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XXL 2. flowers in May. 1 found it in feveral 
Places growing on Wooiiatou Walls but dare not 
fay whether the Garden might not perhaps have 
furnilhed and the Wind fown the Seed, it is 
commonly cultivated in Gardens, as well for the 
Ule oi zhQ apothecaries zs ptiblick Hoafes^ which 
make a wholefome medicated Ale of it. 
ThisPki.t abounds in a volaile Salt, which alFcfls 
the Noftfils when bruiied as ilrongly as, the volatile 
Sal Arnwniac, It is therefore an excellent Remedy to 
cut yiicid Humours, and make them fit to pals through 
their proper Channels, as alio to Icour and open oblfrutf- 
ed Palfages, and to rake off that lentor of the Blood 
which it contradis by being overcharged with fixed 
Salt, whence proceed Scorbutick 'Blotches and Erupti- 
ons, which hardly ever tail to bring after them other 
chronical Diiorders. It may be uied by all with good 
Succels, but thin hectical ConlHtutions where it is 'oo 
apt to increale the Motion and PJeat of the Fluids, and 
aggravating the Symptoms ufually attending fuch 
Habits of Body it often may prove of the lall ill Confe- 
quence. Thebcft Way of making ufe of it is in Conjerve 
for prefent Ipending, for it Ihhould not be kept in Shops 
for Sale, where it quickly looles its volatility, in this 
Form you have all the Plant can yield, whiift the vola- 
tile parts prepare the humours the fixed Salt in it pro- 
motes their Dilcharge by Urine. The next bell is a 
ftrong Infufion of the Herb in Rhenip Wine. Then the 
Spirit which for want of the fixed Salt looles the diu- 
retick Quality, And lallly the Ale which rather keeps 
the volatile parts of this Plant too much confined. 
Colchicum commune. Syn, 273. C. B. Pin. 
Anglicum purpureum et Anglicum album. Park, 
Meadow Saffron. Cl. I. Gen. XXVI. flowers in 
November without Leaves, whence Gardiners 
call them Naked Boys. In Nottingham Meadows. 
^nd about SCrent Bridge, The Roots of thefe have 
been 
