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Wild Wall-Flower

Description. The common single Wall flowers, which grow wild abroad, have sundry small, long, narrow, dark green leaves, set without order upon small, round, whitish, woody stalks, which bear at the tops divers single yellow flowers, one above another, every one bearing four leaves a-piece, and of a very sweet scent; after which come long pods, containing a reddish seed. The roots are white, hard, and thready.

Place. It grows upon church walls, and old walls of many houses, and other stone walls in divers places; the other sort in gardens only. Time. All the single kinds do flower many times in the end of Autumn, and, if the Winter he 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 flowering in that manner all the year long, although they flower very early sometimes, and in some places very late. Government and virtues. The Moon rules them. Galen, in his seventh book of simple medicines, says, that the yellow Wall-flowers work more powerfully than any of the other kinds, and are therefore of more use in physic. It cleanses the blood, and frees the liver and reins from obstructions, provokes womens' courses, expels the secutidine<??>, and the dead child; helps the hardness and pains of the mother, and of the spleen also; stays inflammations and swellings, comforts and strengthens any weak part, or out of joint; helps to cleanse the eyes from mistiness and films on them, and to cleanse the filthy ulcers in the mouth, or any other part, and is a singular remedy for the gout, and all achs and pains in the joints and sinews. A conserve made of the flowers, is used for a remedy both for the apoplexy and palsy.