S94t THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



to take away freckles or spots in the skin or face ; and to 

 drink the same sweetened witli sugar for all the purposes 

 aforesaid. 



Scabious, three Sorts. ?. (//. (/. 2.) 



There are many other sorts of Scabious, but I take those 

 here described are the most familiar, 



Dcicript,'\ Common field Scabious gro^'oth up witii 

 many hairy, soft, whitibli green leaves, some whereof are 

 very little, if at all jagged on the edges, others very mucfi 

 rent and torn on the sides, and have threads in them, 

 which upon breaking may be plainly seen; from among 

 which rise up divers hairy green stalks, three or four feet 

 high, with such like hairy green leaves on them, but more 

 deeply and finely divitied, branched forth a little ; at the 

 tops thereof, which are naked and bare of leaves for a 

 good space, stand round heads of flowers, of a pale bluish 

 colour, set together in a head, tile outerniest whereof 

 are larger than the inward, wit-ii many threads also iiy 

 the middle, somewhat flat at the top, as the head with 

 the sop^ ^ lilOY'SG ; the root is great, white and thick, 

 growing down deep into ths ground, and abiJeth maay 

 years. 



There is another sort of Field Scabious diflerent in no- 

 thing from the former, but in being smaller. 



The Corn Scabious differeth little from the firsf, but 

 that it is greater in all respects, and the llowers more in- 

 clining to purple, and the root creei)eth under the ujiper 

 crust of the earth, and runneth not deep into the ground, 

 as the first doth. 



Place.'] 'i'he first groweth usually in mcado'AS. 



The seeosid in some of the dry lields, but not so plenti- 

 fully as the former. 



The third ia standing corn, or failow fields. 



Time.] They flower in June and July, and some abide 

 flowering until it be late in August, and the seed is ripe iu 

 the mean time. 



Government and Virtues.] Mercury owns the plaTit. 

 Scabious is very efledtual for all coughs, shortness of breath, 

 and all other diseases of the breast and lungs, ripening and 

 digesting cold johlegm, aud voiding them forth by coughs 



