172 Salmons Herbal. Lib. ! 
fecled are likewile 10 be bathed with the fame. An- 
ointed upon a Nerve prickt or hurt, it eafes the 
Pain and Anguifh, and abates the Tumor, if any be 
prefent. 
XX. The Saline Tinfture. If given inwardly, 
from half a dram to two drams, it opens Obftru- 
£tions of the Urinary parts, and of the Womb ^ but 
it is of greateft ufe in outward Applications againft 
Tanning, Sun-burning, Scurf, Morphew, DandrifF, 
and other like Defcedations of the Skin^ for it 
cleanfes after a lingular manner, by reafon of its 
Volatile Particles. 
XXL The Cataplafm. Made of the Green Herb, 
but principally of the Seed, with the addition of a 
quarter part of Mithridate, and fo much Orrice 
pouder as will bring it to a confidence, and applied 
to cold flatulent Tumors, it difculfes them : if Na- 
ture defigns the Tumor for breaking, it brings it to 
maturation or ripenefs, and that in a little time, 
becaufe of its hear. If it is applied to the Gout, it 
eafes the Pain, and attrafts the Morbifick Humor 
through the Pores of the Skin, in manner of 
Sweat. 
CHAP. CXXII. 
Of C H E R R Y Winter. 
I- 'T' HE Karnes. It is called in Greek , StjuV©-, 
A x) 2 t?u yv©~ dny.eiKa&©' ■ In Arabick , Keken- 
gi, CJ Alkekengi : In Latin , Alkakengi , Halicaca- 
bum , Solanum Halicacabum Theophrafti , Veficarium 
P Uni) , Saxifraga quart a rubra Brunfelfij , and Sola- 
tium Veficarium : In Englijh , Winter Cherries. 
II. The Kinds. Parkinfon fays, it is one of the 
kinds of Solatia , or Nigbt-Jhades , fet forth and fpo- 
ken of by Diofcorides and Galen , and one of the 
two of Theophraftus. We make two Kinds there- 
of, 1. halicacabum five Alkakengi Vulgar e, Our 
Common Winter Cherry. 2. Halicacabum five Al- 
kakengi Virginienfe , The Virginian Winter Cherry. 
There is another Plant, which fome Authors 
have joined with Winter Cherries , and called it, 
helicacabum Peregrinum , Veficaria Peregrina , and 
Hclicacabum Repens , Winter Cherries Creeping, 
as Tragus, fuchfius. , Gefner , Matthiolus , Dodo- 
mens, and others ; but Cordus oppofes, and makes 
it another Plant : Bauhinus puts it among the 
Peafe, as a kind thereof, and calls it Pifum Vefi- 
carium : lnbal thinks it to be the Ifopyum Diof- 
coridis , and calls it, Cor Indum , Pifum Indicum , 
and Pifum Cordatum for all which Reafons, it 
being rather a Grain than a Berry , we have for- 
born to put it in this plac* : and fo much the 
more alfo, becaufe it is no Kative or Denifon of 
our Ccuntrev, nor does it grow naturally, as fome 
think, in any Part of Europe. 
III. The Defcription. Our Common Winter Cher- 
ry has a running or creeping Root in the Ground , 
long, and not much unlike to the Roots of Quitch- 
grafs , running very far abroad under the upper cruft 
of the Earth , caufing it greatly to encreafe • it is 
fnmetimes of the ihicknefs of ones little finger, foot- 
ing forth at fever al Joints , and in feveral places , 
by which means it quickly fills a great piece of 
r round . Prom this Root rifes up a Stalk two or 
hree feet high , round , fender , fnooth , and fome - 
hat reddif). 1, reeling this way , and that way , 
by reafon of its weaknefs : upon whichcomfforib 
many broad and long green Leaves , not much un- 
like to thofe of Common Nightfhade, but lar- 
ger : at the Joints whereof and among which Leaves 
come forth whitifh flowers , conffting of five ft mall 
Leaves apiece : In the middle of which flower 
comes forth a Berry , green at fir ft, and red when it 
is ripe , like almoft in color and bignefs to our Com- 
mon Red Cherries ( whence the Englifh name • ) 
Thefe Berries are enclofed in Skins , or Bladders' of 
a pale reddif) color. In the Berry is contained a 
reddif) Pulp , and the Seed lying in the fame , zohich 
are many , fmall , and flat , and of a pale yellow 
color. 
lV. The American kind . , bus a fmall Root Spread- 
ing under ground^ but not fo far as the former , and 
pcnjhes every Tear, from this Root comes forth 
Branches with Leaves on the ground , fcarcely ri- 
f m S. u Pf> much as the other, feldom above eighteen 
or twenty Inches high, ( which 1 obferved when in 
Us perfeHion, and growing upon fertil ground ) but 
the Branches are greater, as alfo are the Leaves , 
and fome thing more uneven about the edges, of a 
Jad, or deep green , almoft of a Sea-green color : at 
the Joints come forth the flowers fingly, to z»it, one 
at a place , and more towards the bottom than up- 
wards ( this I obferved not, for I always found each 
Plant very full of fruit, almoft from the bottom to 
the very top : ) but as they grow to the height of 
the Branches , both flowers and fruit are rather 
fmaller than thofe which are below : the flowers are 
compofed of five fmall whit ifh Leaves, with a Circle 
of red, or every Leaf is fpotted Circle-wife towards 
their bottoms : the flowers being paft there follows 
the fruit, enclofed in a thin Skin or Bladder, of a 
whitifh, or pale greenifh color -, and not full out fo 
big as the former. Within this Husk or Bladder is 
contained the Berry , which never grows full out fo 
large as our Englifh Winter Cherry, yet whilft re- 
cent, fills almoft the Bladder in which it is contain- 
ed : when the Cherry or Berry comes to its perfe- 
II ion, it is never red, but of a pale whitifh green 
color , 
