Salmon s 'Herbal. Lib. 1. 
called Kali alfo, and Salicornia , Salficornia , and Sal- 
foU genus , in Englijh Kali , Glafswort , and Saltwort. 
The Affes hereof are called Soda , and Rocbetta, and 
the Sale Alkali, or Alkali, the Salt of Kali, or 
Glafswort:, IC^z/ is an Arabick Word, and in that 
Language lignifies Salt. 
II. The Kinds. There are four Kinds of ly//, or 
Glafswort , viz. I. Ktf/i Geniculatum , Salicornia , Sk/- 
genus aliud Cafalpini , Salficornia , Jointed Glais- 
wort, or Saltwort. 2. Ktf/i majus Cocbleatim , Kali 
magnum Sedi medij Eolijs Semine Cochleato Lobelij, 
Kali Cocbleatim majus Camerarij , Antbyllis Safa 
majoris , iG/i *w//w Cocbleato Semine , SalfoLe genus 
Gefahini , Great Glafswort, or Kali with Snail like 
Seed. 3. Ktf/i fC^/i hmVwj villofum 
Baubini , Antbylloides Thalij , Small White Glafs- 
wort. 4- -Krf/i Mgypt iacum Eolijs valde longis bir- 
f lit is Baubini , Kfl/f Mgypt i urn Alpini , Egyptian 
Kali, Glafswort, or Saltwort. 
III. The Defcriptions. Tbe firfi, or Jointed Ka- 
li, Glalswoft, or Saltwort, has a Root which is /mail , 
long, and thready -, it rifes up ufually with but one 
Stalk upright, round, thick, and almoft tranfpa- 
rent, a Foot, or Foot and half high, thick fet, and 
full of Joints, or Knots, without any Leaves at all 
on them, but (hooting forth Joints one out of ano- 
ther, or one at the end of another, with ill or t Cods 
at the heads of them, and alfo fuch like (mailer 
Branches on all fides, and they are alfo dividedinto 
other fmaller ones^ this is thought to bear neither 
Flower nor Seed: there are fome other Kinds here- 
of as Kali Geniculatum breve , differing a little in 
the form of the Joints one from another, and Kah 
Geniculatum rubrum , one which is wholly reddifli, 
not differing in any thing elfe from any of the other 
Jointed ones. • 
IV. The fecend, or Great Glafswort, or Kali with 
Snail like Seed. It has a Root which is fomewhat 
long, with many fibres adjoining to it, and. penjhes 
every Tear j or the mofi part after it has given Seed-, 
it rifes up with a big, round, reddifh, fteffy Stalk, 
very like unto Pur fain, about two Feet high, divi- 
ded into many Branches, on which do grow many 
thick, long, round, fleftiy Leaves, pointed at the 
ends, 5 growing without order, fometimes but one or 
two,’ and oftentimes more handing at a place-, here 
and 5 there difperfed upon the Branches come forth 
alio (mail yellowilh flowers, and afrer them (mall 
browniff Heads, turned round like Snails, in which 
lye (mail round Seed* this Plant has an ill tafte, 
but fait iff • 
V. The third, or Small White Glafswort,. or Ka- 
li. It has a Root like -wife which is fmall and woody , 
which perifhes after it has given Seed-, it fprings up 
f r om the Root with feveral whitiff green Stalks, 
or Branches, nothing fo high as the former, and 
bending or leaning down to the Ground, Ipreading 
it felf into other fmaller Branches full of Joints, 
whereon grow more (tore of fmaller and fforter, 
round and pointed Leaves, nothing fo fleffy as the 
former, and of the fame pale green color with the 
Stalks^ the Flowers are white, and (land (ingly on 
the tops of the Branches, after which come fmall 
Husks, in which lies the Seed, which is fmall, black, 
and ffining, like unto Sorrel Seed. 
VI. The fourth, dr ^Egyptian Kali, Glafswort, or 
Saltwort. It has a Root like tbe others, and grows 
up with one J. lender Stalk , bending it felf downwards , 
and branching forth at the Joints into other fmall 
ones, which J or the mojl part jland snore upright , and 
at every of the joints two very long and fomewhat 
hairy Leaves, bowing themfelves downwards becaufe 
of their length * the fmall Branches are bare, without 
Leaves unto the tops or ends of them, where grow 
many fmall and long Leaves, hairy, like to the for- 
mer, but nothing fo long, from among which grow 
fmall, whitiff, purple Flowers, with many fmall 
Threads in their middle-, of this fort there are fome 
with (horter Leaves, differing in little elfe. 
VII. Tbe Places. The firft as well as the fourth 
grows in Mgypt, and it generally grows among o- 
ther Sea Plants on the Sea Coafts in all Countries ^ 
I found it growing plentifully in the Salt Marffes 
in South Carolina, as up Wadmalaw River, and on 
the Sands and Marffes of Wando River, not far from 
the Sea fide, and in other Salt Marffes of the fame 
Country ^ it grows alfo on our Coafts of England, 
Ef c. in many places, in Saxony, and other parts of 
Germany, where there are Lakes of Salt' Water ; the 
fecond grows by the Sea fides in feveral places of 
Syria, Africa , Italy, and Spain, as alio in Provence 
and Aquitane, where they Sow large Fields thereof, 
for the Profit they make of the Salt or Allies of the 
Plant in making Glafs and Soap-, the third grows 
not only in the aforenamed places, but in other cold- 
er Climates likevvife, not by the Sea only, but by 
the Salt Pits in Saxony, as Camerarius fays, and is 
found alfo on the Sea Coafts of England and Ire- 
land-, the fourth, as Alpinus fays, is more peculiar 
to Mgypt , but Columna fays it is frequent on the 
Weftern Neapolitan Shoar. 
VIII. The Times. They all flouriff in the Sum- 
mer, and they which pei'iff give their Seed in Au- 
gufi, or fomething later ^ the firft of them abides all 
the Winter. 
IK. An Obfervjtion. Out of this Herb is made 
the Alkali of the Arabians, Levant, Mgypt, Ef c. 
or Pot Allies, as we in England call them, called 
alfo by other Names, as Pclverine, Pulverine, Ro- 
chetta, and Soda, which are all the fame thing, made 
of the lame Matter, but do each differ in goodnefs, 
according to the place the Matter comes from, and. 
the Method or Order of making of it-, the Matter 
is the Herb Kali, (alfo Alga, or Kelp, which is Sea- 
Girdles, Sea-Weed, Sea-Thongs, or Sea-Laces ) the 
goodnefs of the Herb is taken from the places of its 
growth, that which grows on the Coafts and Banks 
of Syria, Mgypt , the Levant, Efc. is the beft, that 
which grows on the Coafts of Spain, Italy, and Ve- 
nice, is the next beft, that which grows on the 
Coafts of trance is worfe, but that which grows on 
the mouth of the Thames , and other Maritime pla- 
ces of England, is the w r ortt of all, as making Ames, 
which yield the leaft Sale, or Sal Alkali, of any of 
them. 
X. The Qualities. The Herb is hot and dry in 
the end of the firft degree, the Affes or Salt is hot 
and dry in the fourth degree, Aperitive, Abfterfive, 
Digeftive, Diuretick, Pyrotick, or Caultick, Ne- 
phritick, Hyfterick, Arthritick, Emmenagogick, Su- 
dorifick, and Alexipharmick. ■ 
XI. The Specification. Kali purges pituitous, wa- 
tery, and melancholy Humors, provokes Urine, is 
good againft the Dropfie, opens obitruUions of Li- 
ver and Spleen, brings down the Terms, and expels 
the dead Child. 
XII. The Preparations. You may have therefrom 
T. A Liquid Juice. 2. A Pouder of the Herb. 3. 
The AJhes, called Pot AJhes. 4. A Salt called Sal 
Alkali. 5. Soap. 6. Sandiver . 
The Virtues. 
XIII. The Liquid Juice. Taken in Drink or 
Wine from one Spoonful to two, or more, it purges 
downwards fuperfluous Humors, and therefore is of* 
ten ufed for the Dropfie, to provoke Urine and the 
Terms , facilitate the Birth , and to expel a dead. 
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