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The Place. 
The firfl is as I faid frequent enough id divers places of the land; ihtheopen places of woods and copfes, 
Bi both in moid and dry grounds, the fecond is not fo frequent, and is found tut in few places, although Gerard, 
' deceived with the common kinde, which he found fometimes, to have but a few dents about the edges,thought 
it to be chc other, and therefore faid that both forts were to be found plentifully in Hantpfieed wood, neere 
HI unto the gate that leadeth to K entifh Towne, when as all that there groweth, as I faid for the mod part, isbut 
T ofthefirflforc, yet in fome places it is there to be found alfo, but more fpatingly. The lafl as I faid before,came 
ft from America, but from what part I know not. 
The Time. 
The firfl flowreth later then the fecond, which is about July, and the other in the beginning or middle of Ah- 
"1 Thclaftalfoflowreth very late. 
7 he Names. 
The firft is generally called by all writers almofl, Virga aurea, becaufe the ftalkes being reddilh, make the 
ic bufhytoppes of flowers feeme as if they were of a gold yellow. The fecond is called folijs nonferratit,by Came- 
rasim in his Epitome of CMatthiolm, or major angiijhfolia, as he doth in her to. Label in Adverfaria, giveth the 
if title of Virgo, aureaVilLmovani, .buthisdeferiptionis of the other, (forinhis/roverand obfervations, 3 fie called 
El that which is not dented about the edges Virgo aurea Villanovmi, and the other altera ferrate folio ) Anguillara 
1 thought it might be the Leucographu of Pliny, becaufe it is faid in the defeription thereof, it is found fometimes 
* with white drakes in the leaves, but why Tohermontanw fhould take it to be Symphitnm petreum, is not well 
>1 knowne, for he maketh three forts, whereof this is his third,and the other two betheother/OT<«»/o/yr,where- 
d of he found or faw one, with fomewhat rounder leaves, and whofe flowers were more white then the others.' 
( The lafl hath his name in his title, as is fitted for it. It is called in French Verged’or, and inhigh andlow Dutch 
\ gulden roedt ,and we in T-nglifh Golden Rod. 
| , The Vertues, 
As Golden Rodde isJike unto the Sarafins Confound in forme, but much IefTer, fo is it alfo in the properties^ 
not much inferiour, being hot and dry almofl in the fecond degree. Arnoldus dc villa Hot/a.commendeth it much 
againft the done in the reines and kidneyes, and to provoke urine in abundance, whereby the graved or done 
«rrgendred intheuritory parts,by raw and tough flegmatike humours, may be wafhed downe into the bladder, 
from growing into a done in thofe parts, and thence may be avoided with the urine: the decotfion of the herbe 
grecneordry, or the diddled water thereof is very effeftuall for inward brnifes, as alfo to be outwardly ap- 
plyed: the fame alfo flayeebthe bleedings in any part ofthe body, and of wound9 alfo, and the fluxes of the 
mendruall courfes in women, and the fluxes of the belly and humours, as alfo the blooddy flixe in man or woman: 
it is no leffe prevalent in all raptures, or burdings, to be both drunke and outwardly applyed : it is the mod fo- 
veraigne woundherbe of many, and can doe as much therein as any, both inwardly for wounds and hurts in 
the body, and for either greene wounds, quickly to cure them, or old fores and ulcers, that are hardly to be cu¬ 
red, which of ten come by the fluxe of moifl humours thereunto, and hinder them from healing: it is like- 
wifeofefpeciallufe in all lotions for fores or ulcers in the mouth, and throate, or in the privy parts, of man 
Woman: the decoftion thereof likewife hclpech to faflen the teeth that are loofe in the gummes. 
CbapJ XXXlll. 
Ljfmachia. Loofedrife or Willow herbe: 
Ntending next unto the Golden rods, to fhew you the forts of Loofedrife or Willow herbe, I am 
forced for methods fake, and that 1 might not encumber your memory, with too many in one 
Chapter, to divide them, and fpeake of them feverally; thofe with yellow flowers firfl; and fe- 
condly, of thofe that doe not beare their flowers in fpiked heads: thirdly, of them that doe 
beare fpiked flowers: and Iadly of thofe that doe teare their feede in longs huskes, or pods, bee 
they wilde in our o wne land or in others, and brought into gardens. 
i. Ljfmachia httea major vulgaris. Common yellow Loofedrife or Willow herbe? 
The greater yellow Loofedrife, or Willow herbe, which is the more common, groweth in ranke moift 
grounds, to_ be foure or five foote high, or more, with great round Aalkes, a little crefled, diverfly branched, 
from the middle of them to the toppes, into great and long branches, on all which at the joynts there grow, 
long and narrow leaves, but greater and broader below, mod ufually two at a joint, yet fometimes three or 
foure, fomewhat like unto Willow leaves, without nickes or dents on the edges, and of a faint greene colour, 
from the upper joynts of the branches, and at the toppes of them alfoftand many yellow flowers, of five leaves 
apeece with divers yellow threds in the middle, which turne into fmall round heads, wherein are contained! 
. fmall cornered feede, the roote creepeth underground; almoft like Couchgraffe, but greater, and fliooteth up e- 
very fpring brownifh heads, which afterwards grow up into flalkes, &c. it hath no fent or tafle, butanelya» 
ftringent and thereby drying, 
a. Lyfmachia luteaminor. The Idler yellow Willow herbe. 
This yellow Willowherbe, or Loofedrife, as it rifeth not up fo high as the former, withhisround joynted 
Ralkes, which are fomewhat woolly or hairy, fo the leaves being alfb woolly and fomewhat like them, are 
narrower and fhorter then they, foure for the'mofl part, and fometimes but three fet together at a joint, fpotted 
With blackifh fpots, on theunderfideofthem, not compafling it at the bottome, but every one flandingupon 
a fhort footedalke, and not dented abotit the edges at all, from the middle of the Aalke almofl, upwards at eve¬ 
ry joynt commeth forth the branches, which are fhort, nothing fo long as the former, and Aanding clofer toge- 
•ther, whereon grow a few leaves, IefTer then thofe below ; at Whofe toppes, and at fome of the upper joynts 
alfo,dand a few flowers leffer then the former, but yellow, and confiding office leaves as they are, with many 
yellow thrsds in them, ef a ftrajig fweete fent, which fojoyne together at the bottome, that the whole flower 
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