Lib f j. Of the Hiftorie ©f Plants. 157 1 
«[ The Vertiiesi 
It is reported that (hepheards and certaine horfeleeches dd with good fucceffe giue the pouder A 
hereof with fait vnto their Iheepe and other cattell which be troubled with the cough, and be bro- 
ken winded. 
Lungwoort is much commended of the learned Phyfitions of our time againft the difeafes of B 
the lungs, efpecially for the inflammations and vlcers of the fame,being brought into pouder, and 
drunke with water. 
It is likewife commended for bloudy and greene wounds, and for vlcers in the fecret parts, and C 
alfo to flay the reds. . 
Moreouer,it ftoppeth the bloudy flix, and other flixes and Icourtngs, either vpwards or downe- 
wards efpecially if they proceed of choler : it ftayeth vomiting, as men fay, and it alfo ftoppeth the 
belly. 
Oifter greene fried with egges and made into a tanfie & eaten, is a lingular remedy for to ftreng. D 
then the weakneffeof the backc. 
Chap, i 65. OfSea<£Wojfe,or(Toralline. 
*f The Kindes. 
T Here be diners forts of Moffe, growing as well within the bowels of the fea, as vpon therOcks p 
diftinguilhed vnder fundry titles. 
I Mufcus mnrinut,fivc Corallina Ma. f * Mufcus marinas albidus. 
White Coralline, or fea Moffe. White fea Moffe. 
f The 
