Description. This rises up with a round, green, smooth stalk, about two feet high, set with divers long and somewhat narrow, smooth, dark green leaves, somewhat nipped about the edges, for the most part, being else all whole, and not divided at all, or but very seldom, even to the tops of the branches, which yet are smaller than those below, with one rib only in the middle. At the end of each branch standeth a round head of many flowers set together in the same manner, or more neatly than scabions, and of a more blueish purple colour, which being past there followeth seed that falleth away. The root is somewhat thick, but short and strings abiding after seed time many was longer, until the devil (as the friars rest of it for spite, envying its usefulness he was not troubled with any disease .
other sorts hereof, in nothing unlike that the one beareth white, the other wers.
groweth as well in dry meadows in many places of this land: But the rare, and hard to be met with, yet growing wild about Appledore, near
Flower not usually until August.
Government and virtues. The plant is venereal, pleas The herb or the root (all that the it) being boiled in wine and drank, is inst the plague, and all pestilential poisons also, and the bitings of vehelpeth also those that are inwardly lity, or outwardly by falls or blows, tted blood; and the herb or root dly applied, taketh away the black remain in the skin. The decoction ney of roses put therein, is very ef inveterate tumours and swellings of throat, by often gargling the mouth path also to procure women's courses, of the another, and to break and and in the bowels. The powder drink, driveth forth worms in the or distilled water of the herb, is efwounds, or old sores, and cleanseth and the seed outwardly, from sores, , freckles, morphew, or other depecially if a little vitriol be dissolved