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dark purple coloured Husks : The Seed is greater 
and rounder than any of the former Kinds , and 
fame what long withal : the whole Plant fmcllsfirong 
like to the common or ordinary Bafil and Camphire 
put together. 
IV. The Crifped or Curled American Bafil, not 
fpotted : It has a Root like the foregoing , being a 
degenerate of the other kind , rifen ( as Parkinfon 
fuppofes ) from the Seed of the former Plant , ga- 
thered in thefe colder Countries •, and is indeed of 
the Kind of the American fpotted Bafil, having like 
Stalks , and fitch like large Leaves , cut fomewhat 
deeply in on the edges , and curled or crumpled , as 
they alfo Jometimes are , together with fwelling bun- 
ches like Bladders in them , but wholly of a green co- 
lour, and without any Jpots , or fpot upon them : the 
f lowers hereof are all white , and without any fpots 
as the other has : the fmell hereof is very firong , 
and perfectly ref entitling the former. 
V. The Places. They Originally grew in America, 
from whence they were brought into Spain , and 
from Thence to us, being nourilhed up in our Gar- 
dens the latter of which feems now to be a Na- 
tive of our own Countrey. 
VI. The Times. They Flower gradually in June 
and July , as the other's do and their Seed is ripe 
in AugufL 
VII. The Qualities. They are hot in the fecond 
Degree, and moilt in the frit * highly Cephalick, 
Neurotick, Cardiack and Hylterick •, they Attenu- 
ate, Open, Refolve, Difcufs 3 are Carminative, Ano- 
dine, Alexipharmick, and Emmenagogick. 
VIII. The Specification. I have found them pe- 
culiar again!! Palfies, and Pains and Aches proceed- 
ing Rom a cold Caufe. 
IX. The Preparations. You have, i. A Ponder 
from the Seed. 2. A Diflilled Water. 3. A Juice. 
4. An Effence. 5. A Spirituous Tintture . 6 . A 
Saline Tintture. 7. An Oily Ttnfture. 8. A De- 
cottion. 9. A Syrup. 10 .An Oil. 11. A Cata- 
plafm : the Virtues andllles of which, are the fame 
with the fame Preparations in Chap. 4 6. Sell. 12. 
to Sell. 22. aforegoing. 12. A Difiillcd Oil. 13. The 
Powersi 
The Virtues. 
X. The Di ft i lied Oil. It cures Head-aches, Me- 
grims, Lethargies, Apoplexies, Epilepfies, Palfies, 
Convulfions, Tremblings, and weaknefs of the 
Nerves, Obftruftions of the Wopab, Reins and 
Bladder, Punctures and Wounds of the Nerves, and 
all forts of Pains, Aches, Sciatica, and Lamenefs 
from a cold Caufe, being taken inwardly from iv. 
drops to xij. in fome proper Vehicle *, and outward- 
ly anointing the part aftefted therewith. It expels 
Wind, and cures the Colick. 
XI. The Potefiates or Powers. They have all the 
former Virtues, but penetrate more, as being more 
Subtil or Volatile : They provoke the Terms in 
Women, eafe Pains and Stitches in the Side, are 
good againft Fits of the Mother, and Vapors, chear 
the Heart, revive the Spirits, refill Poifon, and re- 
move Melancholly, lengthening the Stomach, and 
all the Vifcera. Dofe from j. dram to ij. drams, 
in a Glals of Wine, or lome other proper Ve- 
hicle. 
Chap. 48. 
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CHAP. XL1X. 
Of Scone BASIL. 
I. 'T' H E Karnes. It is called in GreeA, “Aw.gt 
JL 'AkovQ- : in Latin , Acinus and Acinos by 
Label and Dalechampius : Clinopodium Vulgar e, by 
Matthiolus .* Clinopodium majus , by Cameranus * 
Botanic a Pauli , by Guilandinus : Pulegium monta- 
mim , by Lonicerus 3 Polycnemon , by Gefner 3 and 
Clinoprodium Origano fimile , by Bauhin : in Englifh * 
Stone Bafil , and Great Wild Bafil. 
II. The Kinds. This is properly the firft and 
chiefeft of the Wild Bafils 3 and is twofold. 1. Aci- 
nus major , the greater Stone Bafil. 2. Acinus mi- 
nor, the leifer Stone Bafil. 
Stone Bafil Greater . 
III. The Defcriptions. The Greater Stone Ba- 
fil has a bufhy Root , of many Strings fet together at 
and depending from one Head , which fhoot forth 
fockets round about : from this Root fprings forth 
fever al hard , four fquare , hairy or hoary Stalks, it 
foot, or foot and half high, or more , fet with two 
hairy green Leaves at each Joint, being covered alfo 
as the Stalks are with a hairy Down, fomewhat 
larger than any of the other Wild Bafils, coming 
near unto the bignefs and fafhion of the Leaves of 
Origanum : the f lowers grow in Bundles, or round 
the Stalk, in greater plenty than in the Wild Bafils 
of the following Chapter, and of a purplifh colour, 
but fomet lives white, the Husks of which are fome-' 
what larger and rougher. 
IV. The Leffer Stone Bafil, has like Roots, Stalks , 
Leaves, flowers and Husks, and differs not any thing 
from the former, fave that the Stalks are lower, the 
Leaves leffer, and. the Husks of the flower's fmaller 3 
m a word, it is of the fame Kind , but the whole 
1 Plant is every Way lefs , 
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