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CALTROPS (WATEKy^Trapa Natant,) 



Thkt are called also Tribulus Aquaticua, TribnluB Laca- 

 ■oris, TribuluB MarinoB, Caltrop, Saligos, Water Nuts 

 aod Water Chestnuts. 



Descrip, — As for the greater sort of water caltrop, it is 

 not found here, or very rarely : two other sorts there are, 

 which I shall here describe. The first hath a long creeping 

 and jointed root, sending forth tufts at each joint, from 

 which joints arise long, flat, slender-knotted stalks, even 

 to the top of the water, divided towards the top into many 

 branches, each carrying two leaves on both sides, being 

 about two inches long and half an inch broad, thin and 

 almost transparent, they look as if they were torn ; the 

 flowers are long, thick, and whitish, set together almost 

 like a bunch of grapes, which being ^one, there succeeds 

 for the most part sharp pointed grams altogether, con- 

 taining a small white kernel in them. 



The second differs not much from this, save that it 

 delights in more clear water ; its stalks are not flat, but 

 round ; its leaves are not so long, but more pointed. As 

 for the place we need not determine, for their name 

 showeth they grow in the water. 



OavemmerU and Virtue. — They are under the dominion 

 of the Moon, and bein^ made into a poultice, are excellent 

 good for hot inflanmiations, swellings, cankers, sore mouths 

 and throats, being washed in the decoction. It cleanseth 

 and strengtheoeth the neck and throat, and helps those 

 swellings which, when people have, they say the almonds 

 of their ears are fallen down. It is excellent good for the 

 rank n ess of the gums, a safe and present remedy for the 

 king's evil. They are excellent good for the stone and 

 gravel, especially the nuts being dried ; they also resist 

 poison and bitings of venomous beasts. 



CAMPION :^lLD,)—{Cucubalut Behm.) 



DeBcrip. — The wild white campion hath many long and 

 somewhat broad dark green leaves lyin^ upon the ground, 

 and divers ribs therein, somewhat like plantain, but 

 somewhat hairy ; broader and not so long ; tne hairy stalks 

 rise up in the middle of them three or four feet high, and 

 sometimes more, with divers great white joints at several 

 places thereon, and two such like leaves thereat up to the 

 top^ sending forth branches at •evcrul joints abo : all 



