24 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



and the fruit of the black is ripe in July i straight tree, fraught with many boughs, and 

 and August. j slender branches bending downward : the 



Government and virtues."] They are under ; old being covered with discoloured chapped 

 the dominion of Jupiter. It is a pity they j bark, and the younger being browner by 

 are used no more in physic than they are. | much. The leaves at the first breaking our 



The black Bilberries are good inhot agues j are crumpled, and afterwards like the beech 

 and to cool the heat of the liver and 5 leaves, but smaller and greener, and dented 

 stomach ; they do somewhat bind the belly, j about the edges. It bearo small short 

 and stay vomitings and loathings; the juice > cat-skins, somewhat like those of the hazel- 

 of the berries made in a syrup, or the pulp nut-tree, which abide on the branches a 

 made into a conserve with sugar, is good > long time, until growing ripe, they fall on 

 for the purposes aforesaid, as also for an old ; the ground, and their seed with them, 

 cough, or an ulcer in the lungs, or other; Placed It usually grows in woods, 

 diseases therein. The Red Worts are more j Government and virtues.] It is a tree of 

 binding, and stops women's courses, spitting j Venus the juice of the leaves, while they 

 of blood, or any other flux of blood or j are young, or the distilled water of them, 

 humours, being used as well outwardly as j or the water that comes from the tree being 

 inwardly. i bored with an auger, and distilled after- 



BIFOIL OR TWABLADE. j Wards an y f . theS6 bein g drank f r SOme 



T\ .-i rr< 11 u u r days together, is available to break the stone 



Descnpt.-] THIS small herb, from a root | m ^ ; and ^ . a]so 



somewhat sweet, shooting downward many L ^ SOK / mouths> 

 long strings, rises up a round green stalk, j 



bare or naked next the ground for an inch, s BIRD'S FOOT. 



two or three to the middle thereof as it is in j TR i g gma ,, herb ^ ab(m; & 



age or growth; as also from the middle up- ; w fa wkh ma ^i^ d F the 



ward to the flowers, having only two broad , f )und e{ . ^ V J small 



PJamtain-like leaves (but whiter) set at the | f^^ The flowcm \ f he branches . 

 middle of the stalk one against another,; small oneg * f & ^ Uow co]our 



compassing it round at the bottom of them. | bein ^ ^ a _ head t the] T whj ^ h afterward , 

 Place.] It is an usual inhabitant in | turn into small jo f nted ds? wdl resem . 

 woods, copses, and in many places in this . blin the claw of J small birds> whence it took 



land - ? its name 



There is another sort grows m wet grounds | There ig another ort of Bird>s Foot in 



and marshes, which is somewhat different; all thin , ike the fo but a ]itlle 



from the former. It is a smaller plant, and 1; f he flowers of a le whitjsh red 

 greener having sometimes three leaves; the \ col % and the ds distinct by joints like 



spike of the flowers is less than the former, 

 and the roots of this do run or creep in the 

 ground. 



the other, but a little more crooked ; and 

 the roots do carry many small white knots 



Qr j^gj-^s amongst the strings. 

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_., ! , i \Jl JVGH1C10 ailJUl.lt'ai. IHVJ OHllltLO. 



They are often used by many to good j p/flce -, Thege s on he | th and 

 purpose for wounds, both green and old.j un ^ p i a fe ces o f this land. 



to consolidate or knit ruptures ; and well it rg, ^ flower and eed in the end 

 may, being a plant of baturn. | Q j. 



THE BIRCH TREE. Government and virtues.'] They belong to 



Descript.] THIS grows a goodly tall J Saturn, and are of a drying, binding quality 



