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-1329 cfficinarumy €^233. Eye-bright. Inmear ] 
dows and paftures. The fipwers are white, and ftriped , 
on the infide with purple lines ; The lip is divided j 
into three jags ; each of which is again divided into 
two, and marked with a yellow fpot in the rniddle. 
This is a plant famous for all difqrders and diftempers of thp 1 
feyes, efpecially fqr dimn^fs of fight, and to ftrengthen it whei} | 
weak and decay’d, either given in the juice or decodion of the j 
leaves. A powder, made of two ounces of Eye-bright and hallf i 
an ounce of mace, is very much commended for the fame pur- j 
f)oles, efpecially after proper evacuations. Some commend it j 
good againft the jaundice. 
Melampyrum, Cow-wheat. The leaves , grow : 
by pairs : The flowers are monopetalous, anor ; 
‘ ' malous, and perfonated ; divided into two lips, : 
the upper of which is crefted, and the under en- : 
tire : The fruit is round, and divided into two i 
cells : The feeds refemble grains of wheat.- The I 
fpecies are : 
I.' Melampyrum criftatum^ flore albo purpureo^ : 
R. *286. luieum angujUfolium^ C. 234. Crefted > 
Cow- wheat. In the woods about Cambridge and 
Bedford. In Walton field, near Wakefield. The 
ftalks are about half a foot high, very branchy ; The 
leaves are long and narrow : The flowers grow, on 
the tops pf the ftalks and branches, in thick fquare 
Ipikes they are generally of a purple colour, with a 
yellow yawn r Each flower is placed in the bofom of 
a leaf that doubles upwards, whofe upper edge re^ 
prefent the figure ot a half-moon, the arch being .• 
curioufly notched and crefted, with very fmall teeth. 
2. 'Melampyrum fyhaticum flore luteo., five &atu- 
reia hitea' fylveflris.^ R.^2U6. luteum latifolium^ C. d 
234. Craf^ogonon vulgar e., P. 1326. Cratacgonon ■ 
album., Common wild Cow- wheat. Ii) woods, 
elpecially near the roots of bid oaks : The ftalks are 1 
about nine inches or a foot high, divided into very 1 
long and thick-fet branches : The leaves are long and j 
narrow; 
