47 o SalmonV Herbal. Lib. 1 . 
Injected into the Womb it fofeens the hardnefs there- 
of, and by anointing difeuffes hard Tumors in other 
parts of the Body. 
CHAP. CCCXXXII. 
0/GROUN D-P I N E Heath, 
o R, 
GOU T-I V Y Wild. 
I. ~p H E Names. It is called in Greek KSe«, ob 
1 pulchritudinem , verum Hippocrates cb An- 
tiqui Kifw, i. e. Fupillam. , vocarunt propter Semen, 
Oculi Pupil Id, feu anteriori Humeri Cryjlallino , am- 
bit it Sph&rico, baud abjbmie cernitur $ in Eat me Co- 
ns , and in Englijh Heath Ground-Fine , and Fair 
Heath Ground-Fine. 
II. The Kinds. It is the third Generick Species 
of Ground-Fine mentioned in Cap. 330. Sell. 2. and 
of this Species Authors have enumerated three feve- 
ral Kinds, viz. 1. Carts Matthioli , fo called by Ca- 
mer al ius , Gefner , Lacuna , Lonicerus , Lobe/, Lug- 
dune nfis , Tabernamontanus, & a/ijs-, Coris lutea 
Bauhini , The Common, or moll vulgar Fair Heath 
Ground-Pine. 2. Cons Legitima Erica fimilis Bel- 
li, Coris Legitima Cretica Belli, Fair Heath Ground- 
Pine of Candia. 3. Coris Monfpelienfium , Coris 
Monfpeliaca Lent & Lobe/ij, Cameranj & Taber- 
namontani, Coris quorundam Cluftj , Coris carulca 
Maritime Bauhini , Coris Purpurea , Purple Fair 
Heath Ground-Pine. 
Heath C/roundfiiiLe. 
HI. The Delcriptions. The firfi ', or Common 
Heath Giound-Pine , has a Root which is fomewhat 
lon° uni woody, with many fibrous Threads thereto 
adjoining , from which fpring up feveral hard, woody, 
re'ddifh Stalks, tull of Joints, rifing up to the height 
of a foot, or more, and having alfo on them many 
im-il L and long, thick and fat Leaves, fee together 
at every Joint, fomething like unto Spergula , or 
Frank Spurry - at the tops of the Stalks grow feve- 
ral Flowers , each of them upon a fhort Footftalk , 
confuting of five or fix Leaves , not much unlike to 
Hyper icon, or Ornithogalum , Star of Bet blew, as La- 
bel compares them, but of a whitifh red color, with 
yellow Threads in the middle, yet Matthioius and 
others fay the Flowers are all yellow, like Hypericon , 
fuelling a little fweet, which being paft away, the 
Seed is found enclofed in round Heads. This Plant 
keeps its green Leaves all the Winter, but turn of a 
fomewhat yellowifh red color towards Autumn. 
IV. The fecond , or Fair Heath Ground-Pine of 
Candy, has a Root which is long, fpr ending, and woody, 
abiding with green Leaves thereon all the Winter. 
This Plant, as Bellus faith, grows in good Ground 
to be a Cubit and half high, Branching forth many 
ways , and bearing many fmall Leaves , like unto 
Heath , on woody Stalks and Branches j the Flowers 
grow at the tops of the Branches, and are much like 
to thofe of Hyper icon, and of a yellow color, which 
being paft away the Seed follows , being enclofed 
in Husks like the former. 
V. The third, or Purple fair Heath Ground-Pine, 
has a Root which is reddifh, hard, and woody, great- 
er than the proportion of the Riant Jhould Jeem to re- 
quire, giving a Dye or Color , not only to the Fingers 
of them which touch it, but ferves alfo to Dye Lin - 
tten Cloth withal, among thofe Reople where it grows 
naturally -, it abides all Winter, altho ’ the Leaves are 
then more reddifh than in Summer, but requires fome 
care to preferve it with us. From this Root rife up 
many round, woody, and reddifh Stalks, not fo high 
as the former, having many fmall, long, thick, and 
roundifh Leaves fet thereon, moft commonly with- 
out order , and yet fometimes conformable one to 
another, fomewhat like unto the greater Kind of 
Heath-, the tops of the Stalks are furnifhed with a 
great Spiked Tuft or Bufli of Purplifh Blew Flow- 
ers, (but of a pale Red with us) fuelling fomething 
fweet, each confuting of four Leaves apiece, double 
forked as it were at the ends, two whereof which 
ftand uppermoft are greater than the other two which 
are lower, which will continue long in their perfect 
color, being gathered in their prime, and each of 
them Handing in a brownifh Husk, parted at their 
tops into five points , and fpotted with five blackifh 
fpots on the outfide, wherein afterwards grows the 
Seed, which is fmall, round , and blackifh, wrapped 
up as it were in many Coats or Films, whofe Husks 
then do grow fomewhat hard, and fharp at the ends, 
when as before, t^hile the Flower lafted, they were 
not fo. 
VI. The Rlaces. The firft Matthioius fays grows 
in many places in Italy in dry and Hilly Grounds, 
which Rena confirms 5 it grows by Carara, a Village 
in Liguria: the fecond grows in Candy-, thelaft, as 
Rena fays, about Montpelier , alfo near the Sea in Va- 
lencia, and in dry Grounds about Salamanca in Spain, 
as Clufius fays ^ with us in England they only grow 
in Gardens, but I have found them all growing in 
dry Hilly Ground in feveral parts of Florida. 
VII. The Times. They Flower early in all thofe 
hot Countries, even in March in fome places, and in 
others in April and May, but with us in England la- 
ter, as in June and July, but do feldom perfect their 
Seed with us. 
VIII. The Qualities , Specification, R reparations , 
Virtues and Ufes, are fully the fame with the Com- 
mon Ground-Pine in Chap. 350. Sett. 1 1. to Sett. 2 6. 
and therefore to the fame we refer you. 
IX. Note, 1 . The Seed of Heath GrounJ-Rine , ei- 
ther bruifed and drunk^ or made into a Deception 
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