Chap. 727* "Englifi Herhs. 12 



39 



manner alfo, abiding many Tears, ani not fenjhtng 



green head, from the miMle whereof, grows the 

 like double yellow Flower, as in the Spanini Kind, 



Grafs with a Tuberofe Root. Its Root is as thick 



"kinds, Tuberofe at the end, blackijh without, and 



"broken, "but 'abides the Winter almoft as well as any 



"and 'narrow, 'lying on the Ground, fame Roots gi- 



velabZt'the edges.' The Stalk or Stalks are very 

 Small, fearcely rifmg half a Foot high, hearing a 

 long, jmall, fcaly Head, with a fmall and /ingle 

 pale yellow Flower, in which grow /mailer black 

 Seeds, and enclofed in far leffer Down than in 



declared in their Titles or Names 

 e made Free Denizons of our Coi 

 nd nurft up, and growing in ma 



beginning of May, and their Seed is ripe before 

 the end oi June; after which, the Stalks wither 

 and dye away, new Springing from the Root again 

 before Winter. 



IX. The Qualities. They are temperate in re- 



orCardiack^ and Aiexipharmick, or re'fitters of 

 °k° The Specification. As they are faid to 

 firengthen the Heart and Vital Spirits, fo alfo Mo- 

 nardifs fays they are a Counter Poifon, and have been 



Venomous Serpents. • „ ,, , „ „ , 



XI The Preparations, i. The Boiled, Roalied, 

 or Baked Roots. 2. The Liquid Juice. 3. An 

 Ophthalmick. 4- A Condite or Preferve. S- A 



Diftilled Water. 



the Virtues. 



X II. T&^ Boiled, Roafted, or Btked Roots. They 

 arefweet in Tafte, almoft like aParfnep, and may 



' ^ k is'f'ooSdhUnd Countti-f oifof "^a 

 oes not only help, or cure the biting of the Vip 



f°any7ther^Poi 



againlt Burning and Contagious fevers, and indu- 

 ces Sweating, rhereby expelling thro' the Pores, 

 Peftilential Infeftion. It is good againtt Paffions 

 and Tremblings of the Heart, SaJnels, Melancholy, 



Difafletlions of thl'womb.'ar'd prevails ag°inft 

 the Head-ach, Vertigo, and otlier Difeafes of the 



dijfolve. Dropped into the Eyes, iiisgoodagainft 

 Inflamation and Blood-fhor, takes away Clouds, 

 Spots and Blemifhes in them, and heals them if 



^''Iv.'^^'^nd^Tt'^S^^^^^^^ 



fmall meafureThe V?r7ues of thT LiquldVnlce.^'"^ 

 XVI. The Diftilled Water. Authors give it the 

 Virtues of rhe Liquid Juice, but I am confident- 



givTkSinlThot "uming and mSSl FcSers "'' 

 the lufeftion of the Plague, and all forts of 



againlt hot, burning and malign Fevers, and 



^^^ ■ Plague, and all forts of Con- 



ndPeltilentialDilbfes, Faint- 



CHAP. DCCXXVIir. 

 Of the V IK GIN I h Creeper: 



C L I M E R. 



I.Tp H E Names. It is a Plant of Noval In- 



II, The Kinds. Parkinfon makes two forts 

 hereof, viz. The Five Leav'd Creeper, and the 

 Three Leav'd Creeper. Mr. Rea, in his Pomona, 

 pag 227. makes but one Species-, but for Satis- 



both faid. 



7ht DefcriftiottS. 



III. Thefirft, orHederaauinquefoIiaVirginiana, 

 Five Leav'd Creeper. Its Root fpreads here and. 

 there under the Ground, not very deep ■■ It is a 



blJujiaineX yet PlanteTnext 'to a Wall or hifh 

 Pales, Poles, Trees or the like, the Branches at 



fmall fhort Tendrels, not twining themfelves a- 



