6 io Salmons Herbal. Lib. L 
X. 1 he Fonder of Herb or Root. Ic has all the 
Virtues of the Infufion beforegoing : befides which, 
it eafes and cures the Heart-burning, and gives Eafe 
in the Colick, Gripings of the Guts, and other Di- 
itempers of the Bowels, being taken Morning and 
Night in a Glafs of generous Wine, from half a 
Dram to a Dram and half. 
XI. T he Bath or Fumigation made with Water. 
It is very good for Women to fit over, to receive 
the hot Fumes up the Womb, or to fit in as a Bath $ 
or to have it injetfed up the Womb, in cafe of fal- 
ling down of the Womb, and to fettle it in its right 
place again. 
CHAP. CCCCXXVI. 
Of LEEKS. 
I. H E Names. This Plant is called in Arabic k, 
JL Curat feu Karat : in Greek , ri^W in La- 
tine, For rum ■, and by Falladius , Forms : in Eng- 
//77a, Leek. 
' II. The Kinds. Of Leeks there are feveral forts, 
as, i. ii Ksiaraiiv, For rum Capital urn, Common 
headed or let Leek. i. ntf/rov Forrum Se- 
ll He, Forrum Set five nut Ton file. Common cut or 
unfet Leek. 3. ’k/m^osrfgffov, Ampcloprafum , For- 
rum Vitium , Forrum Vil i gin cum, The Vine-Leek 
and this Farhinfon fays is the belt of all the Kinds. 
4 . Ufg.eov tt-AAv, Forrum Sylveftre , The Wild Leek. 
Common beaded or fet heel 
III. The Defcriptions. The firft , or Common 
headed or fet Leek. The Root is a kind of bearded 
Bulb , white , long and fender , that growing in fome 
to a confiderable Thicknefs. From this Root rifes 
up broad fiat Leaves or Blades, which grow out 
long, and very many of them, having a Crelt or 
Ridge on the back-lide ^ in Smell and Tafte very 
ftrong, not much unlike Onions, or between Onions 
and Garlick. The Stalks ( if the Blades are not cut 
often, but are fuffered to grow uncut) will in the 
fecond or third Year after Sowing, fend forth a 
round and (lender Stalk, of an Evennefs quite 
throughout, and not fwoln, or bigger in the middle, 
as is that of an Onion h which bears at the top a 
round Head or Ball, like to that of the Onion con- 
fiding of purplifii Flowers and black Seed’ after 
them, fo very like unto Onion- Seed, that it is hard 
to diltinguifh them. 
Leeks ‘Vnfet, or Cut Leeks. 
IV. The fecond , or Common cut or unfet Leek, 
has a Root which is alfo white , long, and fenderer 
than the former, with a great Bujh of Fibres hanging 
at it, like a Beard but this being tranf planted, 
grows thicker and greater. The Stalk, Blade, Heads, 
Flowers and Seed, are much like the other above. 
Now, tho’ molt Writers diltinguifh the Common 
Leek in two Kinds, viz. Forrum Cap it at urn, Of 
Sefliyuw, the Headed and Cut Leek, yet Gerard 
lays, they both grow of the fame Seed, and that 
they differ only in Culture : for that which is of- 
ten cut for the life of the Kitchen, is called. Setti- 
vum :■ the other which is headed, is not cut, but 
fperfed, aud removed in Autumn. Alatthioh/s lays, 
Aon differt a Capitato . , nifi quod Capite ft tenuiere , 
ac etiam Ccrvice. 
V. The third , or Vine-Leek, which feme call the 
French-Leek. Its Root or Bulb is headed or round, 
hard and found, and is quickly multiplied by fending 
forth many Bulbs ■ and it will cncreafc altogether by 
the Root, as Garlick does. It grows up with Blade.'', 
like thole of Common Leeks : the Stalk is a Cubic 
■ high, on tire top of which Hands a round Head or 
; Button, covered at the firft with a thin Skin, which 
- being broken : the Flowers and Seed come forth 
like thofe of the Onion. 
Vine - 
