252 Salmons 
Herbal. Lib. 1. 
break ocher Apoitems or Tumors, being wifely ap- 
plied. Tragus lays, That a bit of this Tuberous 
Root put to Teeth which do ake, or into an hollow 
Tooth* takes away the Pain ^ but Authors alfo fay. 
That many times it breaks thole which are hollow, 
or caufes them to fall out. This Cataplafm ( or the 
Ample Root) being applied to the Finger of one 
troubled with the Tooth-ach, eafes the Pain, which 
it does by Attraction, and thereby caufes a Pain in 
the Part to which it is applied. Applied to a foul 
Ulcer, it will cleanfe it, and take away all the fil- 
thy and corrupt Matter therein, leaving the Sore 
fair, and eafily to be healed with other Vulneraries; 
but the Cataplafm is not to lye too long upon the 
Sore, by reafon of its Violence. Applied to Scro- 
pliulous Tumors or Kernels in the Neck, or under 
the Ears, called the Kings-Evil, it breaks them, and 
caufes them to walfe away. Authors fay, That ap- 
plied to Hemorrhoids or Piles which fwell and bleed 
not, it helps to difcufs or take them away ^ but 
that ft is in no wife to be applied to thofe which are 
open and bleed. Applied to a Leuce or lpotted Le- 
prolie, it kills the virulent Humor, and clears the 
Skin. 
XXXI. The DccoSlion. Ir has the Virtues of the 
liquid Juice and Effence, but not full out io effica- 
cious. It cures Scabs and Itch , they being often 
walked therewith ; and is good to take away Tan- 
nings, Sun-burnings, Freckles, Lentils, Yellownefs 
of the Skin, Scurff, Morphew, Efc. It is good al- 
fo to hinder the falling of the Hair, the Head being 
walked therewith warm and then afterwards to be- 
waflied again with warm Water. 
XXXII. The Ointment. It has all the Virtues of 
the Cataplafm, being anointed upon the Parts affe- 
£ted. The Cataplafm may alfo be made therewith, 
inftead of Hogs-Lard , by which means it will be 
yet fo much the more effectual. 
XXXIII. The difiilled Water of the whole Riant , 
whillt it is in flower, is fafe to all the Purpofes a- 
forefaid ^ and, as fome fay, is given with good Sue- 
cefs inwardly , with Species Lithontribon , to pro- 
voke Urine when it is ftopt, and to break the Stone : 
and being ufed as a Walh, it takes away molt of 
the ufual Deformities of the Skin. 
XXXIV. An Obfervation. Tho’ all thefe Prepa- 
rations and Virtues aforegoing, are applicable to all 
the hot, biting and exulcerating Crowfeet promif 
coufly, whether of the Land or Water, and that 
probably they may all do the fame things ^ yet they 
are generally and for the molt part predicated ( ex- 
cept in the Cafes where any particular one of them 
is named ) of the molt Common and Meadow Crow- 
foot. 
XXXV. Obferv. 1. That the Sweet Crowfoot , 
or that which has no lharp or biting Tafte, is held 
to be harmlefs, for the Germans , as Tragus fays, do 
eat it familiarly among other Herbs. Tragus alfo 
fays, That even this l'weet kind will difcufs and dif- 
folve hard Tumors in any Part of the Body, being 
applied. 
CHAP. CLXXVII. 
Of CROWN-IMPERIAL. 
I np H E Names. It has no Greek Name that we 
J know of : the Turks call it Tufai, Toufai, 
Tufchai , Turf an? and Turfandi : in Latin, Corona 
Imperuhs , Li Hum Byzantinum ■, Clufius will 
have it to be the Hemerocallis ot Dwfcondes : in 
Englijh , Crown Imperial. 
II. The Kinds. It is of the Stock or Kindred of 
Lillies -, and among the wonderful Variety of Lillies 
known at this day, of which fome are White, fome 
Orange Tawny, lbme Red, fome Yellow, lome 
Blulh, fome Purple, lbme Spotted, others without 
Spots ^ fome Handing upright, others turning down- 
wards, Efc. This Crown Imperial, for its excelling 
Beauty and Statelinefs, exaCts the firff place among 
them. Some have called it Lilium Rerficum , but 
there is another which is more ufually called by 
that Name, as lhall be fhewed hereafter * and there- 
fore we rather chufe to call it Corona. Imperialis , 
the Crown Imperial, than by any other Name, for 
that this Name is now alfo more generally received. 
It is a lingular Plant of the kind, yet fome will have 
it, that there is a Jingle and a double fort : but the 
Truth is, that as the Plant grows old, fo does it 
grow rich, bringing forth a Crown of Flowers a- 
mong the uppermolt green Leaves, which is, their 
double kind, altho’ indeed they are but one and the 
felf-fame Plant, which in time is thought to grow 
to a Triple Crown ail which is but accidental, and 
happens by the Age of the Root, and Fertility of 
the Soil. 
III. The Defcription. It has a thick, firm and 
[olid bulbous Root, covered with ayellowifh Film or 
Skin, compofed of fewer, but much thicker Scales 
than any other Lilly, except the Perlian, and does 
grow fometimes to be as great as a pretty big Childs 
Head, and fomewhat flat withal, from the fides 
whereof, and not from the bottom, it fhoots forth 
long thick Fibres, which perifh every Tear, having a 
hole in the midji thereof at the end of the Fear, 
when the old Stalk is dry and withered, and out of the 
which a new Stalk does Jpring again ( from a Bud or 
Head to be feen within the Hollo wnefs on the one 
fide) the following Tear : the Stalk then filling up the 
Hollownejs, 
