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avid, applied to firaple green Wounds, or Sinews 
cut afunder, is faid to conglutirute them, or join 
them together again. It cleanfes thole Ulcers of 
the Head called Achores , or Scald-head, and the 
Manginefs or Scabbinefs of the Beard and Face, 
called Mentagra. 
XV. The Cataplafm of the Roots with Henbane- 
Leaves. It is made by flumping the Roots with 
Henbane Leaves and Barley Flower. Being applied, 
it cures Tumors and Apoltems of the privy Parts ■ 
it brings Hair again upon bald places, and places 
which have been burned or fcalded, being mixt with 
Bears Oil or Greafe, and fo applied to the place. 
XII. T he Cataplafm of the Roots roofed, baited, 
or boiled. The Roots fo prepared, are to be beaten’ 
into a Cataplafm with Crums of Rye-Bread, or 
Hogs-Lard, or Oil of L/YA-Koots. Being applied 
to any Pcftilential Bubo or Sore, it ripens and breaks 
it : it alfo ripens and breaks other Tumors or Apo- 
ftems in the Groin, or in other Parts, proceeding 
from the Venereal Difeafe, or any other Caufe. 
XVII. The DecoSion of the h eaves. Ir is made 
by boiling them in Red Wine. If old running Sores, 
or putrid Ulcers, be often walhed herewith, it 
cleanfes and drys them, and induces a fpeedyCure. 
XVIII. The Cataplafm ofV'o Leaves. It is made 
of the former Leaves, boiled in Red Wine, asafore- 
faid. Applied to rotten putrid Ulcers, or to Ul- 
cers, or Wounds undigefted, it caules Digeftion, 
cleanfes them from their Filth, and caules them 
fuddenly to heal. 
XIX. The Oil of the Flowers by Inflation or Boil- 
ing. It is made with Oil Olive, or rather Oil of 
Ben, which will not grow rank, by InfoCon in the 
Sun, or in a boiling Balneo , or in a Sand Heat, re- 
peating the InfoCon or Digeftion two, or three, or 
more times. It is emollient, and fofrens the Hard- 
nefs of the Nerves, and extends Sinews fhrirnk : it 
alfo fofrens the Hardnefs of the Womb. You may 
make an Oil alfo of the Roots, after the fame man- 
ner, and for the fame Purpofes : it is good to bring 
to Digeftion and Suppuration, Tumors and Apo- 
ftems, and to foften hard Swellings. 
XX. The dijii/led Water of the Flowers. Accord- 
ing to Julius Alexandrinus , being drank from four 
Ounces to eight, it caufes a fpeedy and eafy Deli- 
very to Women in Labor, and expels the Secundine 
and AfterJairth with much Facility, as Matthio/us 
and Camernrius report. It is uled alfo outwardly 
as a Cofmetick to cleanfe the Face and Skin, and 
make them frefh, white and clear. 
CHAP. CCCCXXXIV. 
Of LILLY Yellow or Red. 
I. 'T' H E Karnes. It is called in Greek , leln 
X jca»£?V, x) uQ&v : in Latine , Lilium Luteum , 
vel Rubrum -, and in Enghjh, The 7 e/loio , or Red , 
or Orange-tawney Lilly. 
II. The Kinds. The folfowing Sorts offer them- 
selves to our View. 1. Lilium Aureum, The Gold- 
en, or Orange-tawney, Yellow or Red Lilly : This 
is Lilium Aureum via jus Tabcrn.emontani , Hemero- 
callis Matthioli ^ Alar t agon Cbymijlarum Lobehj ■, 
and Porta thought it to be the Hyacinthus and 'Cop. 
mofindalos of the Poets. 2. Lilium pumilum cruen- 
tum •, Lilium purpurcum minus , The Dwarf Red 
Lilly. 3. Lilium rubrum jlore multiplier. The 
double-flowered Red Lilly. 4. Lilium majtts bul- 
bferum , The greater bulbed Red Lilly, 7. Lilium 
minus bulbifcrum , The Dwarf or lefler bulbed Red 
Lilly. 6 . Lilium cruentum bulbifcrum , A 1 artagon 
bulbiferum Cluftf The Fiery-red bulbed Lilly. 7, 
Lducm cruentum Jlore plena. The Fiery-red double 
Lilly nor bulbed. 
Orange-tawney, Yellow or Red Lilly. 
The Defcriftions. 
III. The firfi , or Golden, or Orange-tawney, Yel- 
low or Red Lilly. It has a Root which is white and 
fcaly ■, it grows much higher than the next following 
and nearly at high as the Common White Lilly, or 
any other Lilly. The Leaves are fomewhat longer 
and very much narrower, of a dark or lad green 
Color : the Flowers are many and large, Handing 
upright, as all thele Sorts of Red Lillies do, of a 
paler red Color, tending to an Orange on the inftde, 
with many black Spots and Lines on them, as in 
the following, and more yellow on the outCde. 
The Seed-Veifels are like unto the roundilli Heads 
of other Lillies, and fo are the Seeds in them like- 
wife. 
IV- fecond, or Dwarf or low Red Lilly. 
This has a fcaly Root , like unto other Lillies, but 
white, and not yellow at all • and the Cloves or Scales 
thicker , Jhorter , and fewer in number than in moll 
other Lillies. The Stalk is feldom above half a 
Yard high, unlefs it grows in extraordinary Ground 
Anted to the Nature of the Plant * it is round and 
green, fet confufedly with many fair and fhorr green 
Leaves, on the top of which do Hand fometimes 
a r >f w t lowers, and fometimes many, of a fair 
purplifh red Color, and a little paLer in the middle, 
every flower Handing upright, and not hanging 
down : on the Leaves whereof, here and there, are 
lome black Spots, Lines or Marks j and in the mid- 
dle of the Flower, a long Pointel, with fome Chives 
about it, as is in the reft of thefe Lillies. 
* • The third , or Double-flowered Red Lilly. 
This Kind is fometimes found to yield double f lowers, 
as if all the fingle Elowers fhould grow into one , and 
fo make it to confift of many Leaves, which not- 
L 1 1 1 withftanding 
