i i 6 Salmon j- Herbal. Lib. I. 
der Strings grouting down words. The Fruit lprings 
forth at the top upon a fhort Stalk, together with 
one of the Leaves, being at the beginning covered 
with little white Threads, which are inttead of the 
Flowers, (fee the fecond Figure annexed-,) after 
that it grows into a Bunch or Clutter, at the firtt 
green, and when it is ripe, red letter than that ol 
Aron, but not lefs biting. The Leaves are broad, 
green i 111, fmooth and (hining as it were, in Fafhion 
almoft like thofe of Ivy, yet letter than thofe of ai- 
ron or Cuckow-point .* and. that Subttance to which 
the cluttred Fruit grows is alfo letter ^ and in that 
part which is towards the Fruit, viz. its upper part, 
it is white. 
Water Dragon-wort. 
IV. The Places. Water Dragon or Dragon-wort 
grows in martti and watry places, and for the molt 
part in fenny and Handing Waters in many parts of 
this Kingdom. 
V. Tbe Times. It flowers in July, and the Fruit 
is ripe in Auguft or September. 
VI. Tbe Vitalities , Specification , Preparations 
and Virtues , are the fame with the hrft and fecond 
kinds in the former Chapter, fo that no more need 
be Laid thereof in this place. 
chap, ccxxxi. 
Of DROPWORT Common. 
I. ,_ p' H E Names. It is called in Latin, Pi/ipcn- 
X dula, ( quod numerofi Hit in Radice bulbulli , 
quafi ex filo pendere vide ant ur • ) alfo Saxifraga ru- 
bra. , ( Red Break-ftone : ) in Englijh , Dropwort. 
II. The Kinds. It is threefold,^. i. QirimvJbvra, 
Nicholai Myrepfi, Prlipendula vulgaris , tilipendula 
major vulgaris , The common great Dropwort. 2. 
Pilipendula altera major, Another great Filipendula 
or Dropwort. 3. Pilipendula minor , Small Drop- 
wort. Some will have this Common Dropwort to be 
'OivavQn, Oenanthe Diofcoridis, in lib. 3 . cap. 132. but 
it is a Miftake. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firf 7, or Great com- 
mon Dropwort, bits a Root which confifis oj many 
/ mall , black, tuberous Pieces or Drops , jafined toge- 
ther by many final l, long , blackijh Strings , which 
run from one to another. Prom this Root Jhoot forth 
fever al long winged Leaves , viz. many fmall Leaves, 
fome bigger and fame .Seller, Jet on each fide of a 
'middle Rib , and each of them dented about the edges, 
almoji 
