Chap. 227. EngUjl Herbs . 
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ittuch ; from whence five or fix little Leaves fpring 
forth ; /if S/</W is about fix or /even inches high, 
fit about with fomewhat leffer Leaves. The Tuft 
of Flowers at the top of the Stalk are of a purple 
color, fmall, with a white Lip, divided into four 
Partitions, hanging down, which is alfo fpotted 
lightly with purple. It has a little Spur hanging 
down on the hinder part of each Flower. The Seed 
is fmall, and contained in fuch twined Heads as in 
other Plants of this kind. 
XII. The Places. Thefe all grow in many places 
bf this Kingdom, in moift and fertile Meadows. 
The Marjb Dogs-ftones grow for the moll part in 
moift and waterilh Woods, as alfo in Marfh Ground. 
The laft grows in Auftria, Germany , Hungary, and 
in many places of England.. 
XIII. The Times. They flower from the begin- 
ning of May till the end of June -, but, Pays Gerard, 
to the end of Attguft. 
XIV. The futilities. Dogs-ftones are temperate 
in refpefl to Heat and Coldnefs, and the full TeJU- 
clc moift in the lecond Degree. The wrinkled or 
foft one temperate in relpefl to Drynefs or Moifture. 
The full Teflicle feems to be Digeftive, Diuretick, 
Hyfterick, Chylifick and Spermatogenetick. The 
fcjt or withred Stone is oppoiite to all the foregoing 
Qualities, and rarely ufed rhyfically. All the forts 
or kinds of Teftieuli provoke or ftir up Lull, and 
they are promifcuoufly ufed for that Purpofe ; but 
the bell and moll effe&ual for that Purpofe, are the 
Tefticuli Cttnini , of which the harder and fuller 
Bulb is to be chofen, as aforefaid. The fuller Root 
is not always the greater, but oftentimes the leffer, 
efpecially if they are gathered before the Plant has 
(hed its Flower, or when the Stalk firft comes up 
nor does it attain to be the greateft till the Seed 
comes to be perfectly ripe. For Ence that every 0- 
ther Year, by courfe, one Bulb or Stone grows full, 
the other empty, and fo periihes , it cannot be, that 
the harder and fuller of Juice Ihould be always the 
greater ; for at fuch time as the Leaves come forth, 
the harder and fuller Stone begins to encreale, and 
as that encreafes, fo the other, by little and little, 
decreafes and withers away, till the Seed is ripe, at 
what time the whole Plant above Ground does 
forthwith decay and perifh, and that which all this 
while has been encreafing , remains Hill ftelh and 
full till the next Year. 
XV. The Specification. They are peculiar for the 
curing Impotency in Men. 
XVI. The Preparations. You may have, 1. The 
EJfence. 2 . The Sanguis or Blood. 
The Virtues. 
XVII. The EJfence. Being taken daily, firft in 
the Morning falting, and laft at Night going to Bed, 
from one fpoonful to three in a Glafs of generous 
Wine, it not only provokes Lull, but it alfo takes 
away the Imbecility or Impotency of the Inftruments 
of Generation, but alfo promotes a plentiful Gene- 
ration of Seed. 
XVIII. The Sanguis or Blood. It has all the Vir- 
tues of the Effence, but is indeed more powerful to 
all the mentioned Intentions 5 it comforts and warms 
the Inftruments of Generation, making a liberal en- 
creafe of Animal Spirits, ftirring up the Perfon who 
takes it to an ardent defire of Coition. The Dole 
is one or two fpoonfuls in a Glafs of Madera or 0- 
ther generous Wine, Morning and Night. 
CHAP. CCXXVII. 
Of DOG S-T O O T H. 
I.'T 'HE Karnes. Some will have this to be 
J- tta'TVdiov licTfiiity, Diofcoridis, i. e. Satyrwn 
habeas Radicis Corticem rubrum , Diofic. lib. 3. cap. 
144. but this other Authors will not allow of : Par- 
kinfon will have that (and I believe rightly enough) 
to be our Tulip. Others will have this Plant to be 
a kind of Violet , ( tho’ there is nothing like a Violet 
in it ) and fo call it Dogs-tootb Violet. It is called 
it Latin , Dens caninus , Dentali Clufiti O’ Lobelii , 
Hermodaflylus Gefneri , Pfeudobermodailylt/s Mat- 
thioli ; and in Eng/ijh, Dogs-tootb. 
II. The Kinds. It is doubtlefs one of the kinds 
of Satyrwn, tho’ not the true Satyrion Diofcoridis, 
and our Moderns have given to it the Name of 
Dens caninus. It is threefold, viz. 1 . Dens caninus 
fiore albo, Dogs-tooth with a white Flower. 2. 
Dens caninus flore purpurafeente , Dogs-tooth with 
a purple Flower. 3. Dens caninus flore rub ro, Dogs- 
tooth with a red Flower. 
III. The Defcripdons. The firft , or White- 
flowred, has a white bulbed Root, long and fmall, yet 
commonly larger than either of the two following, big- 
ger below than above, with a fmall piece adjoining 
to the bottom of it. from this Root, in the beginning 
of the Spring , after the Winter-frofts are paft, two 
Leaves for the moft part ( very rarely three) rife up, 
when it will flower , (otherwife but one) which are 
clofei together when they firft come up out of the 
Ground, and enclofe the flower between them. The 
Leaves, when they are opened, do lay themfelves 
flat on the Ground, or not much above it, one op- 
pofite unto the other, with the Stalk, and the Flow- 
er upon it, Handing between them ; which Leave?* 
are of a whitifh green color, long and narrow, yet 
broader in the middle than at both ends, growing 
