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Salmon’/ Herbal. Lib. 1. 
Splinters ot Broken Bones, or any oilier thing fttck- 
ing in the fleih. If it is made with Cr dies it takes 
away the ruggednefs of the Nails. If it is made 
with Olibanum, Myrrh, and Wine, and applied to 
the forehead, it helps the Watering of the Eyes If 
it is made with Honey, Suet, and Bees Wax, and 
applied, it helps Struma’s, hard Kernels and Swel- 
lings under the Ears or Throaty it takes away alio 
Spots and Blemifhes of the Skin, Sunburnings, and 
other Difcolorings. 
XIV. The Oil by Expreffien. It is faid to be a 
Specifick for curing a Pleurifie, asalfo Stitches, Pe- 
ripneumonia’s, and other exquifite pains of the T bo- 
rax , giving it to fix or eight Ounces at a time, or 
more, and repeating the fame at due intervals of 
time fo long as need requires ; it is an excellent thing 
to anoint with, to mollifie the fhrinking and hard- 
nds of the Nerves, Tendons, or Mufcles, foften 
anv hard Swelling, and to give eafe, and cure the 
Piles, Chaps of the Fundament; to foften the hard- 
nefs thereof, and eafe the pain it alio foftens the 
hardnefs of the Mother ; if it is beaten with Red 
Rofe Water, or rather with Water, in which Nitre, 
or Saccharum Saturni has been diffolved, and then 
be applied to Burnings and Scaldings, it cures them ; 
it is good to burn in Lamps, and will burn longer 
than Oil Olive will, yet it makes much moreSmoak 
and Soot: befides all thefe things, it is of excellent 
ufe for Painters to make their Drying Oil of, and 
to mix their Colors with to be applied to Cloth, or 
Wood or Stone, Iron, Copper, or Glafs, Etc. 
XV T he Fumigation. If a Woman fits over the 
Fumes' of the DecoSion of the Seed in Water, or 
in Water and Vinegar, it foftens the hardnefs of the 
Womb, and eafes the pains of the Mother. 
good Order, by couples, one oppofite againlf ano- 
ther. At the tops of the fmall Branches the Flow- 
ers grow, of a white color, confuting of five fmall 
Leaves apiece, the Nails whereof are yellow. In 
the infide are placed fmall (hort Chives alfo of a 
yellow color ; after which come up little Knobs or 
Buttons, the tops of which, when the Seed is ripe, 
divide themfelves into five parts, in which is con- 
tained linall, fmooth, flat, llippery yellow Seed. 
When the Seed is ripe, the whole Herb perilhes. 
The Plant is of a bitter Tafte and herby Smell. 
IV. The feconi , or White Wild Flax, has a Root 
which is tough and finally and grows like , and has 
Leaves like unto the Manured Flax, but narrower , 
and growing upon round , bright and /Joining Stalks , 
a foot long , having Flowers like the Manured Flax, 
but of a white color. But this Plant is fometimes 
found with deep blew Flowers, with Violet colored 
Flowers, and fometimes with white Flowers, Itrea- 
ked with purple Lines. 
CHAP. CCLXVIII. 
Of FLAX Wild. 
1. TT 1 H E Names. It is called in Greek , Mm 
L iyexw : in Latin , Lmum fylveftre , Linum 
twrefte -, and in Englijh , Wild Flax. 
II. The Kinds. There are feveral kinds of this 
Plant, as, I. Linum fylvejireCatharticum , Linum 
Anghcum , Our Englilh Wild Flax, nr Purging Wild 
Flax, called by the Country People, Mtl-Mountain. 
2. Linum fylveftre angufiifolium floribus alb is , v el 
Cvru/eis , White Wild Flax. 3 - Linum fylveftre 
tenuifo/ium , Thin or Narrow-leav’d Wild Flax. 4. 
Linum fylveftre latifolium floribus Ccerulek , Broad- 
leav’d Wild Flax, blew-fiowted. 5. Lmum fylve- 
ftre latifolium floribus Lutein , Broad-leav’d Wild 
Flax yellow-Howred. 6 . Cbameelinum perpucillum , 
Linum fylveftre pumilum , Dwarf Wild Flax. 7. 
Linum Jylveftre vu/gatius. The more common Wild 
Flax. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft, or Purging 
Wild Flax, bar a crooked Root, which is fmall, white 
and fibrous, which fends forth fometimes one , but 
■mofl commonly five, fix or more round Stalks, about 
eight, ten,or twelve inches high , of a brown or red - 
difh color -, every Stalk dividing it felf near the top, 
or front the middle upwards into many Branches , of 
a greener color than the lower part of the Stalk. 
The Leaves are fmall, fmooth, and of a green color, 
of the bignels of Lentil Leaves, and have in the 
middle one Rib or Nerve, and no more that may 
be perceived, and grow along on the Stalk, in very 
%/ilcLFlai 
V. The third, or Thin or Narrow leav’d Wild 
Flax, has a lough fender Root, with fSveral Fibres 
adjoining to it, which fends forth many Stalks , fur- 
nifhed With narrow thin Leaves : the Flowers con- 
fift of five Leaves apiece, of a light Purple 01 Fleih 
color, which do foon fade and hill away. Tha 
Stalks are of about a Cubic in height, belet with 
fmall Leaves; yea leffer than thole of Linaria pur- 
purea. The whole Plant is very like to the Common 
Manured Flax , but in eve iy relpeft leifer. 
VI. The fourth, or Broad-leav’d blew-fiowred, 
has a Root Which is great, and lives after Seed-time , 
/booting forth new Stalks , with woolly Leaves on 
them , and fo abides alltheWinter. This Root, fays 
Gerard, does continue many Years without Sowing, 
encreafing by its Root into many other Stalks, ri- 
fing up with many thick, lliff and hairy Branches, 
fometimes with but one, and fometimes with more, 
a foot, or foot and halt high, and fcefet with many 
rough and hairy broad Leaves, (btoaderthan in any 
of the other forts.) The Stalks towards their tops 
branch themfelves out, and are befet vtdth finaller 
Leaves than thofe below. At the tops of the Stalks 
do 
