Chap. 257. ‘Englijb Herbs. 
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is Emollient, and waftes away hard Swellings. If 
it is made with Vinegar and Nitre, it cools all man- 
ner of Inflammations, foftens hard Tumors, and 
caufes them to wafte away, it eafes the Pain , and 
foftens the Hardnefs of the Spleen. Applied to the 
running Sores of the Head, called “Asa’s", Achores , 
it cleanfes, dries and heals them : and if it is alfo 
applied to weak and feeble Parts, whether ulcera- 
ted or not ulcerated, it ftrengthens them ; and if 
ulcerated, cleanfes, dries and heals them. Made 
with Linfeed and Marjh Mallow Roots, it is an ex- 
cellent Emollient, and alfo a Maturative, where the 
Tumor will be brought to Suppuration. The Meal 
beaten up with Goofe-Greafe made into a PefTary, 
and put up the Womb, foftens the Hardnefs there- 
of, opens its ObftruHions, and mollifies all the Parts 
adjacent to it. Made into a Cataplafm, by boiling 
it up with the bell White Wine Vinegar, and appli- 
ed to the Tefticles, it is an excellent thing to foften 
and abate any hard Tumor or Swelling there, and to 
eafe the Pains thereof. Applied alfo to the Joints, 
it eafes the Pains of the Gout. 
XVI. T be liquid. Juke of the. Leaves. Phyficians 
feldom ufe any thing of this Plant befides the Pulfe 
or Seed ; yet Experience has informed us, that if 
the Juice of the Leaves is taken with Honey, that 
it purges the Body by Stool from all corrupt and 
obftruflive Humors, cleanfes the Stomach and Bow- 
els, and by reafon of its mucilaginous Subftance, al- 
leviates the Sharpnefs of the Juices, and eafes the 
Tortions of the Guts : and by reafon of its clean- 
ling and fcouring Faculty, it expeftorates tough and 
(harp Humors out of the Bred and Lungs : this it 
more effeffually Performs, if it is made into a Lo- 
hoch, with Pulp of fat Dates. 
Joints Flowers like to thofe of the Gul den kin /, 
but which were lelfer, and alfo Handing fingles 
which being pals’d away, Cods or Horns fucceed, 
which are broader and more Hat, and ending in a 
fmall Thread, in which is contained the Seed, which 
is alfo lefs. 
V. The Places. They both grow Wild in Spain 
and Italy , but with us are only nurs’d up in Gar- 
dens. 
VI. Tiie Times. They flower with us. in July, 
and the Seed is ripe in Auguji or September. 
VII. The Qualities, Specification, Preparations and 
Virtues of thefe , ate not declared by any Author ; 
but if one may make a Judgment by the Form, 
Smell, Talte, Subftance and mucilaginous Proper- 
ties of the Herbs and their Seed, they differ not from 
thofe of the Garden kind in Chap. 25 6. aforego- 
ing. 
CHAP. CCLV1II. 
Of FERN Male. 
L'~Y'HE Names. This Plant is called in Ara- 
1 bickj Sarax : in Greeks £ ^} r nv ov -> ^ 5 " 
caufe the Leaves are like to the Wings of Birds : in 
Latin , Pihx ; and in Englifh, Pern. 
yiiat Feme 
CHAP. CCLVII. 
Of FENUGREEG Wild. 
I.'T 'HE Names. It is called in Greek, T few 
A iyfiit ■ in Latin , plenum Gnecum fylveftre ; 
and in Englifh , Wild fenugreek. 
II. The Kinds. It is twofold, viz. I. Plenum 
Grcecum fylvefire majus , The greater Wild Foenu 
greek. 2. Plenum Grcecum fylvefire minus , The lef- 
ler Wild Fcenugreek. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft , or Greater 
Wild kind, has a Root which is thick, tough and pli- 
ant , having fome fibres adjoining thereto , jrom 
which fpring forth fever al Stalks, which are round, 
and fpread themfelves forth into many Branches, 
which are full of Knees or Joints , not much unlike 
to the Garden kind. From each Joint proceeds a 
fmall tender Foot-ftalk, upon which do grow three 
Leaves, and no more, fomewhat fnipt about the 
edges, like as the former, or fomewhat like to thofe 
of Saint pome or Burgundy Hay : and from the fame 
Joints alfo come forth fmall yellow Flowers , like 
unto the Manured, which Itand more together at 
the end, bringing forth fmall long Cods, like thofe 
of the Garden, and which contain within them 
fmaller and darker Seed. 
IV. The fecond, or Leller Wild kind, has a rough 
creeping Root, with fome pibres thereat ; from the 
Head of which Root rifes up but one Jlender Stalk, 
and but feldom branched, of about a foot high, and 
fcaly, as it were , at the bottom -, upon which does 
grow fitch like Leaves as the former and at the 
II. The Kmdsi There are many kinds of Fern, 
as, 1. F Mix Mas, called by Nicander in T beriacis, 
jSiiim, Male Fern, ( and. yet this very 
Species Anguilara, Ccefalpinus and Gejner call Pai- 
mina) of which we (hall treat in this Chapter, i, 
pi/ix Fcemina, Female Fern; of which in Chap. 25 y. 
3. p'ilix Querna, Oak Fern, of which in Chap. 260. 
4. Fi/ix Saxatilis , Rock 01 Stone Fern, of which in 
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