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SalmonV Herbal. Lib. 1. 
Roots or Stalks , which fpread themfelves very much 
under the Water from this firingy Root grow forth 
fever al fender trailing Stalks , rifng from the bot- 
tom of the Water to the top-, thefe Stalks fhoot forth 
at the lower Joints and with the Leaves under the 
Water fever al other fmall fibres , which ferve as 
Roots alfo with the former: from the Stalks likewife 
at the Joints come forth divers triangular Leaves, 
in form of an Ivy Leaf, which Leaves, thofe which 
grow near the tops of the Stalks, float upon the top 
of the Water, and are many, each ot their three 
parts, formed alfo in a triangular or three cornered 
manner, like thofe of Barren Ivy , or 'Noble Liver- 
wort , and are fometimes marked with a black fpot 
and with thefe Leaves from the Joints come forth 
fmall knots of yellow Flowers, Handing upon indif 
ferent long footftalks, but Gerard fays it is barren 
of Flowers or Seed. 
IV. Ihe P laces. Gerard fays it is very rare to 
And, and that he found it once in a Ditch by Bcr- 
mondfey Houfe , near London , and never elfewhere :> 
but Parkinfon fays it is found plentifully enough in 
divers places of this Land ^ I have found it in Ditch- 
es, Pools of Handing Water, and other like wet and 
plafhy Grounds in feveral places of Cambridgfhire 
but it always grows in Water. 
V. The Times. It Flowers in May and June , and 
gives its Seed in fome fmall time alter. 
VI. The Qualities, Specification, Preparations and 
Virtues are exactly the fame with thole of Common 
Crowfoot, and therefore I refer you thither, where 
they are handled at large in Chap. 176. Set/. 24. ad 
34. fo that no more need be faid thereof in. this 
place. 
JUNOE’s TEARS, fee Vervain Chap. (§. 1. 
JUPITER’s BEARD, fee Houfeck Great Ch. 584. 
JUPITER’S DISTAFF, fee Clary Chap. 137. Sett. 2. 
JUREY, fee Darnel Chap. 2 it. 
CHAP. CCCCX. 
Of K A T HE RINE-FLO W ER, 
0 R 
Roman N I G E L L A. 
I ( ' H E Karnes. It is called in Arabick Xan'rn , 
-i Sunts, Sumci , feu Sunizi, in Greek Mow-n- 
r -‘.\ and Ni>.avc 7 ns[tov, in Latins Aielanthium , and Ni- 
gella, in Englifh Katherine-Flower , Fennel-Flower, 
and Roman A igella. 
II. The Kinds. There are feveral forts of Kigel- 
/.') Gith, or Fennel-Flower, viz. i. Melanthium, Jive 
A igella Romana, Roman Nigella, or Katherine- 
Flower, properly fo called, of which in this Chap- 
ter. 1. A igelia Cretica , Gith, Fennel-Flower, or 
Nigella of Candia. 3. Nigella Hifpanica & Da- 
mafeena Flore fmplici & multiplied Spanifh Gith, 
Fennel-Flower, or Nigella Single and Double, ?f 
which wc Treat under the Title of Nigella in lome 
of the following Chapters of this Book. 
III . The Kinds of Roman Nigella, or Katherine- 
Flower. Of this there are the three following forts 
1. Nigella Romana, five Saliva, Roman Nigella 
Sweet fuelling Nigella, or Sweet Rented Kathe- 
tine-Flower. 2. Nigella Romana Si/vefiris inodora 
Wild fennel-Flower, or Katherine-Flower. .-.gA/- 
gel/a Romana Arvenfis , Field Fennel-Rower, or 
Field Katherine-Flower, 
.IV. The Defcnptions. The fir ft, or Roman Tweet 
jlmelling Nigella, or Katherine-Flower, has a Root 
which is fmall, thready, yellow, and perijhing every 
Tear ; this fweet Plant grows up to be two Feet high, 
.more or lefs, with feveral (lender Branches, and ma- 
ny finely cut and divided Leaves on them, nearly as 
fine or fmall as Fennel, (whence one of the Names) 
and very like unto thofe of the Larkshee/s ; at the 
top of every Branch Hands one Flower, made of five 
blew Leaves, laid abroad like a Star, without any 
green Leaves under the Flower, as in fome Single, 
and another Double blew fort , with a green Head in 
the middle, compaffed with fome lew Threads, 
which Head grows to be the Seed Veffel, being a 
little long and round, with five (mall (hort Tops, 
like Horns, Handing at the tops of the Heads, in 
which lye in feveral Cells fmall, black, and very 
(harp, Iweet, Hr'ong fmelling Seed. 
_ V. Thefecond , or Wild Fennel-Flower, or Kathe- 
rine-Flower. This grows very like the former for 
its green Leaves, but ' a little fndler and fhorter . 
the Flowers areblew, and like the former, but the’ 
Head with its Seed is larger, and the Horns longer; 
the Seed within is ufually black, fometimes a little 
whitilh; and fometimes yellowifh, without any fimell 
at all: there is another likewife of this fort, differ- 
ing in nothing from this, but only that its (ingle 
Flowers are white, and its black Seed without (cent. 
VI. 'I he third , or Field Fennel-Flower, or Kathe- 
rine-Flower. This Field Sort is very like the loft 
but it grows thinner of Branches and Leaves, and. 
they alfo fhdtter ; the Heads are (mailer and longer 
as the Flowers alfo are, but of a pale blew color, the 
Seed being black likewife, and without feent: there 
is another of this fort, differing little from that now 
deferibed, but in the Flowers, which being (ingle 
and blew like it, have green Leaves under them, and 
the Seed being black is fomewhat (weet. 
VII. The 
