Blagrave's supplement or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English physitian containing a description of the form, names, place, time, coelestial government, and virtues, all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called, The English-physitian, and supplying the additional virtues of such plants wherein he is defective : also the description, kinds, names, place, time, nature, planetary regiment, temperature, and physical virtues of all such trees, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, excrescencies of plants, gums, ceres, and condensate juices, as are found in any part of the world, and brought to be sold in our druggist and apothecaries shops, with their dangers and corrections / by Joseph Blagrave ... ; to which is annexed, a new tract for the cure of wounds made by gun-shot or otherways, and remedies for the help of seamen troubled with the scurvy and other distempers ...

Black-bind-weed.

Name.] IT is also called With-wind.

Descript.] Black-bind-weed, hath smooth red branches ve∣ry small, like great threds, wherewithal it wrappeth and windeth it self about trees, hedges, staks, and all things it can lay hold upon; the leaves are like to Ivy, but smaller and tenderer, the flowers be white and very small, the seed is black tryangled or three square, small and black, growing thick together, every seed is encl••sed and covered with a little skin, the root is also small and tender as a thred.

Place.] It groweth in borders of Fields and Gardens; and about hedges and ditches, and amongst herbs.

Time.] It delivereth 'its seed in August and September, and after∣wards perisheth.

Government and Virtues.] Bind-weed is a plant of Mercury of a hot na∣ture, and of subtil parts, having power to dissolve, the juice of the leaves being drunk do loosen and open the belly, and being pounded, and laid to the grieved place, dissolveth, wasteth and consumeth hard swellings.