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very thinly , or poreingly Jet on them , fiomething 
broad and long , like unto the leaves of Ma/jh- mal- 
lows, but f mailer, crumpled , and cut in on both ftdes , 
//;<? /raw f/zir, dented about the edges , of a 
hoary or dufty grayifh green Color , which when they 
are cleared , are clammy , or flicking like Gum to the 
Teeth , fharp , and font c what bitter in taftt. The 
I ‘lowers come forth one by one at the feints with the 
Leaves , </// o/.w? the Stalk , up to the top , <rtwy one 
upon a long Stalk , which are very like the former , 
;'///? before defer i bed ■, they confiil of one whole leaf, 
yet plaited as it were before the opening into five 
plaits , and being open, have five corners, as if it had 
five leaves, broad like a Cup or Bell at the brims, and 
Jmall at the bottom, of a fine pale Purple color, and 
Sometimes deeper, ajter which come forth heads of 
Jmall Seed. 
V. The Small Purple Bindweed, is in all things 
like unto the firft of theje deferibed in this Chapter , 
fiming that the blowers are of a pale purplijh, or 
b levci fh color, the folds being White, or of a deeper 
Purple without , and White within, the bottom being 
alfio agreeable therewith, which is of much beauty. 
VI. The Spanifh Blew Bindweed, /vw a fimall threa- 
dy Root, which dies every Tear, from which fhoots 
forth fever al fimall Branches a yard long, or more, 
having fever al Leaves fan ding fingly thereon, fimall 
and long at the bottom , and broader , and almoj ? round 
at the end, a little hairy as it were, all over. At 
every leaf fir the mofl part, from the middle of the 
Stalks upwards, comes forth a blower, like unto the 
Common fort , folded into five plaits, which open into 
fio many corners, of a moll admirable Sky colored 
Blew (fio pie af ant to behold, that it amazes the fpctla- 
tors ) zath White bottoms, pointed upwards, and Tel- 
low in the middle, which pajfing away, there comes 
fimall, round white heads, containing within them, 
fimall blackifh cornered Seed, which is to be new fiown 
every Tear . 
VII. The Lavender leav’d ,' This is like the firft in ali 
things, except the Leaves, which are long and nar- 
row, refiembling thofie of Lavender, or Linaria : But 
it has a finer blower, plaited or folded in the compafis 
of its Bell very orderly, efpe dally before the Sun 
rife, for afterwards , when it opens its f elf , the folds 
are not fio much perceived ■, and it is of a deep Pur- 
ple color : the Seed is not unlike the reft, corner’d 
and fiat, growing out of /lender Branches, which ft and 
upright and thick together, proceeding from a White 
woody Root. 
VIII. The Places. The Firft of thefe is common, 
and grows almoft every where in Fields, By-ways, 
dry Ditches, Ditch banks, and Hedge fides, through 
England. The Second and Fourth grow in Spain, 
and are nourifhed up with us in Gardens. The Third 
and Fifth are. common with us in England : This 
Fifth or lalt, Gerard fays he found it growing in 
the Corn Fields about Great Dunmow in Ejfex, in 
fuch abundance, that it does much hurt to the Corn, 
and Parkinfon fays, it is as great a plague to the 
Fields where it grows, as the firit is. 
IX. The Times. They all flower from May to 
the end of Auguft, and the Seed ripens gradually in 
the mean Sealon. 
X. The Qualifies. They are all much of a Na- 
ture, being hoc and dry in the firit Degree, a little 
Aftringent, Vulnerary, Arthritick, and Alterative. 
'Al. The Preparations. You may have, i. A li- 
quid Juice. 2. An E /fence. ?. A Ponder. 4. A 
Balfiam. $. ACataplafim. 6 . A Liftilled Water. 
The Virtues. 
XII. The liquid Juice. Being often fluffed up 
the Noifijls till it comes out again at the Mouth, 
it cleanfes and heals Running Sores or Ulcers in 
thofe parts : And if a little Nitre is dilfcived in it, 
it purges the Head and Brain. 
XIII. The Ejfence. It has the fame Virtues, but 
is more Difcuihve, and prevalent tor the cleanfing 
of Ulcers, and healing of Wounds. 
XIV. The Ponder. Strewed upon a foul Ulcer, it 
cleanfes it ( if alfo walhed with the Eflence ) and 
afterwards it incarnates and heals. 
XV. The Balfiam. It is an excellent Vulnerary, 
and cures fimple Wounds many times at once drel- 
fing. 
XVI. The Cataplafim. Made of the Green Herb, 
it difeufles Tumors, and applied upon Contufions 
differ fes the Humors gathered together. 
XVII. The Li filled Water. If you diflolve a lit- 
tle Sal Prunella, or Nitre in it, it is good againft 
Heats and Breakings out in the Face, Tannings, 
Sun-burnings, Pimples, Scurf, and other like De- 
formities. 
CHAP. LXX. 
BINDWEED Black. 
I. H E Names. It is fuppofed to be called in 
1 Greek 'Eifiivn Kifftiyanx®- : In Latin, He/xine 
Ci if impel os. Convolvulus minor niger Label calls it 
Ci/fampelos altera atriplicis ejfigie : Dodo me us calls 
it, Convolvulus niger : Thales calls it, Volubilis me- 
dia five nigra : Collumna calls it. Polygonum He de- 
race urn : Cordus on Li of cor ides takes it to be E la- 
tine : And Angular a will have it to be Centunculus 
P/inij : in Englifh, Black Bindweed. 
II. The Kinds. There is, 1. The Common Black 
Bindweed , which though it is one of the fmall Bind- 
weeds, yet is the greater of the Black. 2. CiJJam- 
pelos altera Anglica minima. The fmalleft Black 
Bindweed, of Englifh Growth. 
III. The 
