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Flowers in April : the Common fingle a;:d red Kinds 
5 n March: and many of them will begin in Sep- 
tember , and continue bearing Flowers all Winter 
unlels checked by hard Weather. 
XX. 'Use Qualities, Specification, Preparations, 
and Virtues of Frimrofcs, are the fame with thofe 
of Covifiips, in Otap. 157. Sell. 18. at/ 3 2, aforego- 
ing, to which we refer you. 
XXI. An Obfervation. The Juice of Fr'ntrafc 
Poets. Being Snuft up the Nofe, or gently Syrin- 
ged up with a fmall Syringe, it purges the Head 
and Brain of cold, moift, and pituitous Humors, 
which afflift the Original of the Nerves, and 
caufe Apoplexies, F.pilepfies, Vertigo’s, Megrim, 
Head-ach, Carus, Lethargy, Convulfions, Palfies, 
Rheumatifms, and other Difeafes of like Kind. 
I cured a Man who had four -Fits of an Apnoplxey, 
by the ufe of this Errhine ; and a little Youth of 
an Epilepfy, by the ufe of it feven or eight times, 
and taking the Ponder of the Root alfo inwardly : 
I cured an Ancient Gentlewoman of a Lethargy 
therewith ; and two other Young Gentlewomen, 
one of a Megrim, the other of an inveterate 
Head-ach. 
XXII. Another Obfervation. The Pouder of the 
Roots. Given to a Dram and half, or more , it 
purges the Head , Brain , and Stomach, of cold, 
moift and putrid Humors -, and is prevalent again!! 
all the Difeafes for which the Errhine or Juice is 
exhibited. It purges Choler and Flegm very well. 
With roDofes of this Pouder I cured a middle 
Aged Woman of the Palfy : and with much the 
like number of Dofes, I cured a Man of 50 Years 
old, of the Gout; proper Topicks being alfo in 
the mean fealon applied. 
XXIII. A third Obfervation. The Decoblion of 
the Roots in Wine. It is good againft the Stone 
in the Reins and Bladder, and heals inward 
Wounds and Bruifes ; and bathed upon weak Joints 
it ftrengthens them. The Decotfion of the Leaves 
and Flowers in Wine, being drank, it is good a- 
gainfi: Althma’s, Coughs, Colds, Hoarfenefs, 
Wheezings , (hortnefs of Breath , and all other 
Difeafes of the Breft and Lungs ; and is Laid to 
draw any Thorn or Splinter out of the Flefh. 
CHAP. DLXXX. 
Of PRIMROSE Bears Ear. 
Vulgarly called 
AURICULA. 
1 . '"p H E Karnes . This Plant knows no Anci- 
1 ent Greek Name j but it is, called by Lug- 
Aunenfis , Primule veris (from the thick- 
nefs of the Leaves) The thick Leav'd Primrofe. 
It is alfo called Sanicula Alpina Baubini & Gejne- 
ri, for they will have it to be a Species of the 
panicles •, however it is a very good Wound Herb: 
by others, Sanicula altera , Paralytica Alpina , The 
Alpine or Mountain Covojlip , becaufe it is certainly 
of the Family of the Cowfips : but now in our 
time it is moflly called Auricula Ur ft ■, and we 
in Englifh call it, the Bears Ear Primrofe , alio 
Bears Ear , and Auricula (without any othei 
addition,) which is the molt Common and ufiaal 
Name. 
II. The Kinds. We have already treated of 
of rhefe Auricula's under the Title of Bears Ear, 
in Chap. 59. aforegoing, where we have given 
you a compleat Defcription of the three principal 
Kinds, wdiich may ferve for all the feveral indivi- 
dual Species of Auricula. But they being properly 
Primrofes , and this being the place, in which they 
ought to be methodically treated of, we fhall 
for the fake of Ploriffs , and all Lovers of the 
Pioneer Garden , expatiate our Dilcourfe, and more 
largely fhew you a great many of the Individuals, 
which for brevity fake we before omitted. We 
fhall treat of them, with refpe£l to their colors, 
which are chiefly, 1. Purple and Blew. 2. Red 
or Scarlet. 3. Te/loio or Buff. 4. White. In each of 
which we fhall fhew you fo many fine and delicate 
Species or Individuals, as may be fufficient to Stock 
a Florifls Garden , who from their Seeds, being 
managed according to the following dire&ions, may 
raife many new Varieties. The number of the va- 
rious forts being many, we fhall not give you their 
Names here, but put them to each Plant, in its 
order, as it is treated of. 
The Defcr/ptions. 
I. Purples and Slews. 
III. 1. Auricula Urji Flore purpureo , Pur- 
ple Bears Ear. Its Root is compofed of many whit iff 
Strings fpringing from the main long Root , which 
is very like to a Cowflip , or Primrofe Root, as 
it is in all the other parts b cf.dc s. Prom the Head 
of this Root fpring up many green Leaves , fome- 
thing long and fmooth , narrow from the bottom of 
the Leaf to the middle , and broad from thence td 
to the end , being round pointed and a little fnipt. 
Auricula. 
