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Salmon’.? Herbal. 
Lib. 1. 
whereof ltand fmull red Heads, refembling a toll 
Catkin, the Crown ot which, being white, has eight 
or ten very Jrnall (harp pointed Leaves under it, 
which being trodden on will crack and make a nolle. 
VI. The Places. They grow in moilt Grounds, 
in the furrows and borders ol Corn Lands, near 
Ditch Tides in Woods, and in the Penns, m leveral 
places of England, Holland , and Handers. 
VII. The Times. They come out of the Ground 
early in the Spring Time, and flounlh all the Sum- 
mer Months to Autumn. ■ . „ 
VUl The Qualities-, Specification -; fireffatms 
and Virtues of thefe are the fame with thofe ot the 
Maijh Kinds Treated of' in Chap. 57?. aforegoing, 
to which you are relerredi. ' n. 
IX. Not a. The Fonder. It is one of the molt 
powerful driers that is, and being ftrewed upon old, 
moift, and running Sores and Ulcers., it prelently 
dries them up and heals them. 
c H A P. • CCCLXXXII. 
Of HORSETONGUE, 
0 R, 
doubletoncue. 
H E Names. It is called in Greek ’Iraj-www, 
I .j,,.! vneyrexsaoVt in Latina HippPglbffuiu, 1. e. 
Lingua Equina, Lingua magna , alfo Hypoglojfum 1, 
- ii e. Biflingua , Tongue upon Tongue; I dtonola 
Apu/eij , Lwgud. P agana aliorum, Bonijacia Angui- 
lar.c, Uvularia Brunfetfij , Unieeri, Tabernamnta- 
ni , aliorhmque ; in Engltfh Horjetongtie , and Double- 
tongue alfo dengue upon Tongue. ... 
il. The Kinds. Authors make but two Kinds 
hereof, viz. 1 . Hippoglojfum , Hypoglojfum v Bijhngua , 
Can la Equina minor , The Letfer Horfetongue , or 
Doubletongue. 2. Hippoglofium, Bijhngua major. 
The Greater Horfetongue, (ye. 
Horse Hfon^uo small 
a facet and pleafant Smell, which conjifis oj mam 
long, hard, whitijh firings, growing jrom a Head .- 
The Plant is very like unto the Chamadaphne vena 
Diofcoridis for the manner of its growing, tor this 
from the head .of the Root aforementioned Ihoors 
forth feveral hard Stalks, with Leaves on them, one 
above another, as that Plant does , and much about 
the fame length 5 the Leaves ate long, narrow at the 
lower part next the Stalk, broad ill the middle, like 
a Belly, and very lharp pointed,- having Ribs run- 
ning thro’ their whole length, fometimes three or 
lour and fometimes five Ribs; upon each Leal 
grows another .fmaller Leaf or Tongue, which grows 
out of the greater Leaf from the middle Rib, on the 
upper fide andnbout the middle of the Leal, which 
makes it to differ from all other Plants which grow 
upon the Earth, Horn which double Leal came the 
Name of Double tongue-, under the imaller Leaf, at 
the bottom where it joins unto the- greater , comes 
forth one fmitt, whitilh, green Rower, and fome- 
times two. Handing upon lhort footftalks, where af- 
terwards Hand the Berries, which when they are 
ripe are very red, very like unto the Tew Tree Ber- 
ries, and in which is contained a white hard Seed. 
Greater. 
The firft, or Lefler Horfe- 
is white and tough, and of 
IV. The Second, cr Greater Horfetongue. Jt is in 
all ref pells very like to- the former, faving that the 
Stalks are fomewhat higher, the Leaves longer, and 
having longer Tongues upon them than the former ; 
but this fays Tables Columna is much more rare to 
find. 
V. The Places, They. both, grow upon Hills and 
in Woods in feveral places of Italy and Germany, the 
firft more common to be met withal, and with us is 
only nurs’d up in Gardens. , 
VI. The Times. They flCwur in fine in die- na- 
tural places where they grow, viz. in warm Cbun- 
tsies , and the Berries are ripe in September , or fall 
of the Leaf . , 1 ■ ; | 
VII. The Qualities. Horfetongue is hot and dry 
in the fecond degree, it is Aperitive, Hyfterick, Em- ' 
trienagogick, and Traumatick. 
VIII. The Specification, it. is : an abfolute thing 
againft the fuffocation ol the Womb, .provokes, the 
0 Terms, 
