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rum Dwfcoridis , and fays it is called Cumene thro’ 
all Greece : but this we think to be one and the 
lame Plant with the aforegoing, viz. Our Luteola 
vulgaris •, and of this Opinion is Camerarius in Hor- 
tc , who makes it and Our common fort all one. 2. 
Luteo CreticA maxima , which is fcecunda & infee- 
cunda, or fertilis & ftcrilis, The great Wold, Weld 
or Dyers-weed of Candia, which is both fruitful or 
bearing Seed, and barren bearing no Seed and dif- 
fer one from another only as our Hemp , which is, 
bearing Seed, and barren bearing no Seed. 
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IV. The Defcriptions. The firft , or Our com 
mon Wold, Weld or Dyers-weed, has a Root which 
is long , thick and white , abiding all the Winter. 
The Riant grows bujhing out , with many long and 
narrow flat Leaves upon the Ground , of a & ar K 
blewifh green color , fomewhat like unto Wood , but 
nothing fo large , a little crumpled as it were, and 
fomewhat round-pointed , which do fo abide the flrfl 
Tear. And the next Spring rife up from among 
rhem feveral round Stalks, two or three foot high, 
bel'et with many fuch like Leaves, but fmaller and 
{hooting forth fome fmall Branches, which with the 
Stalks bear very many fmall yellow Flowers, in a 
long fpiked Head at tops of them * after which 
come the Seed, which is fmall and black, enclofed 
in Heads, which are divided at the top into &ur 
parts. 
V. The Great Candia Dyers-weed has a Root 
which is very great and woody , andfhoots it felf forth 
into many long Arms or Branches , which in the na- 
tive or natural places of its Growth , and other warm 
Countries , will abide many Tears , but with us will 
fcarcely endure our cold Winters , (unlefs houfed) as 
has been feveral times proved. From this Root this 
great Plant rifes up ( in Candy ) with feveral great 
Stalks, fome of them as big as a Man’s Arm, and 
in height five, fix, feven or eight Cubits ; fome- 
times nine or ten Cubits high, which yet perifh in 
Winter : they are bare or naked of Leaves next the 
Ground for a foot and half high, the lowed Leaves 
being without Foot-ftalks, joining dole at the bot- 
tom : the other growing higher up towards the 
tops, have all of them Foot-ftalks, of a (pan long : 
the Leaves of themfelves are very large, made of 
many fomewhat broad and long green (timing ones, 
fet one againft another on a middle Rib, and not 
yet always dire&ly oppofite one to another every 
one of them being fomething like unto the Leaves 
of Hemp, ( of which it is moft likely to be a Spe- 
cies) ragged or dented about the edges, yet none of 
them divided, but the end Leaf, which is fometime. 5 * 
iarted, feldom into two, but fometimes into three 
)ivifions, each ending in a long Point. The Stalks 
are branched, but has only divers fmall Stalks or 
long Spikes of Flowers thruft forth, which are yel- 
lowifh, green and moffy, bowing downwards, with 
many long and narrow Leaves among them, and 
ftand in yellowifh green Husks ^ in which, after the 
Flowers are fallen, come Heads full of very fmall 
reddifh Seed. The barren Plant is like the former, 
fave that it bears no Seed. 
VI. T he R laces. The firft grows every where by 
the Way-lides, as well in moift Grounds as in the 
dry, and in corners of Fields and By -Lanes, in and a- 
bout Villages almoft every where : in fome places 
in Kent they fow it in their Fields after their Bar- 
ley, which abides until the next Year, and then it 
is gathered. The other is a Native of Candia , and 
is nurs’d up with us only in Gardens. 
VII. The Times. The firft flowers in June and 
July. The fecond flowers late with us, and fome- 
times not at all. 
VIII. The Qualities. It is hot and dry in the 
third Degree, the Root, as alfo the whole Herb. 
It is Aperitive, Digeftive, Attenuating, Inciding and 
Refolutive ; Arthritick and Alexipharmick. 
IX. The Specification. It is peculiar againft 
Pun&ures of the Nerves, Bitings of Serpents, mad 
Dogs, and other poyfonous Creatures, outwardly 
applied, and inwardly taken $ and prevails againft 
the Infection of the Plague } for which Reafon, as 
' Matthioli/s fays, it is called Tberiacaria. 
X. The Preparations. You may have therefrom, 
1. The green Herb bruifed. 2. A liquid Juice. %. 
An Effence. 4. A Tecollion in Wine. 5. A Ponder 
of the Root. 6 . A Balfam or Ointment. 7. A Spi- 
rituous TinUure. 8. An Acid TinUure. 9. An Oi- 
ly TinUure. 10. A Spirit. 
The Virtues. 
XI. The green Herb bruifed. Applied to Cuts 
or Ample Wounds in Hands or Legs, it heals them. 
It is good to be applied alfo to the Bitings of Ser- 
pents, mad Dogs, or other venomous Creatines, to 
draw out the Poyfon. 
XII. The liquid Juice. It provokes the Terms in 
Women, opens Obftruflions, incides or cuts tough 
Humors, and refills Poyfon, as alfo the Malignity 
of the Plague, being taken from one to three lpoon- 
fuls at a time in a Glafs of generous Wine, and re- 
peating the Dofe as Reafon requires. 
XIII. The EJfence. It has all the Virtues of the 
liquid Juice i befides which, it (Lengthens the Sto- 
mach admirably, expels Wind, and gives eafe in the 
Cholick -, it alfo facilitates the Labor of a Woman 
in Travail. Dofe two or three fpoonfuls at a time 
in a Glafs of Canary, Madera or Sherry Wine, or 
in White Port. 
XIV. The DecoUion in Wine. It has all the Vir- 
tues of the Juice and Effence, but much lefs effica- 
cious or powerful and therefore may be given 
(dulcified with white Sugar) from three ounces to 
fix ounces or more, Morning and Evening. It is a 
good Gargle alfo for a fore Mouth and Throat. 
XV. The Ponder of the Root. It is good againft 
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