square 

 stalks lying on the ground, beset all with two small 

 and almost round leaves at every joint, one against 

 another, very like chickweed, but hath no foot-stalks ; 

 for the leaves, as it were, compass the stalk, the flowers 

 5tand singly each by themselves at them and the stalk, 

 consisting of five small round-pointed leaves, of a pale red 

 colour, tending to an orange, with so many threads in the 

 middle, in whose places succeed smooth round heads, 

 wherein is contained small seed» The root is small and 

 fibrous, perishing every year. 



Place.] It groweth every where almost, as well in the 

 meadows and corn-fields, as by the way-sides and in gar. 

 dens, arising of itself. 



TiineJi It flowereth from May nntil August, and the seed 

 ripeneth in the mean time and falleth. 



Government and Virtues.'} It is a gallant solar herb, of 

 a cleansing attractive quality, whereby it draweth forth 

 *^*irns or splinters, or other such like things gotten into 

 the wii^ and put up into the nostrils, purgeth the head ; 

 and ^"^^n saith also, they have a drying faculty, where.. 

 by they a. ^^^^ ^^ solder the lips of wounds^ aad to 



