i it:.',. 
Salmon s ‘.Herb ah 
June and July , and the Seed ripens in the mean 
time. 
VII. T he Qualities, Specification , P reparations 
and. Virtues of both thefe, are the fame with the 
two former in the Chapter juft aforegoing, fo that; 
no more need be faid thereof in this place : but this 
is to be noted. That thefe two Plants fall no ways 
below the other two, in their Power, Force and 
Efficacy. 
CHAP. CCLI. 
Of F E N N Y-S TONES, 
o R, 
MARS H-P ALMS. 
I.^^p HE Nantes. 
We know of no Greek Name 
belonging to them : but in Latin they are 
called, Serapias , vel Orchis palufiris , and Orchis 
palmata palufiris: in Englijh , Fenny-fiones , and 
Paln/eJ Fenny-fiones , or Mar fh-P alms. 
II. The Kinds. There are feveral kinds of them, 
as, i. Serapias vel Orchis palmata palufiris latijo- 
lia , Fenny or Marfh handed Stones with broad 
Leaves. 2. Serapias vel Orchis palmata palufiris 
Leptophylla , Thin-leav’d Fenny or Marfh handed 
Orchis or Stones. 3. Serapias vel Orchis palmata 
palufiris loevifolia , Marfh or Fenny handed Orchis 
fmooth-leav’d. 4. Serapias vel Orchis palmata pa- 
lufiris maculata , Spotted Marfh or Fenny handed 
Stones. 5. Serapias vel Orchis palmata palufiris 
Dracontias , Marfh or Fenny Dragon handed Orchis 
or Stones. 6 . Palma Chrifti palufiris maxima , The 
greateft Fenny handed Stones. 7. Palma Chrifii pa- 
lufiris radice repent e , Creeping Fenny or M; 
Palms. 
long Divifions at the bottoms of the Hands -, the top 
oj the Root is thick and knobby , divided into lingers , 
like thofe of Palma Chrifti, of which this may be 
/'aid to be a kind. From this Root rife up thick, 
fat and fpongy Stalks, fct with broad, lmooth, green 
Leaves, like thofe of P Untune, but much longer-, 
thele are growing in order upon the Stalk, even 
from the bottom to the top or beginning of the 
Spike of. Flowers, growing fmaller as they grow 
higher, and appear nearer to the Spike. The Tuft 
or Spike of Flowers is large, confifting of many fmall 
hooded Flowers, of a lomewhat whitifh or pale 
blulh color, fpotted within with deep purple Spots, 
the backfides of which Flowers are of a Violet color 
mixt with purple : and every Flower, at its riling 
up from the Stalk, has a fmall greeniffi Leaf accom- 
panying it. 
IV. The fecond, or Thin-leav’d Fenny handed 
Stones, has Roots exaflly like to thofe lafi defcribed •, 
the Stalk is alfo like but it differs from the former 
fomething in the Leaves , for in this Plant they are 
fmaller, being neither fo broad nor yet fo long, 
fometimes fpotted, but more ufually without •, nei- 
ther is the fpiky Tuft of Flowers fo large or long, 
tho’ they are thick fet, like the firft, nor has it fo 
many green Leaves or long Leaves mixed with, or 
growing between the Flowers, which are of a Violet 
purple color, but not altogether of fo dark a purple 
as the former are. 
V. The third, or Fenny or Marfh handed Stones 
fmooth-leav’d, has a handed and fingred Root , with 
fome Strings adjoined to the upper parts of them, like 
unto the two others : the Stalks are much alike : the 
Leaves are like the lafi, but fmaller and narrower, 
and without Spots : and the Flowers are of a whitifh 
color, but more purely white ^ the Flowers and the 
whole Plant being in Magnitude, Shape or Form, 
and Manner of Growing, but little differing from 
the others. 
VI. The fourth , or Fenny or Marfh handed Stones 
fpotted, has a Root fafhioned like a Hand, with fome 
Strings fafined to the upper parts thereof : from the 
Head of which Root rifes up a fair ftiff Stalk, 
armed with large Leaves, very notably dafht with 
blackifh Spots, clipping or embracing the Stalk 
round about. At the top of the Stalk ftands a fair 
Tuft or Spike of purple Flowers, with many green 
Leaves mingled among the fame, which makes the 
Bufh or Tutt much greater. The Seed is nothing 
elfe but Duft, as it were, (like all the reft of the 
kinds) and is contained in fmall twined Veffels, 
which Veffels are not peculiar to this alone, but 
common to moft of the other Orchides * 
VII. The fifth, or Fenny or Marfh Dragon-handed 
Stones, hatt cleft or divided Roots , like lingers, 
much like unto the Roots of Palma Chrifti, of which 
this is a kind -, and from this Root rifes up a Stalk 
of a foot high, fet here and there with very fair 
Lilly like Leaves, of a red color, and which do clip 
or embrace the Stalks almoft round about, like the 
Leaves of Thorow-wvx. At the top of the Stalk 
grows a fair Buffi of very red Flowers, among 
which Flowers do grow many fmall ffiarp-pointed 
Leaves. The Seed is a thing hard or difficult. to be 
obferved, being much like Duft, which is blown a- 
way with the Wind. 
VIII. The fixth , or Greateft Fenny handed Stones, 
commonly called. Great Fenny or Marfh Palma Chri- 
fti, has handed Roots, like to the others, from which 
rifes up a large Stalk , fometimes to the height of 
three feet : the Leaves are much like to thofe of the 
former kinds of Fenny-fiones before defcribed ^ and 
the Growing on a large fpiky Head are of an elegant 
purple, with little Hoods, like the top of an Hel- 
met ■, wffience Gemma called the Plant, Cynoforchis 
[_ Conopfcea , 
