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very effectual against long lingering agues ; i of choler, thereby preventing diseases 

 and a dram of the seed in powder, drank in | arising from choleric humours. It expels 

 wine, before the fit of the ague, helps to j poison much, resists pestilential fevers, being 

 drive it away. The distilled water of the \ exceeding good also for tertian agues : You 

 herb and flowers (if you can take them in i may drink the decoction of it, if you please, 

 time) hath the like properties, and is es- 1 for all the foregoing infirmities. It 



is so 



pecially good for hot stomachs, and in j harmless an herb, you can scarce use it 



as also the 



agues, either pestilential or of long con-! amiss: Being bruised and applied to the 



tinuance ; for swoonings and passions of \ place, it helps the king's evil, and any other 



the heart, for the heat and head -ache in j knots or kernels in the flesh 



children, and for the blood and liver. The j piles. 



said water, or the juice, or the bruised 



leaves applied outwardly, allay swellings, 



inflammations, St. Anthony's fire, pushes,! 



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wheals, and pimples, especially used with i 

 a little vinegar ; as also to wash pestiferous 

 sores. The said water is very effectual for 



sore eyes that are inflamed with redness, 

 for nurses' breasts that are pained by the 

 abundance of milk. 



The wild Succory, as it is more bitter, 



so it is more strengthening to the stomach ] large : scarce standing above the brims of 

 and liver. I the husks, round pointed also, and of a 



{greenish yellow colour. The seed that 

 follows is not so bright, but larger, 



Descript.'] THIS rises up with a round 

 thick stalk, about two feet high, whereon- 

 do grow thick, flat green leaves, nothing so 

 large as the other Indian kind, somewhat 

 round pointed also, and nothing dented 

 about the edges. The stalk branches forth, 

 and bears at the tops divers flowers set on 

 great husks like the other, but nothing so 



STONE-CROP, PRICK-MADAM, OR SMALL- 

 HOUSELEEK'. 



con- 



Descript."] IT grows with divers trailing 

 branches upon the ground, set with many 

 thick, flat, roundish, whitish green leaves, 

 pointed at the ends. The flowers stand 

 many of them together, somewhat loosely. 



tained in the like great heads. The roots 

 are neither so great nor woody ; it perishes 

 every year with the hard frosts in Winter, 

 but rises generally from its own sowing. 



Placed] This came from some parts of 

 Brazil, as it is thought, and is more familiar 



The roots are small, and run creeping under \ in our country than any of the other sorts ; 

 ground. 



PloceJ] It grows upon the stone walls 

 and mud walls, upon the tiles of houses and 

 pent-houses, and amongst rubbish, and in 

 other gravelly places. 



TimeJ] It flowers in June and July, and 

 the leaves are green all the Winter. 



Jearly giving ripe seed, which the others sel- 

 dom do. 



Time.] It flowers from June, sometimes 

 to the end of August, or later, and the seed 

 ripens in the mean lime. 



Government and virtues."] It is a martial 

 piant. It is round by good experience to 



Government and virtues.] It is under the { be available to expectorate tough phlegm 

 dominion of the Moon, cold in quality, | from the stomach, chest, and lungs. The 

 and something binding, and therefore very {juice thereof made into a syrup, or the iiis- 

 good to stay defluctions, especially such as $ tilled water of the herb drank with some 



fall upon the eyes. It stops bleeding, both 

 inward and outward, helps cankers, and all 



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sugar, or without, if you will, or the smoak 

 taken by a pipe, as is usual, but fainting. 



(retting sores and ulcers ; it abates the heat helps to expel worms in tne stomach and 



