Chap. 
1 24. 
‘EngUjh Herbs. 
XIV. The Di julled Water. Being drank to four 
or fix ounces, it is good to diffolve congealed Blood, 
and provoke Urine. 
XV. The Liquid Juice. It diffolves congealed 
Blood in the Stomach, Guts, Pleura, Lungs, Womb, 
or other Bowels : it provokes Urine, and the Terms 
in Women, and to expel Sand, Gravel, and Stones 
out of the Reins, Ureters and Bladder : and prevails 
alfo againlt the Pleurifie, very much comforting a 
weak, fick, and cold Stomach. Dofe four ounces, 
Morning and Night, in a Glafs of Wine. 
XVI. The E fence. It has all the Virtues of the 
liquid Juice, befides which it facilitates the Birth, 
and brings away the After-birth, is good againlt 
Poifon, and the Venomous biting of the Pbahingutm, 
as Dio/ corides faith, is nutritive, and reftores inCon- 
lumptions : Being often taken it breeds Seed, and very 
much provokes Lull, and has reltored forrie who 
have been Impotent. 
XVII. The Balfam and Ointment. They foon 
cure green Wounds, and digeft them, if Contufed 
or Lacerated : Applied to filthy, ltinking, and for- 
did Ulcers, they digeft, cleanfe, dry, conglutinate, 
and heal admirably : and applied to the Gout, they 
eafe the pain thereof, drawing forth the Morbifick 
matter thro’ the Pores of the Skin. 
XVIII. The Candied Roots. They are very good 
to warm, comfort and ftrengthen a cold and weak 
Stomach, and excite Venus : And Parkinfon fays, 
they are thought to be a good Prefervative in the 
time of Plague. 
XIX. The DecoOion of the Roots in Wine. It has 
the Virtues of the Juice and Elfence, but not all out 
fo powerful -. It is good againlt the bitings of Vi- 
pers, Mad Dogs, and other Venomous Creatures- 
is profitable againlt the Phthifick, and fuch as have 
an Impotency, or are in a pining Confumption. 
Dofe, Morning and Night, Horn four to eight 
ounces. 
CHAP. CXXIV. 
Of CHERVIL Wild. 
L ' I 'HE Names. It is called in Greek , Kaupi^ux- 
J- Kov iyctov : In Latin, Cerefolium , or Cbere- 
foliurn Sylvefire : and in Englijh', Wild Chervil. 
II. The Kinds. This is the fecond Species of 
Chervils , and is threefold : 1 . Choerophyllum Bau- 
hini, Cerefolium Sylvefire Vu/gare, Common Wild 
Chervil. 2 . Myrrbts TEquicolorum mrua Fabij Co- 
lumns Small Hemlock Chervil. 3. Cicutaria alba 
Lugdunenfis , Cicutaria Pahiftris Camerarij , Wild 
Cilley. 
III. The Defcriptions. Wild Chervil, has a mhitilh 
woody Root from which rife up round about it, round, 
red, and hairy Stalks, a yard bigh,or more, many times 
large, and fwoln about the Joints , which Stalks are 
not hollow, but full of Pith : towards the top they 
are divided into many Branches, which have on their 
tops Umb/es of J mall and very fine white little Flow- 
ers, which being pajfed away, are fucceeded by longijh 
Seeds. The Leaves are commonly parted into three 
principal parts ; and each part again f undivided in- 
to five which are fnipt about the edges, f oft, hairy, 
and of a dark green , or redii/h color. 
IV. Small Hemlock Chervil, has a Root fmall and 
white, which when it has perfeUed its Seed, perijhes 
every Tear : from which rife up Stalks J. lender , hol- 
low, fmooth, not hairy, and J'eldom exceeding the 
height of two feet, they are divided into Jevcral 
Branches, againjl the Leaves, Jo that they J bring 
out of Bofoms, as it were, of the Leaves, -which car- 
ry Umb/es of fmall while Flowers ; after which JoT- 
low the Seeds, rough, hairy, round and longijh, about 
the bignefs of Anileedd, and growing two together. 
The Leaves are fmall, and finely cut or divided, 
like thofe of Hemlock, but of a whilijh color, and 
hairy. 
V. Wild Cifley, has a Root very large, and divi- 
ded into feveral parts , white , and Jpungy, of a plea- 
fant firong Smell, and with a hot and biting tafte : 
This Root, tho’ the Stalks fade and perifh. yet lives 
and the Leaves are green all the Tear. The Stalks 
( if they grow in good ground ) come to be three or 
four feet high, are hollow , jointed , pretty thick 
green, and much Crefted, fending forth out ,f the 
bofoms of the Leaves many Blanches, which have on 
their tops, Umb/es of white Flowers, each Flower 
confi fling of five little Leaves -, of which the lowed 
is twice as big as the reft ; lie two fide ones Icjs ■ 
the uppermoft the leaf! of all. The Leaves are large 
like thofe o/Myrrhis, or Sweet Cifley, but of a dark 
green color -, and thofe which grow on the Tops of 
the Stalks, are commonly divided into three parts 
and thofe again fubdivided into feveral long Jharp 
pointed and fnipt Leaves , like thofe in Sweer Cifley, 
the Seeds are longijh, round, Jharp pointed, black 
and Jhining. This Plant may very well be called 
Wild Cifley, for that it fo much refembles the Gar- 
den Sweet Cilley, not only in its firm, but ( as Au- 
thors believe ) in its Virtues loo. ’ 
VI. The Places. The firft grows almoit in every 
Hedge, and by every Hedge fide : The fecond, about 
Mudd Walls, High Ways, and fuch like places, a- 
bout London, and many other parts of the Kingdom : 
it is but a final! Plant. 1 he third is tound very 
Irequently in all places, efpecially where the ground 
is moilt and fat, in Meadows, Orchards, and the 
like. 
VII. The Times. The firft flowers in June and 
July, and the Seed ripens in the mean Seafon, or 
not 
