Ghap. 359. ‘Engkjh Herbs. 511 
ratioh, and aiterwards mixed applied made up into a 
Cacaplafm with Barley Mower, renewiug’of it eve- 
ry day. 
XVI. A DecoUicn or Emulfion of the Seed. The 
Decotlion in Water or Wine is hut and dry, and con- 
fames Wind, and by the much ufe thereof it does 
difperfe it fo much, that it confurhes and dries up 
the Natural Seed of Generation. The Emulfion ol 
the Seed in Water or Milk Itops continual Fluxes ol 
the Bowels, and is good againlt a Gonorrhoea, it ea- 
l'es the pains of the Colick, and quiets and allays 
troublefom and griping Humors in Stomach and Bel- 
lv, it is good againlt a Bloody Flux, and (tops bleed- 
ings, whether at Mouth, Nofe, Yard, or Womb. 
The Emulfion made in Milk, by boiling the Seed l'o 
long in it till it is perfectly broken, and then [train- 
ed out, as Sylvius do Lc Bee Prax. Mod. Lib. r. Cap. 
47. Sell. 74. Pag. 506. b. quarto Edition Printed 
1680. has taught, if it is taken five or fix Ounces 
at a time twice or thrice in a day, it will, as lie 
fays (from great Experience) cure the Jaundice ; it is 
alfo good for fuch as have a hot and dry Cough, 
opens obftruOaons of the Lungs, and obftruEtions 
of the Gall Bladder, and caufes a digeftion of 
Choler. 
XVII. 'T be Dijlil/ed Water of the Herb. It allays 
Inflamations , and has all the Virtues of the Juice 
and Decoffion of the Leaves, and may be ufed to be 
mixed with fome other Preparations, as a Vehicle. 
XVIII. The Oil by Inflation , Ufufwn , or Deco- 
Uion. It is good to be applied to any place which 
is burn’d with Fire, and to remove inllamations in 
any part ; fo alfo if an Oil or Ointment is made, by 
mixing the frelh Juice with Oil Olive, or Hogs Lard, 
or frelh Butter, it heals Burnings or Scaldings after 
an admirable manner. 
XIX. T be Leaves fried. In a Hemorrhage if 
fome of the Blood which comes from the Patient be 
taken, and the frelh Leaves of Hemp be fried there- 
in, and then given to the Sick to eat, it Hops the 
bleeding prelently, and if they be fo fried as that the 
Leaves may be crumbled into Pouder, this Pouder 
blowed up the Noitrils , or put upon any Wound 
where there is a flux of Blood, itprefently Hops it, 
and given to a Dram or more inwardly in a Spitting 
of Blood, Vomiting Blood, Pifling Blood, Bloody 
Flux, or flux of the Terms, it quickly Hops it, and 
by repeating the exhibition quickly cures it ; and gi- 
ven to fuch as are troubled with Worms in the Bow- 
els it kills them. 
XX. Nota. Mattbiolus fays that Hempfeed given 
to Hens in the Winter, when they lay tewell Egs , 
will make them lay more plentifully. 
> CHAP. CCCLIX. 
Of HEMP Baftard or Wild. 
I.'T'f/E Names. It is called in Greek KLv*C,< 
A VTiiertm, d. in Latine Cannabis Spuria , 
vcINotha , and Cannabis Sylveftris , in Enghjh Ba- 
ftard Hemp , and Wild Hemp. 
II. T he Kinds. Authors make three feveral forts 
hereof, viz. I. Cannabis Spuria prima, Cannabis Syl- 
veftris Tragi id Lugdunenfts , iy Spuria altera Lobe- 
lij , Cannabina alba Tabernamontani , Urtica aculeate 
Yolijs ferratis Bauhini , The firft Ballard Hemp, or 
White Baftard Hemp. 2. Cannabis Spuria Jecunda, 
Cannabis Sylveftris Spuria tertia Lobehj , Alyffum 
Arvenfe album Tabernamontani , Urtica aculeata F '0- 
“js Jerratts altera bauhini , who thinks it to be the 
SUeritk Cord : , The fecond Baltardor Wild Hemp, 
T Cannabis Spuria tertia , Cannabis Spuria facie 
1 Irtica Lobe lij, Urtica aculeata Folijs non ferratis 
Bauhini , Sideritis altera Matthioli , The third Ba- 
llard or Wild Hemp. 
III. The Defcriptions. The fir /} , or Firft Ballard 
Hemp, hits a Root which is hard and white , and a 
little fp reading, but dying before Winter , from rhq 
head of which rifes up a reafonable great , hairy , 
Iquare Stalk, not very ftrong, nor upright, but as it 
were leaning down, with leveral Joints bunching out 
like Knees, and two Leaves fetat every one of them, 
fomewhat long, hairy, and pointed, of a frefher 
green color than the Leaves of the Manured Kind, 
and dented about the edges; at the Joints alfo come 
forth feveral Branches, jointed and fet with Leuvqs 
in like manner, whereabout, towards the tops, grow 
feveral hooded and gaping Flowers, like thofe of the 
Dead Nettle, but larger and greater, of a pale pur- 
plilh color, ftanding in final!, green, prickly Husks, 
in which, after the Flowers are pall, grows the Seed, 
which is fmall and round, three or four growing to- 
gether. 
IV. The fecond, or Second Baftard Hemp, differs 
not much in Root or Stalk from the former, bur the 
Leaves are [hotter and rounder ; the Flowers hereof 
are of the fame fafiiion, but not fo great as they, the 
uppermoll part or hood whereof is of a pale color, 
tending to yellow, and the lower part of a deeper 
Red, or Purple Color; the Husks of the Flowers are 
fomewhat more prickly alfo than the other. 
V. The Third, or Third Balhrd Hemp, is in its 
growing much like the laft, but its Root is a bufh of 
Pibres and Strings, from whole head comes forth one 
(hort body of a Stalk, which quickly divides it felf 
into two, three, or four others, which growing up 
With feveral Joints , fpread themfelves out into ma- 
ny Arms or Branches, two and two at every Joint, 
' V.,,- 
