Chap. 
I I 2. 
Englifh Herbs. 
l 55 
XV. The fourth i or Green Batchelors Buttons, 
have no difference from the two former in the Roots , 
St oiks , Branches , Leaves nor Seed , faving only in 
the flowers , which in this are of a Greenifh color •, 
tf/zi fometimes through the midft of them they fend 
up Stalks , bearing alfo Tufts of the like Double 
flowers. 
XVI. Tfo V laces. Of thele, the three firft Single 
forts grow for the moft part in our Countrey Fields, 
by Hedge and Ditch fides in many parts of Eng- 
land. The fourth grows in many Corn Fields in 
Germany , hut with us is nourifht up in Gardens. 
The fifth, or White and Red Sea Campions grow by 
Hurft Caftle near the Ifle of Wight , and in the faid 
Hie in many places by the Sea fide : They grow alfo 
by the Sea fide in Lancafbire at a place called Ly- 
tharn , five Miles from Wigan , in which place grows 
that with Red Flowers alfo. Johnfon found it 
alfo growing in great plenty in the Marlh Grounds 
in Thanet , which lye direftly oppofite to the Town 
of Sandwich : The Red has been found about 
a Mile from Southampton , and both of them chief- 
ly in the Southern parts of England , on the moift 
Stony Banks by the Sea fide. The fixth grows in 
feveral grounds by Colchefter , and in a Field called 
the Mill-field, behind the Houfe of Sir Thomas Lucy's 
near Colchefter. The feventh is only nourifhed up 
in Gardens. 
XVII. Of the Double Wild Campions , the firft 
grows here only in Gardens. The fecond and 
third grow Wild in feveral places, but with us are 
chiefly nurfed up in Gardens, for the beauty of 
their Flowers fake. The fourth alfo grows in Gar- 
dens. 
XVIII. The Times. They all Flower in the Sum- 
mer Months of June, July and Aug u ft, fome earlier 
than others, fome later, and their Seed is ripe foon 
after. 
XIX. The Vitalities. They are all of them hot 
and dry in the fecond Degree : Aftringent and Al- 
terative •, and much of the nature of the Garden 
Kinds. 
XX. The Specification. They have been found 
good to flop the Fluxions of Blood and Humors. 
XXI. The T reparations. The fame Preparations 
may be made of them which we have faid to be 
made of the Garden Kinds in the former Chap- 
ter. 
The Virtues. 
XXII. Authors have laid little of their Virtues, 
nor have we much to lay of them by Experience ^ 
the general ufe is for the beauty of the Garden, the 
Flowers being very beautiful in their Seafons. Par- 
kinfon fays, that being Drying and Aftringent, the 
feveral Preparations of them may be profitably ap- 
plied to ftay the Fluxes of Blood and Humors in 
any part, and thereby alfo conduce to the healing 
of old and moift Running Sores and Ulcers. 
XXIII. Gerard fays, the Seed of Wild Campions 
being given to two drams ( in pouder ) and fo drunk, 
that it purges Choler by Stool, and is good for 
them that are Bitten or Stung by any Venomous 
Creature. 
CHAP. CXII. 
Of CATC rf-F L I E. 
f-"“P H E Names. It is called in Greek by Tha- 
-I- llUS , ’1 ^o>mijK\cv 1 by Others Avyvis ayeict. yr oi- 
cSfiif : In Latin , Lychnis Stive ftris Vifcofa , Mufci- 
pula ( quia mufcas capiunt ) 'Vi fc aria , Silene T heo- 
phrafti , Armerius flos Q-'artus Dodcnc/, Ben rubrum 
Monfpel i e n ft urn : In Englifh , Catch-ffie , and Lime- 
wort : alfo by Gerard , Wild Williams. 
II. The Kinds. Parkinfon will have this Plant to 
be of the K inds of Wild Lychnis, or Wild Campion ■, 
but Gerard fays, they are of the Stock of Wild 
Pinks and Gilliflowers, and lo calls them alfo with 
the other names Wild Williams. Thole which we 
fhall handle in this Work are fuch as are ul'ual in 
England, viz. i. Mufcipula Lobelij , Lychnis Syl* 
veftris prima Clufij, five Ben-rubrum Monfpclien * 
fium. The french Catch-flie. 2. Lychnis Sy veftris 
If folia Clufij, Mufcipula Cretica AuricuU Vrfl- 
facie, Catch-flie of Candia. 3. Mufcipula Jive Vif 
caria Lobelij, Vifcago Camerarij, Ly chnis Sylvejh is 
tertia Clufij, Gerard's firft Catch-flie, or Lime-wort 4 
4. Mufcipula anguft folia. Lychnis Sylveftris quota 
Clufij, Narrow-le;fv'd, or German Catch-flie. 
erm&n 
CatcA 77- 
y 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft has a fin dll Root± 
fomewhat f ibrous, which perifhes after it has given 
Seed, and afterwards rife s again of its own Seed, 
if it is fuffered to fhed it fe/f If it Jheds it fclf it 
fprings up in the latter end of the Tear for the moft 
part, or elfe in the Spring, with five or fix fmall 
Leaves, very like unto the Leaves of Pinks, and of 
the fame Willow, or whit ifh green color, but a little 
broader and fhorter. When it begins to fhoot up for 
flower, it bears fmaller Leaves on the Clammy or 
Vifcous Stalks, which Vifcofity is ftrong enough to 
hold any f malt thing or flic which lights on it. Thefe 
Leaves are broad at bottom, compaffing the Stalks 
and Branches, being fet two at a joint, one a gain ft 
another . The tops of the Stalks are dive-rfly branch- 
ed into feveral parts, every Branch having divers 
fmall red flowers, not notched, but fmooth, ftanding 
out of fmall, long, round, ftript Husks, which often 
the flowers are paft, contain fmall, greyifh Seed* 
This Parkinfon accounts of the Species of Campions, 
being a pretty thing to furnifh and deck out a Gar- 
den. 
X 2 IV. Ge- 
IV. Ge- 
