Salmon ’ s Herbal . Lib. L 
V. Lbefecond, or Great Gentian with a yellow 
Flower, hu a R out which is great, thick and long, 
\ allow, and very inter, iron this Root rtfes up at 
fir ft a long, round and pointed Head oj Leaves, clo- 
'fug one another, which , after opening ihcmfelves. 
Upon the Ground, and are fair, long and broad 
fomewhat plaited or ribbed, hike unto the Leaves oj 
'White Hellebor, but not Jo fairly or eminently flatt- 
ed „or fo If iff, but rather refembling the Leaves oj 
a Great Plantane ; from among which rife .up 4 
ft iff round Stalk, three Feet or more high, and lull 
of Joints, having two fitch Leaves, but narrower, 
and fmaller at every Joint, fo encotnpafling the 
Stalk at their lower ends, that they will almolt 
hold Water, if it tails upon them. From the mid- 
dle of the Stalk to the top it is garnilhed with ma- 
ny Coronets or Rundles of Flowers, with two fitch 
green Leaves likewife at every Joint, and wherein 
the Flowers do ftand, which are yellow, and when 
laid open like Stars, rifing out of fmall greemfh 
Husks, with fome Threads in their middle, but ha- 
ving no Smell at all, yet (lately to behold, as well 
for the Order as for the Height and Proportion ol 
the Plant. The Seed is brown and flat, contained 
in round Heads, fomewhat like unto the Seed of 
the tritillary or Chequered Diffodil, but browner. 
Sivallorv-wort Gentian. 
VI. T he third, or Great Swallow-wort Gentian, 
has Roots, but they are nothing fo large .11 the for- 
mer, but are yellow, fmall anil long, of the Bignrfs 
of a Man's Thumb : from this Root fpring forth ma- 
ny Stalks, about two Feet high , on which grow many 
fair, pale, green Leaves, Jet by couples, with three 
Ribs in every one of them, refembling fomewhat the 
Leaves of Afclepias or Swallow-wort, which is broad 
at bottom and Jharp at the point. The Flowers grow 
at the feveral Joints of the Stalks from the middle 
upwards, two or three together, which are long 
and hollow, like unto a Bcll-f.ower, ending in five 
Corners, or pointed Leaves, and folded before they 
are open, as the Flowers of the Bindweeds are, of 
a fair blew color, fometimes deeper, and fometimes 
paler. The Heads or Seed-Veffels have two Points 
or Jlorns at the top, and contain within them flat 
greyifh Seed, like unto the former, but leffer. 
VII. The fourth, or Great Concave Gentian, or 
Englifh Gentian, has many long tough Roots, dijper- 
fed hither and thither under the upper Cruft of the 
Earth, with fome few Fibres adjoining thereto .; from 
which fpring immediately a fat thick Stalk, jointed 
or kneed by certain Diftances, fet at every Knot or 
Joint with one Leaf, and fometimes more, keeping 
no certain number 1 which Leaves do at the firft en- 
clofe the Stalk round about, being one whole and 
entire Leaf, without any Incifure at all, as it were 
a hollow Trunk -, which, after it is come to its full 
Growth, breaks on one fide or other, where it is 
thinneft, tendereft and weakelf, and becomes a flat 
ribbed Leaf, like unto the Great yellow Gentian or 
Plantane aforegoing. The Flowers come forth from 
the Bofoms of the upper Leaves, fet upon tender 
Foot-ftalks, in fliape like thole of the Small Bind- 
weed, or rather the Flowers of Soapwort, of a whi- 
tifh color, and toucht about the brims with a little 
light Carnation ; which being pall away, the Seed 
follows, contained in little Cods or Seed-VefTels. 
VIII. The Places. The firft three grow on moun- 
tainous places in Germany but with us, are only 
nurlt up in Gardens of which the lecond or lel/ow- 
floviercd is the moil ufual or common- The fourth 
or Englifh kind, Gerard lays he found in a fmall 
Grove of a Wood, called the Spi/tie, near to Ltck- 
barrow, a fmall Village in Northamptonshire. 
IX. The Times. All the firft three flower for the 
moft part in June, and in part of July, bringing 
forth their Seed in Augufd. The fourth lprings out 
of the Ground in April ; flowers in the end ot July 
and beginning of Augitft, and perfects its Seed in 
the end of that Month, or beginning of Septem- 
ber. . , 
X. The Vitalities, Specification, Preparations and 
Virtues, are the lame with thofe of the Small Gen- 
tians in the next Chapter, and thither we refer 
you. 
CHAP. CCCXII. 
Of GENTIAN Small, 
0 R, 
Small F E L W O R. T. 
l/r-'.tf £ Nantes. It is called in Greek, run*” 
JL {tmed ■■ in Latin , Gentiana minor , five Gen- 
tianella and in Englifh , Small or Leffer Gentian, 
or the Leffer Fehwrt. . . , , . , 
II. The Kinds. There are three generick kinds 
hereof viz. I. Gentiana minor, Jett Gcntianella 
vernalis. The Spring Gentian. 2. Gentiana minor, 
feu Gcntianella tefliva. Small Summer Gentian. 3, 
Gentiana tumor, Jett Gcntianella autunwahs , Small 
Autumn Gentian. Of each of thefe three generick 
kinds, there are feveral Species ; all of which it is 
not our Bufinefs to declare in this Work, andtheic- 
fore we (hall only difeourfe of fo many of them as 
either grow Wild with us, or are to be met withal 
in out Gardens, and that in the following otdei. 
III. The various Species. Of the firft 01 Spring 
kind we have thefe, viz. 1. Gentianella verna la- 
t, folia, Broad-leav’d Gentian of the Spring. 2. Gen- 
tiana verna anguftfolia , Narrow-leav’d Gentian ot 
