24 cxn:.piPEB'8 oompleti hxbbai* 



The leaves and bark of the alder tree are cooling, dry- 

 ing, and binding. The fresh leaves laid apon swellings 

 dissolve them, and stay the inflammations. The leaves 

 put under the bare feet galled with travelling, are a great 

 refreshing to them. The said leaves gathered while the 

 morning dew is on them, and brought into a chamber 

 troubled with fleas, will gather them thereunto, which 

 being suddenly cast out, will rid the chamber of these 

 troublesome bed-fellow& 



AMAB,A'NT'RVS.—(Amaranttu Hypochondriacut,) 



Called also Flower-gentle, Flower-velure, Floramor, 

 Velvet-flower, and Prince's Feather, 



Descrip. — It being a garden flower, and well known to 

 every one that keeps it, I might forbear the description ; 

 yet, notwithstanding, because some desire it, I shall give 

 it. It runneth up with a stalk a cubit high, streaked, and 

 lomewhat reddish towards the root, but very smooth, di- 

 vided towards the top with small branches, among which 

 stand long broad leaves of a reddish green colour, slippery ; 

 the flowers are not properly flowers, but tufts, very 

 beautiful to behold, but ot no smell, of reddish colour ; it 

 you bruise them, they yield juice of the same colour ; be- 

 ing gathered, they keep their beauty a long time : the seed 

 is of a shining black colour. 



Time, — They continue in flower from August till the 

 time the frost nips them. 



Oovemment and Virtuei. — It is under the dominion of 

 Saturn, and is an excellent Qualifier of the unruly actions 

 and passions of Venus, thougn Mars should also join with 

 her. The flowers dried and oeaten into powder, stop the 

 terms in women, and so do almost all other red things. 

 And by the icon or image of every herb, the ancients at 

 first ionnd out their virtuea Modem writers laugh at 

 them for it ; but I wonder in my heart how the virtue of 

 herbs came at first to be known, if not by their signatures ; 

 the moderns have them from the writings of the ancients ; 

 the ancients had no writings to have them from : but to 

 proceed. — The flowers stop all fluxes of blood, whether in 

 man or woman, bleeding either at the nose or wound. 

 There is also a sort of amarauthus that bears a white 

 flower, which stops the whites in women, and the running 

 of the reins in men, and is a most gallant anti- venerea^ 

 and a singular remedy for the French pox. 



