66 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Place.'] It grows commonly through this! by the path-sides in many places, and will 



land in divers ploughed grounds to the no 

 small trouble of the husbandmen, as also 



also be in gardens. 



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



of the gardeners, in gardens, to weed it out, August, some earlier and some later ; and 



if they can ; for it is a constant customer to j the seed is ripe quickly after. 



the place it gets footing in. Government and virtues.'] It is a very 



Government and virtues.^ J Tis under the : gentle, though martial plant. It is found 

 dominion of Jupiter, and is the most medi- 1 by experience to be singularly good for wind 

 cinal of all the Quick-grasses. Being j cholic, as also to expel the stone and gravel 

 boiled and drank, it opens obstructions of; in the kidneys. The decoction thereof in 

 the liver and gall, and the stopping of! wine, is an excellent good cure for those 

 urine, and eases the griping pains of the hhat have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, 

 belly and inflammations ; wastes the mat- both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and 

 ter of the stone in the bladder, and the ; expel the congealed blood, and to heal the 

 ulcers thereof also. The roots bruised and | parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward 

 applied, do consolidate wounds. The seed i sores, ulcers, and fistulas; and for green 

 doth more powerfully expel urine, and j wounds, many do only bruise the herb, and 

 stays the lask and vomiting. The dis- j apply it to the places, and it heals them 

 tilled water alone, or with a little wormseed, \ quickly. The same decoction in wine 

 kills the worms in children. i fomented to any place pained with the 



The way of use is to bruise the roots, and i gout, or to joint-aches, or pains of the 

 having well boiled them in white wine, | si news, gives much ease. The powder or 

 drink the decoction : 'Tis opening but not j decoction of the herb taken for some time 

 purging, very safe : 'Tis a remedy against i together, is found by experience to be sin- 

 all diseases coming of stopping, and such \ gularly good for ruptures and burstings in 

 are half those that are incident to the body \ people, either young or old. 

 of man; and although a gardener be of DUCK > S MAT 



another opinion, yet a physician holds half j 



an acre of them to be worth five acres of; THIS is so well known to swim on the 



Carrots twice told over. i tops of standing waters, as ponds, pools, 



, , 5 and ditches, that it is needless further to 



DOVE S-FOOT, OR CEANES-BILL. 



Descript.] THIS has divers small, round, Government and virtues.'] Cancer claims 

 pale-green leaves, cut in about the edges, | the herb, and the Moon will be Lady of it ; 

 much like mallow, standing upon long, j a word is enough to a wise man. It is 

 reddish, hairy stalks, lying in a round com- ; effectual to help inflammations, and St 

 pass upon the ground; among which rise | Anthony's Fire, as also the gout, either 

 up two or three, or more, reddish, jointed, [applied by itself, or in a poultice with Bar- 

 slender, weak, hairy stalks, with some like [ley meal. The distilled water by some is 

 leaves thereon, but smaller, and more cut in | highly esteemed against all inward inflam- 

 up to the tops, where grow many very j mations and pestilent fevers ; as also to 

 small bright red flowers of five leaves a- j help the redness of the eyes, and swellings 

 piece ; after which foHow small heads, with \ of privities, and of the breasts before they 

 small short beaks pointed forth, as all other j be grown too much. The fresh herb ap- 

 sorts of those herbs do. j plied to the forehead, eases the pains of 



Place."] It grows in pasture grounds, and $ the head-ache coming of heat. 



