The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...

The Lesser Spiked-Fluel∣lin, or Speed-well, in Latin Veronica spicata minor.

The Root grows awry, and is fibrous. The Stalk is up∣right, sometimes four Inch∣es, sometimes a Foot, some∣times two Foot high, or higher. Those Leaves that are placed at the Joints are narrow and sharp, hairy and a little indented; they are larger at the Root. The Stalk ends in a long Spike, full of Sky-colour'd Flowers, flowering by de∣grees, first the Lower, then those that are at top; when they are faded, little, long Threads remain.

'Tis Vulnerary, and Su∣dorisick. 'Tis chiefly used in Erosions, and Obstru∣ctions of the Lungs, and Spleen; in the Cholick, and Consumption; for the Plague, and the Itch. 'Tis of excellent use in Cleans∣ing Wounds, being out∣wardly applied; and for hard Swellings of the Spleen.