H Y 
H Y 
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long narrow Leaves lean- * 
in<r towards the Ground, 
among which , fpring up 
naked or bare Stalks laden 
with many hollow blue 
Flowers, of a ftrong fweet 
Smell, fomewhat fluffing 
the Head : After which, 
come the Coddcs or round 
Knobs, containing a great 
quantity of fmall black 
ffiining Seed. The Root 
is Bulbous ; fuJLof a fil- 
my blcwifli Juice, which 
will lerve to fet Feathers 
upon Arrows, inftead of 
Glew, 'or to pafte Books 
with : Whereof is made 
the beft Starch, next un- 
to that of Wake-Robin 
Roots. 
The white Englijh Hy- 
acinth, is altogether like 
the precedent, excepting, 
that the Leaves of it are 
fomewhat broader , the 
Flowers more open, of a 
white Colour. There is 
found Wild in many pla- 
ces of England , another 
fort, which hath Flowers 
of a fair Carnation Co- 
lour, which makes it differ 
from the other. 1 here 
are alio fundry othei Va- 
rieties of this fort, but l 
think it unnefiury to infift 
upon them , their diffe- 
rence is fo little, confifting 
not in their fhape, but in 
the Colour of their Flow- 
ers. The Blue Hair-Bells 
grow Wild in Woods , 
Copies, and in the Bor- 
ders of Fields every where 
throughout England ; the 
other two are not fo com- 
mon, yet do they grow in 
Woods by Colchefier in 
EJJex, in the Fields and 
Woods by South-Fleet , 
near unto Gravefend in 
Kent , as alfo in a piece of 
Ground by Canterbury , 
called the Clapper, in the 
Fields by the Bath , about 
the Woods by Warrington 
in Lancajhire , and other 
places. They flower from 
the beginning of May to 
the end of June. 
fSpflbp, in Latin Hyjfo- 
pns,' *Tis hot, and acrid : 
It attenuates, opens, and 
cleanfes. ’Tis chiefly ufed 
in Difeafes of the Lungs, 
’Tis frequently applied 
outwardly to remove 
Blood that is fettled in 
the Eyes. A Bunch of it 
being boyl’d in Water , 
and applied hot to the 
