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two or three feet long, with finely cut and; tilled water of the herb is also of good 

 jagged leaves of a whitish or rather blueishi effect in the former diseases, and conduces 



sea green colour ; At the tops of the 

 branches stand many small flowers, as it 



much against the plague and pestilence, 

 being taken with good treacle. The dis- 



were in a long spike one above another, j tilled water also, with a little water and 

 made like little birds, of a reddish purple j honey of roses, helps all sores of the mouth 

 colour, with whitish bellies, after which ; or throat, being gargled often therewith, 

 come small round husks, containing small j The juice dropped into the eyes, clears the 

 black seeds. The root is yellow, small, and j sight and takes away redness and other 

 not very long, full of juice while it is green, ; defects in them, although it procure some 

 but quickly perishes with the ripe seed. In \ pain for the present, and cause tears, 

 the corn fields in Cornwall, it bears white > Dioscorides saith it hinders any fresh 

 flowers. springing of hairs on the eye-lids (after they 



Place.'] It grows in corn fields almost ; are pulled away) if the eye-lids be anointed 

 every where, as Avell as in gardens. I with the juice hereof, with Gum Arabic 



Time.'] It flowers in May, for the most \ dissolved therein. The juice of the Fumi- 

 part, and the seed ripens shortly after. jtory and Docks mingled with vinegar, and 



Government and virtues.'] Saturn owns ? the places gently washed therewith, cures 

 the herb, and presents it to the world as a^all sorts of scabs, pimples, blotches, wheals, 

 cure for his own disease, and a strengthener : 

 of the parts of the body he rules. If by : 



and pushes which arise on the face or 

 hands, or any other parts of the body. 



my astrological judgment of diseases, from: 



the decumbiture, you find Saturn author of j THE FURZE BUSH, 



the disease, or if by direction from as 



nativity you fear a saturnine disease ap- | IT is as well known by this name, as it is 



proaching, you may by this herb prevent | in some counties by the name of Gorz or 



it in the one, and cure it in the other, and | Whins, that I shall not need to write any 



therefore it is fit you keep a syrup of it j description thereof, my intent being to 



always by you. The juice or syrup made {teach my countrymen what they know not, 



thereof, or the decoction made in whey by J rather than to tell them again of that which 



itself, with some other purging or opening Us generally known before. 



herbs and roots to cause it to work the j Place.'] They are known to grow on dry 



better (itself being but weak) is very effec- 1 barren heaths, and olher waste, gravelly 



tual for the liver and spleen, opening the I or sandy grounds, in all counties of this 



obstructions thereof, and clarifying the land. 



blood from saltish, choleric, and adust 

 humours, which cause leprosy, scabs, tet- 

 ters, and itches, and such like breakings- 



Time.~\ They also flower in the Summer 

 months. 



Government and virtues.'] Mars owns the 



out of the skin, and after the purgings doth ' herb. They are hot and dry, and open 

 strengthen all the inward parts. It is also * obstructions of the liver and spleen. A de- 

 good against the yellow-jaundice, and | coction made with the flowers thereof hath 

 spends it by urine, which it procures in! been found effectual against the jaundice, 

 abundance. The powder of the dried herb j as olso to provoke urine, and cleanse the 

 given for some lime together, cures melan-| kidneys from gravel or stone ingendered 

 choly, but the seed is strongest in opera- 1 in them. Mars doth also this by sym- 

 tion for all the former diseases. The dis- * pathy. 



