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Iween them. The Periwinkle is a great land Northamptonshire; as also near water- 

 binder, stays bleeding both at mouth and J courses in other places, 

 nose, if some of the leaves be chewed, j Time.~] It flowers in June and July, and 

 The French used it to stay women's courses. | the seed is ripe in August. 

 Dioscorides, Galen, and ^Egineta, com- ; Government and virtues.'] There is not 

 mend it against the lasks and fluxes of the; a straw to choose between this and St. 

 belly to be drank in wine. I John's Wort, only St. Peter must have it, 



(lest he should want pot herbs; It is of the 

 ST. PETER'S WORT | same property fo St. John's Wort, but some- 



j what weaker, and therefore more seldom 



IF Superstition had not been the father j used. Two drams of the seed taken at a 

 of Tradition, as well as Ignorance the j time in honied water, purges choleric 

 Mother of Devotion, this herb, (as well as; humours, (as saith Dioscorides, Pliny, and 

 St. John's Wort) hath found some other j Galen,) and thereby helps those that are 

 name to be known by ; but we may say of i troubled with the sciatica. The leaves are 

 our forefathers, as St. Paul of the Athenians, ? used as St. John's Wort, to help those 

 / perceive in many things you are too super- j places of the body that have been burnt 

 stitious. Yet seeing it is come to pass, ; with fire, 

 that custom having got in possession,! 



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pleads prescription for the name, 1 snail ; 



let it pass, and come to the description of j DescriptJ] COMMON Pimpernel hath 

 the herb, which take as follows. i divers weak square stalks lying on the 



- Descript."] It rises up with square up- I ground, beset all with two small and almost 

 right stalks for the most par.t, some greater ; round leaves at every joint, one against 

 and higher than St. John's Wort (and good another, very like Chickweed, but hath no 

 reason too, St. Peter being the greater | foot-stalks ; for the leaves, as it were, com- 

 apostle, (ask the Pope else;) for though; pase the stalk. The flowers stand singly 

 God would have the saints equal, the Pope teach by themselves at them and the stalk, 

 is of another opinion,) but brown in the 1 consistingof fivesmall round-pointed leaves, 

 same manner, having two leaves at every < of a pale red colour, tending to an orange, 

 joint, somewhat like, but larger, than St. \ with so many threads in the middle, in whose 

 John's Wort, and a little rounder pointed, ! places succeed smooth round heads, where- 

 with few or no holes to be seen thereon, and : in is contained small seed. The root is 

 having sometimes some smaller leaves rising j small and fibrous, perishing every year, 

 from the bosom* of the greater, and some^l Placed] It grows almost every where 

 times a little hairy also. At the tops of two j as well in the meadows and corn-fields, 

 stalks stand many star-like flowers, with j as by the way-sides, and in gardens, arising 

 yellow threads in the middle, very like! of itself. 



those of St. John's Wort, insomuch that I Time.'] It flowers from May until April, 

 this is hardly discerned from it, but only by ! and the seed ripens in the mean time, and 

 the largeness and height, the seed being! falls. 



alike also in both. The root abides long, \ Government and virtues.'] It is a gallant 

 sending forth new shoots every year. { solar herb, of a cleansing attractive quality, 



Place."] It grows in many groves, and ? whereby it draws forth thorns or splinters, 

 email low woods, in divers places of this j or other such like things gotten into the 

 land, as in Kent, Huntingdon, Cambridge, flesh ; and put up into the nostrils, purges 



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