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they make almond milk ; bat a far better way, in mj 

 opinion, is this : When the season of the year ia, take the 

 incumbers and bruise them well and liiatil the water from 

 them, and let snch as are troubled with ulcers in the 

 bladder drink no other drink. The face beinj; washed 

 with the same water cureth the reddest face that is ; it 

 is also excellent good for sun-burning, freckles, and mor- 

 |>hew. 



CTTDWEED.—(Onapkalium Vulgars.) 



Bbsidks Cudweed, it is called Cottonweed, Cljaffweed, 

 Dwarf Cotton, and Petty Cotton. 



Descrip. — The common Cudweed riseth up with one 

 stalk sometimes, and sometimes with two or three, thick 

 set on all siden, with small, long, and narrow whitish and 

 woody leaves, from the middle of the stalk almost up to 

 the top ; with every leaf standeth a small flower of a dun 

 or brownish yellow colour, or not so vellow as others ; in 

 which herbs, after the flowers are fallen come small seed 

 wrapped up with the down therein, and is carried away 

 with the wmd : the root is small and thready. 



rhere are other sorts hereof, which are somewhat lesser 

 than the former, not much difierent, save only that the 

 ftalks and leaves are shorter, so the flowers are paler and 

 more open. 



Plae€. — They grow in dry, barren, sandy, and gravelly 

 grounds in many places of this land. 



Time. — They flower about July, some earlier, some 

 later, and their seed is ripe in August. 



Oovemmeni and Virtues. — Venus is lady of it The 

 plants are all astringent, binding, or drying, and there- 

 fore profitable for all deductions of rheum from the head, 

 and to stay flaxes of blood wheresoever, the decoction be- 

 ing made into red wine and drunk, or the powder taken 

 therein. It also helpeth the bloody flux, and easeth the 

 torments that come thereby, stayeth the immoderate 

 ecmrsefl of women, and is also good for inward or outward 

 wounds, hurts, or broiaeik and helpeth children both of 

 raptures and worms ; ana being drunk or injected for the 

 dsMMe called tenesmus, which is an often provocation to 

 stool without doing any thing. Tiie green leaves bruised 

 and laid to any green wound, ttayeth the bleeding and 

 liMleih it up quickly. The jafce of the herb is, as Pliny 

 ■dtli, a sovereign remedy a^^amst tha mumps and quin* 



