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ed, perfectly heals old sores, and the distilled water of the 

 herb and flowers does the like. It is iised amoug other 

 pot-herbs to open the body, and make it soluble ; but the 

 roots washed clean, and boiled in ale and drank, provoke 

 to stool more than the leaves, but yet very gently. 



RUGGED WORT.— (Jocofcca HihemiccL) 



Descrip. — Its flowers grow large and yellow in some, in 

 others paler and moderate small. The stalk is two feet 

 high, upright, and divided into many branches. 



Place, — It is common on salt-marshes in Lincolnshire 



Time. — It flowers in July. 



Government and Virtues. — It is under the Moon. The 

 juice taken in wine, or the decoction drank morning and 

 evenine, helps the jaundice, but all other drink must be 

 avoided for three hours after the dose is taken. Added to 

 centaury and succory, it helps the dropsy and the diseases 

 of the spleen. It is also good for inward bleeding and the 

 bloody-flux, and it is a good wound-herb. 



RUFTURE- WORT.— (iTemioria Vulgaris.) 



Descrip, — This spreads very many thready branches 

 round about on the ground, about a span long, divided into 

 many other smaller parts full of small joints set very thick 

 together, whereon come two very small leaves of a French 

 yellow, and green coloured branches, where grow forth 

 also a number of exceeding small yellowish flowers, scarce 

 to be discerned from the stalks and leaves, which turn into 

 seeds as small as dust. The root is very long and small, 

 thrusting deep into the ground. This has neither smell or 

 taste at first, afterwards it has an astringent taste, without 

 any manifest heat, yet a little bitter and sharp withal. 



Place. — It grows in dry, sandy, and rocky placea 



Timc^lt is green all summer, but flowers in July. 



Government and Virtues. — It is Saturn's own, and is & 

 noble anti-venerean, found by experience to cure rupture 

 also, not only in children, but older persons, if the disease 

 be not too inveterate, by taking a dram of the powder of 

 the dried herb, every day in wine, or a decoction made and 

 drank for some days togeiher. The juice or distilled water 

 of the green herb, taken in the same manner, helps all 

 other fluxes either in man or woman ; vomitings also, and 

 the gonorrhoea, being taken any of the ways aforesaid. It 

 helps those that have the strangury, or are troubled with 



