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half Moon , or Semicircular. The flowers grow in 
long f piked Cl lifers upon long Stems, either blewijh 
or whitijh , or whitifl red ; after which , conies a 
fm all, blackijh , bromnifl, or redifl Colored flat Seed: 
the whole Plant bar no 'hot, Jhtirp, or biting Tafie 
with it, as Ku the Hidropiper, or the biting Arfmart, 
in the next Chapter-, but rather almoft jhwerijh like 
Sorrel, cooling and drying, or elfe almoft without 
'1 a fie The Greater is like the former in all ref pells, 
hut the Stalks, leaves. Spikes, and Seed are every 
way much larger. 
IV’. Thcjirft fort of the while flowered Virgini- 
an Arfmart, has a woody Root confifting of a great 
buff) of long black firings or threads, wieh Penjh not 
Tearl } , but abide, tho the Stalks with the Leaves may 
die away, and Spring again the next Year : from this 
Root rifes up fevcral bard round green Stalks with 
many great Joy ms on them as the other has-, and fair, 
large, broad, dark, blewijh , green, fmooth Edged, and 
long pointed Leaves, f potted oftentimes dike our Eng- 
rilh or Common fort before deferibed, and fometimes 
without fpots, many of them fix inches long and bet- 
ter, and three inches and a half broad, with fevcral 
Compofing Veins rifling front the middle Rib, and others 
lefs and tranfuerje -, at the tops of the Stalks, and 
from the Joynts with the Leaves, Spring Branches 
of f piked while Homers, like clofe Grains as in the 
other, but greater, and fucceeiei by black and flat 
flining Seed. 
V. The fecond fort of blujh or flefh Colored Virgi- 
nian Arfmart, has alfoa like woody Root, thick, with 
many f ibres at it, but greater and more Woody than 
ri:c former, from whence Springs up firaight round 
Stalks, much higher than the laft, with much larger 
and narrower Leaves, marked a/fo ofentimes with 
Spots in the like manner , andoften alfo without thofe 
Spots : this alfo has many more Branches of Flowers, 
which are much fhorter Spikes.gr bob Spikes, and very 
much thicker Jet with fine blujh Colored, or flefl- 
Colored f lowers, much larger than the former, which 
gives alfo much the like Seed, but in greater plen- 
ty- 
VI. The Places. The Leffer and Greater Eng/ijh 
forts grew by the fides of Rivers and Ditches ; the 
Lefler almoft every where both in Handing and run- 
ning Waters, and in fuch places as are many times 
wet in Winter, and dry in Summer, and in other 
moift Grounds in molt parts of this Kingdom, where 
it may many times be gotten almoft in Cart Loads. 
The Larger fort has- been found in great plenty, in 
the Lands and Furrows of Ueiington Field above 
St. Bartholomews Hofpital, half a Mile from Ox- 
ford. The Virginian Kinds are only to be had with 
us in our Gardens , nourifhed up by fuch as are Curi- 
ous. 
VII. The Times. The Englijh Arfmarts Flower 
only in June and July -, and their Seed is ripe in 
Augnfi : But the Virginian Kinds Flower with us 
much later, and fcarcely perfect their Seed here. 
V III. The Qualities. They are cold and dry in 
the Kilt Degree : Alteratives, Altringents, Incralfa- 
tives , ReperculEves , Glutinatives, Anodyns, and 
Traumaticks or Vulneraries: Allb Hyftericks and 
Arrhriticks. 
V£. The Specification. Its peculiar property is 
in curing of uounds, and healing old running Sores 
and Ulcers. 
X. The Preparations. There are taken from it 
I. The Green Leaves. 2. The Dijiil/ed Water. 3! 
’The Mixture. The Juice. 5. The E fence. 
6 . The Ointment. 7. TkeBalfam. 8. The Cal a- 
fliflm. 
The Virtues. 
XI. The Green Herb. Authors fay, that if a 
handful of Arfmart wet in Water, and appiy’d for 
fome time to a Wound, or Sore, and afterwards 
Buried in moift Ground, or under a Stone as the 
Herb rotts, fo the Sore will Miraculoully "heal. 
And being put on Horfes or other Cattels Sores" 
’twill drive away Flies in Summer time. 
XII. The Difi tiled Water. Being mixt with a 
half part of Aqua Vita, and bathed on any pained 
place for a Week, more or lefs ; it will perfeHly 
take away the pain. 
XIII. The Mixture. Take the Difii/led Water, 
Ox Gall, OH of Spike, of each equal parts, mix them 
well together by flaking them in a Glafs. This 
anointed upon anyplace troubled with the Gout, 
and a Flanel dipt in the fame, being alfo appiy’d’ 
takes away the pain thereof. 
XIV. The Juice. If therewith any old running 
Sore, or old Ulcer, is conftantly walhed, ir cleanfes 
and heals it: it is alfo excellent to be put into 
Diet Drinks for Wounded Perfons, and fuch as 
have old and running Sores upon them : and walh- 
ing the Sores of Beafts therewith, it keeps Fties from 
them. 
XV. The Effence. It is more powerful than the 
Juice, and is more ufeful to all Intentions, heal- 
ing alfo much more outwardly, being appiy’d. 
XVI. The Ointment. It is excellent againft all 
hot Swellings and Inflamations in any part of the 
Body, efpecially being appiy’d in the beginning, 
being fomthing Reperculhve: it alfo allays Infta- 
mations in Wounds and Ulcers, and eafes pains pro- 
ceeding from a hot Caufe. 
XVII. The Balfam. Being made of th eBruifed 
Herb boiled in Oil Olive, and made into a Balfam 
with Turpentine and Wax, It heals all fortsof green 
Wounds wonderfully; it cools, drysandheals; and 
therefore is good for putrified Sores, and running 
Ulcers, whether in Man or Beaft, cleanfing purify^ 
ing, incarnating them, and healing them. 
XVIII. The Cataplafm. The Herb beaten with Rue 
and Wormwood, and heat very hot in a Frying-Pan, 
and appiy’d to the Bowells, as hot as can been- 
dured, in a Cholick, it gives prefent eafe to a 
Wonder. 
CHAP. XXXII. 
Of Hot or Biting A R S M A R T. 
I- 'T' H E Mantes. It is called in the Greek, 
-I- '~r SgjTimu- In Latin, Hydropiper , Piper 
Aquatic um , Perficaria non mac flat a, Perficaria 
Vrens, vel, Mordax: Angulara calls it Crataogo- 
non ; and lonie call it, Zinziber Caninum : in Eng- 
lifl: Hot or Biting Arfmart , Water Pepper and 
Peach-Wort, or Lake-Weed. 
II. The Kinds. It is the lecond general Species 
of Arfmart or Peach-wort , and is, 2. Hydropiper , 
feu Perjicaria acris vulgaris minor , the Common 
Leffer Biting Arfmart. 2. Perficaria acris Virginia 
ana, the Virginian Biting Arfmart , or Hidropiper. 
III. The Defcription. The firft or Englifh fort, 
has a Root fomwhat long , with many Fibres thereat 
which as well as the rejl of the Riant, is of a very 
Jharp and quick Tajie , biting the Tongue more than 
Pepper, from whence fprings forth a Jointed crooked 
Stalk, not fo High nor fo Great as the former Mild 
Kind, but with a greater ftore of Branches and Leaves 
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