208 . culpbpeb's complete hebbal. 



blinking flowers ; sometimes of a white, and sometimes of 

 a reddish colour ; a small black seed grows in each. The 

 root is long and lar^e, and strikes deep in the earth. 



Place. — It grows m the way-sides and foot-paths infields. 



Time, — It springs up late in spring, but dies in winter. 



Qovemment and Virtues. — Saturn owns this herb. The 

 juice is effectual to stay bleeding at the mouth, if drank in 

 red wine, and the bleeding of the nose, if applied to the 

 forehead or temples. It will allay the heat of the blood 

 and stomach, and stay any flux of blood and humours, as 

 laxes, bloody-flux, womens' courses, and running of the 

 reins. It provokes urine, and helps the strangury ; it ex- 

 pels the stone in the kidneys and bladder, a dram of the 

 powdered herb being taken in wine for some days toge- 

 ther, boiled in wine and drank, it is profitable for those 

 bitten oi stung by venomous creatures, and to stay all de- 

 fluctions of rheumatic humours upon the stomach, quiets 

 inward pains that arise from heat, sharpness and corrup- 

 tion of blood and choler. The distilled water taken by it- 

 self, or with the powdered herb, is effectual for all the pur- 

 poses beforementioned. It also cleanses foul ulcers, can- 

 cers, sores, imposthumes, and green and fresh wounds, and 

 speedily heals them. The juice dropped into the ears, will 

 cleanse all runnings in them. It is very prevalent for the 

 premises ; as also for broken joints and ruptures. 



LADIES MANTLE.— (^^^cA^mi^/a Vulgarii.) 



Descrip, — It has many leaves rising from the root, stand- 

 ing upon long hairy foot-stalks, being almost round, and a 

 little cut on the edges, into eight or ten parts, making it 

 seem like a star, with so many comers and points, and 

 dented round about, of a light green colour, somewhat hard 

 in handling, and as it were folded at first, and then crum- 

 pled in divers places, and a little hairy, as the stalk is also, 

 which rises up among them to the height of two or three 

 feet ; it is so weak that it cannot stand upright, but bends 

 to the ground, divided at the top into two or three small 

 branches, with yellowish green heads, and flowers of a 

 whitish colour breaking out of them ; which being past, 

 there comes a yellowish seed like poppy-seed : the root is 

 long and blaclt, with many strings and fibres thereat 



Place. — It grows in pastures and wood-sides in Hert- 

 fordshire, Wiltshire, Kent, and other parts of this country 



rinM. — It flowers in May M^d Jane, and is always green. 



