CUIJ>BPXB'B OOMPLBTE RXRBAIi. 9S 



CLOWITS WOUND WOBT.-H/'a^o-'^ Coloni,) 



Descrip. — It groweth up sometimes to two or three feet 

 high, but usuaUy about two feet, with square, green, 

 rough stalks, but slender, joined somewhat far asunder, 

 and two very long, somewhat narrow dark greeu leaves 

 bluntly dented about the edges thereof, ending in a long 

 point The Bowers stand towards the tops, compassing 

 the stalks at the joints with the leaves, and end likewise 

 in a spiked top, having long and much gapiug hoods of a 



Surplish red colour, with whitish spots in them, standing 

 1 somewhat round husks, wherein afterwards stand 

 blackish round seeds. The root is composed of many long 

 strings with some tuberous long knoos growing among 

 them, of a pale yellowish or whitish colour ; yet some 

 times of the year these knobby roots in many places 

 are not seen in this plant The plant smelleth somewhat 

 strong. 



Place. — It groweth in sundry connties in this land both 

 north and west, and frequently by path sides in the fields 

 near London, and within three or four miles distant aboat 

 it ; yet it usually grows in or near ditches. 



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

 ripe soon after. 



Oovemment and VirtvM, — It is nnder the dominion of 

 the planet Saturn. It is singularly effectual in all fresh 

 and green wounds, and therefore beareth not this name 

 for nothing. It is very available in staunching of blood, 

 and to diT up the fluxes of humours in old fretting ulcers, 

 cankers, &c., that hinder the healing of them. 



A syrup made of the juice of it is inferior to none for 

 inward wounds, ruptures of veins, bloody flux, vessels 

 broken, spitting, making too much water, or vomiting 

 blood. Ruptures are excellently and speedily, even to 

 -admiration, cured by taking now and then a little of the 

 syrup, and applyiug an oiotmeut or plaster of this herb 

 to the place. Aloo, if any vein or muscle be swelled, 

 apply a plaster of this herb to it, and if you add a little 

 comfrey it will not do amiss. The herb deserves com- 

 mendalioD, though it has received such a clowui^h name, 

 and wboever reads this, if he try as I have done, will 

 commend it ; only take notice that it is of a dry earthly 

 quality. 



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