dMcription of this so well known herb ; which, that I may 

 not also be guUtj of, take this short description, first of 

 the red archangel. 



J>Mcrip, — This hath divers square stalks, somewhat 

 hairy, at the joints whereof grow two sad green leaves 

 dented about the edges, opposite to one another to the 

 lowermost, upon long foot stalks, but without any toward 

 the tope, which are somewhat round yet pointeid, and a 

 little crumpled and hairy ; round about the upper joints, 

 where the leaves grow thick, are sundiy gaping flowers of 

 a pale reddish colour ; after which come the seed three or 

 four iu a husk : the root is smaller and thready, perishing 

 every year ; the whole plant hath a strong scent, but not 

 stinking. 



White archangel hath divers square stalks, none stand- 

 ing straight upward, but bending downward, whereia 

 stand two leaves at a joint, larger and more pointed than 

 the other, dented about the edges, and greener also, more 

 like unto nettle leaves, but not stinking, yet hairy. At 

 the joints with the leaves stand larger and more open gap- 

 ing white flowers, husks round about the stalks, but not 

 with such a bush of leaves as flowers set in the top, as is 

 on the other, wherein stand small roundish black seed : 

 the root is white, with man v strings at it, not growing 

 downward, but lying under the upper crust of the eartl^ 

 and abideth many years increasing : this has not so strong 

 a ncent as the former. 



Yellow archangel is like the white in the stalks and 

 leaves ; but that the stalks are more straight and upright, 

 and the joints with leaves are farther asunder, having larger 

 leaves toan the former, and the flowers a little longer and 

 nore gaping, of a fair yellow colour in most, in some paler : 

 Ihe roots are like the white, only they creep not so much 

 ander the ground. 



Place. — Ihey grow almost every where, unless it be in 

 the middle of the street y the yellow most usually in the 

 wet grounds of woods, and sometimes in the drier, in divers 

 counties of this nation. 



TifM, — They flower from the beginning of spring all the 

 summer long. 



Virtust and use. — The archangels are somewhat hot and 

 drier than the stinging nettleH, and used with better suo- 

 eess for the stopping and hardness of the spleen, than br 

 odng the decoction of the herb in wine, and afterwanu 



