i8o 



SalmonV He, 



Lib. I. 



/um/ij fays) being of a Pyramis or Sugar-Loaf fa 

 fliion, Ipreading broad below, and growing fmallei 



length, 'on which are fee large and broad, rough 



green Leaves, very like unto the Leav 

 f/ctver, but fmaller, and growing in 



StS 



Cnaller than any Sun-Flower, which come to no per- 

 feftion with us; the Root, while the Plant is grow- 

 ing above Ground, increafes not to its full growth, 

 but when the Summer is well fpent, and the fpring- 

 ing of the Stalks is paft, which is about the end of 

 w te increafed S^'^t'he'Earth " Ind wiTl (before Au- 



not have its Roots fit to be taken up, until the 

 be halt witliered at foonett, but after they i 



again, 'they ^'^jS^Ji^an^^fic w^b^ roSndi'f^ Tuh^iml 



obferv'ed, that irora one Root, being fet in the Spring, 



WoXfurPlan7bas growing upVrom one R 



ha^'XakTstLks%oram"nlJ about^ twelve Fee? 



Chil'ds Ami,' fi^l of a white fpongy Pith'within ; ;he 

 Leaves grow all along the Stalks , out of 

 of a light green color, rough, Iharp pointec 

 eight Inches broad, and ten or eleven Inch 

 deeply notched or hidented about the edge 

 like the Leaves o{i7os SoIk Peruanus , but 

 crumpled, nor fo broad as they ; the Stalks divide 

 themfelves into many long Branches, even from the 

 Roots to their very tops,^ bewing fo^ialler^eaves and 



fops rf the Stalks and Branches, like thofe ol 

 mtn^ok confiftinrof twelve or thirteen ftraked , 



S^ b/ rX of their late Flowering, which is com- 

 ^'nW Zo or three Weeks after Alichae/mof, never 

 Sis bring their Seed to perteftion, and it Diakes 



d'fbrth™anj fm Ju creeping Root'sf by whillihe 



Root grow forth many TuLeroas RooTs^ cluftafng 

 felf, fom'etimes growing on long Strings^ a F^t or 

 Eanh ab^ ^^h ""''" ^'"'^' '^'^"^ °' ""^'^'"^ "^ ^^^ 



in all 'commonly about a Peck, and many ti'm«"n!;at 

 halfaBufhel, if the Soil or Earth be good; thefe 

 Tuberous Roots are of a dirty reddifli color without, 

 man° m^?' white fubftance within, bunching out 



rart^of ''them covered oT"'w-'h f"""™" '^'"f 

 ;ping thready Roots, and alfo Tube 



'^" ~ ^™usRoMs^wTabTde%r 



er, tho' the Stalks at 



i nourifhed do abfolute 



way, and will begin to fpring up a- 



ginning of May following , feldom 



■s. It is a native of Braz,/, Canala, 

 feveral other parts of America, and 

 now It grows as plentifiilly with us in England 3s'm 

 any of the places where it grew naturally ; Mr. Good- 

 yer fays that he received two fmall Roots of this 



he Planted , and it brought him forth a Peck of 



VL The Timer. It Flovvers generally in Offoier, 

 'raUtheWinTerMo'nths. '"" °°^^'^'"P^ ' 



VII. TV ^ua/;ties, Speaficatwn Frep^at.en, 

 Virtues and Vfes, are the fame with thofe of Harti- 

 :hokes in Chap. ??8. aforegoing, fave, that whereas 

 in thefe the Heads of the Mart, choke were only uied 



VIII. Kote._ They are boiled in ^ate^^ dU th^ 

 Port Wine, ^yj^^^^i^^^^^j^^^^^j'^he^to^^^ 



HARTSHORN, See BUCKSHORN, 

 Chap, pu afotegoing. 



