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Heartsease

            I thought it was about time I did a herbal and dictionary image again.
This is the tiny flower of the heartsease  ave that grows wild amongst the grass at our country hut.

Culpeper has this to say about them -
This is that herb which such physicians as are licensed to blaspheme by authority, without danger of having their tongues burned through with an hot iron, called an herb of the Trinity. It is also called by those that are more moderate, Three Faces in a Hood, Live in Idleness, Cull me to you; and in Sussex we call them Pancies.

Place : Besides those which are brought up in gardens, they grow commonly wild in the fields, especially in such as are very barren: sometimes you may find it on the tops of the high hills.

Time : They flower all the Spring and Summer long.

Government and virtues : The herb is really saturnine, something cold, viscous, and slimy. A strong decoction of the herbs and flowers (if you will, you may make it into syrup) is an excellent cure for the French pox, the herb being a gallant antivenereal: and that antivenereals are the best cure for that disease, far better and safer than to torment them with the flux, divers foreign physicians have confessed. The spirit of it is excellently good for the convulsions in children, as also for the falling sickness, and a gallant remedy for the inflammation of the lungs and breasts, pleurisy, scabs, itch, &c. It is under the celestial sign Cancer.

Taken on: October 25, 2008

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Camera: Pentax *ist DL, f/9.5, 1/15 sec, 90mm (=135mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Pentax *ist DL
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Aperture:	f/9.5
Exposure Time:	0.067 sec (1/15)
Focal Length:	90mm (35mm equivalent: 135mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-1 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
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