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the root smelled unto, is good for the same ; it is called Flower Gentle, Flower Velurc, 

 purpose. A water distilled from the root \ Floramor, and Velvet Flower. 



simply, as steeped in wine, and distilled in 

 a glass, is much more effectual than the 

 water of the leaves ; and this water, drank 

 two or three spoonfuls at a time, easeth all 



Descript.~\ It being a garden flower, and 

 well known to every one that keeps it, I 

 might forbear the description ; yet, not- 

 withstanding, because some desire it, I shall 



pains and torments coming of cold and 5 give it. It runs up with a stalk a cubit 

 wind, so that the body be not bound; and j high, streaked, and somewhat reddish to- 

 taken with some of the root in powder at > ward the root^ but rery smooth, divided 

 the beginning, helpeth the pleurisy, as also ; towards the top with small branches, among 

 all other diseases of the lungs and breast, (which stand long broad leaves of a reddish 

 as coughs, phthysic, and shortness of breath;! green colour, slippery; the flowers are not 

 and a syrup of the stalks do the like. It J properly flowers, but tuffs, very beautiful 

 helps pains of the cholic, the stranguary and | to behold, but of no smell, of reddish colour; 

 stoppage of the urine, procureth womens'jif you bruise them, they yield juice of the 

 courses, and expelleth the after-birth, open- i same colour, being gathered, they keep their 

 eth the stoppings of the liver and spleen, j beauty a long time; the seed is of a shining 

 and briefly easeth and discusseth all windi- j black colour. 



ness and inward swellings. The decoction \ Time.'] They continue in flower from 

 drank before the fit of an ague, that they \ August till the time the frost nip them, 

 may sweat (if possible) before the fit comes, { Government and virtues^] It is under the 

 will, in two or three times taking, rid it \ dominion of Saturn, and is an excellent 

 quite away ; it helps digestion and is a re- \ qualifier of the unruly actions and passions 

 medy for a surfeit. The juice or the water j of Venus, though Mars also should join 

 being dropped into the eyes or ears, helps 5 with her. The flowers dried and beaten 

 dimness of sight and deafness; the j nice j into powder, stop the terms in women, and 

 put into the hollow teeth, easeth their pains. ! so do almost all other red things. And by 

 The root in powder, made up into a plaister i the icon, or imageof every herb, the ancients 

 with a little pitch, and laid on the biting of \ at first found out their virtues. Modern 

 mad dogs, or any other venomous creature, j writers laugh at them for it ; but I wonder 

 doth wonderfully help. The juice, or the | in my heart, how the virtues of herbs came 

 water dropped, or tents wet therein, and put s at first to be known, if not by their signa- 

 into filthy dead ulcers, or the powder of the j tures ; the moderns have them from the 

 root (in want of either) doth cleanse and : writings of the ancients ; the ancients had 

 cause them to heal quickly, by covering the j no writings to have them from : but to pro- 

 naked bones with flesh ; the distilled water I ceed. The flowers stop all fluxes of blood ; 

 applied to places pained with the gout, or! whether in man or woman, bleeding either 

 sciatica, doth give a grea-t deal of ease. \ at the nose or wound. There is also a sort 

 The wild Angelica is not so effectual as; of Amaranthus that bears a white flowei, 

 the garden; although it may be safely used \ which stops the whites in women, and the 

 to all the purposes aforesaid. j running of the reins in men, and is a most 



j gallant antivenereal, and a singular remedy 

 AMARANTHUS. j for the French pox. 



ANEMONE. 



BESIDES its common name, by which its 

 is best known by the florists of our days, 1 C A LLED also Wind Flower, because they 



