Chap., 41. ‘Enghjh Herbs . 
ijh AJh-colour when they are ripe , wherein is con- 
tained a hard Black Seed. 
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IV. The fecondWAiK\ni,ot Prickly Rock Afpara- 
gus, which fame call Thorny Afparagus, hat very 
thick and Jhort foots, with many thick firings dll 
meeting together at the head of the foot, from whence 
rifes up feveral branched green Stalks, having three 
or four Jharp green Thor ns ( more like tndeed to 
Thorns than Leaves, they are fo hard, fmal! long 
and Jharp pointed ) fet together all along the’ Stalks 
and Branches ; from which come forth f mall moffy 
yellowish green Flowers ; and after them /fore of 
Berries, greater than in the former, and of a blark- 
tjb green colour, when they are ripe, full of a green- 
ijh Pulp i wherein ufually lies but one black hard 
Seed, or at moji two, having a White Kernel with- 
in it. 
¥l f es ' The firft Ki " d g rows in Stony 
and Kocky places, as, near to Salamanca in Spain 
alio under Hedges, and in the very Fields in Calii/e 
and G ranada ; about Narbone and Montpelier in 
France ; as alfo in Creet or Candy. The fecond 
grows mftony and ragged or rocky places, as alfo 
by hedge iides, not only in Spain, but alfo in Por- 
tugal and Creet. _ But with us, both the Kinds 
are only found Nurft up in Gardens of the Cu- 
rious. 
VI. The Times. They fend forth their tender 
Shoots early in the Spring, and Flower in June and 
7 u y? having ripe fruit in September : But with us 
in England, it fcarcely comes to perfection, unlefs 
the bealon is very warm, and they grow in a warm 
place, which may defend them from cold Blafts and 
nipping Winds. 
t ^ ualltl f s - They are Temperate as to 
the firft Qualities but rather more drying than any 
l he /u mer - J Th % lndde ’ att e n uate, and open 
powerftlly, and are ftrong Diureticks and Lithon- 
Sofeen H - nd P^'aity appropriated to the Liver, 
3P vni’ Rems > and Womk 
VU 1 . The specification. I have been informed by 
fome intelligent Englijh Men, who have lived in 
Spam tor fome Years, that the People of the place 
elteem them as one of the molt peculiar Remedies 
againft the Stone and Gravel, and much Superiour 
to the Garden or Marfh Kinds. 
IX. The Preparations. You may make from the 
Ko°t,i. A Deeoffion. 2. A Juice. 5 .An E fence. 
4. A Saline Tindure. 5. A TiJUlled Water : and 
from the Seeds or Berries, 6 . A Ponder. 
The Virtues. 
X. The Virtues are the fame with the Garden 
and Marjh Kinds : and therefore the Defignation 
and Ufes of each Preparation the fame, to which 
you are referred-, live, that thefe Wild Kinds arc 
elremeed to be double in Force and Goodnefs. 
CHAP. XLI. 
Of Common A V E N S. 
T H E Names. This Herb, for all that we can 
learn, was unknown to the Greeks, and 
therefore we can furnilh you with no Greek name 
for it : but it is called in Latin, Caryopbyllata, and 
Garyophyllata, ( from rhe fmell of its Root ) alfo 
Herba. Bene did a, Sanamunda and Tragus would 
have it called Kardus agrejlis , ( not only for the 
fweet feent of its Roots, but for its excellent Vir- 
tues ) and is fuppofed to be the Geum P/inij , in 
Hifl. lib. 2 6. Sed. 21. It is called in Englijh , Avens 
and Herb Bennet. 
Avetis. 
II. The Kinds. The General Kinds are two. i. Ca- 
ry ophy! lata vulgatior , the common Avens. 2. Caryo- 
phyllata Montana , the Mountain Avens ; of which 
in the next Chapter. The Common Avens is two- 
fold, 1 . That, E/ore minor e, with the fmaller Flower 
( which is the more Common : ) 2. That, Flore ma- 
jore. 
