Salmon' '* Herbal. 
Lib. I. 
VII. As to the Qualities, Specification, Prepara- 
tions and Virtues hereof, they are much the fame 
with thofe of the Common Afphod.il in Chap. 3 !>* 
Se£t o, ad 23. aforegoing. 
CHAP. CCCCXIV. 
Of KNAP WEED Common, 
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MATFELLON. 
jiu ye.'n ; 
H E ' Xames. It has no Greek Name, nor any 
JL ancient Chime Name that I know of, but by 
the modern Latines it is called facea, and in Eng- 
lish Knapweed , or Mat fe lion. 
' II. The Kinds. Knapweed is agreed upon by all 
Authors to be a kind f of Scabious , and therefore Tra- 
gus makes it to ; be Scabiofa Quart a-, Gefner in Hor- 
ns takes-ir ior.a Kind of Great Centory of the Mea- 
dow, and thinks to be that Plant which Scaliger 
calls Get by a nigra -,\ ‘Phallus in Harcynia calls it Cy- 
an us SylveJJris^ A tig'ufiifoh us, but generally it is cal- 
led Jacca, \k font hi /to Co/ore Florum ) We have di- 
vided the Productions hereof into three Species, viz. 
1. faced vulgaris. Our Vulgar or Common Knap- 
weed, of which in this Chapter. 2. Stabe, Silver 
Knapweed, of which in Chap. 415:. next following. 
2. facea Spinofa, Thorny Knapweed, which third 
Species, becaufe it is not found growing in England, 
nor in any of our Foreign or IVeJl Indian Plantations 
beyond Sea, we fhall fay no more of it in this Work. 
Vnapiveed Mack common 
III. The Kinds of the firji or Common Knapwee 
Authors make fixteen or eighteen Kinds or Varieti- 
hereof, of which not above five or fix grow in Eng- 
land, of which we fhall only fpeak in this Chapter, 
letting the others alone for a more general Work. 
I. face a nigra vulgaris, facea nigra Pratenfis La- 
tifolia Bauhini, Our Common Knapweed, or Mat- 
fellon •, this Bauhine doubts whether it may not be 
Solid ago Saracenic a Tonic eri. 2. facea nigra vulga- 
ris laciniata Bauhini, facea ?najor Lobelij, facea 
fexta C/ufij, facea hirfuto capite Camerarij, Our 
other Common Wild Knapweed, or Great Knap- 
weed. 3. facea laciniata alba. White Jagged Knap- 
weed. 4. facea nigra Angufiifolia Bauhini , facea 
nigra Lithofpermi Arvenfis Folijs, Narrow Leaved 
Knapweed. 5. facea Montana Xarbonenfis Lobe- 
lij , facea Mufcata, E? quinta Tabernamontani , 
facea Montana incana odora Bauhini , Narbone or 
French Mountain Knapweed. 6 . facea Montana 
candidijfima Bauhini, facea Montana laciniata. Hoa- 
ry White Mountain Knapweed. 
IV. The Defcriptions. The firfl, or Our Com- 
mon Knapweed, has a Rcot which is white, hard, 
and woody, with fever al Fibres annexed thereto, 
which penfhes not , but abides with Leaves thereon 
all the Winter, and fhoots out frefh again every 
Spring -, from this Root rife up many long and fome- 
what broad dark green Leaves, fomething deeply- 
dented about the edges, and fometimes a little rent 
or torn as it were on both fides in two or three pla- 
ces, and a little hairy withal, from among which 
rifes up a ftrong round Stalk, four or five Feet high, 
divided into many fmall Branches, at the tops where- 
of ftand great fcaly green Heads, from whofe mid- 
dle there is thruft forth a great number of dark, 
purplifh, red Thrums or Threads, (and fometimes, 
tho 5 but rarely, white) in which after they are wi- 
thered and paft away feveral black Seeds are found, 
lying in a great deal of Down, fomewhat like unto 
Thifile Seed, but fmaller. 
V. The fecond, or Our other Common Wild 
Knapweed, or Great Knapweed. The Roots are 
like 
