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Salmon’* 'Herbal. ILib. I 
»t Humor it will draw away Horn all parts of the 
Body lor many days together, doing ttoein what 
Salivation it felf could never be able to petfom, “d 
that in the moll deplorable , ftubbom .and ^ tebeU.^s 
Difeafes , indeed it is beyond what Words can fpe • 
The Root all'o ol this ufed as a Peffary , i 4, 
more eftecdual than the Root of the efpecial 
ly being put into a Ftftula , or part , 
any caliolity , becaufe it fo admirab y 
Obfervdt. it. That the fecond Kind, or Leffer 
Bad'ard Black H.tttbor, or Smaller 
the great Experience which I have had thereof; is 
much more Violent and churlilh in workmg, whe- 
ther by Vomit or Stool, than the True Black He le 
hr described in the former Chapter, 
ture to give the Intufion of a Dram of the Root, bfr 
bg irfnld all Night in Ponder in Whitt Wine or 
Canary , to be drunk the next Morning 
exhibited it powerfully prevails agamft all the Dif- 
eafes which the True Hellebor is fad to be good 
againll for which reafon there is no need, in this 
place to repeat thole things again ; and the ufe of the 
Fonder of the Leaves or Root are in like manner ufe- 
ful in all outward Cafes for Scabs, old running Sores, 
foul Ulcers, Fiftula’s, BV. 
long Seed , fomewhat like unto Sweet Fennel Seed, 
but not altogether fo big, nor fo yellow- , 
IV. The Jecond , or The Leffer Wild Black Helle- 
bor Sanicle Leav’d. It hoe a /mail black fibrous 
Root, like the former, from the head of which rile 
up leveral linall and fomewhat round Leaves, every 
one of them upon a long Foorltalk, being not much 
broader than the Nail of a Mans Thumb, yet divi- 
ded, even to the middle Rib, into feven parts, every 
one of thefts being Ihort, narrow, ana dented about 
the edges , the Sralks are many , and imail, not a- 
bove ah Hand breadth high, with One or two Leaves 
on them , more cut in and divided than the lower 
are, at the tops of them hand feveral finall Flowers, 
very thick fet together in Tufts ox Umbles, like un 
to the Vaft, but fmaller, after wfich come fmall Hat 
Seed, fomething like the former, but leffer by much, 
as it is alfo in all the other pans thereof. 
CHAP. CCCL. 
Of HELLEBOR BLACK Wild. 
I »-r-> H E Names. It is called in Greek 'Ev.‘C°e>‘ 
i in Latine Hellebonne nigras , 
Hellebores niger Sylveflris , and in Englijh Will 
Black Hellebor. cun 
II The Kinds. There are three Rinds ol Helle- 
bonne nigra, viz. I. Hellebonne nigra SamcuU Fo- 
lia major, Hellcborus niger Summit Folio major byl- 
veftris. Summit fivmina Fuchftj , Afirantta mgr* 
Gefneri, Ofleritwm Mont anion Tragi y Imperatona 
nigra Tabernamontani , Elleborus niger, yel T era- 
tntm nigrum Diofcoriilis , as Dodonitus thinks , The 
Greater Wild Black Hellebor, or The Greater Hel- 
leborine with Sanicle Leaves. i.EUebonne mgr a 
minor , Hellcborus niger Samcult Folio minor Sylve- 
jjrts The Leffer Sanicle Leav’d Wild Black Helle- 
bor The Leffer Black Helleborine, or Wild Black 
Hellebor. 3. helleborine nigra Ferulacea , Bupbthal- 
mummajus AnguiUart Oujlj ,& alwrum Hellebo - 
rum nigrum Ft tmcult Folio, FfeiMc leborus mger 
Maltbioli ; Fennel Leav’d Wild Black Hellebor. 
HI. The Defcriptions. The JirJl, or Greater Wild 
Black Hellebor Sanicle Leav’d. It has a Root com- 
pofed of f. mil black Strings , JhooUng forth from a 
too head , like unto the Root c/Bears-Foot; from this 
head of a Root come forth feveral broad dark green 
Leaves, each of them growing upon a long Footftalk, 
which are cut in on the edges into five divilions tor 
the moil parr, and dented about betides, fomething 
lefembling the Leaves of the Common Sanicle , but 
more truly the Leaves of the Field Ranunculus or 
Crowfoot , or Geranium Batrachoides , or Crowfoot 
Cranes-bill ; from among which rife up feveral flen 
der. fmoorh, gteen Stalks, having fome Leaves up 
on them, and at the tops of them two, or three, or 
more blowers together, each of them confifting of 
many final!, hard, whitilh Leaves, as a pale border, 
encorr.p lung many Threads in the middle, which 
being lauen , there rile up many Hat, whitilh, and 
V The third, or Enel Leav’d Wild Black Hel- 
lebor Its Root confi of many long and black, fib 
Strings fet together proceeding from one head, 
very like unto the }her Black Hellebor, or Bears- 
Fooc, in Chap. /foregoing, but harder, 
ftiffer or more brill , andfeeming to be without any 
moifture in them , t “hde and encreafe every Tear, 
thf the Stalks witfreen Leaves do Annually perifh : 
This Kind of WilP !ac & Hellebor lhoors forth many 
green Stalks, Retimes lying or leaning to the 
Ground, and Retimes ftandmg a little upright, 
befet very thick** /mall Leaves,, finer and ihoiter 
than Fennel fo 6 03 them ending in a Tuft of inch 
like fine green aves, ani fome having at their tops 
one large W “piece, fomewhat reddilh or brown- 
ilh on the ou ae while they are in bud, and a while 
nftpr whirheing open coniift of twelve or fourteen 
lona’and n: ow k eaves > of a fail lining yellow 
color fet prder round about a green Head, with 
yellow T** ms in the ‘middle , laying themfelves 
open in t)Sun or a fair day, but eUe remaining 
clofe- a 1 * e H° wer ls P 3 ® . * e Head growing 
,ews it fclf, compaQ of many round whi- 
greater, - ti(h 
