SalmonV Herbal. 



Lib. I. 



W. Gerard calls this Plant in EnsliA St 



in form and color moft like to Buglojs. 



V. The Defcription. Thejirff or Greater 

 Buglofs hoj a Rootfomewhat thick and lon^ 



fan; long, thick, or fat green^Leaves, fomewhat like 

 unto Small Beet Leaves, ( and that is the re ' 

 that Pliny refers the Limonium unto the Beers, 



'there is\w \vildfort If-^ti-^) m' uZl!\f the 



irdhigh,Jranchedat 

 %dm 



mmeter, or m^ore, and going' almofi 



jhange I'hnt, for from this Root fprings forth very 



more, rifing from the head of the Root \jorenamed, 

 t~Kh by it/elf, being Jmall below, and growing great- 



er upwards, with a Belly bunching forth, and a bom 

 ing back, of a pale whit ijh yellow color, hollow at the 



Moub lit, a halfOrd,, fulUfgua J^LLS, 



forth a blower with four or five Leaves, ,„ a mZj 

 ijh Seed VeJJel, with a Tuberous Thrum in the mid- 



alSsSi'liTs,'''" """ "S""" in*-:*. 



W below the lame Town, and beTowThe l/jjv 



Marlhes by Lee in Effex -, in the marjb hyH 



irlteidTSLrthi^^ Sthepri's 



fays , and C/.>. faith may I fo^faboutVS 

 vtlf'"'- A ^^' J^/^'^>^''^en found growing in 

 in a Marihy piece of Land at Canoi up Wando Riv^ 

 about nine Miles from Charles Town ■ it was alfo 

 "utto C/^/«. itom Pans hy one that received it 

 the lame manner from Lisbon in Portugal. 

 IX The Times. The two firft flower in June 

 i^ft^i'r"'^-'^^;' ^^^^ '>^"' "°^ l°"g after: 

 le laft I faw m Flower in Carolina, in the Month 

 July, but flayed not in the place, to fee its 



X. The ^ualitiet. They are temperate as to 

 heat or cold, drying in the third Degree, Aftringent, 

 Styptick, Stomatick and Alterative. 



XI. The Specification. They are peculiar againft 

 Catarrhs and Spitting of Blood. 



XII. The Preparations. You may make therefrom, 



of the Seed ^ A Decoaion of the Roots, k" An 

 Oil or Balfam of the Lectoes. 



The Virtues. 



XIII. The liauid Juice. It flops Qtarrhs or Di- 

 ftillations of Rheum upon the Breft and Lungs, 

 and prevails much againft Fluxes of the Bowels ; 

 as alfo all forts of Bleedings, whether by the Mouth, 

 IS Spitting and Vomiting Blood, Piffing Blood, the 

 Bloody Flux, or overflowing of the Terms. Dofe 

 '•-ree or four Spoonfuls in a Glafs olRedllorence^ 



Red Port Wine, Morning, Noon and Night. 



XIV. The Effence. It has all the Virtu^ of the 

 ice, but more Stomatick, and therefore better for 

 :h as have weak Stomachs. Dofe two or three 



fpoonfiils in Red Wine, as aforefaid, and at the fame 



XV. The Pouder of the Seed. Gerard fays that 

 being drunk in Wine, it helps the Collick, Stran- 

 gury, and Dyfentery, or Bloody Flux : Dofe one 

 dram. It alfo flops the overflowing of the Cour- 

 :es in Women, and all other Fluxes of Blood. 



XVL The Deco^ion of the Roots. Being made in 

 Red Wine, it is very Aftringent and Styptick, good 

 againft Catarrhs, and Fluxes of Blood, and has all 



gether fo powerful : It has been found to be a fpe- 

 cihck againft Agues, whether auotidian. Tertian, or 



XVII.' The C 

 Oil 01 



