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OLKAVEBa— (6Wwm Aparim.) 



DMOrip, — ^This plant has many common names, as 

 QooM-grasSf Catchweedy Bed straw ^ etc. It is an annual 

 lucculent plant, with a weak, procumbent, quadrangu- 

 lar, retrosely-prickled stem, which grows from two to 

 six feet high and is hairj at the joints. The leaves are 

 one or two inches in length, and two or three lines in 

 breadth, rough on the margin and tapering to the base. 

 The flowers are white, small and scattered. 



Place, — It groweth (?v the hedge and ditch-sides, in 

 many places of this land, and is so troublesome an inhab- 

 itant in wardens, that it rampeth upon and is ready to 

 choke whatever grows near it. 



Time, — It flowereth in June or July, and the seed is 

 ripe and falleth again in the end of July or August, from 

 wnence it springeth up again, and not from the old roots. 

 OovemmerU and Virtues. — It is under the dominion of 

 the Moon. The juice of the herb and the seed together 

 taken in wine, helpeth those bitten with an adder, by pre> 

 serving the heart from the venom. It is familiarly taken 

 in broth, to keep them lean and lank that are apt to grow 

 fat. The distilled water drunk twice a day helpeth the 

 yellow jaundice ; and the decoction of the herb, in experi- 

 ence, is found to do the same, and stayeth laxes and bloody 

 fluxes. The juice of the leaves, or they a little bruised and 

 M)plied to any bleeding wound, stayeth the bleeding. 

 The juice also is very go^ to close up the lips of men 

 wounds, and the powder of the dried herb strew«^ there- 

 upon doth the same, and likewise helpeth oid ulcers. 

 Being boiled in hog's grease, it helpeth all sorts of hard 

 •weUingsor kernels in the throat, being anointed therewith. 

 The juice dropped into the ears taketh away the pain of 

 them. 



It is a good remedy in the spring, eaten (bein^ first 

 chopped small and boiled well) in water gruel, to cleanse 

 the blood and strengthen the liver, thereby to keep the 

 body in healh, and fltting it for that change of season that 

 is coming. 



