Chap. 3 90. TZngUfh Herbs . 
the firlt of thefe has never yet been applied to any 
Medicinal ufe by any Author that I could ever yet 
fee, nor yet the fecond or third Kinds, but their bit- 
ternels coming fo near to that of the Gmtiola Vera , 
or True Hedge Hylfop, induces me to think that they 
mull have fome of the Virtues of the True Hedge 
Hyjjop , and if they be not full out fo effectual to 
Purge, yet by their bitternefs they may be Aperitive, 
and have a virtue to open the obltruclions of the 
Vifcera, and cleanfe them from their pituitous and 
vifcous Excrements ; they may alfo by the fame bit- 
ternefs be Analeptick, and fo ftrengthen the Sto- 
mach, and other Bowels, reltoring their depraved 
Tone, fcur. 
CHAP. CCCXC. 
Of ] AC K-by-H EDGE, 
0 R, 
S A W C E-A L O N E. 
I.'T"' H E Names. This feems to be a Novel Plant, 
J. not known to the Greeks , and therefore has 
no Greek Name, the Latinos call it Alliaria , Gef- 
7 ier in Hortis AUiafirum , and Ericius Cordus Hum 
Marina, which is the Him a Marina Anguilaru , and 
Aldiorolophus Phnij , as Dalechampius and Lobe/ 
thought; fome take it to be Tblafpidium Cratevce , 
as alfo Tblafpidium Cornutum Tragi , becaufe they 
anfwer to its defcription ; we in Enghfh call it Jack- 
by-Hedge , and Sawce-alone , becaufe it ferves of it 
lelf for Sawce, inftead of many others. 
II. The Kinds. Some would have it to be Scor- 
dium , but that it is not, others Scordij Species , a 
Kind of Scoriium , or Water Germander , but indeed 
it has no relation to any of thofe Plants, that being 
a real miftake of former Authors; it is a Angular 
Plant of its Kind, which Gerard fays is Named of 
fome Pes Afmims , Aides Foot, and may be called 
(fays he) in Latine Allium non bulbofum , a Kind of 
Garlick , fo efteemed from its fmell ; it feems to be, 
1. Alliaria Communis , vet minor , The Common 
Jack-by-Hedge. 2. Alliaria major , The Greater 
Kind. 
III. The Defcriptions. The firjl , or Common 
Jack-by-Hedge. It hots a long Jlender Root , which is 
fibrous or firingy , and thready , pcrijhing every Tear 
after it has given Seed ; from this Root rife up fe- 
veral (lender Stalks, about a Foot and half high , 
the Leaves are broad, of a light green color, nicked 
round about, and (harp pointed ; the lower Leaves 
are rounder than thofe which grow upward towards 
the tops of the Stalks, and are fet fingly one at a 
Joint , being longifh round the higher they grow, 
and alfo pointed at the ends, and dented about the 
edges, tho’ fomewhat lefs dented than thofe grow- 
ing below, they fomewhat refemble Nettle Leaves 
for the form, but are of a frelher green color, and 
not rough or pricking; upon the Branches of the 
Stalks near the tops grow very fmall white Flowers, 
one above another, like Rocket , which being paft 
come fmall, Render, and round long Pods, not very 
much unlike to thofe of F lixwecd, laving that thefe 
ate rougher, and grow fomewhat clofet to the Stalk, 
in thefe Pods are contained fmall, round, and fome- 
what blackilh Seed; this Plant railes it lelf every 
Year again of its own fowing, and it has affinity to 
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Garlick in its Name, yet not in Name only, but in 
its fmell, for any part of it being bruiled fmells of 
Garlicky but more pleafantly, and taftes fomething 
hot, (harp, and biting, almoft like unto Rocket, for 
which reafon it becomes an admirable Sawce, to 
fiich as love that tafte. 
V. The Vinces. It grows of it felf by Garden 
Hedges, by old Walls, by high Way fides, and 
fometimes in the borders of Fields, in molt places 
of this Kingdom. 
VI. T be Times. It Flowers chiefly in June and 
July, and the Seed, grows ripe in the mean feafon, 
or not long after the Flowers are gone^ the Leaves 
are ufed for Sawce in March and April. 
VII. The totalities. It is hot and dry in the third 
degree, and is repleat with much Salt, Sulphur, and 
Mercury, it is Incifive, Aperitive, Attractive, Ab- 
fterfive, Carminative, Digeftive, Difcu(Tive, and 
Diuretick, Neurotick, Stomatick, Pefloral, Nephri- 
tick, and Hyfterick, Ptarmick, Emmenagogick, and 
Alexipharmick. 
VIII. The Specification. It is peculiar again!!: the 
Scurvy, Coughs, Colds, Wheezing, (hortnefs of 
Breath, Stone, Strangury, Colick, and Fits of the 
Mother. 
IX. The P reparations. You may have therefrom, 
1. A Juice of the Leaves and Roots. 2. An E fence 
of the fame. 3. An Infufion or DecoUion in Water 
or Wine. 4. A Syrup. 5. The Root. 6 . The Seed 
bruifed , or infujed in Wine. 7. A Cataplafm. 8. 
An Acid Tintturc. 9. A Spirituous Tinuure. 1 o. 
An Oily TinUure. n. A Saline Tin Slur e. 12. A 
Spirit . 13. A Sawce. 
fbe Virtues. 
X. The Liquid Juice. Taken from a Spoonful 
to two or three Spoonfuls in aGlafs of White Port, 
Madera, 
