Salmons Herbal. 
Lib. 1. 
II. The Kinds.. It is thelaftofthe principal forts 
of Co/emrts , and a Angular Plant of the Kind. 
unlike the common Garden Colewort leaf in (hope, |3E« Marina Monofpermos , Brajftca Manna Anglic, 
fah/iance , and color, hut that they are left, ( as k | Gerynh: In Eng/tjh, Sea Colewort. 
nlj'o the whole Plant ) being greyifh , long, roundijh 
heaves, much gafhed or lorn on the edges. Among 
thefe ground Leaves rifes up the /aid Stalk, bearing 
J'uch like, but f mailer Leaves, which isfpread forth 
into divers Branches : at the tops of which Branch- 
es, grow Jmall yellow F lowers, which being pafi a- 
Way, they are Jiic seeded by Jmall rough Pods, which 
contain within them Jmall round Seed. This Plant 
■is of its own nature Wild , and therefore not ufed as 
Pood, or fought after for that purpofe. 
IV. The Places. It grows in moft parts of Eng- 
land in open Fields, and new digged Ditch Banks, 
and fuch other like Grounds : and is in fome pla- 
ces Husbanded and Sown for the Seed fake, which 
is many times very gainful. 
V. The Times. It may be Sown in the Spring 
time, as in March and April, and fometimes in 
May. It Flowers in July, and the Seed is ripe in 
Augufl or September. 
VI. The Vitalities, Specification, Preparations and 
Virtues , are the fame with thofe of the Garden 
Colewort : ( except in the matter of eating them as 
Food, which is wholly forborn : ) and for any Met 
dicinal Ufe, whether internal or external : The 
Wild is much to be preferred, as being much ftrong- 
er, and fo more powerful to all the purpofes and 
intentions, the Garden are faid to be good for, or 
CHAP. CXLVI. 
JTa CoLzivorf , 
III. The Defcription. It has a Root fomewhat 
Great , fhooting forth many Branches under ground, . 
having many Fibres alfo adjoined, and keeping its 
Leaves green all the Winter. Prom this Root rife 
up feveral fomewhat broad and large, thick wrinkled 
Leaves, and as it were curled about the edges, grow- 
ing each upon a feveral thick Footfialk, very eafie 
to be broken, and fo tender, that they can fcarcely 
be handled without breaking, of a ‘■greyifh green co- 
lor ■, from among which rifes up a (Irong thick Stalk, 
two feet or more high Cubits, fays Gerard, with 
fome Leaves thereon, up to the top, where it branch- 
es much out ■, on every Branch ftands a large Bufh 
of pale whitifh Flowers , confifting of four Leaves a- 
piece, which being paft away, fmall roundijh, or 
thick and fhort Pods come forth, containing each but 
one roundijh , greyifh Seed apiece , of the bignefs of a 
Tare, or Vetch , and much greater than Soldanella, 
or Sea Bindweed, to which Plant this Sea Colewort 
is not in the leaft meafure akin though fome Au- 
thors have miftaken the former, viz. Soldanella,^/' 
this latter. 
IV. The Places. It grows in many places upon 
the Coaft of England, as well on the Kentifh as Ef- 
fex Jhore -, at Lidde in Kent, and at Colchefier in 
Effex : Gerard fays it grows Naturally upon the 
Bayche and Shores of the Sea, where there is no 
Earth to be feen but Sand, and Rouling Pebble 
Stones, which they who grow near the Sea, call, 
Bayche : he found it growing between Whit ft able, 
and the Ifle of Thanet , near the Brink of the Sea, and 
in many places near to Cochefter, and in other places 
by the Sea fide. 
V. The Times. It Flowers in the end of June, 
and all July, and the Seed is ripe towards the end 
of Augufl. 
VI. The Qualities, Specification, Preparations and 
Virtues, are the fame with thofe of the Garden 
Colewort, ( except thofe various Preparations and 
Ufes of them for Food ) but in all the cafes there 
mentioned, this is the ftronger, and more effica- 
cious. 
VII. Note i. The Dccottion of the Sea Colewort, 
fome Authors fay ) doth by its bitter Quality, and 
larp Nitrous Particles, open the Belly, and purge 
the Body ^ but as Galen thinks,' not without fome 
hurt or damage thereto, becaufe it differs much 
from the Temperature of our Bodies, being hotter 
and drier than the Garden Kinds : For as all other 
Wild 
