ib8 Salmon s Herbal. Lib. I. 
Our Sage Leaves, for the form and. color , but much 
/waller, two always Jet together at a Joint. The 
blowers f and at the tops oj the Branches , three or 
jour together , upon federal /lender Toot [talks, ccnfifi- 
ing of jive /mall round Leaves apiece , J owe what like 
unto a /wall Jingle Rofe, or the RoJ'c of the Wild 
Bryar, of a fine reddifh purple color , with many yel- 
low threads in the middle , without any Smell at all, 
and quickly fading or falling away , abiding feldom 
one whole day blown at moft : when the blowers are 
paf, there come up round hard hairy Heads in 
i Heir places, containing within them, /mail brownifh 
Seed. 
chieiiy nourilhed up in our Gardens,' viz. Cifus fee- 
mina, The be male Of: us, fpecially lb called.' 2. Ci- 
fus Annuus, The Annual or "Yearly Of us. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firfi Female Ciftus, 
. bets a woody Root like to the former , front whence 
grows a kind 'off rub, lower and /mailer than it, ha- 
ving blackif Branches, le/s woody, and not fo brit- 
tle as the Male. The Leaves are /omewhat rounder 
and greener, but a little hard and rough withal, 
growing in the Jamc manner upon the Branches, as 
the other, by Couples. The blowers grow at the tops 
of the Branches like to the Male kind, con/ifing of 
five Leaves, but fowewhat lejfer, and wholly vohite, 
with yellow threads in the middle, as foon fading, 
and of as little Scent as the other , but the Heads 
and Seed are f omewhat larger. 
IV. The fecond , or Annual Ciftus, has a /mail 
woody Root, which perifhes as foon as its Seed time 
is paf ', for the Riant endures but a Tear, and there- 
fore requires you to Sow it every Tear, if you will 
have it : from this Root rife up fir ait ~, but fender 
hard Stalks, fet here and there confu/edly with long 
and narrow greenif Leaves, very like unto the 
Leaves of the Gum-Ciftus, being d little clammy 
withal. At the tops of the Stalks, and at the Joints 
with the Leaves, fund two or three pale yellow 
blowers, con/if ing of jive Leaves apiece, with a 
reddifi /pot, near the bottom of every leaf of the 
blowers, which as foon fades ‘as any of the former. 
The blowers being paf, J. mall tbree-fquarc Heads 
follow after, ivhich contain within them /mall Seed 
like to the bcmale kind, but /omewhat paler or yel- 
lower. 
V. The Places. The firft grows naturally in hot 
Countries, as Spain, Portugal, Italy, Languedock -, 
The fecond in Colder Countreys, as Germany, Bohe- 
mia, brief and *, and with us they are both brought 
up in Gardens. 
VI. The Times. They Flower in the. Summer 
Months, as June, July and Auguf, and their Seed 
ripens in the mean Seafon. 
VII. The Vitalities, Specification , Preparations, 
and Virtues, are the lame with the Dwarf Cifus , 
fo that no more need be laid of them here. 
CHAP. CXXXIV. 
IV. The Places. It naturally grows in Italy , Spain, 
Portugal, and Trance, and other hot and Southern 
Countries: but with us it is only nourilhed up in 
Gardens. 
V. The Times. In its Native places, it Flowers 
generally in May : but with us about the latter end 
of June, alfo in July and Auguf -, and the Seed is 
ripe quickly after. 
VI. As ro its Vitalities, Specification, Preparations 
and Virtues, they are the fame in all refpetl with 
thole of the Dwarf Cifus, to which I refer you. 
CHAP. CXXXIII. 
Of C I S T U S Female. 
O/CIVES, or CHIVES. 
I. ’ | ' H E Names. They are called in Greek, 
JL : In Latin , Schcenopra/um, as 
though you Ihould fay, Junceum Porrum, Rufh 
Leek : In Englifh, Cives or Chives, which are a 
kind of Small GraJ's Leeks. 
II. The Kinds. They are either Schcenopra/um 
fativum, Garden Chives : or Schcenoprafum agreflis , 
Field or Wild Chives. 
III. The Delcriptions. Chives have many little 
headed Roots or Bulbs fafned together, out of which 
grow dozen into the Earth, a great number of white 
little threads, or firings , which have both the Smell 
and Tafle of Onions and Leeks, jointly, fo as if 
they were participating of both. Prom the/e Roots 
Spring up about a handful high , long, fender, round, 
green Spires, almofi like to Rufhes, amongfl which 
grow up /mail ana tender Stalks, which fend forth 
certain knops, or heads, likethcfe of the Onion, but 
much le/s, in which are contained the Seed. 
IV. The fecond, or Wild Kind, has a /mail, and 
/omewhat Bulbous Root, but nothing near Jo many 
joined together, f rom which Spring downwards a 
great 
