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worms, and so i« the infusion of flowers in white wine 

 giren them to the quantity of two ounces at a time : it 

 maketh an excellent salre to cleanse and heal old ulcers, 

 being boiled with oil of olive, and adder's tongue with it ; 

 and after it is strained, put a little wax, rosin, and tur- 

 pentine to bring it to a convenient body. 



COWSLIPS, OB TEAGLEQ.-^ Primula veris.) 



Both the wild and garden cowslips are so well known, 

 that I will neither trouble myself nor th 3 reader with a 

 description of theuL 



Time, — They flower in April and May. 



Oovemmeni and Virtues. — Venus lays claim to thi» 

 herb as her own, and it is under the sign Aries, and our 

 city dames know well enough the ointment or distilled 

 water of it adds to beauty, or at least restores it when it 

 is lost. The flowers are held to be more effectual than the 

 leaves, and the roots of little use. An ointment being 

 made with them, taketh away spots and wrinkles of the 

 skin, sun-burnings and freckles, and adds beauty exceed- 

 ingly ; they remedy all infirmities of the head coming of 

 heat and wind, as vertigo, ephialtes, false apparitions, 

 frenzies, falling sickness, palsies, convulsions, cramps, 

 pains in the nerves ; the roots ease pains in the back and 

 oladder, and open the passages of the urine. The leaves 

 are good in wounds, and the flowers take away trembling. 

 If the flowers be not well dried and kept in a warm place, 

 they will soon putrefy and look green : have a special eye 

 over them. Ii you let them see the sun once a month, it 

 will do neither the sun nor them harm. 



Because they strengthen the brain and nerves, and re- 

 medy paliiea, the Greeks gave them the name paralysie. 

 The flowers preserved or conserved, and the quantitv of a 

 nutmes: taken every morning, is a sufficient dose for in- 

 ward diseases, but for wound spots, wrinkles, and bud- 

 bumings, an ointment is made of the leaves and hog's 

 grease. 



CRAB'S CLAWS.— ("^empar vivwn Aquatiea,) 



Callsd also Water Seagreen, Knight's Pond Water, 

 Water Houseleek, Pondweed, and Fresh-water Soldier. 



Deterip. — It hath sundry long narrow leaves, with sharp 

 prickles on the edges of them, also very sharp-pointed ; 

 the stalkn which bMT flowere seldom grow so hign as the 



