Chap. 3 i 1 . ‘Englijh Herbs. 
Root, in fhape tike the former , but of the three fe- 
ver al Coals , the outwardmoj} is reddifh, and is en- 
creafed by Off-fets , yet is not parted into Cloves, as 
the Garden Garlick is. The Plant is of fuch a ftrong 
Garlick Smell, that the Milk of Cows which feed 
thereot will talte ol it. From this Root fpring up 
feveral narrow Leaves, and long, like Grafs, fofter 
than the former, and nothing near fo Itift' ; and a- 
mong thefe Leaves rife up one or two llender bare 
Stalks, not fo hard and ftiff as the firft, but bearing 
at their tops, like Tufts of purplilh Flowers, and 
blackifh Seed. 
V. The Places. Crow Garlick grows in fertile 
Paltures thro’ all England : Gerard found it plen- 
tifully in Fields on the backfide of Iflmgton near 
London : and I found it in feveral places by the 
Way-fide, in thofe Fields or Paftures beyond lj Ting- 
ton, leading to the Boariei-River , or Hornfey- 
Wood. 
VI. The Times. They fpring up in April and 
May ; flower in June and July, and their Seed is 
ripe in A iigiiii. 
VII. The Qualities, Specification, Preparations and 
Virtues of thefe, are the fame with thofe of the 
Common Garden Garlick in Chap. 307. aforegoing : 
but Galen fays, That Crow Garlick is Stronger, and 
of more Force than th s Garden. I can fay little to 
this Opinion of Galen's ; but this I know, That be- 
ing bruifed and infufed in White Lisbon or Port 
Wine, and being drank, it provokes Urine power- 
fully, gives prelent Eafe in the Strangury , and is 
faid to break the Stone, and drive it out •, but this 
is to be underftood when it is made of a friable 
gritty Subftance, not when it is hard and folid, like 
a Flint. The Leives of both forts are gathered and 
cut or ftampt and eaten by feveral People for Sawce, 
as we eat green Sawce made with Sorrel : and fome 
People, which love Garlick or ftrong Onions, will 
eat their Roots in April and May, with frelh Butter 
and Bread, or new Cheefe, juft as we eat young 
Onions in the Spring. 
CHAP. CCCXI. 
4 H 
major Concava , Great Concave or Hollow Gentian, 
or Englifh Gentian. There are three other Species 
of Great Gentians, as, Flore albo, White-flowered - 
Flore palhdo punliato , Pale yellow-lpotted $ Flore 
c&ruleo , Blew-flowered ^ all which differ nothing 
in Root, Stalk, Leaf^ Magnitude or Manner or 
Growing from the firft Furple kind , but only in the 
Color of the Flowers but by reafon they are not 
fo ufually found in our Gardens as the other kinds, 
we fftall fay no more of them in this place. 
Greater Furple Gentian , 
AND 
Greater Yellow Gentian. 
Of GENTIAN Great, 
0 R, 
Great FELWORT. 
1. npifE Names. This Plant is called in Ara- 
X tick , Gentiana feu Gentbiana : in Greek , 
TvntAvti : in Latin, Gentiana and in Englifh , Bald- 
money Baldmoyne , Bitterwort , Felwort , and Genti- 
an. Ic was called Gentian from Gentius , King of 
Illyria , who Was the firft Finder of it out, and the 
firft who ufed it in Phyfick, and fo called it Genti- 
ana, after his own Name. 
II. The Kinds. There dre two generick Species 
of this Plant, viz. 1. rw 7 j*vh Gentiana mag-\ 
nus vel major , The great or Greater Gentian, of 
which in this Chapter. 2. revyxvfi ia/k^, Gentiana 
parva vcl minor , The leffer Gentian , of which in 
the next Chapter. 
HI. The Kinds of the Greater. It is, 1 . Gcn- 
tiana major Jlore purpureo , Great purple Gentian. 
2. Gentiana major flore flavo, Great Gentian with 
a yellow Flower. 3. Gentiana major folio Afclepi- 
aiis. Great Swallow-wort Gentian. 4. Gentiana 
IV. The Defcriptions. The firft , or Great pur- 
ple Gentian, is very like to the next Great yellow 
Gentian in mofi things , having a great , thick , 'brown- 
ijh yellow Root , divided into two or three great 
Branches , with great Fibres adjoining to them , but 
a little more hard and woody, of a very bitter Tafie , 
like the other Gentians, which fends forth at the fe- 
veral Heads thereof many fair, broad, three-ribbed \ 
dark , green, fhining Leaves, fo like unto the follow- 
ing, that it is Jomewhat hard to diftinguijh them : 
many of thefe Heads among the Leaves fhoot forth 
thick and ftrong Stalks, three or four Feet high, 
with feveral Joints on them , and two Leaves at 
them, one againft another : towards the tops where- 
of come forth the Flowers, encompafling the Stalks 
at two or three of the uppermoft Joints, with two 
Leaves apiece under them, like as in the following, 
which are not laid open Star-fafhion, like the TeL 
low, but keep dofe and hollow, the brims beiPg 
only divided into fix or more round parts, of a pur- 
ple color, but paler at the bottom, where they are 
fpotted with purple Spots on the infide, having fo 
many yellowifh Threads in the middle as the Flow- 
er has corners, Handing about a long, green, forked 
Head, which growing ripe, is the Seei-Veflel, and 
contains therein fuch like flat brownilh Seed as in 
the Fellow kind, but fomewhat lefs. 
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