Chap. 180. UngHfh Herbs. 
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Evening, (after due and fufficient Purging) are pre- 
lently eafed of their Pains after a lingular manner. 
Given inwardly from I ounce to 4, well fweetned 
with white Sugar, it purges well by Urine, carries 
off Water in Droplies, prevails againft the Scurvy 
in a hot Conftitution, helps the Strangury, and ex- 
pels Sand, Gravel, Slime, or any kind of Tartarous 
Matter. 
CHAP. CLXXX. 
Of CUDWEED Common, 
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COTTONWEED. 
I- j ' H E -Karnes. It is called in Greek , : 
JL in Latin , Gtiqpbalium, Centunculus , Cen- 
tuncularts , Tom entum , Tomentaria, foment itia , Colto- 
naria , Bomb ax humility Albinum , Cbamaxylon Limit 
and hi ago : in Englif \ Cudweed or Cot ton weed. 
II. The Kinds. There are four principal forts of 
Cudweed , i. The Common , of which in this Chap- 
ter. 2. Gnapbalium Impium^ W icked Cudweed, of 
which in Chap. 181. 3. Gnapbalium Marinum , 
Jive Cot toner ia , Sea Cudweed or Coctonweed, of 
which in Chap. 182. 4. Gnapbalium Americanum , 
American Cudweed, of which in Chap. 183. 
III. Of the Common kind there are, 1. Gnapha- 
lium vulgar e majus Johamiis Tbalii , Gnapbalium 
Anglic urn folio longiore Lobelii , Englifh Cudweed. 
2. Gnapbalium minus ^ Filago minor , Dodonai , G/7a- 
pbd/ium vulgare minus , Gnapbalium medium Tabern- 
montani , The Vulgar or Common leffer Cudweed. 
IV. The Defcriptions. Tfo /r/?, 0/' Englifh 
Cudweed, has a Root which is fmall and thready • 
whence rife up one , ar //vtt Stalks , 
t?/? #// A7//; <?//:/ narrow whit if) or 
woolly Leaves , rf/v/i/? /jyw; //.^ bottom of the Stalk 
up to the top : with every Leaf Jtands a fmall. Flower , 
of a dun or brownifh yellow color , but not fo yellow 
as in fome others in which Heads , after the Flow- 
ers are j alien , fmall Seed , enclofed in the 
Down , and which , tufov/ perfetled , carried away 
with the Wind. 
V. Thefecondj or Leffer Cudweed, W a fibrous 
Root, almoft like the former _/><?;;/ whence /hoots 
forth Jmall hoary Stalks , full of Branches almoft 
from the very Ground , w/VA divers J mailer , Jhortct 
and narrower Leaves thereon , of a more dusky hoa - 
ry color , A/te 0/’ II W/ •, /landing 
Singly , yowff Zw/r at a Space or Joint : the 
Flowers hereof ftand at the tops of the Stalks and 
Branches only , not all along , /zr fome of the 
other kinds, one Branch above another , but all of 
them rifing almoft to an even height , W <?/f an 
overworn yellow color : it grows commonly about nine 
or ten inches high , feldom to a foot , unlefs in choke 
Ground. The Flowers are yellow , /At* 
Buttons at the tops of the Stalks , and the Seed it 
carried away with the Wind. 
11 . The P laces. They both grow in barren, dry, 
fandy and gravelly Grounds in moft places oF Eng- 
land : the firft has been iound growing in Fiamp- 
ftead Wood , and in Woods near to Deptford , by 
London. 
VII. The Times. They flower in Junc^ Juft' and 
4^/ *» and their Seed is ripe in a: little 'time 
after. 
\'III. T/V Qualities. They are temperate in re- 
fpeft of Heat or Cold, but dry in the third Degree • 
and therefore very Aftringent, Hepatick, and withal 
Anodyne. 
IK. The Specification. They are peculiar againft' 
Catarrhs, Fluxes of the Bowels, Protulions dt Blood 
in any Parr, and the Quinfey. 
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X . The 
