Chap. 169. "Engli/h 'Herbs. 



239 



oftlmtajling ai hot, jharf and biting, as the SecdoJ 



V. The P/aces. They grow by the Way fides : 

 rough and untiird places, and by the fides of ol 



Corn-fields about SoutbJIeet, near to Gr avef end, 



. VII. The k'a/itfbT, Spedfication, Prebaratiom 

 thofe of Garden Crefs in Chap. 163. aforegoing. But 

 more efpecially thefe are laid to be Specificks in 

 curing the Sciatica and Gout in any Part. 



VIII. Obfervation. A Catablafm made of the 

 green Leaves, but efpecially of the Roots, either a 

 lone or mixed with old Hogs Lard, and applied t( 

 the place pained with the Sciatica, letting it to ly< 



Difeafe ; and not only this Difeafe in' the Hips 01 

 Huckle-bone, but alfo the Gout, and all other Pains 

 and Aches in the Joints, whether of Hands, Knees 

 Head, or other Parts of the Body difficult to be 



mocrates cired hereby all thofe Difeafes, to which 

 Smapi^ Thlapfi and Thapfia are applied. Pliny re- 

 and fays farther, that if any part of the Grief re- 

 mains, that the fame Medicine after twenty days is 

 to be applied again. And applied to the Skin, it 

 tth. Scars, Scabs, Scurf, Leprq^e, Sec. it is true, 

 be healed with a Balfam made of Oil and Wax, 

 with the Addition of a litde StrasburghTvtpemme. 

 Alter the Application of the Cataplafm in the Scia- 

 tica, . the Part, fays Gerard, is to be bathed with 

 warin Water -, or, as Parkinfon fays, with warm 

 Wine and Oil mixed together -, and then wrapped 

 pfied whilft°k iTyet^hot^' and^totlewl"?Iken o^ff 



CHAP. GLXIX. 



0/C RE S S Winter. 



1 which the Greeks ( as Uejcorides ) call *e.. 

 Wge'*|s by a miftakrin tt^aibing, sL.r "huWium 

 mhurLp""wnLhhZ^^^^ 



Barbancum, Barbarea, SanUaBarlZxUerba^^Scopa 

 '■,SideritisUtiffimaVuchfii, finapt 

 tragi 5 and in Englijh, Wmt 



f;$. 



'Own ; ) Common Winter Crefs. 2. Barbarea 



'}b^§^irii:-£tw^^i:'i'st. 



le Defaiptions. Tbefirll has a Rootfome- 

 thing fibrous, which always perijhes after the per- 

 feSing of its Seed, from which fpring up feveral 

 Leaves indifferent large, and of a fad green color, 

 •arts, fomething like unto Rocket or Turnep 

 ' which Jo abide all the Winter, (if itfprings up 

 orflejued : ) from among thefe Leaves rife up divers 

 fmall round Stalks, which fpread themfelves into 



•er, which perijhes not w Winter, but abides 

 Ved whlT%hTuave[ tt" ^mer,"'anl 



he difference. S J t" 1 0^ 



V. The third, or Small Winter Crefs, has a Rcot 

 Mnhefirft andperijhing as it; fromi^hich fpnng 

 forth blackijh green Leaves, fomewhat jagged or 

 torn in on the fides, refembling Moth ntuUeln : the 

 "'-"-- >id Leaves both are lefs than the fir ft nor 

 ■rem fo high The Vloweri are yellow alfo 



