Chap. 295. ‘Engtijh 'Herhs. 
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or more, it is gently Emetick, and cures Agues, Fe- 
vers, Spleen, &c. 
XIV. The Ponder of the Root. Snuffed up the 
Noftrils, it is a very good Errhine to purge the 
Head and Brain of cold, moift and pituitous Hu- 
mors, drawing them from thence in great quanti- 
ties. Taken inwardly to one Dram in White Port 
or Lisbon Wine, it helps fuch as are troubled with 
Cramps and Convulfions, Gouts, Sciatica’s, griping 
Tains in the Belly, Strangury, Heat, Pain and Stop- 
page of Urine. It is given with much profit to fuch 
as have had long Fluxes thro’ the Acrimony of ill 
Humors, which it flays, after it has firft purged and 
cleanied the Bowels. 
XV. The Ponder of the Seed. Given from half 
a Dram to a Dram in White Port Wine, it helps 
the Strangury , and caules them to Pifs prefently, 
which before could not. If it is taken with Vine- 
gar, it dilfolves the Hardnefs and Swelling of the 
Spleen, and prevails againft Hypochondriack Melan- 
choly. 
XVI. T he CatapUfm. If it is made up into a 
Pultife with Greet Centory Root, Honey and Verdi- 
grife, and applied, it is good againft all Wounds of 
the Head, and draws forth Splinters, Thorns, bro- 
ken Bones, or any other thing flicking in the Flelh, 
and that without pain. If the Root is made into 
a Cataplafm by boiling in Vinegar, and be laid up- 
on any Tumor or Swelling, it very effeftually dif- 
folves or confumes it, yea even thofe Tumors of 
the Neck and Throat called the King’s Evil. 
XVII. The Juice of the Leaves. It is good a- 
guinft Scabs, Itch, Tettars, Ringworms, Scurf, 
Morphew, Tanning, Sunburning, Yellownefs of the 
Skin, Leprofie, and other like deformities there- 
of. 
XVIII. The PeJJary. Being made of the Root, 
or of the Juice and Pouder of the Root; and put up 
into the Womb, it brings down the Terms in Wo- 
men where they have been long ftopt ; but you 
mull have a care that it be not ufed to a Woman 
with Child, becaule it may caufe Abortion. 
CHAP. CCXCV. 
Of F L U E L I N, 
0 R, 
Female SPEED W ELL. 
J, cp HE Names. It is called in Greek 'Exotot.- 
J_ by the Arabians, Athin : in Latin , Elatine , 
Veronica , FI emina, fucbfii , Matthioli , Camerarii , 
Dodomei Lobelii, Loniceri : in E/tgliJh, fluellin , or 
E emale Speedwell. 
II. The Kinds. It is one of the forts of Speed- 
well, and the female Species thereof, of which 
there are thefe three following kinds, viz. 1. Ela- 
tine folio fubrotundo , Veronica ftemina folio fubro- 
tundo. Round leaved Fluellin. 2. Elatine five Ve- 
ronica Ftemina folio accuminato , Fluellin with corner’d 
Leaves. 3. Elatine fweVeronica ftemina fore cceru- 
leo folioiiue accuminato , Cornered Fluellin with Blew 
Flowers. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft , or round leav’d 
Fluellin, has a Root which is fmall and Thready, dy- 
ing every Tear ,' and rafes it felf again of its own 
Sowing. From whence Ihoot forth many long 
Branches, partly lying upon the Ground, and part- 
ly Handing upright, let with almclt round Leaves; 
yet a little pointed at the ends, and lbmetimes more 
long than round, without order thereon, beingfome- 
what hoary, and of an ill greenilh white color. At 
the joints all along the Stalks, and with the Leaves, 
come forth fmall Flowers, one at a place, upon a 
very fmall Footftalk, gaping fomething like thofe 
of Snapdragon, or rather F/axweed, whofe upper 
jaw is of a yellow color, and the lower of a pur- 
plilh, with a fmall heel or fpur behind, as the Li- 
naria has. The Flowers being gone, fmall round 
Heads come forth, which contain fmall black 
Seed. 
Fluellin round Leav'd. 
IV. The fecond, or Cornered leaved Fluellin, has 
a Root which is fmall and Thready like the other , 
perifhing every Tear-, from which comes forth 
longer Branches, wholly trailing upon the Ground 
two of three Feet in length, and lbmetimes more 
fully, fometimes more thinly fet with Leaves theie- 
on, upon fmall or fhort footflalks, which are a lit- 
tle larger, and fomewhat round, and cut in or 
cornered for the moll part on the edges in fome 
places : But the lower end or bottom of them, be- 
ing the broadeft part of the Leaf, has on each fide 
a fmall produftion, making it feem as if they 
were Ears, a little hairy withall, but not hoary, 
and of a better green color than the former- The 
Flowers come forth at the Joints with the Leaves, 
upon little long Footflalks ; every one by it felf 
one above another, in form very like unto the other, 
but the Colors therein are more white than yellow, 
and the purple is not fo fair. It is a larger Flow- 
er, and fo is the Seed, and Seed Veflels. 
V. The third, or Cornered Fluellin with blew 
Flowers, has a Root which is fmall and thready, ta- 
king hold of the upper furface of the Earth, where 
it fpreads it felf-, from whence rife Stalks or 
Branches, with Leaves thereon which differ but 
little from the laft, but that the Leaves are not fo 
much cornered about the edges, and lefs pointed 
E e e alfo. 
