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a nutmeg eaten every morning, is a sufficient j low, after which comes small pods, which 

 dose for inward diseases ; but for wounds, contain the seed. 



spots, wrinkles, and sunburnings, an oint- j Place.] It is a common herb, grows 



ment is made of the leaves, and hog's j usually by the way-side, and sometimes 



grease. j upon mud walls about London, but it 



, \ delights to grow most among stones and 



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rubbish. 



CALLED also Water Sengreen, Knight's | Time.] It flowers in June and July, 

 Pond Water, Water House-leek, Pond \ and the seed is ripe in August and Sep- 

 Weed, and Fresh-water Soldier. ; tember. 



Descript.] It has sundry long narrow \ Government and virtues.'] It is a plant of 

 leaves, with sharp prickles on the edges of a hot and biting nature, under the dominion 



them, also very sharp pointed ; the stalks 

 which bear flowers, seldom grow so high as ; 

 the leaves, bearing a forked head, like a 

 Crab's Claw, out of which comes a white 

 flower, consisting of three leaves, with divers 

 yellowish hairy threads in the middle ; it 



of Mars. The seed of Black Cresses 

 strengthens the brain exceedingly, being, 

 in performing that office, little inferior to 

 mustard seed, if at all ; they are excellently 

 good to stay those rheums which may fall 

 down from tke head upon the lungs ; you 



takes root in the mud at the bottom of the j may beat the seed into powder, if you 

 water. j please, and make it up into an electuary 



Placed] It grows plentifully in the fens * with honey ; so you have an excellent 



remedy by you, not only for the premises, 

 but also for the cough, yellow jaundice and 

 sciatica. This herb boiled into a poultice 



in Lincolnshire. 



Time,.'] It flowers in June, and usually 

 from thence till August. 



Government and virtues^] It is a plant j is an excellent remedy for inflammations, 

 under the dominion of Venus, and there- 1 both in women's breasts, and men's testicles, 

 fore a great strengthener of the reins ; it is ! 

 excellently good for inflammation which is j 



commonly called St. Anthony's Fire; it: Descript.] THESE are of two kinds 

 assuages inflammations, and swellings in ; The first rises up with a round stalk about 

 wounds : and an ointment made of it is i two feet high, spreads into divers branches, 

 excellently good to heal them ; there is j whose lower leaves are somewhat larger 

 scarcely a better remedy growing than this j than the upper, yet all of them cut or toin 

 is, for such as have bruised their kidneys, ! on the edges, somewhat like the garden 

 and upon that account discharge blood ; a I Cresses, but smaller, the flowers are small 

 dram of the powder of the herb taken j and white, growing at the tops of branches, 

 every morning, is a very good remedy to j where afterwards grow husks with small 

 stop the terms. \ brownish seeds therein very strong and 



i sharp in taste, more than the Cresses of the 



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| garden ; the root is long, white, and woody 

 Descript.~] IT has long leaves, deeply t The other has the lower leaves whole 



cut and jagged on both sides, not much 

 unlike wild mustard ; the stalk small, very 



somewhat long and broad, not torn at all, 

 but only somewhat deeply dented about 



limber, though very tough : you may twist \ the edges towards the ends ; but those that 

 them round as you may a willow before they | grow up higher are smaller, The flowers 

 break. The flowers are very small and yel- \ and seeds are like the former, and so is the 



