OULPEPES'S OOMPLBTE fiEBfiAL. 385 



Oovernment and Virtues. — It is a moist, cooliug plant, 

 under the Moon. The juice cleanses and heals old ulcers ; 

 and it has at former times been in esteem as an inward 

 medicine for internal bruisea The flowers and leaves 

 beaten into a conserve, is the best way of taking it for 

 anj inward purpose. 



WELD, OR WOLD.— (i2e#eia Lateola.) 



Called also Dyers' Weed and Willow-leaved Yellow Herb. 



Descrip.—li grows about a yard high, having hollow 

 channelled stalks, covered with long narrow green leaves, 

 set on without footstalks; of a dark blueish green colour, 

 a little crumpled, as it were round- pointed, which so abides 

 the first year; and the uext sprin^r, from among them, rise 

 up divers rouud stalks, two or three feet high, beset with 

 many such-like leaves thereon, but smaller, and shooting 

 forth small branches, which, with the stalks, carry many 

 small yellow flowers, in a long spiked head at the top of 

 them, where afterwanls come the seed, which is small and 

 bkck, inclosed in heads that are divided at the tops into 

 four parts. The root is lonsr, white, and thick. The whole 

 herb becomes yellow, after it has been in flower a while. 



Place. — It grows every where by way-sides, in moist 

 grounds. 



Time,— It flowers about June. 



Oovernment and Virtues. — The root cures tough phlegm, 

 digests raw phlegm, thins gross humours, dissolves hard 

 tumours, and opeusobstructious. It is commended against 

 venomous bites, to be takeu inwardly and applied out- 

 wardly to the hurt place.as also for the plagueor pestilence. 



WREAT.—iTriticum.) 



Tht8 useful plant is so well known that it needs no de- 

 •cription. 



P ace. — It is sown in fields every where. 



Time.— it is reajjed in July and August. 



Oovernment and Virtues. — It is uuder Venus. The oil 

 presided from Wheat by means of plates of iron or copper, 

 heals tetters and ringworms, if used warm. The kfreen 

 noni't chewed, and applied to the bites uf mad dogs, heals 

 them; wheHt-brend poultices made with red wine, and ap- 



Clied tu hot, inrtained, ur bltxHi-rihot eyes, helpn them. Hot 

 read poultices ajiplied three days to^'ether. heals kernels 

 In tho throat. Wheat-flour mixed with juice of henbane. 



