181-184 White Stock July-flower. Red Archangel. Wild Succory. Misseltoe.
181. White Stock July-flower. Leucojum album.
1. It grows about two Foot high, the Leaves are a light Green, and the Flowers sometimes White, and often Red and White.
2. It is planted in Gardens and flowers most Months in the Summer.
3. Dioscorides commends the Flowers for Ulcers & Caps in ye Fundament & Inflammations of the Matrix. Galen says, that they help ye Infirmities of ye Liver & Spleen, and provoke the Terms, and hasten the Birth.
4. Greek, Λακὀϊον . Latin, Leucojum album et purpureum. Spanish, Violetas blanquas i amarilhas. Italian, Viola bianca & pavonazza. French, Violetz blanches & rouges. German, Rot Braun und weiss Beil. Dutch, .
182. Red Archangel. Lamium rubrum
Also see #033. White-Archangel. - 182. Red Archangel
1. this Archangel is much less than the White, the Leaves are a grass Green, and the Flowers a pale Purple.
2. It grows commonly by Highways and Hedges, flowring the greatest part of the Year.
3. This Archange is accounted as great a Specifick for the Excess of ye Catamenia, and all Haemorrhagies, as the White Archangel is for the Fluor Albus. Some commend it for great Service in Wounds & Inflammations when outwardly applyed.
4. Greek, Γαλιοψις και Γαλεοβδολον. Latin, Lamium purpureum, foetidum or Galeopsis purpurea. Spanish, Ortica muerta bermeja. Italian, Ortica foetida. French, Ortie rouge. German, Daubnessell. Dutch, Dove Neetelen.
183. Wild Succory. Cichorium sylvestre.
Also see #177. Garden Succory. - #183. Wild Succory.
1. The Stalks of this don't grow so tall as the Garden, but are more stubbed & twisted; the Leaves are a fine grass Green, and the Flowers a fine Blue.
2. It grows in Lanes and by Hedges, florwing in Iuly and August.
3. The Vertues of this are much the same as the Garden, see Plate 177.
4. Greek, Κιχωριον αργιον. Latin, Intybus sylvestris. Spanish, Cichoria de Bosque. Italian, Cichoria salvatica. French, Cichoreé sauvage. German, Bild Begwurk. Dutch, Cichorey.
184. Misseltoe. Viscum or Viscus quercinus.
1. This Plant takes root on the Branches of Trees, and sometimes grows two or three Foot long; The Leaves are a yellow Green, the Flowers Yellow and ye Berries almost the Colour of white Currans.
2. It grows upon several Trees, as the Apple, Crab, Hasel, Ash, Mapple, Lime, Willow, White-thorn & Oak. The last of which is hardly to be met with here in England, which perhaps added to ye Honour that the Ancient Druids paid this Misseltoe.
3. Misseltoe is accounted Cephalic and nervine, particularly useful for all kinds of Convulsion Fits, the Apoplexy, Palsy, and Vertigo, for which Purposes some commend the Misseltoe of the Hasel as better than ye Others. The Viscus Aucupum, or Bird Lime, was formerly made of the Berries of this Plant, but now in England it is made of the Bark of ye Holly Tree. Bird Lime is a powerfull Attractive, good to ripen hard Tumours and Swellings. See Sir John Colebatche's Discourse of Misseltoe.
4. Greek, Ιξος. Latin, Viscum. Spanish, Visco. Italian, Vischio or Panio. French, Guy. German, Bogelleim. Dutch, .
