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Astringent. Gerard says “ It is singular to heale greene 
and fresh, wounds. It hath heene used among the Alchy- 
mistes and witches to doe wonders withaU, who say, that 
it will loose loches, and make them fall from the feet of 
horses that grase where it doth grow, and hath heene called 
of them Martagonj wheras in truth they are all but drowsie 
dreams and illusions.” Parkinson gives the same account, 
and adds, some ^‘have heene so audatious to contest with 
those who have contradicted them, that they have both 
knowne and seene it to doe so ; hut what observation soever 
such persons do make, it is all hut false suggestions and 
meere lyes. Some Alchymists also in former times have 
wonderful! extolled it to condensate or convert quicksilver 
into pure silver, hut all these tales were hut the breath of 
idle headed persons, which divers to their cost and losse of 
time and labour have found true, and now are vanished 
away with them, like the aire or smoake therein.” 
LOCALITY. 
Dry upland pastures. Stanley. 
Plate X^TLI. 
