4 8 
Salmon .! Herbal. Lib. J. 
'd'afte, and creeping Root, it may more probably be 
taken to be the Cotyledon paluftris acris, vel, 
Urehs. 
-- ±,i vuiin.ijo.jHus-, 1L UGllgULS ill 
Woody and Shadowy places. 
V. T be Times. It Flowers in Aim and June-, 
and the Seed is brought to its ripeneis much about 
Alidfummer. 
VI. The Qualities. It is hot and dry in the begin- 
ning of the third Degree : it Incides, Attenuates, 
and is Aperitive, and Cathartick : Appropriated to 
the Head, Stomach, Liver, Womb, and Joints. 
VII. The Specification. I sfnnot yet find either 
from Authors, or my own Experience, what Dif 
cafe it is peculiarly good for ; but ’tis certain, ’tis 
a good Leoppilative, or opener of OMfruffions. 
VIII. The Preparations. You may have from it, 
I . The green Herb it f elf. a. A P under of the fame. 
3. The Juice. 4. An Efience. j A Saline Tin- 
Sure. 6 . A Syrup of the Juice, or Herb. 7. A De- 
cotlion. 
The Virtues. 
IX. The Green Herb. A little of it eaten 'with 
other Herbs, as a Sailer, opens and loofens the Bel- 
Iv, and purges out Cold, Grofs, Thick, Flegmatick 
Humors. 
X. The Ponder. It may be given to j. dram in 
Mead, Canary, Sherry, Malaga, or^ White Florence 
nd fo it 
'ou 
Humors. 
Wine, and 
thence Tough Thick Phlegm, and Black or 
will loofen the Belly, and purge 
™ ’ Burnt 
It prevails againftthe Gravel in Reins and Bladder - 
and gives Eafe in the Gout, inwardly taken, and out- 
wardly applied ; and withal it kills Worms in 
Children. 
TinSure. It opens Obftruaions 
or the Womb, Reins and Bladder, provokes Urine 
and expeis Sand, Gravel, and Tartar ous Slime • ii 
krUsWorms in old ofyoung, and is profitable 
againit the Dropfie. Dofe from j. dram to ii in 
a Glafs of White, or Rhenilh Wine and Sugar. 
XI V. The Syrup of the Juice or Herb. It 'has all 
the Virtues ot the Juice, but muft be given in full 
.the double quantity, and is much better for Queafv 
stomachs, and Children, than either the Tuice or Ef- 
ience ; but it ought to be made in a Bath, for boil- 
ing will caufe much of its Virtue to be loft. 
XV. The DecoSion. If k is made in Wine it is a 
f°° d Cephalick and excellent againft molt cold 
Diieaies ot the Head, Brain and Nerves : Ufed as 
an Errhine, it purges the Head of cold and groii 
Humors : and taken inwardly from ij. td iv ounces 
or more, it prevails againft 'Epilepiies, Apoplexies' 
Lethargies, Vertigo, Megrim, Head-ach, Klfies! 
Convuliions, <Sc. 
XL The Juice. It has a Cleanfing, Attenuating 
Quality ; makes thin that which is thick, cuts that 
which is tough, and breaks that which is hard, opens 
the Bowels which ate obftrufted, and purges out 
rlie Morbifick Matter of many grievous DilafFecH- 
o is, and therefore is profitably given to-fuch as are 
afflicted with the Faille, Falling-ficknels, or Yellow 
Jaundice : it may be given from ij. drains ro iij. or 
iv. according as the Patient is in Age and Strength, 
in a Glafs of Mead or Wine. 
XII. The EJfence. It has the Virtues of the Juice, 
but is more grateful to the Stomach, and may be 
given to half an ounce, or more, in a Glafs of Wine : 
C H A P. XXXV. 
Of Common ASPHODEL. 
- I ' ddE IVames. . It is called i ti Arabiek, Barva- 
1 r (In , in 9 ree *’ VWjSjugs : in Latin, Ajpho- 
delus Haflula Reg, a. Albums, and A/bucumf in 
Enghjh, AJpodel. 
r U a Th !rt’j S f' !t J s fou rfold, 1. The Common 
Garden Afphodel. 2. ThttOnion Afphodel. 3 Marlh 
or Lancajhtre Affkoiel. 4. Kings Spear Afphodel'- 
of this laft fee Chap. 404. following : The Second 
and Third we fhall treat of in the two following 
Chapters. The Common Garden Afphodel is alio 
White or Yellow: and the White is either the Grea- 
ter Single or Branched, and theLefler Hollow and 
Leaft. ’ 
III. The Defcriptions. The Common fmgle White 
Afphodel has a Root compatl of many knobby Roots 
growing out of one Head, like thofe of the Peony full 
T w " h ,“ f mal1 iltterne / , “nd Aftnhgent 
lajte ; from whence fprmgs up many dong narrow 
Leaves, like almoft to thofe of Leeks, Jharp pointed-, 
.the Stalk is round, fmoolh, naked, and without 
Leaves two Cubits high, garnijbed from the middle 
upwards, with a number of Homers Star-fajhion 
made of fix Leaves apiece : the colour White, with 
fame dark Purple Jheaks, drawn down the Back fide-, 
within the flowers are feveral fmall Chives ; which 
being paft, there fprings up litt/e round Heads, where- 
in are contained bard, black, and three corner'd Seed 
like thofe of Buck-wheat or Staves-acre. 
IV. The Common Branched White Afphodel has a 
Root compofed of many tuberous long Knobs, which 
are thickef in the middle, and fmaller at both ends 
faflned together at the head, of a dark grayijh colour 
on the out fide, and yellow within ; whence nfes up 
many long and narrow hollow triangular Leaves 
jharp pointed, and lying upon the ground round about 
the Root the Stalk is fmooth, round and naked with- 
out Leaves, which fifes from the midft of them, di- 
vided towards the Top , into divers Branches, ( if the 
Plant has been of any long continuance ) or elfe in- 
to but two or three /mail Branches, from the fides of 
the main great one, whereon ft and many large flow- 
ers, Star-fajhion, made of Jix Leaves apiece, on the 
m fide mbit fib, and framed with a Purple line down 
the 
