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Salmon s 'Herbal Lib. L 
Nerves and Tendons-, and given inwardly from ten 
ro twenty or thirty drops, (dropr firft into fine White 
Sugar) mixed with a Glals ot White Port Wine, it 
facilitates the Birth, brings away the Afterbirth, or 
Dead Child, opens Obftrucfions of the Reins, Ure- 
ters, and Bladder, and brings prefent Relief in the 
Strangury, caufed by fmall Stones, Sand, Gravel, 
or Tartarous Matter lodged in thole parts. 
C H A P. CCLXXIII. 
O/FLEABANE the Leffer. 
1 . np H E Karnes. It is called in Greek K w 
I . *&.$ in Latin Conyza minor , and in Englijh 
Fleabane the leffer. 
II. The Kinds. It is the fecond Species of Flea- 
bane, and is twofold, viz. i. Conyza fesmina Theo- 
phraffi , Conyza minor vera Diofcoridk, Pena , Clufij, 
Gef neri, & aliorum , The true leffer Fleabane of Di- 
oj cor id is. 2. Conyza car idea acris , Tinilorius flos 
alter Tragi , Conyza odor at a carulca, Erigeron quan- 
tum Dodonai , Dentelaria Gefncri , Conyza muralis, 
& Conyzoidcs Car idea Gefncri, Conyza Car u lea Ta- 
ber namontani-, Amellus Mont anus Columna ■, Blew 
floured Fleabane. There are are fome others of 
this leffer kind, but they are not at all to be met 
with in England. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft, or true fmall 
Fleabane, has a Root which is fingle, fmall and fen- 
der, with a few Fibres thereat, which pertjhes every 
Tear. This Root fends forth feldom more than one 
Stalk, which is about a Foot and half high, fometimes 
not above a Foot, and fometimes not a Foot high, ac- 
cording to the goodnefsof the Soil it is planted in : 
It is lomewhat hairy and glutinous, or clammy, as 
the true greater Fleabane, but greener than that 
great kind. This Stalk is divided into many branches, 
which are alfo rough and glutinous. The Leaves 
are long and narrow ^ fomewhat like thofe of Lina- 
ria, or Flaxweed, but three times lefs than thofe of 
the greater Fleabane in Chap. 272. Sell. 4. afore- 
going, and are hairy and un&ious or clammy al- 
fo. With the fmall Leaves, at the tops of the 
Branches come forth fmall pale yellow Flowers, 
which are leffer, and lefs (Lining than in the faid 
greater Fleabane, which paffing away, the Heads are 
turned into Down, and are carried away with the 
Wind, as the others are. This whole Plant fmells 
fweeter than molt of the others do, and dies every 
Year, and raifes it felf of its own Sowing, or elle 
mult be new Sown every Year. 
IV. The fecond, or Blew flowred Fleabane, has 
a fmall Fibrous and yellozo Root, of a very hot and 
biting tafte, which Jrom its Head fends up fever al 
long ijh Leaves, fomewhat like thofe of the Garden 
Laijie, but a little wnthed : The Stalk is about 
half a Lard high , and Jet alternately with twined 
long iff>, narrow, and fomewhat rough Leaves, of an 
overworn green colour. Some Authors lay, the 
Stalk grows fometimes to be about two Feet high, 
brownifh at the bottom, and is fet here and there 
up to the top, with longer and narrower Leaves, 
where it is divided into fmall and fhort Branches 
on which grow many Flowers one above another, 
in fmall, longifh, fcaly green Heads or Husks, 
compoled of many fmall and narrow, blewilh pur- 
ple Leaves, fomething white at the ends or tips, 
with a fmall yellow fiat Thrum in the middle ; in 
which middle, there arifes up leveral white threads, 
whereby each flower, conlifting of three colors, 
White, Purple, and Yellow $ makes it feem the 
more deleffable to behold. After thefe Flowers 
pals away, there comes in thofe Husks or Heads 
which held them, fmall, long Seed, lying in the 
Down, each having fome thereof at its Head, 
which together there ( when ripe ) is blown a- 
way with the Wind, if not gathered. The whole 
Plant is of a lharp talle, but the Root much more, 
and is nearly as hot as Pepper, of a ltrong, but not 
unpleafant l'mell. 
V. The Places. The firft grows in Syria rnd 
Greece, alfo in Spain near Madrid as Clufius fays; 
and in the Woods at Gram ants near Mompelier, as 
both he and Lobel fay. The fecond was found in 
divers places of the Kindgdom of Naples, in moift 
Fields which are in the Mountains, as Columna fays, 
as alfo in Sandy places near the River Rhofne by 
Lions in France, and upon the Alps in Auftria as 
Clufius fays. It grows upon many Chalky Hills irt 
England -, and Gerard fays, that he in the Compa- 
ny of George Bowles and fome others, found it near 
Farmingham in Kent-, and one William Broad found 
it growing at the Block-houfe at Gravcfend. The 
firft grows with us only in Gardens. 
VI. The Times. The firft Flowers in June and 
July : the fecond in Auguft , whofe Flowers turn 
quickly into Down, and are carried away with the 
Wind. 
VII. The Vitalities, Specification, Preparations, 
and Virtues are the fame with the True greater 
Fleabane in the former Chapter, to which we now 
refer you ^ but with this Obfervation, that thele 
leffer Fleabanes , are much more efficacious to all 
the purpofes aforementioned ^ and are much more 
powerful and effe&ual to help any Flux, or bloody 
Flux of the Bowels. 
VIII. Kota. The Root of the Blew flowred, be- 
ing held in the Mouth, abfolutely Cures the Tooth - 
ach. 
CHAP. CCLXXIV. 
Of FLEABANE Dwarf. 
I. /_ l _r HE Names. It is called in Greek, K e/ifa 
X jc, vetvu Xm, x) Xa.ucux.oti(cL ; hi Larin Cony- 
za Pumila, Chamaconyza : in Englijh Dwarf Flea- 
bane. 
IT. The Kinds. This is the third Species of 
Fleabane : And it is two fold, viz. 1. Conyza Pu- 
mila, Conyza minor Tragi , Matthioli , Conyza mini- 
ma Lobelii i J Dodonei ■, Our Vulgar Dwarf Flea- 
bane. 2. Conyza minor Rauwoljii , Conyza minor Sy- 
riaca, Syrian fmall Fleabane. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft, or Vulgar Dwarf 
Fleabane, has a fmall and Fibrous Root, f rom whence 
arifes a branched Stalk, about a Foot high. Jet with 
fmall longifh Leaves, fomewhat roundifh pointed, 
foft alfo and woolly, with a Smell not unpleafant as 
fome of thofe going before. The Flowers are reple- 
nilhed with many yellow Threads, like to the mid- 
dle part of Camomil Flowers, or thofe of Tan- 
fie -, and as the former turn into Down, and are 
carried away with the. Wind 
IV. The 
