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little above the ground,that it feemeth a pretty buQi,about halfe a yard or two foote high,let with fomewhat long 
and narrow leaves pointed at the ends, and lomewhat endented about the edges, two alwayes fet together at a 
joyntone aeainft another, which will in the heate of Summer turne lomewhat redduh : the flowers are gaping 
and hooded, of colour purplifh rcd.the roote is made of divers hard wooddy firings. 
Enfragiapratenjis minor purpurea. Small red wooddy byebnght. 
This fmaller red Eyebright hath one legate reddifli hairy flalke,an handfull high, foinetimes without branches 
and ufually but with two feldome more branches, compalfed with a tew thicke, hairy,aimed round leaves, two 
together and deep.ly cut into parts, the lower leaves which are the Idle but into three parts, the upper into five 
orlixe • the flowers breake foi th, lometimcs from betweene the leaves ar.d the (hikes,and fomccimcs they (land 
in tufts'at the toppes, two (landing together hooded and purplifh, comming out of long greene huskes, fome- 
trmes the flowers have beene obferved to be white,but very leldome: after which come long and cornered white 
feecc in the laid huskes, the roote is fmall wooddy and blacke. . 
j, Eufragiapurpurea latifolia, Broad leafed purple kyebnghr. 
This is fomewhat like the Ml, but that it hath broader leaves,and the flowers ate let by fpaecs up to the tops, 
of a finer purplilh colour,in other things not much unlike the lafi. 
6 £ufragia pratenjis major lute*. Great yellow Eycbnght. 
This great yellow Eyebrightliath a fquare hard reddifh flalke neere two foote high, fet with fewer joynts, 
and longer narrower thicke leaves at them by couples, and but finally dented about the edges: at the j'oyntson 
both (ides come forth branches,and at the toppes of them fuch like hooded flowers, (landing thicke or clofe, two 
together, bending downewards and looking all one way, ota gallant gold yellow colour, and (landing in long 
greene huskes having in them white feede like the former: the roote is (lender and wooddy, the whole plant is 
bitter and harfh on the tongue and aflringent. 
7. Buftagia lutea minor radice fquammata. The Idler yellow Eyebright. 
This Idler fort hath a lmooth hollow flalke a foote high or leffe, let with branches and leaves by couples on 
them, which are liketinco the Germander ,or Ivy leafed Chickewtedebut longer pointed,the flowers are yellow, 
but like unto thofe of the common Eyebright, the feede is fmall blacke and round, and pointed at the ends, Han¬ 
ding two together on a fmall focteftalke: the roote is white and round like a bulbe, compofed offoure thicke 
ccatcs or (calcs lying clofe together, the whole plant is without talle, and fomewhat relernbleth Fumiterry, but 
Columns faith that the routes are like the Dentaria major of Mattbiolut, as the figure exprelleth it. 
The Place and Time. 
The firll and third are onely frequent in our Land,the former in many Meddowesand graffie places throughout 
our Country,and the other in many places of Kent,in rhe barren fields and wade grounds, both about Grav/fcnd, 
and the trafts theieabouts.andinmany other places.the rdl fome in Italy, and at Naples, or in Spume and Aujlria, 
they all for the mod part flower not untill the end of Summer,the feede ripening within a while after. 
The Names, 
It is called Bufragia and Bufrajia, and by Tome onely thought to be anciently called svfetevw,(yet is Eupbrofyne 
not knowne, nor deferibed by any of the former Greeke or Latine writers,) for it is ot later invention, and for 
the effefts called Ophthalmia and Ocular,a, The firll is generally called Eufrefia and Bu(ragia, or Buphragia 
by all Writers. The fecond is called by Columna Eufragia limfolia, although the leaves bee line lelfe 
then thofe of Line or Flax: the third is theEnfragiaaltera o(DodonsM,Lobel, and others, the Sideritis pratenfis 
rttbra of Lugdanenjis, the Odontites of Tabermontanw ,tbc Bricoides rubrnm of Thallus ,and the Cratr.ogor.cn Eupbro- 
fyucot Gerard, who Would needes make itakindeof Cratxogonon,agiind the faying of ‘Dodon.ew, trom whom he 
hath the mod that he hath, faying it cannot agree with Crataogonon, by the defeft in many parts, and yet his Cor- 
reftordoth foietit paffe. The fourth 'Bauhinut called in his Phytopinax, Brmetla Italica, but iu his Tinax Eu. 
phrajia pratenfis Itahca latifolia, and in his Prcdromw Sufrafiapurpurea minor, and is the third Bujrafianonfcripta 
of Columns, Thefifihis the Eufragit major fyheftri, purpurea latifolia of Calumna. 1 hefixth is the Sideritis pra¬ 
tenfis lutea of Lugdunenf,s, Ericoide, tutcum of Thaliu,, Odontites pre luteo of Tabcrmontanue, and the Esfragia 
fplveflris major lutea angujlifolia of Columna, The lad Columna calleth Anonyma radice Dentana:, and Tiauhintu 
Euphrajia lutea Alfmefolis rad,ce fyuammata. The Italians and Spaniards call it Bnfrajia, the French Eufrafe, the 
Germanet AiigencroJl,ihi ‘DutchO oghen trooft, and we Eyebright. 
TheVertues, 
The bitter tafle that is herein (heweth it to be hot and dry,and is efpcciallymfed for all the difeafes of the eyes, 
that caufc dimneflc of the fight,for either the greene herbe or the dry, the juice or the diddled water is very ef- 
feiTnall for the faid purpofe, to be taken either inwardly in wine or in broth,or to be dropped into the eyes, and 
ufed for divers dayes together: Somealfo make a conferve of the flower to the fame effetf. Any of thele u ayes 
nfed.it helpeth alfo a wcakebraine or memory,and redoreth them being decayed in afhorttime. Ameldus de Villa 
nova, in his booke of wines, much commendeth the Wine made of Eyebright, put into it when it is new made, 
and before it worke (which becaufe we cannot make in oar land, I could wilh that the Eyebrieht might betun- 
ncdupwithourdtongBecreinthefame manner, which no doubt would worke the like effects, their Wine 
and cur Bcere having a like working, as we ufe with WormcWood.Scurvigraffe and the like) to hclpe thedim- 
nefle of the fight, and laith that the ufe thereof reftored old mens fight, to read fmall Letters without (peflacles, 
that could hardly read great ones with their fpeffacles before : as alio did reltore their fight that were blinde for 
a long time before. If this drinke be rot to be made or had, the pouther of the dryed herbe either mixed with Su¬ 
gar, a few Maces and Fennell feede, and drunke or eaten in broth, or the faidpouthers made into an Eleftuary 
with Sugar, doth either way tend to the lame effeft. 
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