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or three Spoonfuls, in a 
proper Vehicle. This is 
in excellent Purge in a 
Dropfie. 
SDarncI, in Latin Lo- 
Yium Album. The Root is 
very fibrous. The Straws 
are two or three foot high, 
like the Wheat-ftraw, but 
a little lefs. They have 
four or five Knots, at each 
whereof are the Leaves; 
they are narrower and 
greener than the Blade of 
Wheat ; they fhine, and arc 
fnrooth, fat, channel’d, and 
are fpiky. The Grain is 
lefs than Wheat, and is in- 
cluded in a lingle, -brown 
Husk. It grows too much 
amongft Wheat. 
attenuates , refolvcs and 
cleanfes. Being mix’d with 
Malt, it makes the Beer 
heady : And mix’d with 
Bread, it occasions great 
Dulnefs. It ofiends the 
Eyes, by fending ill Va- 
pours into the Idead. The 
Flower 'of it, mix’d with 
other Medicines, is com- 
mended by the Anticnts 
for putrid Ulcers, the Itch, 
;he Leprofie, 
Evil, Gangreens, and the 
Hip-Gout. 
in jfearin 
Morfxts Diaboli. The Lea\ es 
are very Bitter, life Sca- 
bious ; the Root is Bittc- 
rifh, biting, and burning 
in the .Throat ; and there - 
' fore accounted Alexiphar- 
mick, and may be us’d 
inftead of Contrayerva ; 
for it is accounted good a- 
gainft the Sitings of Mad- 
L>ogs , with Flag-Root 
koyf’d in Milk. The 
Leaves are of the fame 
yertue as Scabious, clean- 
fing, Vulnerary, Pecdoral, 
and Tlepatick. 
.SDiCrMheth, in Latin, 
Lutcola Vulgaris. Dicrs- 
SVeed hath, long , , narrow 
and jgreenifii yeliowLeave.s, 
not much unlike to A^oad, 
but a. .great deal final for 
and narrower ; from a- 
meng which cometh up a 
Stalk’ two Cubits high , 
befet with little narrow 
Leaves : Even to the top 
of the Stalk, ■ come forth, 
fp all, pale; yeilow. Flowers, 
clofely ..ciuftering toge- 
ther one about another , 
turn into final! 
Buttons, 
the King s- which 
