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cleared, cleanses the skin from all manner 

 of spots, marks, and freckles that rise, either 

 by the heat of the sun, or the malignity of 

 humours. As for the Broom and Broom- 

 rape, Mars owns them, and is exceeding 

 prejudicial to the liver, I suppose by reason 

 of the antipathy between Jupiter and Mars; 

 therefore if the liver be disaffected, minis- 

 ter none of it. 



BUCK'S-HORN PLANTAIN. 



Descript.~\ THIS being sown of seed, 

 rises up at first with small, long, narrow, 

 hairy, dark green leaves like grass, without 

 any division or gash in them, but those that 

 follow are gashed in on both sides the 

 leaves into three or four gashes, and point- 

 ed at the ends, resembling the knags of a 

 buck's horn (whereof it took its name), and 

 being well wound round about the root 

 upon the ground, in order one by another, 

 thereby resembling the form of a star, from 

 among which rise up divers hairy stalks, 

 about a hand's breadth high, bearing every 

 one a small, long spiky head, like to those 

 of the common Plantain having such like 

 bloomings and seed after them. The root 

 is single, long and small, with divers strings 

 at it. 



Place.'] They grow in sandy grounds, 

 as in Tothill-fields by Westminster, and 

 divers other places of this land. 



Time.'] They flower and seed in May, 

 June, and July, and their green leaves do 

 in a manner abide fresh all the Winter. 



Government and virtues.~\ It is under the 

 dominion of Saturn, and is of a gallant, 

 drying, and binding quality. This boiled 

 in wine and drank, and some of the leaves 

 put to the hurt place, is an excellent re- 

 medy for the biting of the viper or adder, 

 which I take to be one and the same. The 

 same being also drank, helps those that are 

 troubled with the stone in the reins or kid- 

 neys, by cooling the heat of the part af- 

 flicted, and strengthens them also weak 



stomachs that cannot retain, but cast up 

 their meat. It stays all bleeding both at 

 mouth or nose ; bloody urine or the bloody- 

 flux, and stops the lask of the belly and 

 bowels. The leaves hereof bruised and 

 laid to their sides that have an ague, sud- 

 denly ease the fits; and the leaves and roots 

 applied to the wrists, works the same effect. 

 The herb boiled in ale and wine, and given 

 for some mornings and evenings together, 

 stays the distillation of hot and sharp 

 rheums falling into the eyes from the head, 

 and helps all sorts of sore eyes. 



BUCK'S HORN. 



IT is called Hart's-horn, Herba-stella and 

 Herba-stellaria, Sanguinaria, Herb-Eve, 

 Herb-Ivy, Wort-Tresses,and Swine-Cresses. 



DescriptJ] They have many small and 



weak straggled branches trailing here and 



there upon the ground : The leaves are 



many, small and jagged, not much unlike 



to those of Buck's-horn Plantain, but much 



smaller, and not so hairy. The flowers 



grow among the leaves in small, rough, 



i whitish clusters ; the seeds are smaller and 



1 brownish, of a bitter taste. 



Placed] They grow in dry, barren, sandy 

 grounds. 



Time.] They flower and seed when the 

 rest of the Plantains do. 



Government and virtues] This is also 

 under the dominion of Saturn; the virtues 

 are held to be the same as Buck's-horn 

 Plaintain, and therefore by all authors it is 

 joined with it. The leaves bruised and ap- 

 plied to the place, stop bleeding. The 

 herbs bruised and applied to warts, will 

 make them consume and waste in a short 

 time. 



BUGLE. 



BESIDES the name Bugle, -it is called 

 Middle Confound and Middle Comfrey, 

 Brown Bugle, and by some Sicklewort, and 



