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(•ram in White Wine, and repeated as the Midwtie 
fhall fee occalion. 
XIV. The Oil or Ointment . It is made by bod- 
ing the bruited Root either in Oil or in Hogs Lard 
till it is crifp, and fo [training it our, and repeating 
the boiling with frefh Roots, in like manner, tWo or 
three times. They are laid to be excellent for heal- 
ing fimple green Wounds and Punctures (tho o. 
the Nerves) in any part. It to every pound ot the 
Oil or Ointment a quarter ot a pound ot Turpentine 
be added, it then proves an excellent thing to digelt, 
cleanle, incarnate, dry and heal old running Sores 
and putrid Ulcers. 
XV. The Mixture. Take Voider of F cm Roots' 
( Male or Female ) one dram , Scammony or Black 
Hellelior Roots in fine ponder fifteen grains : mix 
them for a Dofie. It efteftually kills Worms in the 
Stomach or Belly of what kind foever : it alfo brings 
away the After-birth of Women in Labor. 
XVI. The A flies. Country People make them of 
green tern, and ufe them inltead of Soap to wafh 
their Cloaths withal -, for with the Salt of Fern- 
Alhes much Soap is made. A Salt alfo for making 
of fair Crvftaline Glafs and Cryital is made of thefe 
Allies. They ufe them in Spain , and the Afhes or 
’Salt they make of tern , is that they call Barilla , 
which is profitable not only for making Soap, Glals, 
Cryital, &c, but for many other Phylical Ufes, as 
to break and diffolve the Stone, or fandy and gra- 
velly Concretions. See the eighth Edition of our 
Folygraphice , lib. io. cap. i . felt. 8, 9, 1 2, ad 1 8. 
CHAP. CCLX. 
Of FERN Oak. 
I. H E Names. It is called in Greek , A f verfteit : 
1 i n Tat in, filix Querna velgjiercina •, fyuarfsetf 
Orobafii, quaji Filix mufeofa ■, and in Englifh , Oak 
tern : but here is to be noted, that there is another 
fort of Oak tern, called Fo/ypodie , which is no 
Species of the Plant we here intend ■, and therefore 
fhall fay nothing of it in this place. 
II. The Kinds. This Oak tern is threefold, viz. 
], A^voTrfiM tilix fpjierna repens. Try opt e ris 
re pens Lobe hi, Matthioli, Gefneri aliorumque -, Dry- 
opteris Jive tilix arborea Tragi -, Pterion tcemina 
Cordi & Thalii, Creeping Oak Fern. 2. < 
A5ux.il, Dryoptcris alba, Dryoptcris Candida Dodonxi, 
Adianthum album Flinii, Addiant um jilicis folio Bau- 
hini. White Oak Fern. 3. Onopteris mas , Black 
Oak Fern. 
III. The Defcriptions. The fir ft, or Creeping 
Oak Fern, has a Rout which is Jmall and blackifh, 
creeping under the upper Cruft of the Earth, with 
fever al Jmall black Fibres growing from it, and is 
fomewhat like unto the Root of Polypodie, but much 
f mailer and (lender er, and of a more harfih, aujtere 
and Jtyptick Tafte. From this Root fpring forth fe- 
veral Lender blackifh Stalks, little more than half a 
foot high, bearing many fmall winged Leaves, each 
branding againft the other, fomething like to thofe 
of the Female tern, but much fmaller and finer, and 
of a darkiili green color •, the backfide of which are 
not brown, but with white Spots on them, let in a 
double Row, as Lobe l affirms. 
IV. The ficcond, or White Oak Fern, has a thick 
Root, having a Bunch or Knot of blackifh - fibres or 
Threads growing forth from it, fo many as even to 
obfeure the thick part thereof. From the Head of 
this Root fpring up many Stalks of winged Leaves, 
but not much higher than the former, feldom ex- 
ceeding feven or eight inches in Height ■, but the 
Leaves upon the Wings are broader than the other, 
and fhorter alfo more deeply cut in on the edges : 
they are likewife of a much paler green color, and 
fpotted on the backfide with Spots fomething like 
to thole of the Male Fern. 
V. The third, or Black Oak Fern, is both Male 
and Female : the Male has a Root made up of many 
Strings, not much unlike the firft Male Fern, but 
lejfer . From the Head of this fpring forth feveral 
Stalks of winged Leaves, which are diverfly, but 
not fo finely indented : the Stalks and the Ribs of 
the Leaves are blackifh, but the Leaves themfelves 
of a deep green color. The Female black Oak tern 
is almoft like to the Male, faving that its Leaves 
are not fo fharp at the Points, and are more white 
and broad than the Male, in which confifts the chief 
Differences. 
VI. An Obfervation . The firft of thefe deferibed 
at fed. 3. above, fome Authors lay, 1. does fold its 
Roots among themfelves , like the Roots of Polypodi- 
um, but they are not above the Bignefs of a Wheat 
Straw, coal black without, white within, and about 
fix or feven inches long, having an innumerable 
company of fmall Fibres like Hairs growing thereto, 
and is of an aftringent Talte, enclining to Sweet- 
nefs. 2. That the Stalks fpring from the Roots in 
feveral places, variable in number, according to the 
Length and Encreafe of the Root : fome Plants have 
but one or two Stalks of Leaves, others again have 
fix, eight, ten, fourteen or fifteen, &c. 3. That 
the Stalk has a twofold Divifion , firft the Stalk grow- 
ing from the Root fix or feven inches high and no 
higher, (and yet fome Authors fay it is about a 
foot high : ) fecondly, the Nerve bearing the Leaves : 
the main Stalk is no bigger than a Grafs Stalk or 
Bent, flat on the one fide and round on the other, 
fmooth and green. 4. That the firfl pair of Nerves 
grow 
