in Carolina, where it is a great part of their food 
and Living -, but it profpers only as under the 
Planters Hands -, for fhould they negleU it , it would 
quickly be totally loft lti that Country too. 
\ III. We have every where given the various 
Qualities of each Plants by which an Efiimatc may 
be given in Grofs , of their Virtues , and to what 
Di / cafes they may be properly apply ed, or may be 
helpful again/} : The confideration of which alone , 
is of mighty a Vfe to the P radical Phyfician 'becauje 
they indicate to the Mind or Underfianding, to 
what various Purpofes and Intents they may be 
converted , and in what Difeafes they may be fpe- 
cijical/y ufeful. 
IX. How thefe Qualities are to be apply ed to 
Difeafes , may be eafily exemplified : I know it may 
be objdled % by fuch as are Ignorant of Medical 
Qualities and Indications , that a great many Virtues 
are aferibed to mofi Plants , for the Curing of Dif- 
eafes , which they can never perform , nor any Au- 
thor before ever ftgnified : To which 1 anfwer 
That l do not affirm nor J 'ay , that every Herb is a 
Specifick for the Cure of all Difeafes , which in the 
part icular Preparations and Virtues thereof I may 
aferibe to it ■, but he that reads me , ought to read 
me with a Medical Mind , or Soul , and with a 
good Underfianding -, I toil l exemplify the Matter. 
Suppofe it to be Rofemary. As to its firfi Quali- 
ties , it is Hot and Dry in the third Degree -, and 
that it is Cephalic k, Neurotic k, Stomatick , Alexi- 
pharmick : from thefe Qualities , we conclude that 
it mu ft be helpful again/} all cold and, moif} Difeafes, 
of the Head, Brain, Nerves, Stomach , and Poifon 
then when we conftder what Difeafes are apt to 
affiifl thofe parts, from a hot and dry Caufe, we fix 
the Virtues to be fuch ns may refill thofe Difeafes , 
not to be an abfolute and fpecifick Cure for the fame , 
but to be very helpful in thofe Cafes , and fo may 
be drawn into Compofitions, with other Ingredients 
for the fame purpofes. And thus I defire every 
Genuine Son of Art to underfland me. What I 
have faid in this Paragraph, may be of admirable 
Ufe, if it be rightly underflood and apply ed. 
X. Thro'* the whole Book in every Chapter , we 
have given you the various Preparations of each 
Plant, both Gale nick and Chymick, which may be 
made of them, which is a thing never performed by 
any other Author before me. This being rightly 
confidered , gives you the whole Refult of the Plant, 
and in a few Words teaches you how it is to be ufed 
and applyed, in all the Cafes , and to all the Diftem- 
pers to which it may be appropriated : But that this 
may be more perfectly under Hood, we particularly 
Exemplify the w l x>/c thereof, in this prefent Intro- 
duction ■, in thofe fever al Forms, both Galcnick and 
Chymick , and that to the Capacities of fuch as are 
Ignorant of the Medical Arts. 
XI. Having done all this , when we come to ex- 
plicate upon the Virtues, we do not give you the Vir- 
tues of the Plant in Grofs (for that is before done 
in its Specification') but Jhew you particularly, how 
all thefe fever al Preparations are ( in every Difeafe) 
to be ufed and applyed, which as it never was done 
before me, by any other Author, fo I think it is of 
univerfal Ufe in the Art and Prallite of Phyfick : 
It is performed fo as to anfwer every particular 
and fingular Preparation, and in a Stile fo full and 
plain, that the meanejl Underfianding cannot eafily 
mifiake me •, by which means it is accommodated to 
the Ufe of the Vulgar , tho ’ they under ft and little 
or nothing of the Art of Phyfick. 
XII. The loft thing which Ifhall here take not ici 
of, is more matter of Ornament, than any thing of 
Neceffity, which I have done for the fakes of all 
fuch as arc lovers of Flowers, and of a Flower- 
Garden : It is a comp le at F LOR I L EG IU Al, 
of all or mo ft of the Choice Flowers, which are Cul- 
tivated in England by our FLORISTS : This is 
not done as a particular Work by it felf, but is 
interfperfed thro ’ the whole Book, each Flower in 
its proper place of the Alphabet ^ where you will 
have their Culture, Choice, Increafe, and fcveral 
ways of Management, as well for Profit as De- 
legation ■, a noble Subjctf it is, but never brought 
into any Herbal before this. 
CHAP. II. 
Of the Greek Names of Plants. 
A T Firfi entrance upon this Work, we thought 
to have given you the known Greek Names 
of all the Herbs and Plants defenbed in this Her- 
bal, in the order they were treated of ■, but finding 
that it would have been too tedious a Labour ,* and 
an Undertaking that would not have anfwcr’d the 
End, and that withall, befides the taking up of 
room, it would have mightily encombred the Dif- 
courfe ■, we in a manner wholly declined the fame : 
However, for the fakes of all fuch as are Lovers of < 
the Greek Tongue, and defirous to call the Species 
of each Plant by its proper Appellation in that Lan- 
guage, we have in the body of this Work, given 
you the known Greek Name or Names of each Ge- 
nus, and the various La tine Epithites, by which the 
differing Species of that Plant ought to be difiin- 
guifhed -, by which , applying to thofe feveral and 
various Latine Epithites, ( which are in this place 
ranked Alphabetically ) the Greek Words answer- 
ing to them, you will have the complicated Greek 
Names, as full and comp leaf, as if we had fever ally 
perfected them , in the order of their feveral 
Chapters. 
A. 
i. Acer,’ cris, ere. 
fj.ua, fid. 
2. Aculeatus, a, tim. 
X,iVT?Ul If, T fl, 70?. 
KtVTHVKOf, Jt», KIV. 
3 - Agreffis, tis, te. 
m/lvif, vt), vlv. 
4. Agrius, a, um. 
ta, ay. 
$. Albus, a, um. 
AiVKOf, x.tl, X.0V. 
6 . AnguftiK, a, um. 
siv'oi, rn, yiy. 
7. Anguftifolius, a, um. 
/ •s-evopvM©-, ah, ao y. 
8. Aquaticus, a, um. 
6VU<f'&{, (JV . 
vJi/.mNs, »(, if. 
(flKvJ'tff, yy. | 
9. Arboreus, a, um. 
AtvJ'eynif, nr), Key. 
10. Aromaticus, a, um. 
dsvwmKi ft xn , K»y. 
11. Ar- 
INTRODUCTION. 
