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flamed with redness, and for nurses breasts that are f.aineJ 

 by the abundance of milk. 



The wild Succory, as it is more bitter, so it is more 

 strengthening to the stomach and liver. 



Stone-Crop. D. (c. d. 2.) 



Or small Ilouseleek. 



Dcscn'pt.'] \t proweth with divers trailing branches 

 upon the ground, tct with many thick, flat, roundish, 

 whitish green leaves, pointed at the ends. The flowers 

 stand many of them together, somewhat loosely. The 

 roots are small, and run creeping under the ground. 



Place.'] It growcth upon the stone walls and mud- 

 walls, upon the tiles of houses and pent houses, and 

 amongst rubbish and in other gravelly places. 



Time.'] It liowereth in June and July, and the leaves 

 are greou ail the Winter. 



Government and Virtues.'] It is under the dominion of 

 the Mijon, cold in ijualily, and something binding, and 

 therefore good to stay delluxions, especially such as fall 

 upon (he eyes. It stops bleeding, both inward and out» 

 ward, helps cancers, and all fn-tting sores and ulcers. It 

 abates the heat of choler, thereby preventing diseases 

 arising from choleric humours. It expels poison, resisteth 

 pestilential lovers, being exceeding good also for tertiaa 

 agues : you miy drink the decoction of it, if you please, 

 for all the foregoing infirmities. It is so harmless an herb^ 

 you can scarce use it amiss. Being bruised and applied 

 to the place, it helpeth the king's-evil, and any other 

 knots or kernels iu the flesh ; »s also the piles. 



English Tobacco. S- (.h- ^- 2-) 



This came from some part of Brasil, as it is thought^ 

 and is more familiar in our country than any of the other 

 sorts; oarl}' giving ripe seed, which the others seldom do, 

 but doth not grow wild. 



Time.'] It flowereth from June, to the end of August. 



Government and Virtues.] It is a martial plant. It is 

 foHnd by experience to be available to expectorate tough 

 phlegm from the stomach, chest and lungs. The joice 

 made into a syrup^ or the distilldd water of the herb drank. 



