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00 powerful to consolidate and kuit tOKether, that it4htf 

 he boiled with dissevered pieces of flesh in a pot, it wiU 

 join them together again. It is good to be applied unto 

 women's breasts that grow sore by the abundance of milk 

 coming into them ; also to repress the overmuch bleeding 

 of the hemorrhoids, to cool tne inflammation of the parts 

 thereabouts, and to give ease of pains. The roots of com- 

 frey taken fresh, beaten small, and spread upon leather, 

 and laid upon any place troubled with the gout, doth pre- 

 sently give ease of the pains ; and applied in the same 

 manner giveth ease to pained joints, and profiteth very 

 much for running and moist ulcers, gangrenes, mortifica- 

 tions, and the like, for which it hath by often experience 

 been found helpful. 



CORALWOBT.'^Dentaria,) 



It is also called by some Toothwort, Tooth Violet, Dog- 

 teeth Violet, and Dentaris. 



Descrip.--Oi the many sorts of this herb, two of them 

 may be tound growing in this nation ; the first of which 

 shooteth forth one or two winged leaves upon long brown- 

 ish foot-stalks, which are doubled down at their first com- 

 ing out of the ground ; when they are fully opened, they 

 eonsist of seven leaves, most commonly of a sad ^reen co- 

 lour, dented about the edges, set on both sides the 

 middle rib one against another, as the leaves of the ash- 

 tree : the stalk ^reth no leaves on the lower half of it: 

 the upper half beareth sometimes three or four, each con- 

 ■iiting of five leaves, sometimes of three ; on the top 

 ■tends foar or five flowers upon short foot-stalks, witn 

 lon^ husks ; the flowers are very like the flowers of stock 



E'lliflowera, of a pale purplish colour, consisting of four 

 ftvee a-piece, after which come small pods which con- 

 tain the seed ; the root is very small, white, and shining ; 

 it doth not grow downwards, but creeping along under 

 the upper crust of the ground, and consisteth of divers 

 small round knobs set together ; towards the top of the 

 stalk there grows some si ogle leaves, by each of which 

 oometh a small cloven bulb, which when it is ripe, if it 

 be set in the ground^ will grow to be a root. 



As for the other ooralwort which groweth in this na- 

 tion, it is more scarce than this, being a very small plant 

 much like crowfoot. I know not where to direct you to 

 it, therefore I shall forbear the descriptioii. 



