40 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



inches Jong, and half an inch broad, thin j on the end unto the middle, making them 

 and almost transparent, they look as though i seem to be two a-piece, smelling somewhat 

 they were torn ; the flowers are long, thick sweet, and each of them standing in a 

 and whitish, set together almost like a | large green striped hairy husk, large and 

 bunch of grapes, which being gone, there I round below next to the stalk : The seed is 

 succeed, for the most part, sharp pointed! small and greyish in the hard heads thai 

 grains all together, containing a small white ; come up afterwards. The root is white and 

 kernel in them. : long, spreading divers fangs in the ground. 



The second differs not much from this, | The Red wild Campion grows in the same- 

 save that it delights in more clear water ; j manner as the White, but its leaves are not 

 Us stalks are not flat, but round ; its leaves; soplainlyribbed, somewhat shorter, rounder, 

 are not so long, but more pointed ; As for land more woolly in handling. The flowers 

 the place we need not determine, for their \ are of the same form and bigness ; but in 

 name shews they grow irt water. I some of a pale, in others of a bright red 



Government and virtues.'] They are under j colour, cut in at the ends more finely, which 

 the dominion of the Moon, and being made j makes the leaves look more in number than 

 into a poultice, are excellently good for hot j the other. The seeds and the roots are. 

 inflammations, swellings, cankers, sore j alike, the roots of both sorts abiding many 

 mouths and throats, being washed with the j years. 



decoction ; it cleanses and strengthens the | There are forty-five kinds 01 Campion 

 neck and throat, and helps those swellings { more, those of them which are of a phy- 

 which when people have, they say the jsical use, having the like virtues with those 

 almonds of their ears are fallen down. Il| above described, which I take to be the two 

 is excellently good for the rankness of the; chief kinds. 



gums, a safe and present remedy for thej Place.'] They grow commonly through 

 king's evil. They are excellent for the stone : this land by fields and hedge-sides, and 

 and gravel, especially the nuts, being dried, j ditches. 



They also resist poison, and bitings of| TimeJ] They flower in Summer, some 

 venomous beasts. 5 earlier than others, and some abiding longer 



} than others. 



CAMPION, WILD. Government and virtues.'] They belong 



j to Saturn, and it is found by experience, 



Descript.~] THE wild White Campion j that the decoction of the herb, either in 

 has many long and somewhat broad dark > white or red wine being drank, doth stay 

 green leaves lying upon the ground, and j inward bleedings, and applied outwardly, 

 divers ribs therein, somewhat like plantain,' j it does the like ; and being drank, helps 

 but somewhat hairy, broader, but not so .to expel urine, being stopped, and gravel 

 long: The hairy stalks rise up in the mid- j and stone in the reins and kidneys. Two 

 die of them three or four feet high, and \ drams of the seed drank in wine, purges 

 sometimes more, with divers great white ! the body of choleric humours, and helps 

 joints at several places thereon, and two 5 those that are stung by scorpions, or other 

 such like leaves thereat up to the top, send- 1 venomous beasts, and may be as effectual 

 ing forth branches at several joints also : \ for the plague. It is of very good use in 

 All which bear on several foot-stalks white ! old sores, ulcers, cankers, fistulas, and the 

 flowers at the tops of them, consisting of pike, to cleanse and heat them, by con- 

 five broad pointed leaves, every one cut in suming the moist humours falling into 



