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CHAP. DCLXVII. 
Chap .661. UngUjb Herbs . 
XV. The Apopblegmatifm. The Seed chewed 
in the Mouth alone, or mixed with a few bits of 
the Root of Pyrethrum or Pellitory of Spain, 
draws away abundance of Rheum from the Head, 
Brain, Nerves, Eyes, Nofe, Jaws and Teeth, and 
thereby eafes the Tooth-ach, and the pains and 
diltempers of thofe other parts. 
XVI. T he Ointment. The Seed inPouder mix- 
ed with Oil or Hogslard, and made into an Oint- 
ment, is good againlt Itch, Scurff, Morphew, 
Scabs, Leprofie, Lice, Crab-lice, and other Ver- 
min, being anointed morning and night on the 
parts affefted, after they have been firlt bathed 
with the Decollion. 
XVII. The Pa fie. The Seed beaten with Meal, 
and made up into Pafte with a little Honey, has 
the Virtues of the former Ointment and Eleftuary : 
and laid in places where Rats and Mice frequent, 
will effeftually kill or rid the place ol thofe kind 
of Vermin, by their eating thereof. 
XVIII. Note. The Seeds are very truly danger- 
ous to be taken inwardly, unlefs prepared, corrected, 
and given by a very skilful hand ; and therefore, 
my Advice is, that fuch as are ignorant in PhyGck, 
Ihould forbear their internal ufe, for that many 
rimes Death enfuesupon the taking of them: but 
as to all their External ufes, they are effetlual and 
fafe enough. 
Stitchwort Great. 
Of STITCH-WORT. 
I- ' I 'HE Names. It has no known Greek 
J. Name, yet fome, as Dodonuus and Lobe/, 
call it 'OAor ear, Ruellij : in Latine, Gramen Leu - 
canthemum Doionei & Fuchfij ; Gramen Floridum 
Camer arij -, Gramen Eufrajia Tragi ; Gramen al- 
terum Matthioli -, Eufrajia major Lonieeri • Cary- 
ophyl/us arvenfis Baubini ; and in Engiifli, Stitch- 
wort. But why Dodoneus and Lobe/, or Ruellius 
ihould call it Holoflium , i. e. tota Ojfea, or All- 
bone, there is little reafon for, feeing it is one of 
the molt tender Herbs, and has no hardnefs at all 
in it. 
II. The Kinds. There are two forts of this 
Plant, viz. 1. Gramen Leucanthemum majus , Gra- 
men floridum majus, Caryopbyllus arvenfis g/aber 
flare major , Baubini , The greater Stitchwort. 2. 
Gramen Leucanthemum minus, Gramen floridum 
minus, Caryopbyllus arvenfis glaber flare minor Bau- 
hini. The leffer Stichwort. But why Bauhinus 
Ihould account them in the kindred of the Cary- 
ophylli, I fee no reafon -, nor yer why they fliould 
be accounted any Species of the Granina, there is 
as little argument, tor that they differ fo much in 
form from them. 
T he Defcrip lions. 
III. The firft, or greater Scitch-wort, has a Root 
which is fmall, jointed andThreddy,runs or Creeps 
in the Ground all about, with many fmall Fibres 
adjoining to it. From whence rife up feveral 
round, fender Stalks, fcarce able to fujlain them- 
felves , but by the help of Hedge's, or other 
things which grow or ftand near it, being full of 
joints, from which two fmall, long, hard, rough 
and pointed green Leaves fpring, without any 
Footfialks. At the Tops of the Stalks and Branches 
come forth many fmall flowers, confifting of white 
Leaves, and in form of a Star , with fome white 
Threds in their middles. Of this fort, there has 
been fome Varieties obferved, as well in the Stalks 
as in the Leaves and Flowers ; fome Plants grow- 
ing greater or higher than others ; in fome the 
Leaves larger, and in others the flowers being 
greater or leffer, and the Threds in the middle 
fome being paler, and fome redder than others ’ 
The Seed is contained in fmall heads, fomemhat 
long and Jharp at their upper ends-, and when it 
is ripe, it is very fmall and brown. 
IV. The lecond, or leffer Stitchwort. This in 
its Roots, Stalks , Leaves and Flowers , grows very 
like unto the former, its chief difference being in 
that it is leffer , the Leaves leffer , the Flowers 
fma/ler, and each Leaf divided as it were into two 
making it feem to have more Leaves than the form- 
er. Otberwife in the fhape of the Leaves and flow- 
ers they are much the fame-, the Leaves are orderly 
placed by couples together, and in good proportion 
being of a whitijh color : and the flowers arc made 
in form of a Star, which when they are faded the 
Seed follows, which is enclofed in knobs or fmall 
round heads, like Lin-Seed , but not fo abfolutely 
round and the Chives or Threads in the middle 
of the flower, arefometimes of a reddijh or blackifh 
color. In this leffer Species there is alfo fame di- 
verfity in the Stalks , growing more upright, or 
elfe lying upon the ground, and in the flowers 
fome having white Threds in the middle Tipt with 
black 
