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cleanse the stomach of gross and tough 

 phlegm, and choler therein ; it helps the 

 jaundice and the dropsy, evacuating those 

 humours both upwards and downwards ; 

 and because it somewhat hurts the stomach, 

 is not to be taken without honey and spike- 

 nard. The same being drank, doth ease 

 the pains and torments of the belly and 

 sides, the shaking of agues, the diseases of 

 the liver and spleen, the worms of the belly, 

 the stone in the reins, convulsions and 

 cramps that come of old humours ; it also 

 helps those jvhose seed passes from them 

 unawares : It is a remedy against the 

 bitings and stingings of venomous crea- 

 tures, being boiled in water and vinegar 

 and drank. Boiled in water and drank, it 

 provokes urine, helps the cholic, brings 

 down women's courses ; and made up into 

 a pessary with honey, and put up into the 

 body, draws forth the dead child. It is 

 much commended against the cough, to 

 expectorate rough phlegm ; It much eases 

 pains in the head, and procures sleep ; 

 being put into the nostrils it procures 

 sneezing, and thereby purges the head of 

 phlegm. The juice of the root applied to 

 the piles or haemorrhoids, gives much ease. 

 The decoction of the roots gargled in the 

 mouth, eases the tooth-ache, and helps the 

 stinking breath. Oil called Oleum Irinum, 

 if it be rightly made of the great broad 

 flag Flower-de-luce and not of the great 

 bulbous blue Flower-de-luce, (as is used by 

 some apothecaries) and roots of the same, of 

 the flaggy kinds, is very effectual to warm 

 and comfort all cold joints and sinews, as 

 also the gout and sciatica, and mollifies, 

 dissolves and consumes tumours and swell- 

 ings in any part of the body, as also of the 

 matrix ; it helps the cramp, or convulsions 

 of the sinews. The head and temples 

 anointed therewith, helps the catarrh or 

 thin rheum distilled from thence ; and used 

 upon the breast or stomach, helps to ex- 

 tenuate the cold tough phlegm ; it helps 



also the pains and noise in the ears, and 

 the stench of the nostrils. The root itself, 

 either green or in powder, helps to cleanse, 

 heal, and incarnate wounds, and to cover 

 the naked bones with flesh again, that 

 ulcers have made bare ; and is also very 

 good to cleanse and heal up fistulas and 

 cankers that are hard to be cured. 



FLUELLIN, OR LLUELLIN. 



DescriptJ] IT shoots forth many long 

 branches partly lying upon the ground, 

 and partly standing upright, set with al- 

 most red leaves, yet a little pointed, and 

 sometimes more long than ronr>d, without 

 order thereon, somewhat hairy, and of an 

 evil greenish white colour ; at the joints all 

 along the stalks, and with the leaves come 

 forth small flowers, one at a place, upon 

 a very small short foot-stalk, gaping some- 

 what like Snap-dragons, or rather like Toad- 

 flax, with the upper jaw of a yellow colour, 

 and the lower of a purplish, with a small heel 

 or spur behind ; after which come forth 

 small round heads, containing small black 

 seed. The root is small and thready, dying 

 every year, and rise? itself again of its 

 own sowing. 



There is another sort of Lluellin which 

 has longer branches wholly trailing upon 

 the ground, two or three feet long, and 

 somewhat more thin, set with leaves there- 

 on, upon small foot-stalks. The leaves are 

 a little larger, and somewhat round, and 

 cornered sometimes in some places on the 

 edges ; but the lower part of them being 

 the broadest, hath on each side a small 

 point, making it seem as if they were ears, 

 sometimes hairy, but not hoary, and of a 

 better green colour than the former. The 

 flowers come forth like the former, but the 

 colours therein are more white than yellow, 

 and the purple not so far. It is a large 

 flower, and so are the seed and seed-ves- 

 sels. The root is like the other, and 

 perishes every year. 



