Salmon s Herbal. Lib. I. 
V. The Times. Ic flowers from the end of June 
to the end of Augufi, and the Seed is ripe foon after. 
VI. An Obfervation. Clujius fets forth another 
kind of Dyers On ■en-weal, which Dolonaw calls I 
alio Gen'f.t TinSrria ; but then it ought to be Oe- 
niftu Ttnihr'ui altera, h bar a thick and woody 
Hoot, which fends op Stalks, almofi like thofe of the 
Spanilh Broom. Upon thefe Branches do grow long 
■and fatall Leaves , like Flax, green on the upper 
fide, and of an hoary Jhining color on the other. The 
blowers grow at the lops of the Stalks Sptke-fajhion, 
which are in Color and barm like the former . But 
this Plant grows not commonly in England, ttnlefs it 
is planted by the Curious in their Gardens. 
VII. The Qualities, Specification , Preparations and 
Virtues of this our Common Dyers Green-weed, are 
the lame with thofe of out Common Broom , which 
we have already at large declared in chap. is,, fed. 7. 
ad 29. of this Book aforegoing, to which you are 
referred. 
VIII. An Obfervation. Tho’ the Medical Virtues 
of this Plant ate admirable, and not in the leaft in- 
terior to thofe of our Common Broom aforemention- 
ed ; yet the chief Ufe our People in England have 
of it, is, for Dying of Cloth, Stuffs, Silks, Yam, 
Woollen and Linnen, (Sc. lor the Dyers do Dye a 
vellowilh green Color with it, viz. with the Leaves 
and Stalks ; and therefore provide themfelves of it 
in great Stores : and for which Reafon, in fome 
places, whole Fields are fowed with it, as with the 
Luteo/a or Dyers-weed in the Chapter juft afore- 
going. 
CHAP. CCXXXVIII. 
Of EART H--B ALLS. 
H E Karnes. This kind of Plant is called in 
L Greek , vJbVy >y uVV*, ab imbribus ; vel, J/JV*, 
ab humore • in Latin , Tuber Terra, pi. Tubera Ter- 
r.t : in Arabic k, Ramcech , Alchamech , Tamer and 
Kern a : in Englijh , Earth-balls , and Under-ground 
Mufhromes. 
II. The Kinds. Matthiolus will have three forts 
of thefe Balls -, but then with the Tubera Cervina , 
there will be four. We divide them into two 
kinds, viz. i. Tuber Terra vulgare , The common 
Earth-ball. 7 . Tuber Cervinum , pi. Tubera Cervi- 
na , Deers Earth-balls. Of the Vulgar or Common 
Matthiolus makes three forts, viz. i. One whofe 
Pulp is white. 2. One whole Pulp is more brown •, 
and the Rinds of both of them black and full of 
Chaps. 2. One which is lefs pleafant or infipid 
in Tafte, and whofe Rind is fmooth and more 
brown. 
III. The Defcriptions. They , viz. the Common 
Earth-halls, have no Roots , but grow under Ground , 
viz. under the Superficies of the Earth , yet not clea- 
ring thereto , cau/mg it fometimes to /well , and Jcme- 
limes to break , gape or cleave , by which it is dif- 
cerned where they grow , being of a black or brown 
1 lor on the out fide, and of a f oft white Subfance 
within , having , a* John Baptifta Porta fays , under 
the outward Skin certain fmall black Subfiances , 
which are the Seed , ( tho' Pliny fays they have none.) 
I 'his Seed is like unto the Seed of the Cyprefs-tree, 
by which they not only propagate themfelves where 
they grow naturally •, but as it has been cjten obfer- 
i ied, they have fometimes been found growing where 
the Parings of them have been caji. TJfefe Tubera 
are unequally round, blackijh and rough, whofe Skins, 
Shells or Out fide s , are without Roots , fibres or 
Leaves -, and within, their Pulp is white or whi- 
tijh. 
A'cvtiBalh comm m 
JAartk JAalls Leers 
IV. T be Tubera Cervina, or Deers Earth-balls, 
which I fuvpofe Matthiolus intends in his Epifiles, 
lib. 3. Epin. ult. growing under Ground in the Woods 
of Bohemia, & c. are always unevenly round, and. 
rugged ■, their outward Skin is blackijh, and the in- 
ner Pulp or Subfance whitifh : while they are frefh 
they have a firong and evil Smell, which in drying, 
they loofe. 
V. The Places. The firft kinds grow plentifully 
in Tufcany, and feveral other places of Italy : they 
alfo grow in Spain, Germany, Prance and England, 
not only in dry and fandy Grounds, but alfo in fuch 
as are more moift, and in places where Shrubs grow, 
as in Copfes, Groves, Parks, woody Land, & c. The 
Deers Earth-balls grow alfo in Woods, and where 
Deer do much haunt, efpecially where they Couple, 
(as the former alfo do.) Hunts-men and Country 
People immagine, that thefe Deers-balls grow up 
out of the Sperm of thofe Beafts, which fometimes 
falls on the Ground others think, that they are 
firft produced by their Urine ^ but thefe are wild 
Conjectures and Country-mens Philofophy, and fo 
not much to be trufted to ^ however, it is probable, 
that in fome places that Beaft’s Urine, (Jc. may add 
to their Growth, and the Encreafe of their Sub- 
ftance. 
VI. The Times. They flourifh and encreafe in 
April, May and June, and are in Perfection in June , 
July and Augufi. 
VII. The Qualities. Galen and Matthiolus fay 
they have no manifeft Quality in them : Avicen fays 
they have a more earthy than watry Subftance, and 
fo abound more with l'aline than with fulphureous 
or 
