68 OITLPEPBR'B COMPLUTE HCKBA14. 



pecially in HuDtingdon and Northamptonshire, in th« 

 meadows there ; as also near London by Pancras church, 

 and bj a causewaj-side in the middle ci a field bj 

 Paddington. 



Time, — They flower about the end of June and begin- 

 ning of July, and their seed is ripe in August. 



wvemment and Virtues. — This is an herb the Sun 

 challengeth dominion over, and is a most precious herb, 

 little inferior to betony : the continual use of it preserves 

 the body in health and the spirit in vigour ; for if the 

 sun be the preserver of life under Gkxl, his herbs are the 

 best in the world to do it. They are accounted to be 

 both of one property, but the lesser is more effectual, be- 

 cause quicker and more aromaticaL It is a friend to the 

 heart) liver, and other principal parts of a man's body. 

 Two or three of the stalks with leaves put into a cup of 

 wine, especially claret, are known to quicken the spirits, 

 refresh and clear the heart, and drive away melancholy. 

 It is a special help to defend the heart from noisome va- 

 pours, and from infection of the pestilence, the juice there- 

 of being taken in some drink, and the party laid to sweat 

 thereupon. They have also a drying and an astringent 

 Quality, whereby they are available in all manner of 

 nuxes of blood or humours, to staunch bleedings inward 

 or outward, laxes, scourginga, the bloody-flux, women's 

 too abundant flux of the courses, the whites, and the cho- 

 leric belchings and castings of the stomach, and is a 

 singular wound herb for all sorts of wounds both of the 

 head and body, running cankers, and most sores, to be 

 used either by the juice or decoction of the herb, or by 

 the powder of the herb or root, or the water of the dis- 

 tilled herb or ointment by itself, or with other things to 

 be kept ; the seed is also no less effectual both to fluxes, 

 and to dry up moist sores, being taken in powder inwardly 

 in wine or steeled water, that is, wherein hot gads of steel 

 have been quenched : or the powder, or the seed mixed 

 with the ointment. 



BVTTEBrBVK--(Tusnlago Hyhrida,) 



Detcrip, — This riseth up in February, with a thick 

 Btklk aoout a foot high, whereon are set a few small 

 leaves, or rather pie«es, and at the tope a long spike head ; 

 flowers of a blush or deep red colour, according to the 

 •oU where it groweth, and before the stalk with the 



