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to put a little salt for this purpose, being \ The water that is found in the hollow places 

 applied with a little hog's lard, it helps a! of decaying Beeches will cure both man 

 plague sore, and other boils and pushes, i and beast of any scurf, or running tetters, 

 The fumes of the decoction while it is j if they be washed therewith ; you may boil 

 warm, received by a funnel into the ears, j the leaves into a poultice, or make an oint- 

 eases the pains of them, destroys the j ment of them when time of year serves. 



worms and cures the running sores H BILBERRIES, CALLED BY SOME WHORTS, 



them. The juice dropped into them does ; 



the same. Ihe root of Betony is displeas- ; 



ing both to the taste and stomach, whereas: Descript^] OF these I shall only speak 



the leaves and flowers, by their sweet and j of two sorts which are common in England, 



spicy taste, are comfortable both to meat : viz. The black and red berries. And first 



and medicine. : of the black. 



These are some of the many virtues! The small bush creeps along upon the 

 Anthony Muse, an expert physician, (for it : ground, scarcely rising half a yard high, 

 was not the practice of Octavius Cesar to; with divers small green leaves set in the 

 keep fools about him) appropriates to j green branches, not always one against the 

 Betony ; it is a very precious herb, that is j other, and a little dented about the edges: 

 certain, and most fitting to be kept in a j At the foot of the leaves come forth small, 

 man's house, both in syrup, conserve, oil, j hollow, pale, bluish coloured flowers, the 

 ointment and plaister. The flowers are ; brims ending at five points, with a reddish 

 usually conserved. ! thread in the middle, which pass into small 



J round berries of the bigness and colour of 



THE BEECH TREE. U f i 



'jumper berries, but of a purple, sweetish 



IN treating of this tree, you must under- 1 sharp taste; the juice of them gives a 

 stand, that I mean the green mast Beech, \ purplish colour in their hands and lips that 

 which is by way of distinction from that : eat and handle them, especially if they 

 other small rough sort, called in Sussex the j break them. The root grows aslope under 

 smaller Beech, but in Essex Horn-beam. ; ground, shooting forth in sundry places 



I suppose it is needless to describe it, jas it creeps. This loses its leaves in 

 being already too well known to my coun- j Winter, 

 trymen. The Red Bilberry, or Whortle-Bush, 



Place.'] It grows in woods amongst oaks f rises up like the former, having sundry 

 and other trees, and in parks, forests, and ; hard eaves, like the Box-tree leaves, green 

 chases, to feed deer ; and in other places to : and round pointed, standing on the several 

 fatten swine. | branches, at the top whereof only, and not 



Time.'] It blooms in the end of April, j from the sides, as in the former, come forth 

 or beginning of May, for the most part, j divers round, reddish, sappy berries, when 

 and the fruit is ripe in September. { they are ripe, of a sharp taste. The root 



Government and virtues.] It is a plant of | runs in the ground, as in the former, but 

 Saturn, and therefore performs his qualities! the leaves of this abide all Winter, 

 and proportion in these operations. The i PlaceJ] The first grows in forests, on the 

 leaves of the Beech tree are cooling and ; heaths, and such like barren places : the 

 binding, and therefore good to be applied j red grows in the north parts of this land, as 

 to hot swellings to discuss them ; the nuts : Lancashire, Yorkshire, &c. 

 do much nourish such beasts as feed thereon. 5 Time.~\ They flower in March and April, 



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