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rheumatic distillations in them, doth cleanse ; to the tops into great and long branches, 

 and help them. The juice of Liquorice is;on all which, at the joints, there grow long- 

 as effectual in all the diseases of the breast* and narrow leaves, but broader below, and 

 and lungs, the reins and bladder, as the : usually two at a joint, yet sometimes three 

 decoction. The juice distilled in Rose- $ or four, somewhat like willow leaves, smooth 

 water, with some Gum Tragacanth, is a fine; on the edges, and of a fair green colour 

 licking medicine for hoarseness, wheez- j from the upper joints of the branches, and 

 ing, &c. * at the tops of them also stand many yellow 



5 flowers of five leaves a-piece, with divers 



LIVERWORT. * 11 j i ii i i 



j yellow threads in the middle, which turn, 



THERE are, according to some botanists, Hnto small round heads, containing small 

 upwards of three hundred different kinds I cornered seeds : the root creeps under 

 of Liverwort. : ground, almost like coughgrass, but greater, 



Descript] Common Liverwort grows ; and shoots up every Spring brownish heads 

 close, and spreads much upon the ground \ which afterwards grow up into stalks. It 

 in moist and shady places, with many small j has no scent or taste, and is only astringent, 

 green leaves, or rather (as it were) sticking < Place] It grows in many places of this 

 flat to one another, very unevenly cut in on ^ land in moist meadows, and by water sides, 

 the edges, and crumpled; from among; Time] It flowers from June to August, 

 which arise small slender stalks, an inch or; Government and virtiies] This herb is 

 two high at most, bearing small star-like j good for all manner of bleeding at the 

 flowers at the top ; the roots are very fine ; mouth, nose, or wounds, and all fluxes of 

 and small. j the belly, and the bloody-flux, given either 



Government and virtues] It is under the) to drink or taken by clysters; it stays also 

 dominion of Jupiter, and under the sign : the abundance of women's courses ; it is a 

 Cancer. It is a singularly good herb for i singular good wound-herb for green wounds, 

 all the diseases of the liver, both to cool i to stay the bleeding, and quickly close 

 and cleanse it, and helps the inflammations ; together the lips of the wound, if the herb 

 in any part, and the yellow jaundice like- ; be bruised, and the juice only applied. It 

 wise. Being bruised and boiled in small is often used in gargles for sore mouths, as 

 beer, and drank, it cools the heat of the j also for the secret parts. The smoak here- 

 liver and kidneys, and helps the running of \ of being bruised, drives away flies and 

 the reins in men, and the whites in women ; j gnats, which in the night time molest people 

 it is a singular remedy to stay the spreading j inhabiting near marshes, and in the fenny 

 of tetters, ringworms, and other fretting and | countries, 

 running sores and scabs, and is an excellent : 



remedy for such whose livers are corrupted ! LOOSESTRIFE ' WITH SPIKED HEADS OF 

 by surfeits, which cause their bodies to* 



break out, for it fortifies the liver exceed- \ IT is likewise called Grass-polly. 

 ingly, and makes it impregnable. Descript.] This grows with many woody 



LOOSESTRIFE OR WILLOW-HERB. S J^. f^' fdl f J mtS ' ab Ut three 



j feet high at least ; at every one whereof 



Dtscript] COMMON yellow Loosestrife \ stand two long leaves, shorter, narrower, 

 grows to be four or five feet high, or more, I and a greener colour than the former, 

 with great round stalks, a little crested, j and some brownish. The stalks are branched 

 diversly branched from the middle of them 5 into many long stems of spiked flowers half 



