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cleared, cleanses the skin from all manner f stomachs that cannot retain, but cast up 

 ot spots, marks, and freckles that rise either > their meat. It stays all bleeding both at 

 by the heat of the sun, or the malignity of! mouth or nose ; bloody urine or the bloody- 

 humours. As for the Broom and Broom- 1 flux, and stops the lask of the belly and 

 rape, Mars owns them, and is exceeding pre-1 bowels. The leaves hereof bruised and 

 judicial to the liver; I suppose by reason I laid to their sides that have an ague, sud- 

 of the antipathy between Jupiter and Mars, j denly eases the fit ; anr 1 the leaves and roots 

 therefore if the liver be disaffected, minister : applied to the wrists, works the same effects, 

 none of it. |The herb boiled in ale and wine, arid given 



BUCK'S-HORN PLANTAIN. j for som , e m m % and evenings together, 



| stays the distillation of hot and sharp 



Descnpt.] THIS being sown of seed, j rheums falling into the eyes from the head, 

 rises up at first with small, long, narrow, ? and helps all sorts of sore eyes, 

 hairy, dark green leaves like grass, without j 



any division or gash in them, but those that j BUCK'S HORN. 



follow are gashed in on both sides the ; -, -,-, -, ., , u 



leaves into three or four gashes, and pointed ! l \ 1S caHed Hart s-horn, Herba-stella, and 

 at the ends, resembling the knags of a buck's j {H^ftft Sangumana Herb-Eve, 

 horn, (whereof k took its name) and beina \ Herb-Ivy Wort-Tresses, and Swine-Cresses 

 well wound round about the root upon the 1 ^^'l. ^ have t ma ^ s a11 and 

 ground, in order one by another, thereby ! W , eak stra gg h "? branches trailing here and 

 Fesembling the form of a star, from among | there u P on n the , ground : The leaves are 

 which ris? up divers hairy stalks about a ' nan /' **&* V&&"* much unlike 

 hand's breath high, bearing every one a to those of Buck s-horn Plantain but much 

 I. lon^ snikv head. lil-P to t\J~ nf *h~ smaller, and not so hairy. The flowers 



small, long spiky head, like to those of the 

 common Plantain, having such like bloom- 

 ings and seed after them. The root is 



grow among the leaves in small, rough, 

 whitish clusters ; The seeds are smaller and 

 I brownish, of a bitter taste. 



single, long and small, wkh divers strings TO WJ *? ~| 



at j t Place.] They grow in dry, barren, sandy 



Place.-] They grow in sandy grounds, as \ g ro " nds - 



in To hill fields by Westminster, and divers \ Tm /i ** V? and seed when the 

 other places of this land. ! rest of lhe Plantains d - 



Time.-] They flower and seed in May,! C ^^ d t*'fO Thl * . also 

 June, and July, and their green leaves do untl ? ^ d 1 mi T n f S 3 ^^ the virtues 

 in a manner abide fresh all the Winter. ar , e he ! d to ** the same as Buck s-horn 



Government and virtues.-} It is under the ! Plantain ' and therefore by all authors it is 



j . . / O i I^M r\c*r\ in fr* i-f l*nA \t^r\ iroo h\r*in c-c.H ^n^i o r 



dominion ot Saturn, and is of a gallant, 

 drying, and binding quality. This boiled 



in wine and drank, and some of the leaves 



joined with it. The leaves bruised and ap- 

 plied to the place, stop bleeding. The 

 herbs bruised and applied to warts, will 



put to the hurt place, is an excellent ake them consume and waste in a short 



remedy for the biting of the viper or adder, \ time> 



which I take to be one and the same : The | BUGLE 



same being also drank, helps those that are ! 



troubled with the stone in the veins or kid- ; BESIDES the name Bugle, it is called 



neys, by cooling the heat of the part af- j Middle Confound and Middle Comfrey, 



flicled, and strengthens them ; also weak I Brown Bugle, and by some Sicklewort, and 



