186 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



HEART TREFOIL. 



they yield a reddish juice or liquor, some- 

 what resinous, and of a harsh and stypick 

 BESIDES the ordinary sort of Trefoil, taste, as the leaves also and the flowers be, 



here are two more remarkable, and one of 

 which may be properly called Heart Tre- 

 foil, not only because the leaf is triangular, 

 like the heart of a man, but also because 

 each leaf contains the perfection of a heart, 



although much less, but do not yield such 

 a clear claret wine colour, as some say it 

 doth, the root is brownish, somewhat great, 

 hard and woody, spreading well in the 

 ground. 



and that in its proper colour, viz. a flesh * Place.] It grows in many woods, groves, 

 colour. |and woody grounds, as parks and forests, 



Place.] It grows between Longford and j and by hedge-sides in many places in this 

 Bow, and beyond Southwark, by the high- j land, as in Hampstead wood, by Ratley in 

 way and parts adjacent. { Essex, in the wilds of Kent, and in many 



Government and virtues.'] It is under the \ other places needless to recite, 

 dominion of the Sun, and if it were used, itj Time.] It flowers later than St.' John's 

 would be found as great a strengthener of j or St. Peter's-wort. 



the heart, and cherisher of the vital spirits j Government and virtues.] It is an herb of 

 as grows, relieving the body against faint- 1 Saturn, and a most noble anti-venerean. 

 ing and swoonings, fortifying it against JTustan purges choleric humours, as St. 

 poison and pestilence, defending the heart > Peter's-wort, is said to do, for therein it 

 against the noisome vapours of the spleen, j works the same effects, both to help the 

 RT TRFFOTT sciatica and gout, and to heal burning by 



Jri-AIili IKtiXULL,. J /. . 11 4.1 t i ! i- I 



jrire; it stays all the bleedings of wounds, 



IT differs not from the common sort, | if either the green herb be bruised, or the 

 save only in this particular, it hath a white j powder of the dry be applied thereto. It 

 spot in the leaf like a pearl. It is particu- j hath been accounted, and certainly it is, 

 larly under the dominion of the Moon, and} a sovereign herb to heal either wound or 

 its icon shews that it is of a singular virtue j sore, either outwardly or inwardly, and 

 against the pearl, or pin and web in the j therefore always used in drinks, lotions, 

 eyes. green wounds, ulcers, or old sores, in all 



TUSTAN, OR PARK LEAVES. **** f 8 ' ^ m ^ 3 "J Other sorts of 



which the continual experience or former 



Descript] IT ' hath brownish shining 



ages hath confirmed the use thereof to be 



round stalks, crested the length thereof, \ admirably good, though it be not so much 

 rising two by two, and sometimes three feet j in use now, as when physicians and sur- 

 high, branching forth even from the bottom, j geons were so Avise as to use herbs more 

 having divers joints, and at each of them j than now they do. 

 two fair large leaves standing, of a dark j 

 blueish green colour on the upper side, and j 



of a yellowish green underneath, turning \ Descript.] THIS hath a thick short 

 reddish toward Autumn. At the top of the \ greyish root, lying for the most part above 

 stalks stand large yellow flowers, and heads I ground, shooting forth on all other sides 

 with seed, which being greenish at the first: such like small pieces of roots, which have 

 and afterwards reddish, turn to be of a > all of them many long green strings and 

 blackish purple colour when they are ripe, | fibres under them in the ground, whereby 

 with small brownish seed within them, and j it draws nourishment. From the head of 



