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large leaves standing, of a dark bluish green colour oa 

 the upper side, and of a yellowish green underneath, 

 turning reddish toward Autumn. At the top of the stalks 

 stand large yellow flowers, and heads with seed, which 

 being greenish at the first, and afterwards reddish, tura 

 to be of a blackish purple colour when they ar« ripe, 

 with small brownish seed within them, and they yield 

 a reddsih juice or liquor, somewhat resinous, of a harsh 

 and styptick taste, as the leaves and the flowers be, 

 although much less, but do not yield such a clear claret 

 •wine colour, as some say it doth ; the root is brownish, 

 somewhat great, hard, and woody, spreading well ia the 

 ground. 



Flace.'l It groweth in many woods, groves, and woody 

 grounds, as parks and forests, and by hedge. sides in many 

 places in this land, as in Hampstead-woood, by Ratley ia 

 Kssex, in the wilds of Kent, aad in many other places 

 needless to recite. 



Time.'] It flowereth later than St. John's or St. Peter'^s- 

 wort. 



Government and virtues.~\ It is an herb of Saturn, and 

 a most noble anti-venerean. Tutsan purgeth cholerick 

 humours, as St, Peter's-wort is said to do, for therein it 

 ■worketh the same effects, both to help the sciatica and 

 gout, and to heal burnings by fire ; it stayeth all the 

 bleedings of wounds, if either the green herb be bruised, 

 or the powder of the dry be applied thereto. It hath, 

 been accounted, and certainly it is, a sovereign herb to 

 heal either wound or sore, either outwardly or inwardly, 

 and therefore always used in drinks, lotions, balms, oils, 

 ointments, or, any other sorts of green wounds, old ulcers, 

 or sores, in all which the continual experience of formec 

 ages hath confirmed 4he use thereof to be admirable good, 

 though it be not so much in use now, as when physicians 

 ajid surgeons were so wise as to use herbs more than no\r 

 they do. 



Garden Valerian. J^. (h, d. 2 J; 



TuERE are twenty-two species of Valerian; but we shall 

 a«ed only to describe one. 



