oulpipek'b complbte herbal. ^ 



flowers have abode a month above ^nnd it will be 

 withered and gone, and blown away with the wind, and 

 the leaves v^rill be^in to spring, which being full grown 

 are very large and broad, oeiog somewhat thin and almost 

 round, whose thick red foot stalks above a foot long, 

 stand towards the middle of the ^eaves ; the lower part 

 being divided into two round parts close almost one to 

 another, and are of a pale green colour, and hairy under- 

 neath : the root is lonff, and spreadeth under ground 

 being in some places no oigger than one's finger, in others 

 much bigger, blackish on the outside, %nd wnitiBh with- 

 in, of a bitter and unpleasant taste. 



Pl<iC€ and Time. — They grow in low and wet nrounds 

 by rivers and water-sides ; their flowers, as is saic^ rising 

 and decaying in February and March before their leaves, 

 which appear in April 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is under the dominion of 

 the Sun, and therefore is a great strengthener of the heart 

 and cheerer of the vital spirits : the roots thereof are by 

 long experience found to be very available against the 

 plague and pestilential fevers, by provoking sweat: if 

 the powder thereof be taken in wine, it also resisteth the 

 force of any other poison : the root hereof taken with 

 zedoary and an^lica, or without them, helps the rising of 

 the mother : the decoction of the root, in wine, is singu- 

 lar good for those that wheeze much, or are short-wind- 

 ed. It provoketh urine also, and women's courses, and 

 killeth tne flat and broad worms in the belly. The pow- 

 der of the root doth wonderfully help to dry up the 

 moiature of the sores that are hard to be cured, and 

 taketh away all spots and blemishes of the skin. It were 

 well if gentlewomen would keep this root preserved to 

 help their poor neighborus. It is Jit the rick should help 

 the poor J for the poor cannot help themselves, 



BURDOCK— (iiftj<u«m Lappa,) 



It is also called Personata, and Happy-Major, Great 

 Bordoak, and Clot-bur : it is so well known even by the 

 little bojB, who pull off the burs to throw at one another, 

 that I shall spare to write any description of it. 



Place. — They ctow plentifully by ditches and water- 

 iidea. and by the nigh-ways almost every where through 

 thieland. 



a/nd Virtiies.—Y^nuM challengeth thie herb 



