Chap. 45 i. ‘EngliJh Herbs. 
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Noble Liver-wort. This differs but very little from 
the laft : the whole Plant is a little lefs * the Flow- 
er is not full out fo large, but altogether as double 
or manifold in the Leaves. 
XIV. The P laces. The ninth is a Native of Vir- 
ginia, and was brought from thence by John 
Trade/ cant. Moft of the reft grow naturally in the 
Woods in Germany , and fome of them in Italy, as 
thofe with the blew Flowers, and the double- 
flowered, as Clufius fays ; but with us they only 
grow in Gardens, nurfed up for the Flowers fake, 
which are beautiful in their Kind, more efpecially 
being confidered as to their early Appearance. 
XV. The Times . Thele Plants do flower very 
early, and are fome of the firlt Flowers which ap- 
pear after the hard Frofts in January or February : 
lo that next unto the Winter Woolf s-bane, thefe 
(hew themfelves towards the latter end of Winter, 
which becaufe they are fo early in the Year, are fo 
much the more to be valued. The Double Kinds 
flower not altogether fo early, fometimes in March 
and April, yet they continue when the others are 
paft. The Seeding Kinds perfeft their Seed in A- 
pril and May. 
XVI. The Qualities. All thele Kinds of Noble 
Liver-wort , are cold and dry in the firft Degree, 
Aftringent, Traumatick or Vulnerary, Stpmatick, 
Hepatick and Analeptick. 
XVII. The Preparations. You may have, 1. A 
liquid Juice or Ejjence cf the whole Plant. 2. A 
DccoUion of the whole Plant. 3. A Ponder of the 
Root. 
The Virtues. 
XVIII. The liquid Juice or Ejjence. Either of 
thefe Preparations admirably comforts and ftrength- 
ens the Liver, refrigerates it, and takes away any 
preternatural Heat of the Bowels : being given in 
Red Port Wine, it cleanfes and ftrengthens the 
Ventricle, cures Fluxes and Bloody-fluxes, helps Pif- 
fing Blood, and the Ov.er-flowing of the Courfes in 
Women, and is of very good life in Spitting Blood, 
reftoring fuch as are in Confumptions. Being taken 
as a Diet, they are of excellent EffeUs in curing of 
Wounds, old Sores, Ulcers, and the like : and out- 
wardly uled as a Walh in thofe Cafes, they difpofe 
the fame to a fpeedy Healing. Dofe two, three or 
four Spoonfuls at a time Morning and Evening, in 
any fit Vehicle. 
XIX. The Deco ff ion. It has all the Virtues of 
the liquid Juice and Elfence * and may be made in 
Wine or Water, according as the Occafion may re- 
quire. It may be given Morning, Noon and Night, 
from three Ounces to fix or eight : and outwardly 
it may alfo be ufed as a Lotion for Sores and Ul- 
cers, which are of difficult or hard Cure. It is an 
excellent thing for the Hepatick Flux. 
XX. The Ponder of the Roots. The Pouder has 
poffibly the Virtues of the Juice and Elfence. Bap- 
tijia Sardus commends it, and writes, that if a 
Spoonful thereof is given at a time in Wine, for 
feveral Days together •, or in Broth, it is very bene- 
ficial againli the Difeafe called Enterocele or Bur- 
ftennefs. 
LIVE-LONG, fee Orpin-Spanilh. 
LIVER-WORT Wood, fee Lung-wort, Chap. 458. 
LOD-WORT, fee Crowfoot Water, Chap. 175. 
LONDON-TllFTS, fee Williams Sweet. 
LONG- WORT, fee Mullein. 
CHAP. CCCCLIL 
O/LOOSE-STRIFE Yellow 
or Common. 
0 R, 
Yellow WILLOW --HER B. 
I. ; 1 ''HE Names. It is called in Greek, tsjeuj.L 
X *©-. Avei^v : in Latine, Lyfimaehia , 
and Lyfimachion , (fo called from Lyfimaehus, King 
of Illyria , (as 1 fuppofe) who was the firft Finder 
of it out \ ) it is alfo called Salicaria , ant quod inter 
Salices oritur , out quod Solicit folio habct , viz. Wil- 
low-Herb. , eitheubecaufe it grows among Willows. 
pr that it has Willow like Leaves. In Englijh , Loo/e- 
Strife. tztWilloid-Ilerb. 
JL We make four principal Kinds 
of tl|jiS I. Auctytet^f©- Khwgjf, fAti£avy xj Koivof ^ 
LyfimachtaVutca , major (If communis , The Yellow’ 
or Greater, or Common Loofe-ftrife : of which in 
this Chapter. 2. Lyfimaehia fpicata. Spiked Loole- 
ftrife, or that with fpiked Heads of Flowers : of 
which in Chap. 453. 3. Lyfimaehia non fpicata , 
Loofe-ftrife not fpiked : of which in Chap. 434. 
4. Lyfimaehia fihquofa , Codded Loofe-ftriie : of 
which in Chap. 45;. following. 
Common Yellow Loofe-Strife. 
III. The Kinds of the Common or Yellow Loofe * 
flrije. We have, 1. Lyfimaehia lutea (1 vera , Ly- 
ftmacbia verum (3 Legit imum Cordi apud Diojcondem, 
Lyfimaehia lutea major , qua eft Liofcoridis Bauhini ; 
Salicaria Tragi (3 Gefneri Corneola Leoniceri , The 
Common Yellow Loofe-ftrife, or Willow-Herb. 2. 
Lyfimaehia lutea altera Clufij , Lyfimaehia lutea in 
alls foliorum florens Cafalpini , Lyfimaehia lutea mi- 
nor fo/iis nigris plinths notatis Bauhini , The lefler 
Yellow Loofe-ftrife, or Willow-Herb. To thele 
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