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the root smelled unto, is good for the same 

 purpose. A water distilled from the root 

 simply, as steeped in wine, and distilled in 

 a glass, is much more effectual than the 

 water of the leaves ; and this water, drank 

 two or three spoonfuls at a time, easeth all 

 pains and torments coming of cold and 

 wind, so that the body be not bound ; and 

 taken with some of the root in powder at 

 the beginning, helpeth the pleurisy, as also 

 all other diseases of the lungs and breast, 

 as coughs, phthysic, and shortness of breath; 

 and a syrup of the stalks do the like. It 

 helps pains of the cholic, the stranguary and 

 stoppage of the urine, procureth womens' 

 courses, and expelleth the after-birth, open- 

 eth the stoppings of the liver and spleen, 

 and briefly easeth and discusseth all windi- 

 ness and inward swellings, The decoction 

 drank before the fit of an ague, that they 

 may sweat (if possible) before the fit comes, 

 will, in two or three times taking, rid it 

 quite away ; it helps digestion and is a re- 

 medy for a surfeit. The juice or the water, 

 being dropped into the eyes or ears, helps 

 dimness of sight and deafness ; the juice 

 put into the hollow teeth, easeth their pains. 

 The root in powder, made up into a plaster 

 with a little pitch, and laid on the biting of 

 mad dogs, or any other venomous creature, 

 doth wonderfully help. The juice or the 

 waters dropped, or tent wet therein, and put 

 into filthy dead ulcers, or the powder of the 

 root (in want of either) doth cleanse and 

 cause them to heal quickly, by covering the 

 naked bones with flesh ; the distilled water 

 applied to places pained with the gout, or 

 sciatica, doth give a great deal of ease. 



The wild Angelica is not so effectual as 

 the garden ; although it may be safely used 

 to all the purposes aforesaid. 



AMAKANTHUS. 



BESIDES its common name, by which it 

 is best known by the florists of our days, 



it is called Flower Gentle, Flower Velure 

 Floramor, and Velvet Flower. 



Descript.~\ It being a garden flower, and 

 well known to every one that keeps it, I 

 might forbear the description ; yet, not- 

 withstanding, because some desire it, I shall 

 give it. It runs up with a stalk a cubit 

 high, streaked, and somewhat reddish to- 

 wards the root, but very smooth, divided 

 towards the top with small branches, among 

 which stand long broad leaves of a reddish 

 green colour, slippery ; the flowers are not 

 properly flowers, but tuffs, very beautiful 

 to behold, but of no smell, of reddish colour ; 

 if you bruise them, they yield juice of the 

 same colour, being gathered, they keep their 

 beauty a long time ; the seed is of a shining 

 black colour. 



Time^} They continue in flower from 

 August till the time the frost nips them. 



Government and virtues.^ It is under the 

 dominion of Saturn, and is an excellent 

 qualifier of the unruly actions and passions 

 of Venus, though Mars also should join 

 with her. The flowers dried and beaten 

 into powder, stop the terms in women, and 

 so do almost all other red things. And by 

 the icon, or image of every herb, the ancients 

 at first found out their virtues. Modern 

 writers laugh at them for it ; but I wonder 

 in my heart, how the virtues of herbs came 

 at first to be known, if not by their signa- 

 tures ; the moderns have them from the 

 writings of the ancients ; the ancients had 

 no writings to have them from : but to pro- 

 ceed. The flowers stop all fluxes of blood ; 

 whether in man or woman, bleeding either 

 at the nose or wound. There is also a sort 

 of Amaranthus that bears a white flower, 

 which stops the whites in women, and the 

 running of the reins in men, and is a moht 

 gallant antivenereal, and a singular remedy 

 for the French pox. 



ANEMONE. 



CALLED also Wind flower, because they 



