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or anj other flux of blood or humours, being used as wdl 

 outwardly as inwardly. 



BIFOIL, OR TWABLABE.— (Ztrtera (hcUa.) 



Deicrip. — This small herb, from a root somewhat sweet, 

 shooting downwards many long strings, riseth up a round 

 green stalk, bare or naked next the ground for an inch, 

 two or three to the middle thereof, as it is in age or 

 growth : as also from the middle upward to the flowers, 

 having only two broad plantain-like leaves, but whiter, 

 set at the middle of the stalk, one against another, com- 

 passeth it round at the bottom of them. 



Place. — It is an usual inhabitant in woods, copses, and 

 in many other places in this land. 



There is another sort groweth in wet grounds and 

 marshes, which is somewhat different from the former. 

 It is a smaller plant, and greener, having sometimes three 

 leaves ; the spike of the flowers is less than the former, 

 and the roots of this do run or creep in the ground. 



Thev are much and often used by many to good pur- 

 poses for wounds, both green and old, to consolidate or 

 knit ruptures, as well it may, being a plant of Saturn. 



BIRCH TB,EE.^{Betula Alba.) 



Descrip. — This groweth a goodly tall straight tree, 

 fraught with many boughs and slender branches bending 

 downward ; the old being covered with a discoloured chop- 

 ped bark, and the younger being browner by much. The 

 leaves at the first breaking out are crumpled, and after- 

 wards like beech leaves, but smaller and greener, and 

 dented about the edges. It beareth small short catkins, 

 somewhat like those of the hazel-nut tree, which abide on 

 the branches a long time until growing ripe they fall upon 

 the ground, and their seed with them. 



Place. — It usually groweth in woods. 



Oovemment and Virtues.— -It is a tree of Venus. The 

 Juice of the leaves, while they are young, or the distilled 

 water of them, or the water that comes from the tree being 

 bored with an auger, and distilled afterwards ; any of 

 hese being drunk for some days together, is available to 

 break the stone in the kidneys and bladder, and ifl good 

 also to wash sore mouthi. 



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