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mended to help achesand pains either in the fleshy part, or 

 in the nerves and sinews ; as also the sciatica, or j)ain of 

 the hips or huckle-boue, to bathe the places with the de- 

 coction of the herb, or to anoint them with an ointment 

 made of the herb, bruised and boiled in old hog's suet, 

 ■with some m.astic and olibanum in powder added unto 

 it after it is strained forth, la Sussex avc call it Hag- 

 weed. 



Raltlc Grass, j . (c. m. I.) 



Of this there arc two kinds which I siiali speak of, viz. 

 the red and yellow. 



Descrt'pt.'] Tiie common Ued Rattle hath sundry red- 

 dish, hollow stalks, and soraetimcs green, rising from the 

 root, lying for the most part on the ground, some grow- 

 ing more upright, with many small reddish or green leaves 

 set on both sides of a middle rib, linely dented about the 

 edges : the llowers stand at the tops of the stalks and 

 branches of a fine purplish red colour, like small gaping 

 hooks, after which come blackish seed in small husks, 

 •which lying loose therein, will rattle with shaking. The 

 root consists of two or three small whitish strings with 

 some fibres thereat. 



The common Yellow Rattle hath seldom above one 

 round great stalk, rising from the foot about half a yard, 

 or two feet high, and but few branches thereon, having 

 two long and somewhat broad leaves set at a joint, deeply 

 cut in on tlie edges, resembling the comb of a cock, 

 broadest next to the stalk, and smaller to the end. The 

 flowers grow at the tops of the stalks, with some shorter 

 leaves with them, hooded after the same manner that the 

 others are but of a fair yellow colour, or in some paler, 

 and in some more white. The seed is contained in large 

 husks, and being ripe, will rattle or make a noise with 

 lying loose in them. The root is small and slender, 

 perishing every year. 



Place.\ They grow in meadows and woods generally 

 through this land, 



7Vw(2-] They are in flower from Midsummer until 

 August be past; gometimcs. 



