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Jnpiter, and onder Leo, all great cordials and great 

 strengtheners of nature. The leaves and roots are to very 

 ffood purpose used in putrid and pestilential fevers to de- 

 fend the neart, and to resist aod to expel the poison or 

 venom of other creatures ; the seed is c» the like effects ; 

 and the seed and leaves are good to increase milk in wo- 

 men's breasts : the leaves, flowers, and seed, all or any of 

 them, are good to expel pensiveness and melancholy : it 

 helpeth to clarify the blood, and mitigate heat in fevers. 

 The juice made into a syrup prevaileth much to all the 

 purposes aforesaid, and is put with other cooling, opening, 

 and cleansing herbs to open obstructions and help the 

 yellow jaundice ; and mixed with fumitory, to cool, 

 cleanse, and temper the blood thereby : it helpeth the itch, 

 ringworms, and tetters, or other spreading scabs and sores. 

 The flowers candied or made into a conserve, are helpful 

 in the former cases, but are chiefly used as a cordial, and 

 are food for those that are weak in long sickness, and to 

 comfort the heart and spirits of those that are in a con- 

 sumption, or troubleil with often swoonings, or pahsions of 

 the heart The distilled water is no less effectual to all 

 the purposes aforesaid, and helpeth the redness and in- 

 flammations of the eye8t being washed therewith : the 

 dried herb is never used, but the green : yet the ashes 

 thereof boiled in mead or honied water, is available against 

 the iuflammations and ulcers in the mouth or throat, to 

 gargle it therewith : the roots of bugloss are effectual, be- 

 ing made into a licking electuary, for the cough, and to 

 condensate phlegm, and the rheumatic distillations apoa 

 the lungs. 



BLUE-BOTTLE.— ("CeiUflwww Cytmut,) 



It is called Cyanus, I suppose from the colour of it; Hart- 

 sickle, because it turns the etlges of the sickles that reap 

 the rorn, Blue- blow, Corn-flower, and Blue-bottle. 



De$cnp. — I shall only describe that which is commonest, 

 and in my opinion most useful : its leaves spread upon 

 the ground, being of a whitish screen colour, somewhat on 

 the edgt« like those of com scabious, amongst which aris- 

 oth up a stalk divided into divers branches beset with long 

 leaves of a sreenish colour, either but very little indented 

 or not at all : the flowers are of a blue colour, from whence 

 it took its name, consisting of an innumerable company of 

 small flowers set in a scaly head, not much unlike those 



