Botanologia the Brittish physician, or, the nature and vertues of English plants, exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their several names Greek, Latine, or English, natures, places where they grow ... : by means whereof people may gather their own physick under every hedge ... : with two exact tables, the one of the English and Latine names of the plants, the other of the diseases and names of each plant appropriated to the diseases, with their cures / by Robert Turner.

Buckshorn Plantain. Herbastella.

IT groweth up at first with small long nar∣row green leaves like Grass, [Description.] the leaves that follow are gashed on each side, like the snags of a Bucks Horn, and when they are thorow grown, they lie upon the ground round the root like a Star, from which rise up divers stalks with spiky heads like common Plantain; the root is small, with divers fibres hanging thereto.

Names.] It's called in Latine, Cornu Cervinum, Herb stella, and Sanguinaria.

Place and Time.] It delights to grow in dry sandy Grounds, and flowers in the Summer moneths; the leaves keep green all the Winter.

Quality and Vertues.] It is cooling, drying, and astringent, the decoction in Wine strengthneth the Reins and Back, and

cooleth the heat of the Reins and Kidneys; wherefore it is good for those that are troubled with the Stone: it helps the Bloody Flux, and Lasks of the Belly, and other bleeding, helps the Chollick, breaks the fits of Agues, stayeth bleedings at the Nose, and the decoction either in ale or wine, stayeth the distil∣lations of hot and sharp Rheumes from the Head to the Eyes: it is a Plant under the dominion of Saturn.