1 2 2 Salmon j - 'Herbal. Lib. 1. 
conceit, in- aue L,imonium is that which ha * jair 
Leaves, like thoje of the Limoh or Orange tree , of 
a dark green color , fomewhat fatter , and a little 
crumpled. 
IV. Gerard calls this Plant in Englifh , <S><2 Ld- 
vender , (and from him Mr. ifyy) but without any 
other ground, than that the color of the blowers is 
lomewhat near thofe of Lavender , for which rea- 
fon Parkinfon altered the Title, to a more proper 
name, and call’d it Sea or Aiarfl) Buglofs , as being 
in form and color molt like to Buglofs. 
V. The Deicription. The firf or Greater Marfh 
Buglofs heut a Root fame what thick and long , like 
unto a fmall Red Beet Root, whence comes feveral 
fair, long, thick, or fat green Leaves, fomewhat like 
unto Small Beet Leaves, ( and that is the reafon 
that Pliny refers the Limonium unto the Beets, and 
calls it a Wild Beet, though Galen will have it, that 
there is no Wild fort of Beet : ) or Leaves of the 
Limon Tree, from among which fpring up feveral 
brittle, naked Stalks, without Leaves, near half a 
yard high, branched at the tops into feveral parts, 
whereon ft and many fmall blewifh purple f lowers, all 
on one fide for the mof part, fome thing like unto 
Buglofs Flowers, but f mailer •, after which come fmall 
reddifh Seed, inclofed in the husks, which the Flowers 
flood in before. 
VI. Colchefler Marfh Buglofs, is like unto the 
former aim of in all refpetts, the Root being reddifh , 
but much lejfer, the Leaves alfo lejfer, and the Stalks 
lower, being but a little more than a foot high ■, the 
Flowers aljo of the fame color with the former, but 
yet lejfer • fo that the difference between them feems 
to be only in the magnitude. 
VII. The Virginian Marfh Buglofs has a long Root, 
an Inch thick in Diameter, or more, and going almof 
ftrait down into the ground, fending forth from it 
feveral Branches, and fmall Fibres : It is a very 
jl range Plant, for from this Root fprings forth very 
ft range Leaves, fucb as are not to be Jecn in any 
other Plant that we know of, being nine, or ten, or 
more, rifing from the head of the Root aforenamed, 
each by it fe/f being fmall below, and growing great- 
er upwards, with a Belly bunching forth, and a bow- 
ing back, of a pale whitijh yellow color, hollow at the 
upper end, with a Flap, not much unlike the to Flow- 
ers of Ariffolochia or Birthwort, and round at the 
Mouth like a half Circle, full of great dark purplijh 
Veins on the infide . The whole Leaf is of a thick 
fubfance, almof like unto Leather, and among thefe 
Leaves fprings up a Stalk, at the top of which comes 
forth a Flower with four or five Leaves , in a round- 
ifh Seed VeffeJ, with a Tuberous Thrum in the mid- 
dle. 
VIIL *Tbe Places. The two firft grow in Marfh 
grounds near the Sea in many parts of England. 
The firf grows plentifully upon the Walls of the 
Fort againlt Gravefend, as alfo on the Banks of the 
River below the lame Town, and below the King's 
Stone-houfe at Chatham -, alio by the King's Ferry 
going into the Ifle of Shepey • and in the Salt 
Marlhes by Lee in Ejfex •, in the Marfh by Har- 
wich, and many other places. The fecond grows 
in the fields near the Sea, by Colchefer, as Lob el 
fays ^ and Clufius faith, may be found about Valen- 
tia in Spain. The third has been found growing in 
Virginia ; and my felf found it in South Carolina, 
in a Marfhy piece of Land at Canoi up Wando River 
about nine Miles from Charles Town • it was alfo 
lent to Clufius from Paris, by one that received it 
in the fame manner from Lisbon in Portugal. 
IX. The Times. The two firft flower in June 
and July, and their Seed ripens not long after: 
The lalt I faw in Flower in Carolina, in the Month 
of July, but flayed not in the place, to fee its 
Seed. 
X. The Qualities. They are temperate as to 
heat or cold, drying in the third Degree, Aflringent, 
Styptick, Stomatick and Alterative. 
XI. The Specification. They are peculiar againft 
Catarrhs and Spitting of Blood. 
XII. TJ?e Preparations. You may make therefrom, 
I. A liquid Juice. 2. An Efience. 3. A Pouder 
of the Seed. 4. A Decotfion of the Roots. 5. An 
Oil or Balfiam of the Leaves. 
The Virtues. 
XIII. The liquid Juice. It flops Catarrhs or Di- 
(filiations of Rheum upon the Breft and Lungs, 
and prevails much againft Fluxes of the Bowels * 
as alfo all forts of Bleedings, whether by the Mouth’ 
as Spitting and Vomiting Blood, Pilling Blood, the 
Bloody Flux, or overflowing of the Terms. Dofe 
three or four Spoonfuls in a Glafs of Red Florence, 
or Red Port Wine , Morning, Noon and Night. 
XIV. The EJfence. It has all the Virtues of the 
Juice, but more Stomatick, and therefore better for 
luch as have weak Stomachs. Dofe two or three 
fpoonfuls in Red Wine, as aforefaid, and at the fame 
times. 
XV. The Pouder of the Seed. Gerard fays, that 
being drunk in Wine, it helps the Collick, Stran- 
gury, and Dyfentery, or Bloody Flux : Dofe one 
dram. It alfo flops the overflowing of the Cour- 
fes in Women, and all other Fluxes of Blood. 
XVI. The DecoUion of the Roots. Being made in 
Red Wine, it is very Aflringent and Styptick, good 
againft Catarrhs, and Fluxes of Blood, and has all 
the Virtues of the Juice and Effence, but not alto- 
gether fo powerful : It has been found to be a fpe- 
cifick^gainft Agues, whether Quotidian, Tertian, or 
Quartan. 
XVII. The Oil. It is made by boiling the Leaves 
in Oil Olive till they are Crifp, Lf c. Applied to Con- 
tufions, weakned Joints, weak Backs, and Burnings, 
it cures them.- 
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