i <2 2 Salmon V Herbal. Lib.L 
very good l’uccefs •, yet I cannot fay, but in fome 
cafes it has not anfwered the end. The Dccotiion of 
the Seed in White Port Wine , has the fame Virtue, 
but I believe not full out fo powerful as the Juice 
and Effence of the Plant •, but the Voider of the 
Seed given to one dram is more effectual : So alfo 
the Fixed Salt of the whole Plant made by Incine- 
lation. 
XXI. Ohferv. 3. Diof cor ides fays the Green Herb 
has a cooling property, and for that purpofe it is 
chiefly ufed. Avicen commends the Oil made of it 
againft the Trembling of the Heart. Gefner fays 
that a Liquor may be drawn out of it by fire ( Par- 
kinfon fappoles he means an Oil to be drawn out 
of the Seed, as out of Sweet Almonds ) good a- 
gainft the Stone. From this I obferve, and am apt 
to believe, that if an Oily Tinffure , or a Saline Tin- 
tlure, be made of the whole Plant, they may be 
very effectual for that purpofe, being duly taken in 
a proper Vehicle. 
CHAP. CXXXVI. 
Of CLEVERS, or GOOSE-GRASS. 
L '~T _ ' H E Karnes. It is called in Greeks ’A main, 
JL as the moft ufual Name, but it has alfo fe- 
veral others, $ikWiov, <pii.ATiet»v, as Galen out oh Hip- 
pocrates faith ^ and. c^ao^t©-, as Diofcorides 
faith ( becaufe the Seed is Navel fafhion : ) it is 
alfo called, eAaV0?«7r©-, quafi hominis amans , and 
ifalhM©-, for the fame reafon. In Latin , Aparine , 
Lappa minor Plinij , Afperugo : In Englifh , Clevers, 
and Gocfe-grafs 
II. The Kinds. They are chiefly twofold, viz. 
1. Aparine Vulgaris , The common or rough Clevers. 
2. Aperine Lxvis, Smooth Clevers , not mentioned 
by any Author but Thalius. , and from him by Par- 
kinfon. 
III. The Defcriptions. The Common Rough Cle- 
ver has a fmall and very fibrous Root , fpreading much 
in the Earthy but dying every Tear from whence rife 
up divers very rough fquare Stalks not bigger than 
the lower part of a naked Wheat Straw , creeping up 
fo at to be fometimes two or three yards high , if it 
has any tall Bufhes or Trees near it , or any Hedge 
on which it may Climb , but yet without any Clafpers ■, 
other wife they are much lower , or lye upon the 
ground , being full of Joints -, from every one of 
which f toots forth a Branch befides the Leaves , which 
are commonly fix in number , fet round the Stalk al- 
mofi like a Star , or the Rowel of a Spur. From be- 
tween the Leaves at the Joint s, towards the tops of 
the Branches come forth very fmall white flowers, 
every one upon a fmall thready Footfialk , which af- 
ter they are fallen , two fmall round rough brown 
colored Seeds ( but at firji green ) joined together 
like a pair of Tefiicles , do appear. When they are 
ripe, they grow hard , and of a whitifh brown color , , 
having a little hole or hollownefs on the fide ( fome • 
what like unto a Navel ) on which the Stalk grows 
to them. Tl)e Stalks , Leaves and Seeds are fo very 
rough , that they will cleave almofi to any thing which 
fhall touch them , and feem to be a little clammy 
withal. 
IV. The Smooth Kind has a Root like the fore- 
going , and grows much like unto it , but it neither 
grows Jo high , nor are the Leaves fo great , and not 
at all rough or flicking to what it touches , as the 
former is. The Leaves are the finite in number, and 
Jland in the fame order , and at the Joints alfo : the 
Flowers are fmall and white , con fifing of four very 
little Leaves , like the other , and give fuch like Seed 
growing together in Pairs , but fmooth alfo , and not ■ 
rough as the firfl is. There is another fort of this 
Smooth Kind, but it little differs from it, except- 
ing in the Seed, which is fatd to be rough, much 
like unto a Coriander Comfit. 
V. The Places. The firlf Kind grows by Hedge 
fidcs and Ditch banks in moft places of England, 
and almoft every where in Gardens, it being there 
nothing but a Weed, and is rooted out with much 
labor and diligence, for that it will run upon every 
thing it grows next, and be apt to choak and kilt 
it, it not Weeded up. The fecond is a Native of 
Spain, but grows in England in the Gardens of the 
Curious, where it is apt to be as troublefome as 
the other is, if it is fufteried to Sow its Seed. 
VI. The Times. They Flower in the end of May, 
and in June and July ■, and the Seed is ripe, and 
tails by the end of July, or in Augufl , from which 
it fprings afrefh the next Year, and not from the 
old Roots. 
VII. The Vitalities. It is hot and dry in the be- 
ginning of the firfl Degree, according to Galen's 
Judgment •, and are Aperitive, Abfterfive, and A- 
ltringent, Traumatick, or Vulnerary, Alterative and 
Alexipharmick. 
VIII. The Specification. It is peculiar for flop- 
ping Fluxes, and healing Green Wounds. 
IX. The Preparations. You may have therefrom, 
1. The Green Herb. 2. A liquid Juice. 3. An 
Effence. 4. A DecoUion. 5. A Pouder. 6 . An 
Ointment. 7. A Balfam. 8. A Cataplafm . 9. -d 
Dif tiled Water. 10. The Oily TinUure. 
The Virtues. 
X. The Green Herb. Parkinfon fays, that it 
ferves the Country People well, inftead of a ltrain- 
.er, to deanle and clear their Milk from Straws, 
Hairs, or other grofs things which fall into it. 
XI. The Liquid Juice. Made of the Herb and 
I Seed together, being taken in Wine, is good againft 
the 
