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and shadowy woods, and in the lower parts 

 of the fields and meadows. 



Time.'] It flowers about July, and the 

 seed will be ripe about a month after the 

 flowers are fallen. 



Government and virtues.] Some Latin 

 authors call it Cervicaria, because it is ap- 

 propriated to the neck ; and we Throat- 

 wort, because it is appropriated to the 

 throat. Venus owns the herb, and the 

 Celestial Bull will not deny it ; therefore 

 a better remedy cannot be for the king's 

 evil, because the Moon that rules the dis- 

 ease, is exalted there. The decoction of the 

 herb taken inwardly, and the bruised herb 

 applied outwardly, dissolves clotted and 

 congealed blood within the body, coming 

 by any wounds, bruise, or fall ; and is no 

 less effectual for the king's evil, or any 

 other knobs, kernel, bunches, or wens 

 growing in the flesh wheresoever ; and for 

 the haemorrhoids, or piles. An ointment 

 made hereof may be used at all times when 

 the fresh herb is not to be had. The dis- 

 tilled water of the whole plant, roots and 

 all, is used for the same purposes, and dries 

 up the superfluous, virulent moisture of 

 hollow and corroding ulcers ; it takes away 

 ill redness, spots, and freckles in the face, 

 as also the scurf, and any foul deformity 

 therein, and the leprosy likewise. 



PILIPENDULA, OR DROP-WORT. 



DescriptJ] THIS sends forth many leaves, 

 some larger, some smaller, set on each side 

 of a middle rib, and each of them dented 

 about the edges, somewhat resembling wild 

 Tansy, or rather Agrimony, but harder in 

 handling ; among which rise up one or 

 more stalks, two or three feet high, with the 

 leaves growing thereon, and sometimes also 

 divided into other branches spreading atthe 

 top into many white, sweet-smelling flowers, 

 consisting of five leaves a-piece, with some 

 threads in the middle of them, standing 



together in a pith or umble, each upon a 

 small foot stalk, which after they have been 

 blown upon a good while, do fall away, 

 and in their places appear small, round, 

 chaffy heads like buttons, wherein are the 

 chaffy seeds set and placed. The root 

 consists of many small, black, tuberous 

 pieces, fastened together by many small, 

 long, blackish strings, which run from one 

 to another. 



Place.] It grows in many places of this 

 land, in the corners of dry fields and mea- 

 dows, and the hedge sides. 



Time.'] They flower in June and July, 

 and their seed is ripe in August. 



Government and virtues.] It is under the 

 dominion of Venus. It effectually opens 

 the passages of the urine, helps the stran- 

 guary ; the stone in the kidneys or bladder, 

 the gravel, and all other pains of the blad 

 der and reins, by taking the roots in pow- 

 der, or a decoction of them in white wine, 

 with a little honey. The roots made into 

 powder, and mixed with honey in the form 

 of an electuary, doth much help them 

 whose stomachs are swollen, dissolving and 

 breaking the wind which was the cause 

 thereof; and is also very effectual for all 

 the diseases of the lungs, as shortness of 

 breath, wheezing, hoarseness of the throat, 

 and the cough ; and to expectorate tough 

 phlegm, or any other parts thereabout. 



THE FIG-TREE. 



To give a description of a tree so well 

 known to every body that keep it in his 

 garden, were needless. They prosper very 

 well in our English gardens, yet are fitter 

 for medicine than for any other profit which 

 is gotten by the fruit of them. 



Government and virtues.] The tree is 

 under the dominion of Jupiter. The milk 

 that issues out from the leaves or branches 

 where they are broken off, being dropped 

 upon warts, takes them away. The de- 



