1 2 :58 SalmonV llerhal, TibTT. 



'han'thc Garden Single Kind," and louder ahidbig, 



or no'J^mgJmpp'd about the edges, and more ten- 



the Single Kind, but gives nt Seed, 'a* many other 

 Double f/awer'd Plants do in like manner. It is 



kngl'eK-mT. " '" ' '^' '" 

 XI. The fourth, or Double Purple Dames 



'out fo double J'tify'nor' Jo mZy'dTnering "t»- 



June, and July chiefl 

 abides longeft in Flow 



« are totally fiL 

 ftbembyExiK 



CHAP. DCCXXVII. 

 0/ V I P E R S Gra^s. 



^' X N ^ ^''"'"' ^^ ^^^ "° ^^"^'"^ "°^ ^''f'^ 

 Latin Name, being a Plant of inodetn Invention, 

 and therefore is called by our modern Phyficians, 

 Serpentina, Viperaria, 1^^/-^/?^, (from its Virtues 

 in curing the Bitings of that Serpent) and Scorzo- 

 Fiperaria) and in^nimhper^Gr^'JmSo 



II. The kinds. Authors make 7, 8 or 9 kinds, but 

 moft of them being perfea Strangers to us, and 

 not to be feen ir, England in Ages, we fhall only 

 difcourfe here of fuch as are Planted and Nurft 

 up in our Gardens, which are the four following, 



zonera ?mnar Pannonica purpurea, Hungarian Pur- 

 ple Flowsr'd Vipers Grafs. 3. Scorzonera major 

 Wd Vi''er?'S''^'f •^''^ J''^^""""SF.'2" ^road 



The Defcriptions. 



III. The firft, or Greater Spanifh Vipers Giafs. 

 Its Rmt ii long., thick and round, brittle and black. 





lejs but are all carried, away with the Wind 



long and nartow heaves, of the fame blewifh green 

 color tv,th the former. The Stalk r^es up to be 

 about a loot and half high, with a few fuch like 

 Leaves, but Jhorter thereon^ Jpreadtng out at the 

 top into 2 or 7, parts, bearing on each of them one 

 Ho^er fajhwn'd like the former, and flunding in 

 the like fcaly Knob or Head, but of a blewijb 

 purple color, and not fully fo large, which hat 

 the fwetejl Smell of any of the Species, or Kinds 

 of Vipers-Grafs, not much inferior to the moji deli- 



V. The third, or Greateft Hungarian broad 

 Leav'd Vipers-Grafs. Its Root is long and great. 



Vipers Grafs^lf^llFlmu^^ 

 Se5l, III. and IV. 



Vipers Grafs 7ttbtrofe Rooted, Sed. VI. 



