(‘AND COMPLETE HERBAL: ~ 765 
roots hereof are not fo bufhy as the other, neither fimell fo “rs bree ooh it 
give any milky but a:watery juice whenit is broken, "gt 
3. Swallow-wort of Candy, a/élepias Cretica, This rifeth upin the fame fathion that 
theformer do, with many flender flexible green branches, with leaves fer'at the joints 
oneither fide, as the white kind hath, and are very like them, ‘but fomewhat of 4 
paler white colour. The flowers ftand in the fame manner, three-or four together 
upon a ftalk, but are fomewhat of a paler white colour; to whom fucceed fometimes 
but one pod, and fometimes two together, thicker and fhorter than thofe of the 
white kind; ftraked all along and double-forked at the ends, wherein lie fiik' and 
feeds as in the former ; the roots have not fo ftrong a fmell as the lait, and have, as 
well as the reft of the plant, a fcent like box-leaves, 
Prace anp Time; The two firft grow in rough and untilled ground, upon divers 
mountains in France, about Narbonne, Marfeiiles, and Montpelier, and in Italy alfo 
the laft in Candy. They, flower i in the months of Juneand July, and fometimes pot 
until Auguft; and their cods are ripe about a month afters Ate PP sale 2 
the dry branches, when the feed and Gilk are fallen. out. 
GovERNMENT anp. VIRTUES. Thefe are folar plants, the roots have. a pie 
fovercign faculty againft all poifons, particularly againit the apocynym, OF dog’s- 
ne ; and are effectually given, to fuch as are bitten by any venomous. ve a 
ftung by any lerpeny: or other creature 5 as alfo againk the biting of a mad do 
taker in wine,, nft the plague and at ssi teacheeatinindeeai 
nin ar a nga iec 
feeds be taken therewith, | it eafeth all the griping pains in the belly, the decoction 
of the roots made with white wine, taken for feveral days together, a good draught 
at atime, Sok ar ton poorer ‘The: fame alfo cureth. the 
e, and eafeth the cough and all defeéts of the .cheft and 
9¢ roots, taken with peony feeds, is good againf the fal- 
pomecitron-ieeds, is Good againtt 
