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t„ J Jmdl Carrot Root, ' or not much unlike to a long 
Turnep : end fometimes two of them ore joined ot the 
Hood toeei her. This Root fends fortli divers Leave! 
of ;t freili green color on the upper fide, and greyilh 
underneath, much fpread abroad, and cut into many 
Siices and Notches, more than any of the IVotjs- 
Iieiies. The Stalk rifes up two or three Feet high, 
beiet to the top with the like Leaves, but fmaller. 
l !:e top is fometimes divided into two or three 
Branches, but more ufually without, on which 
{land many large Flowers, one above another, 
Form very like unto a Hood or open Helmet, being 
competed of five Leaves, tire uppernroft of which, 
and the greateft below is like unto an Helmet or 
Head-piece ; two other fmall Leaves are at the fides 
of the Helmet, doling it like Cheeks, and come 
fomewhat under \ and two others, which are the 
Imallelf, hang down like Labels, or as if a clofe 
Helmet was opened, and feme pieces hung by, of a 
perfett or fair blew color, ( but grow darker, having 
itood long) which caufes it to be nurfed up in Gar- 
dens, that their Flowers, as was ufual informer 
Times, and yet is in many Country Places, may be 
laid up among green Herbs in Windows, and put in 
Pots to Hand in Chimneys, in the Summer time. 
But tho’ they may be thus entertained for their Beau- 
ty, and put to the Ufes aforefaid, yet you mull be- 
ware that they come not near your Tongue or Lips, 
lclt they difeover, to yout Colt and Peril, their vi- 
rulent, potfonous and dangerous Qualities. In the 
middle of the Flower, when it is open, and gapes 
wide, are feen certain fmall Threads, like Beards, 
Handing about a middle Head ; which, when the 
Flower is pall, grows into three ot four or more 
lmall blackifil Pods, containing black Seed within 
them. 
Helmet-Flower. 
green, Ihining Leaves, cut into five Partitions very 
deeply, each of them fomewhat cut in on the edges, 
very like unto the Leaves of the Greater or Trite 
Helmet-flower, but that thefe are not fo finely divi- 
ded, and the Divifions are fomewhat broader. The 
top of the Stalk is divided into two or three Branch- 
es^ each whereof bears one Flower, and fometimes 
( tho’ feldom ) two or three , of a very fair deep 
blewifli purple color, very like in Form unto the 
former Helmet flower, but that this is fmaller, and 
the Creft of the Helmet rifes higher than in that ^ 
after which come fmall Pods, much like to the o- 
ther, giving alfo fuch like Seed. 
V. T be third , or Purple Helmet-flower. It ha s 
Roots m/tch like to the Jirjl , or True kind : it has 
larger Leaves than the other, of a ladder green co- 
lor, and Ihining withal, incifed or cut in after the 
fame manner : the Stalk alfo grows very high, and 
often fpreads it felf out into feveral Branches, bear- 
ing large purple blew Flowers, in longer Spikes than 
the firft •, which being paffed away, like Seed comes 
in their places, not much differing from the for- 
mer. 
VI. The P laces. They all grow naturally Wild 
on Mountains, and in Woods and lhadowy places 
in Italy, Germany and other places : and it is faid, 
that they grow upon fome Hills in England : howe- 
ver, with us they are chiefly nurfed up in Gardens, 
where they flourilh extraordinarily well. 
VII. The Times. They all flower in the princi- 
pal Summer Months, viz. in June and July *, and 
their Seed is generally ripe in Auguff. 
VIII. The Qualities. They are hot and dry in 
the Ultimate of the fourth Degree ^ Deleterious, 
and a moft mortal Poifon both to Man and Beaft 
and therefore they are called Wolfs-bane , becaufe 
they kill Wolves, Dogs, Rats, Mice, & c. whether 
the Juice of the Herb or Root, or the Herb or Root 
it felf, being mixed with their Food or Flelh, and 
fo eh en them to eat. And that this Monks-hood as 
well as Wolfs-bane is as deftruftive to Mankind alfo, 
is manifefl: from that accidental Tryal had thereof 
at Antwerp , at a Treat there, where certain igno- 
rant PerDns gathering of a Sallet in the Garden, a- 
mong the Variety of Herbs, gathered alfo Napellm 
or Luparia , which with the other things was ferved 
up at Table ; where all who did eat thereof, were 
taken with molt cruel Symtoms j and after the vio- 
lent Tortures which they endured for fome confide - 
rable time, died miferably. 
IX. The Specification. Helmet-flower (as alfo 
Wolfs-bane ) is a peculiar thing to kill Lice and Nits 
in the Head, and to cure the fame of Scurff, Dan- 
driff, Scabs, ifle. to cleanfe old and fretting Sores, 
running Ulcers, take away dead Flefh, ( provided 
thefe Sores, Ulcers, & c. be not in the Mouth, Nofe, 
Eyes or Privy Parts, by reafon of their Vicinity to 
the principal or more noble Parts : ) as alfo to cure 
Difeafes of the Eyes by a fpeciai Application. 
X. The Preparations. You may have therefrom, 
i. A liquid Juice . 2. A Poudcr of the Herb or 
Root. 3. An Oil or Ointment of the Juice , green 
Herb or Root. 4. A Deco&ion or Eye of Roots , 
Leaves or Seed. 5. A di (filled Water. 
The Virtues . 
XI. The Juice. It is a deadly Poifon taken in- 
wardly any way : it is alfo as deadly to Wolves, 
Dogs or other Creatures who fhall take thereof, or 
eat in any manner of ways of the Herb or Root. 
The Juice of the Roots especially Hunters of Wild 
Beafts do ufe, dipping the Heads of their Arrows 
into the fame •, by which means they quickly kill the 
Beaft 
