Chap. 65. 
tbcr, w th J' mailer Leaves among them , bufbing thick 
below, and rijing f mailer and thinner up to the Top 
like a Pyramis , or Spire Steeple. 
V . Coventry Bells Is a Plant which has a White 
Root, which being young as in the fir jl year Sowing , 
is tender , and often eaten as other Rampions are ; 
but the next year when it runs up to Seed, it grows 
hard and perifhesi Prom hence Spring up Leaves 
of a pale or frejh green colour , long and narrow next 
to the bottom , and broader from the middle to the 
end , fomewhat round pointed, a Utile hairy all over 
and dented about the edges. The next year after 
the Sowing , rife up Stalks , Something hairy alfo, and 
branching forth from the Root into divers Arms, up- 
on which grow fever of Leaves, f mailer than the for- 
mer, and cf a darker green color. At the end of 
every Branch Jiand the rlczcers in green husks, from 
whence- come large, round, bellow Bells, fuelling out 
in the. mid lie, and r 'fing JomewEat aboifc it, like the 
neck of a Put$ and then ending in five Corners, which 
are eit her of a fair or faint White y or of a pale blew 
Purplifh colour, and font climes of a deeper Purple 
or Violet. The Viewers being pafi, there grows up 
great. Square, or corner d Sced-vefje/s, in which are 
contained in five fever al Cells , or Divifions, fmall, 
hard, brown, fin n mg fiat Seed. 
VI. The Places. All thefe grow with us in Gar- 
dens, where they are brought up for the beauty of 
their Flowers. The Coventry Bells, Ray fays, grow 
in Woody and Mountainous places ^ and Gerard 
fays, in dark Valleys, under Hedges, among Bufhes, 
more efpecially about Coventry, whence the name, 
and where they grow very plentifully abroad in the 
fields, but are alfo with them Nurfed up in Gar- 
dens, as they are with us in London, which plea- 
fant Bell-flower, is kept chiefly for its beauEy fake, 
though its Root is alfo eaten as Rampions are. 
The rirft of them alfo requires to be planted in Iha- 
dy places. 
VII. The Times. Thefe plants are to be conti- 
nued by fowing them every other year. They bower 
generally all the Summer Months : but the Peach- 
leaved bower for the moft part earlier than the 
others: The Coventry Bells fiowef in June, Juiv, 
and Augufl, and the Seed ripens in the mean St. a- 
fon, in regard they bring not forth their bowers all 
at once, but as fome bower, others feed. 
VIII. The Qualities. They are cold and dry in the 
firft degree, Affringent, Traumatick, Vulnerary, Sto- 
matick, and Alterative. 
IX. The Preparations. You may make thereof, 
i. An exprefjed Juice of the whole Plant. 2. A De- 
co flion thereof in Wine. 3. A Catap/afm. 
The Virtues . 
X. The Exprefjed liquid Juice. Being bathed up-- 
on any Inbamed Part, it abates the Inbammation, and 
flops the fluxion. And if a little Alum and Honey 
is diflolved therein, it makes a good Lotion for old 
Sores, running Ulcers, and a virulent Gonorrhea in 
Man or Woman. 
XI. The Decoilion in Wine. It makes an extra- 
ordinary Gargle for a fore Mouth and Throat, in- 
bammation of the Uvula and Almonds, more efpe- 
cially if a little Alum and Honey be alfo diflolved 
therein. 
XII. The Cataplafm. It allays Inflammations, ea- 
fes Pain, and reprefles the Flux of Humors. 
CHAP. LXV. 
BETONY Wood. 
I. np H E Names. It is called by the Arabian /, 
JL Chaftra : by the Greeks, ^ 'Vvyj r&<poy : 
by the Latins , Hctonica : and by us Eng/ifh, Be- 
tony. 
IL The 
