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which bear on several footstalks white flowers at the tops 

 of them, consisting of five broad-pointed leaves, every one 

 cat in on the end unto the middle, making them seem to 

 be two a-piece, smelling somewhat sweet, and each of them 

 standing m a large green striped hairy husk, large and 

 round l^low next to the stalk. The seed is sm^ and 

 grejrish in the hard heads that come up afterwards : the 

 root is white and long, spreading divers fangs in the 

 ground. 



The red wild campion groweth in the same manner as 

 the white, but the leaves are not so plainly ribbed, 

 somewhat shorter, rounder, and more woolly in handling. 

 The flowers are of the same form and size, but in some of 

 a pale, in others of a bright red colour, cut in at the ends 

 more finely, which makes the leaves look more in number 

 than the other. The seeds and the roots are alike, the 

 roots of both sorts abiding many years. 



There are forty-five kinds of campion more ; those of 

 them which are of a physical use having the like virtues 

 with those above described, which I take to be the chiefest 

 kinds. 



Place, — They grow commonly through this land by 

 fields and hedge sides and ditches. 



Time. — They flower in summer, some earlier than others, 

 and some abiding longer than others. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — They belong unto Saturn ; 

 and it is found by experience that the decoction of the 

 herb, either in white or red wine, being drunk doth stay 

 inward bleedings, and applied outwanuv it doth the like ; 

 and being druii^ helpeth to expel urine being stopped, and 

 gravel or stone in the reins or kidneys. Two drams of 

 the seed drunk in wine purgeth the body of choleric 

 humours, and helpeth those that are stung by scorpions 

 or other venomous beasts, and may be as effectual for the 

 plague. It is of very great use in old sores, ulcers, can- 

 ters, fistulas, and the hke, to cleanse and heal them by 

 consumh^g the moist humours falling into them, and 

 correcting the putrefaction of humours offending them. 



CARDUUS BENEDICTUa 



iTiscalled Carduus Benedictus, or Blessed Thistle, or Holy 

 Thistle. I suppose the name was put upon it by some that 

 had little holiness in themselves. 

 I shall spare labour in writing a description of this, as 



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