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&c. "which though at first supportedj groweth afterwards 

 strong of itself. 



Descript.'] It beareth long and narrow green leaves by 

 couples, and sweet smelling white ilowors in tufts at the 

 end of the branches, which turn into small black berries 

 that have a purplish juice with them, and some 'jceds that 

 are flat on the one side, with a hole or dent therein. 



Place."] It groweth on this land, In divers woods. 



Time J] Our Privet flowereth in June and July, the 

 berries are ripe in August and September. 



Government and Firtues.] The Moon is \;.ly of this. 

 It is little used in physic with us in these time > more than 

 in lotions to wash sores and sore mouths, nd to cool 

 inflammations, and dry up fluxes. Yet Ma/' liolus saith, 

 it serveth to all the uses for the which cv press, or the 

 East Privet, is appointed by Dioscorides an i Galen. He 

 farther saith, that the oil that is made of the flowers of 

 Privet infused therein, and set in the sun, is singulap 

 good for the inflammations of wounds and for the head 

 ach coming of a hot cause. There is a sweet water also 

 distilled from the flowers, that is good for all those 

 diseases that need cooling or drying, and therefore helpeth 

 all fluxes of tlie bdly and stomach, bloody fluxes and 

 women's courses, being either drank or applied ; as ali 

 those that void blood at the mouth, or any other place, 

 and for distillations of rheum in the eyes, especially if it b^ 

 used with tutia. 



Queen of the Meadows. ? . {h. d. 2.) 



Also called Meadow Sweet, and Mead Sweet. 



Descript.] The stalks of this are reddish, rising to be 

 three feet high, sometimes four or five feet, having at the 

 joints thereof large winged leaves, standing one above 

 another at distances, consisting of many and samewhat 

 broad leaves, set on each side of a middle rib, being hard, 

 rough, or rugged, crumpled much i»ke unto elm leaves, 

 having also some smaller leaves with them, (as agrimony 

 hath) somewhat deeply dented about the edges, of a sad 

 green colour on the upper side, and greyish underneath^ 

 of a pretty sharp scent and taste, somewhat like uuto tb& 



