110 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



coloured with freckles, morphew, the while j with the cough, shortness of breath, the 

 scurf, or any such deformity of the skin, J yellow jaundice, diseases of the spleen, 

 cleanses thoroughly, and takes them away. ; stopping of urine, and helps exceedingly to 



1 break the stone in the kidneys, (in all which 



MAIDEN IIAIIt. 5 ,. , ,, r ,, T> . r re 



I diseases the Wall Kue is also very effectual.) 



Descript.} Quit common Maiden-Hair j It provokes women's courses, and stays 

 doth, from a number of hard Mack fibres, \ both bleedings and fluxes of the stomach 

 send forth a great many blackish shining 5 and belly, especially when the herb is dry ; 

 brittle stalks, hardly a span long, in many \ for being green, it loosens the belly, and 

 not half so long, on each side set very thick j voids choler and phlegm from the stomach 

 with small, round, dark green leaves, and and liver; it cleanses the lungs, and by 

 spitted on the back of them like a fern. 1 rectifying the blood, causes a good colour 

 Place.} It grows upon old stone walls in \ to the whole body. The herb boiled in oil 

 the West parts in Kent, and divers other 5 of Camomile, dissolves knots, allays swell- 

 places of this land; it delights likewise to j ings, and dries up moist ulcers. The lye 

 grow by springs, wells, and rocky moist \ made thereof is singularly good to cleanse the 

 and shady places, and is always green. 1 head from scurf, and from dry and running 



! sores, stays the falling or shedding of the 



WALL RUE, OR, WHITE MAIDEN-HAIR.', , J . ... p. 



; hair, and causes it to grow thick, fair, and 



Descript} THIS has very fine, pale green i well coloured; for which purpose some 

 stalks, almost as fine as hairs, set confusedly j boil it in wine, putting some Smallage seed 

 with divers pale green leaves on every short ? thereto, and afterwards some oil. The 

 foot stalk, somewhat near unto the colour j Wall Rue is as effectual as Maiden-Hair, 

 of garden Rue, and not much differing in ; in all diseases of the head, or falling and 

 form but more diversly cut in on the edges, i recovering of the hair again, and generally 

 and thicker, smooth on the upper part, j for all the aforementioned diseases : And 

 and spotted finely underneath. ) besides, the powder of it taken in drink for 



Place.} It grows in many places of this i forty days together, helps the burstings in 

 land, at Dartford, and the bridge at Ash- j children, 

 ford in Kent, at Beaconsfield in Bucking- | 



hamshire, at Wolly in Huntingtonshire, on | GOLDEN MAIDEN H AIE 



Framlingham Castle in Suffolk, on the j To the former give me leave to add this, 

 church Avails at Mayfield in Sussex, in > and I shall say no more but only describe 

 Somersetshire, and divers other places of jit to you, and for the virtues refer you to 

 this land ; and is green in Winter as well as | the former, since whatever is said of them, 

 Summer. ; may be also said of this. 



Government and virtues.} Both this and \ Descript.} It has many small, brownish, 

 the former are under the dominion oft red hairs, to make up the form of leaves 

 Mercury, and so is that also which follows | growing about the ground from the root; 

 after, and the virtue of both are so near j and in the middle of them, in Summer, rise 

 alike, that though I have described them j small stalks of the same colour, set with very 

 and their places of growing severally, yet % fine yellowish green hairs on them, and 

 I shall in writing the virtues of them, join j bearing a small gold, yellow head, less 

 them both together as follows. j than a wheat corn, standing in a great 



The decoction of the herb Maiden-Hair \ husk. The root is very small and thready, 

 being drank, helps those that are troubled : Place.} It grows in bogs and moorish 



