VVall-Flowers, or Winter Gilly-flowers.
THe Garden kinds are so wel known that they need no Description.
Description.
The common single Wall-Flow∣ers which grow wild abroad, hath sundry smal long, narrow, and dark green Leaves, set without order upon smal round whitish wood∣dy Stalks which bear, at the tops diverse single yellow Flowers one above another, every one having four Leaves apiece, and of a very sweet scent: after which come long Pods con∣taining reddish Seed. The Root is white, hard and threddy.
Place.
It groweth upon old Church Walls, and old Walls of many Houses, and on the other stone Walls in diverse places. The other sorts in Gardens only.
Time.
All the single kinds do Flower many times in the end of Autumn, and if the Winter be mild, all the Winter long, but especially in the Months of February, March, and April, and until the heat of the Spring do spend them: But the double kinds continue not Flowring in that manner all the yeer along, although they Flower very early somtimes, and in some places very late.
Vertues and Use.
Galen in his seventh Book of Simple Me∣dicines saith, That the yellow Wall-flowers worketh more powerfully than any of the o∣ther kinds, and is therefore of more use in Physick; It clenseth the Blood and freeth the Liver and Reins from Obstructi∣ons,* 1.1 provo∣keth Womens Courses, expelleth the Secon∣dine