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Salmon s Herbal. Lib. I. 
CHAP. CCCCXIX. 
o/ladies-bedstra w, 
'OR, 
CHEES E-R E N N E T. 
t.np H E Kami. It is called' in Greek Tidin', 
X and i -■/ r.v, and, as Diofcorides lays, of Ibme 
;aiseuj, and . and was fo called from 
Milk, from die effect, which was to make Milk 
turn into a Curd when they fecit- to tnake-Cheefe, 
for which it lerves very well; in Latino Galium , 
and in EngUfir Ladies-Bedftraw, Chccji-Ronnet , and 
Maidshair. 
It. T he Kinds-. Authors make fix oi feven Kinds 
of this Plant, or more, but becaufe feveral of them 
are not to be met withal in England or our Planta- 
tions abroad, we (hall only deferibe the five follow- 
ing, viz. i • Gallium , & Gallium Itrteim, Our Com- 
mon Ladies-Bedftraw. a. Gallium album Camerarij 
Rena, MolTkftb, Mil hi go vulgatior Lnbclij , Galli- 
um tertittm Tragi, Mo/lugo -frimt Dpdonxi, Lugiu- 
nenfis, (i ' Tabcrn.mtontani , Our Common white 
Flowered Ladies-Bedftraw. c Nolingo Mom ana 
Dodonxi, Clufij, Lobelij, Lugdnnenfis , T ha/ij & 
Tabernamontani , Rubin Sylvatica altera Grfneri , 
White Flowered Mountain Ladies-Bedftraw. 4. 
Gallium f'/ore rubra. Gallium f'hrc nigra purpurhm 
Montanum Tenufolium Clufij O’ Columns, Red 
Flowered Ladies-Bedftraw. y. Gallium Montamm 
Crcticum , Gallium Americanum vel tloridianind, 
Candia or American Ladies-Bedftraw. 
III. The Defcriptiocs. T he firft, or Our Com- 
mon Ladies-Bedftraw. It bar a Root which is red- 
dijh , having many /mail fibres or Threads fajined 
Jo it which take lirong hold of the Ground, and 
creep 1 little alfo -, from this Root rife up feveral 
fmall, brown, fipuare , upright Stalks, three feet or 
more high.fomctmes branched forth into divers [aits, 
full of joints, and with feveral very fine fmall 
Leaves at every one of them, little or nothing rough 
at all ; at the tops of the Branches grow many long 
Tufts of yellow flowers, very thick fet together, one 
above another, from the feveral Joints, which confift 
of four fmall Leaves apiece, and Jmcll fomewhat 
[ 1 rang or refinous, but not unplcafant ; the Seed is 
Jinall and black, like Poppy Seed, two for the mofl 
part joined together-, fame of the Branches leaning 
down to the Ground take root at their Joints, where- 
by it much incrcafcs. 
IV. Gerard thus deferibes it. It hen a fmall and 
thready Root, from which Come forth fmall, round, 
even Stalks, weak and tender, creeping hither and 
thither upon the Ground, on which do grew very Jim 
Leaves, cut into fmall parts, finer than thofc oj Dili, 
fet at certain /paces, as theft of Woodrooff, among 
which come forth flowers of a yellow color in elujiers 
or bunches, thick thruft together, of a Jirong J'wcet 
fmcll, but not unplea/ant. 
V. The Jecond , or Our Common white Flowered 
Ladies-Bedftraw. It has a Root which is fibrous or 
thready, and abiding all Winter, and the whole Plant 
is in all things like to that next to be deferibed, f li- 
ving, that the Branches are fo weak, that unlcfsthey 
be Jitjiained by Trees, BuJJies, Hedges , or other 
things near which it grows, it will lye down upon the 
Ground, and the Leaves are f mailer and narrower , 
yet not fo fmall as the firft with yellow flowers ; the 
flowers are alfo fmall and white, but not plentifully 
abounding : Some Authors make a fmaller fort here- 
of, which is not a proper Species, for upon tre.nf plant- 
ing it will grow as great as the ether. 
VI. Gerard deferibes this feco/td fort thus. La- 
dies-Bedftraw with white Rowers is like unto Clea- 
vers or Goofegrafs in Leaves, Stalks, and manner 
of growing, yet nothing at all rough, but fmooth and 
fojt ; the flowers are white, the Seed round, the 
Roots fender, creeping within the Ground -, the whole 
Plant climbs upon Bujhes , Shrubs, and all other like 
things which are near unto it, otherwife it grows not 
upright, but falls to the Ground. 
VII. The third, or White Flowered Mountain La- 
dies-Bedftraw. It lots a Root which is black, and 
very fibrous or thready, from whence Jhoor forth a 
number of J lender and weak Stalks, which yet ft and 
upright of thenfclvcs , dire illy branching forth into 
many parts, fo that it /cents to be a pretty well fpread 
Bujh, having many fhorter and broader fmooth grcch 
Leaves fet , it the Joints than any of the forme/-, or 
the next which follows-, the F 'lowers are very Jinall 
and white, j landing at the lops oj the Branches, more 
thick or plentifully fet than the following wit h red 
flowers, which being paft away turn into fmall, black, 
round Seed. 
VIII. This Gerard fays that it is called Mollugo, 
and has Stalks which need not be propped up, but of 
it felf J lands upright, and -is like unto our feeond 
Species, or Common White Flowered Ladies-Bed- 
Itraw, but that it has a fmoothcr Leaf. 
IX. The fourth, or Red Flowered Ladies-Bed- 
ftraw. Its Root is of a reddifh color, but greater than 
the firft Common Kind, creeps not, abiding many 
Tears and not periling : The Plant fs fmall, and 
has tenderer and lower Stalks than the tirtt Kind, 
yet divided into many Branches, at whofe joints 
ttand four, five, cr fix long Leaves, and not of fo 
dark a green Color as the firft; the Flowers are of 
a red color, not fo thick duflering or fet together 
as thofe of the firft Kind, and conlift of four fmall 
pointed Leaves, with a yellow Pointel in the mid- 
dle, but five or fix or more growing together at the 
tops of the 'Branches, which afterwards turn into 
fmall 
