JTTLPEPEB'B COMPLETE HERBAL. IIS 



DAISY hlTThE.—fBellis Afir^ Perennts.) 



Descrip. — The root of the Little common Daisy fa % 

 thick bush of fibres, the leaves errow iu a circle close to 

 the grouod, being thick and fleshy, and are long and nar- 

 row at the bottom, ending broad and round, not much 

 bigger than a silver penny, with very few inden tings 

 about the edges : the flowers spring immediately from the 

 roots, upon slender stalks three or four inches high, bear • 

 ing one small single flower at the end, made of a border 

 of white petala, or leaves, set about a yellow thrum ; 

 sometimes the border is edged with a reddish colour, and 

 red underneath. The seed is whitish, slender, and flat. 



Place. — Daisies grow every where in the fields and 

 meadows. 



Time. — They flower in April and May. 



Government and Virtues. — This Daisy is governed by 

 Venus in the sign Cancer. The leaves, and sometimes 

 the roots, are used, and are reckoned among the trauma- 

 tic and vulnerary plants, being used in wound-drinks, 

 and are accounted good to dissolve congealed and coagu- 

 lated blood, to help the pleurisy and peripneumonia. In 

 the king's evil the decoction given inwardly, and a cata- 

 plasm of the leaves applied outwardly, are esteemed by 

 some extraordinary remedies. This is another herb which 

 nature has made common, because it may be useful. Its 

 leaves taste like those of coltsfoot, but more mucilaginous, 

 and not bitter. An infusion of it just boiled in aases milk, 

 is very eflPectual in consumptions of the lungs. 



DANDELION.— (Zeo7i<o<;fcn TaraxacwrL) 

 1. Common, 2. Rough, 3. Branchy, 

 VuLOARLT called Pissa-Beds. 



Dcjicrip. — It is well known to have many long and deep 

 gashed leaves lying on the ground round about the heads 

 of the roots ; the ends of each gash or jag, on both sides 

 looking downwards towards the roots ; the middle rib 

 being white, which being broken yieldeth abundance of 

 bitter milk, but the root much more ; from among the 

 leaTes, which alwa}'8 abide green, arise many slender, 

 weak, naked foot-stalks, every one of them bearing at the 

 top one large yellow flower, consisting of many rows of 

 yellow leaves, broad at the points, and nicked in with 

 deep spots of yellow in the middU, which growing ripe. 



