CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

RUSHY GLONDE

Description. This grows from a root composed of many long and thick fibres. The leaves are lonb, slender, and sharp-pointed; they stand upright, and are of a deep green, and very rough and harsh to the touch; they are rounded on the back, and flat on the upper side, biggest at bottom, and smallest at the extremity. The stalk is slender and green; there are no leaveson it, but at distances single flowers appear, which are four leaved, of a greenish white, and seldom quite open.

Place. It is found at the bottom of fish-ponds in the northern parts of England and Wales.

Time. It flowers in August.

Government and virtues. This is a Lunar plant. the flowers are seldom used, but the leaves are put in cooling ointments, being accounted good for burns, inflammations, and hot swellings, and are an ingredient in the Unguentum Populeon.