250 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



A CATALOGUE OF SIMPLES 



IN THE 



NEW DISPENSATORY 



ROOTS. \\Navew, Spiitenard, Celtic ana Indian, Water 



^lilies, Rest-harrow, sharp pointed Dock, 



College.] Sorrel, Calamus Aromaticus, I Peony, male and female, Parsnips, garden and 

 Water-flag, Privet, Garlick, Marsh-mallows, j wild, Cinquefoil, Butter-Bu", Parsley, Hog'i 

 Alcanet* Angelica, Anthora, Smallage, Aron, \ Fennel, Valerian, greater and lesser, Burnet, 

 Birth-wort long and round, Sowbread, Reeds, \ Land and Water Plantain, Polypodium of the 

 Asarabacca, Virginian Snakeweed, Swall- 1 Oak, Solomon's Seal, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain, 

 wort, Asparagus, Asphodel, male and female i\ Cinque/oil, Titrnips,Raddishes,gardenandwild, 

 Bin-docks great and small, Behen, or Bazil,\i Rhapontick, common Rhubarb, Monk's Rim- 

 Valerian, white and red. Daisies, Beets, \ barb, Rose Root, Madder Bruscns. Sopewort, 

 white, red, and black. Marsh-mallows, Bis- i Sarsaparilla, Satyrion, male andiemale, White 

 tort, Barrage, Briony, white and black, Bugloss, \ Saxifrage, Squills, Figwort, Scorzonera, Eng- 

 garden and wild. Calamus Aromaticus, Our \ lish and Spanish, Virginian Snake weed, Solo~ 

 Lady's thistles, Avens, Coleworts, Centaury the \ mon's Seal, Cicers, stinking Gladon, Devil's bit, 

 less. Onions, Chameleon, white and black. \ Dandelion, Thapsus, Tormentil, Turbith, Cdt's- 

 Celandine, Pilewort. China, Succory, Arti- \foot, Valerian, greater and, lesser, Vervain, 

 chokes. Virginian Snakeroot, Comfry greater \ Swallow-wort, Nettles, Zedoary long and round, 

 and lesser Contra yerva, Costus, szi'cet and \ Ginger. 



bitter. Turmerick, wild Cucumbers, Sowbread, \ Cnlpeper.~] These be the roots the col - 

 Hound' s-tongue, Cypres, long and round. \ lege hath named, and but only named, and 

 Toothwort, white Dittany, Doronicum, Dra- 1 in this order I have set them down. It 

 gons, Woody Nightshade, Vipers Bugloss, \ seems the college holds a strange opinion, 

 Smallage, Hellebore, ivhite. and black, Endive, \ viz. That it would do an Englishman a 

 Elicampane, Eringo, Colt's-foot, Fearn, male \ mischief to know what the herbs in his 

 and female, Filipendula or Drop-wort, Fennel, \ garden are good for. 



white Dittany, Galanga, great and small, \ But my opinion is, that those herbs, 

 Gentian, Liquorice, Dog-grass, Hermodactils. \ roots, plants, &c. which grow near a man, 

 Swallow wort, Jacinth, Henbane, Jallap, | are far better and more congruous to his 

 Master-wort, Orris or Flower-de-luce, both \ nature than any outlandish rubbish what- 

 English and Florentine, sharp pointed Dock, \ soever, and this I am able to give a reason 

 Burdock greater and lesser, Lovage, Privet, j of to any that shall demand it of me, there- 

 white Lilies, Liquorice, Mallows, Mechoacan, \ fore I am so copious in handling of them, 

 Jallap, Spignel, Mercury, Devil's bit, sweet j you shall observe them ranked in this order. 



