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purpofe, and they are three: i. The great Daifyes, which fome call 

 Ox-Eyes, and White Moons. 2. The middle fort of Daifyes. 3. The 

 little Daify. 



The Places and Time. 



The first, which is Great Daify, Oxe-Eye or White-Moone, 

 groweth almost every where by the hedge fides, in the borders f 

 fields, and other waft ground, and many times in meadows, that lye 

 anything high: the iecond groweth in the like places, but not fo fre- 

 quently: the place of the third can hardly be miftook, for it groweth 

 upon every Common and other place almoft: The two firft flower in 

 May and June, and then muft be gathered, for they laft not long; but 

 the last beginneth to flower in the Spring, and holdeth on moft part 

 of the Summer. 



The Vertues. 



The Leaves of the great Daify or Maudlin wort made up into an 

 Oyntment, or Salve, with Wax, Oyl, and Turpentine, is moft 

 excellent for Wounds, * * * A Decoction made hereof * * * and 

 the places fomented and bathed therewith warm, giveth great eafe to 

 them that are troubled with Palfy, Sciatica, or other Gout. * * * 

 The little Daisies, when the greater cannot fo well be gotten, may be 

 u^ed with good succeffe for all the purpofes aforefaid, as alfo to help 

 the Agues, the decoction of them in Wine or Water being drunk. It 

 is faid that the Roots hereof being boyled in milk, and given to little 

 Puppies, will not fuffer them to grow great. 



The Conclusion. 



ANd thus. Gentle Reader, by the afsiftance f the Almighty, have 

 I gone through the generall anatomy of Mans Body, with 

 i. the moft ufuall Difeafes, and difte?npers of every part, from 

 the Crown of the Head, to the Sole of the Feet, and appropriated fuch 

 Simples {which I have in a manner Anatomized alfo) unto them, as 

 I held to be moft convenient for the reftoring them againe to their 

 Eafe and right Temper. I conceive that there is no body that under- 

 stands my well-meaning endeavours, that will think, that such Plants, 

 which are not expreffed in this Worke, have not come with in my 

 cognizance, and therefore I fhall not need to be very exact in making 

 any Apology, or laying down my Reafons for the omiffion of them', 

 yet if there be any inclined to fuppofe fo, let them know that / wil- 

 fully paffed over fome of them, and that there were fome which the 

 time {a thing which I have much wanted ever fince I undertook this 

 bufineffe) would not permit me to insert. And let them know alfo, 

 that the prefent defigne was not an univerfall Hiftory of Plants, for 

 then how volu?7iinous muft we needs have been? but onely f thofe 

 which are more ufefull, and may be gotten at the Apothecaries, or 

 Druggifts, if they grow not neer every ones habitation: Yet perhaps 



