AND COMPLETE HERBAE. 219° 
fhort cods at the heads of them, and fuch-like fmaller branches on each fide, and they 
are divided into:other fmaller ones; it isthought to bearineither flower nor feed ;. 
the root‘is finall, long, and thready.. Some other kinds there are differing foinewhat 
in the form of the joints, and one kind wholly reddifh, and differing from the other 
in nothing elfe. : 
The firft and. thitd are. abfolute ftrangers in: our countries, but grow: in Syriay 
Egypt, Italy,.and Spain; the fecond groweth, not.only in thofe countries; but in 
colder climates, upon many places of our own coafts, efpecially of the weft country. 
The laft generally groweth in all countries, in many places of our fea-coaft,. wheré 
the falt-water overfloweth. 
“Tite, They. all flourith in the fummery, and 'thofe that perifh give their feed-in 
Aueiutt, or later ; the laft abideth all the! winter! 
 GoveRnMENT anD Virtues: Kali; or glafs-wort, all the forts thereof are un- 
derthe dominion of Mars; they. are all of a cleanfing- quality, without any. great or 
-manifeft heat ; the powder of any of them, or the juice, which is:much better, taken 
in drink, purgeth downwards flegmatic, waterifh, and aduft, melancholy humours, 
and therefore is very effectual for the dropfy, to provoke urine, and expel the dead 
‘child: It opens ftoppings of the liver'and fpleen, and waftes the hardnef$-thereof ; 
but it muft be ufed with difcretion, asa great quantity is'dangerous, hurtful, and 
deadly. ¢ | 
~- Theathes are very tharp and biting like a cauftic, and the lye that is made there- 
of is fo ftrong, that it will fetch off the {kin fromthe hands or any part of the body, 
but may be mixed with other more moderate medicines to take away fcabs, léprofy, 
and to cleanfe the fkin : the powder of ftones, and the afhes hereof being melted, is 
the matter whereof glafs is made, which, when it gloweth in the furnace, cafteth 
up a fat matter on the top, and when it is cold is fat and brittle, and is called 
fandiver, : . 
_ Itworketh much to the fame effect with the herb or afhes ; it is ufed often in pow- | 
der to blow into horfes eyes, or, being diffolved, to be fquirted in them, to take away 
any fuperfluous film or fkin beginning to grow thereon ; both of them likewife ferve 
to dry Up running fores, fcabs, tetters, ringworms, and to help the itch. 
Description, IT hath many leaves rifing from the root ftanding upon long 
hairy footftalks, being almoft round, but a little cut in on the edges, into eight or ten 
Parts, more-or lefs, making it feemvlike a ftar, with’fo many corners and points, and 
dented round about, ofa light green colour, fomewhat hard in handling, as if it 
No. 15, 3M gp 
