CULPKPXR'S OOMPLETB HEBBAIi. 837 



equal parU of rosin and wax, mollifies the hardness of the 

 spleen, and helps old ulcers and sores, mixed also with 

 sanderic and orpiment, it helps to draw off foul nails, 

 and if quick lime and wine lees be added thereto, it works 

 the stronger. Made into powder, and given to drink, it is 

 good for falling-sickness. The fresh wood bruised, and the 

 juice thus extracted dropped into the ears is effectual in 

 curing the imposthumea in them. Misseltoe is a cephalic 

 and nervine medicine, useful for convulsive fist, palsy, and 

 vertigo. The bird-lime which is made of the berries of 

 Misseltoe is a powerful attractive, and is good to ripen 

 hard tumours and swellings. 



l&OifKTWOB.T,—{ Li/nmachia Nummularia.) 



Called also Herb Twopence. 



Descrip. — The common Moneywort sends forth from a 

 small thready root divers long, weak, and slender branch- 

 es, running upon the ground two or three feet long, set 

 with leaves one against another at equal distances, which 

 are almost round, but pointed at the ends, smooth, and of 

 a good green colour. At the joints with the leaves from 

 the middle forward come forth at every point sometimes 

 one yellow flower, and sometimes two, standing each on a 

 small footstalk, and made of five leaves, narrow-pointed at 

 the end, with some yellow threads in the middle, which be- 

 ing past, there comes small round heads of seeds. 



Place. — It grows plentifully in moist grounds by hedgo- 

 lides, and in the middle of grassy fields. 



Time. — It flowers in June and July, and the seed is 

 ripe shortly afterwards. 



Oovemmt 4 and Virtues, — Venus owns it It is good to 

 stay all fluxis in man or woman, whether they be laxes, 

 bloody-fluxes, or the flowing of women's courses ; bleeding 

 inwaridly or outwardly; the weakness of the stomach that 

 is given to casting. It is good also for ulcers or excona- 

 tioni of the lungs, or other inward parts. It will (quickly 

 heal green woanda, and old spreading ulcers. The juice of 

 the herb, or the powder drauK in water, wherein hot steel 

 has been quenched, will act the same for the aforenamed 

 purpose*, as well alsj a decoction of the green herb, drank 

 10 wine or water, or to bathe the outward wounds. The 

 juice LB effectual also for overflowings of the menses, and 

 ih« roots dried and powdered, are good in porgingsi 



