Chap. 147. T.nglijh Hrrh 



VIII. Kotr 2. The young Leaves boiled in Lv, 



tl (°al'l^ molt' uK'tr^riS«°' are^"^^^ 

 other Coleworcs are, by leveral poor People near 

 the Sea, the boiling taking away much ot the bit- 

 applied t?Sores or uC dS and SsSeJ 

 diflblves Tumors, or Swellings, and takes away I 



CHAP. CXLVU. 

 Of COLTS-FOOT. 



l.'^HE Names. It is caUed in Greek, E^o., al 



X X«fw/A£uV» : In Latin,TuJftlag» ; but by the A- 

 pothecaries, iarfara, and Vngula CabMna, of fome 

 Populago, ( ftom its likenefs to the Pop^/ar Leaves ; ) 

 larranum, and Farrugium Tlinij -, of divers Fala 

 Ei7uifia,3iKo Bechium, Cham^leuce, rfrom the Poplar 

 Tree, called in Greek, a4w , ) In Englijh, Colts-foot, 

 We-foot, and Horfe hoof: Gerard lays, it may ver 

 weU be caUed Cough Wort. 



Coltsfoot^ ^flos 



I . The K,,Js Camerariu. nukes three forts of 

 Bechum, oxTu^lago,viz. i. The Tm, which we 

 intend in this Chapter. 2. The Fetafites, of which 

 we have treated before in Cap. loo. and the Caltha 

 Paluftr,s,oi Marjh Martgoli, which he calls Tuf- 

 Jtlago major, but is indeed no Colts-foot, and of 

 which we (hall treat in Cap. . folowing. The 

 true Colts-foot is either European or American, the 

 Defcriptions of both which we defign here. The 



T/;. American ha, a Root whch conjifts of a 



of blackijh Threads or ¥,bres, ( wh,ch abide 



irdnefs of the Winter, both the Stalks and 



vesjerijhing yearly, ) but grow brownijh at the 



: From this Root rife up many round Stalks 



It afoot and half high, anitwo broad, and fme- 



edges, at each Joint oj them ; the upper Lemes 



tops of the Si*lks come forth feveral Branches with 



of jive Leaves apiece, rifng out of each husk, which 



being paft, there fucceeds^ /mall long Seed, picking 



no Smell, neither' Ro^t, Leaf nor Flower, Zhaifaever 

 Cornutus>^x to the contrary. 



V. The Places. It, viz. the fiift, ufually grows 

 in wet grounds, as alfo in dryer places : It is found 



and in Ditches, and in other moift and watry places 

 grows in America, in many places of Cafuida, ]\ew 



