Salmon s Herbal. Lib. L 
XX. T he Cataplafm of Leaves or Roots. It is 
made by beating in a Mortar. Laid upon a Wound, 
it flops the Bleeding, and if it is burning or hot, 
it abates the Inflammation : Laid upon the Region 
of the Back, over the Reins, it gives Eafe in Pains 
of the Back, takes away the Preternatural Heat 
thereof, flops the involuntary flowing ol the Seed, 
hinders Noaurnal Polutions, and abates Lull, being 
repeated frefli three or four times in twenty four 
Hours. It does the fame thing, being applied to 
the Tefticles. 
XXL The d filled Water of the Flowers. At 
fuch times as the Flowers cannot be gotten, a Wa- 
ter may be diftilled both from the Herb and Root. 
It is very effectual againfl all the Difeafes afore- 
mentioned, but it cannot have the Strength of the 
Juice •, for which Reafon it is to be given in greater 
quantities, as from three to fix Ounces, fweetned 
with double-refined Sugar, and the oftner to be re- 
peated, as three or fonr times a Day, as the Phyfi- 
cian (hall fee fir. Outwardly applied, it cools all 
forts of Inflammations, is good againfl Anthonies- 
fire, eafes Pain proceeding from Heat, as Head-ach, 
Megrim, Gout, i '1c. and is much commended a- 
gainfl Lentils, Freckles, Sun-burning, Tanning, Vel- 
io wnefs of the Face, black and blew Spots, Scurfi, 
Morphew, or other Delcedations of the Skin, being 
applied three or four times a Day or more : but it 
will be much more powerful, if it is mixed in equal 
quantities with the liquid Juice of the Root. 
CHAP. CCCCXLIII. 
Of LILLY Water Yellow. 
I. / ”| ~^HE Names. It is called in Greek , N v^cua 
X f : in Latinc , Kymphea lute a , 
and in Englijh , Tellow Water Lilly. 
Greater Yellow Water Lilly. 
II. The Kinds. There are three Species of the 
Telloto Kind, viz. i. Nymphjea 
lutea major , The greater Yellow Water Lilly. 2 . 
axed- «T7uv, Nympha lutea minor , The lefler 
Yellow Water Lilly. 3 . Nl{/«c tU ^av 5*1 Kym- 
phxa lutea minima , The leaft Yellow Water Lilly. 
or Yellow Water Lilly with a lefler Flower. 
The Defcriptio/is. 
Ill# T he firj ?, or Greater Yellow Water Lilly. 
It has a Root which is great , thick and long , very 
like unto the Root of //^'Greater White Water Lilly, 
fet with certain Dents , not blackifh on the out fide, 
but zohitjfh , and alfo white within , of a loofe or 
fpongy SubJ} a nee, and fomewhat fweet in Tajie , as 
is that alfo of the White Kind. This grows liko- 
wife much like the Great White , with Leaves al- 
mott as large as they, but fomewhat longer, and 
handing on cornered Stalks : the Flowers alfo 
which grow upon the tops of the crefted Stalks, are 
not fo thick of Leaves as the White, but confifl only 
of five large round or fliort Leaves, of a fliinning 
yellow Color, with a round green Head in the mid’ 
die, compafled with yellow Threads * which Head, 
when it is ripe, contains within it greater Seed than 
thofe of the White, and more Alining ; but lefler 
than Grains of Wheat. 
Leffer Yellow Water Lilly . 
IV. The fecond, or Lefler Yellow Water Lilly. 
This has a large Head, but a fingle Root, with feme 
few Fibres adjoining to it, creeping in the bottom of 
the Water, and dijperfing it f elf far abroad : from 
which rife up many long, round, fmooth and foft 
Foot-ftalks, fome of which do bring forth at their 
ends, fmall, fair, round, Buckler-like Leaves, like 
to the former, but lefler, yet larger than thofe of 
the Leffer White fort : on other fome of thofe 
Foct-flalks, grow pretty Tufts of fmall yellow 
Flowers, floating on the Waters as the others do, 
but yet larger than the Flowers of the fmall IVhite 
Water Lilly before deferibed. 
V. Tim third, or Yellow Water Lilly with a lef- 
fer Flower, zohich is faid to be the Lealt Water Lil- 
ly 
