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2 Kuelhus Bucks-home of Swines Creffes hath many final and vveake ftragling branches, trai- 
ling here and there vnon the ground, fct with many (mall cut or lagged leaues, fomewhat like the 
former, but fmallcr, and nothing at all hairy as is the other. The floures grow among the leaues, 
in firm 11 rou<Ti clufters,ofan herby green ifh colour : which being part, there come in place little 
flat pouches broad and rough, in which the feed is contained. The root is v\ hi tc, threddy, and in 
tafte like the garden CrelTes. 
The Place. 
They grow in barren plaines, and vntilled places, and fiifidy giounds - as 111 Ton thill field necie 
vnto Wellminfter, at Waltham tvvelue miles from London, and vpon Blacke-heath alfo neere 
London. 
The Time. 
They floure and flourifii when the Plantaines doe, whereof thefe haue beene taken to be 
kindes. 
^1 The Names. 
Bucks-home is called in Latinc Cornn Ccruinum , or Harts-horne : diners name it Herhaftella , or 
Stellaria , although there be another herbe fo called : inlovv-Dutch,i^ertJl) 00 ?en *. in Spanifh, Gui- 
alclla • in-French, Come de Cerf: It is thought to Diofcorides his which doth fignific cornicis 
pedcm,i\ Crowes foot. It is called alfo by certaine baftard names, as Narenarea, Sangutnaria .■ and 
of many, Herbe Iuy, or herbe Eue. 
The Temperature. 
Bucks-hornc is like in temperature to the common Plantaine, in that itbindeth, cooleth , and 
drieth. 
«r TbcVertucs. 
„ The leaues of Buckes-horncboylcd in drinke, and giuen morning and euemng for certaine 
A Jaycj together, 'helpeth moft wonderfully thofe that haue fore eyes, watene or blafted, and 
rnoft of the griefes that happen vnto the eyes , experimented by a learned Phyfition of Colche- 
v fter called Mafter Duke ; and the like by an excellent Apothecarie of the fameTowne called 
M r . Buckftone. . c , , 
B The leaues and roots ftamped with Bay fait, and tied.-to the wrefts of the armes , take away 
fits of the Ague : and it is reported to worke the 1 ike efitft being hanged about the neckc of the 
Patient in a certaine number j as vnto men nine plants, roots and all ; and vnto women and chil- 
dren feuen. 
. C ii a p. 102. Of Saracens Qonfiund. 
«[[ The Description. 
i O Araccns Confound hath many long narrow leaues.cutorfleightly fnipt about the ed- 
ges : among which rife vp fairc brownc hollow flalkes of the height of fouie cubits • 
along which euen from thebottome to the top it is fct with long and ptety large leaues 
like them of the Peach tree : at the top of the ftalkes grow faire ftarre-like yellow floures , which 
turne into downe, and are carried away with the w inde. The root is very fibrous or threddy. 
ThePlace. 
Saracens Confound grovveth by a wood as ye ride from great Dunmowin E (lex, vnto a place 
called Clare in the faid countrey •, from whence I brought fome plants into my garden. 
+ I formerly in the twenty fourth Chapter of this lecond booke told you what plant our Au- 
thor tooke for Saracens Confound, and (as I haue been credibly informed) kept in his garden for 
it. Now the true Soli dago here deferibed and figured was found Anno i632,by mykinde Friends 
M r . George Borvles and W. William Coot , in Shropfhire in Wales, ina hedge in the way as one goeth 
from Duclfon in the parifh of Cherbery to Guarthlovv. $ 
The Time . 
It floureth in Inly, and the feed is ripe in Auguft. 
The Names. 
Saracens Confound is called in Latine Solidago Saracenica, or Saracens Comfrey , and Confolida 
Saraccnica : in Dutch, fetfiJimfc!) J@imDtfctaUt 1 of Camc,Hcrl>a forth in Englifh, Saracens Con- 
found, or Saracens Wound. wort. 
