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In our country. Its root* are many, great, and thick, 

 blackish without and whitish within, full of a clammy sap. 

 A piece of them if you set it in the garden, and defend it 

 from the first winter cold, will grow and flourish. 



Place. — They are only nursed up in the gardens in 

 England, where they will grow very welL 



Time. — It tiowereth in June and July. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is an excellent plant under 

 the dominion of the moon. I could wish such as are 

 studious would labour to keep it in their gardens : the 

 leaves being boiled and used in clysters, are excellent good 

 to mollify the belly, and make the passage slippery : the 

 decoction drunk inwardly is excellent and good for the 

 bloody flux : the leaves being bruised, or rather boiled, 

 and applied like a poultice, are very good to unite broken 

 bones, and strengthen joints that have been put out ; the 

 decoction of either leaves or roots being drunk, and the 

 decoction of leaves applied to the place is excellent good 

 for the kiui^'s evil that is broken and runneth : for by the 

 influence of the moon it reviveth the ends of the veins 

 which are relaxed ; there is scarce a better remedy to be 

 applied to such places as are burnt with fire than this is, 

 for it fetches out the fire, and heals it without a scar : 

 this is an excellent remedy for such as have ruptui*es, being 

 either taken inwardly or applied to the place : in like 

 manner used it helps the cramp and the i^out : it is excel- 

 lent good in hectic fevers, and restores radical moisture to 

 ■uch as are in consumptions. 



BRIONY, OR WILD Yl^Y^.— (Bryonia.) 



It is called Wild Vine, and Wood Vine, {Bryonia I>ioic€i,) 

 Tamua, or Ladies' Seal The white is called White Vine, 

 (BtyoniaAlbaj) &nd the black, Black Vine, {Bryonia ^igra.) 

 Jjescrip. — The common white briony groweth rampant 

 upon the hedges, sending forth many long, rough, very 

 tender branches at the beginning, with many rough and 

 broad leaves thereon, cut (for the most part) into five par- 

 titions, in form like a vine leaf, but smaller, rough, and 

 of a whitish hoary green color, spreading very far, and 

 twining with its small claspers (that come forth at the 

 joints with the leaves) very far on whatsoever standeth 

 next to it At the several joints also, especially towards 

 the top of the branches, cometh forth a long stalk, bear- 

 ing many whit« flowers together on a long tuft, consisting 



