Salmon s Herbal Lib* I. 
V. The Vlaccs. The firft grows ulually by Ri- 
vers and Ditch-fides in wet Grounds, as upon Lam- 
beth fide, about the Ditches there in many places ; 
as alfo under the Bilhop's fioufe-Wall at Lambeth, 
b v the Thames fide. It grows in places ot great 
Moifture, yea, almolt in running Streams, as well 
as in Handing Waters hard by them, and in moilt 
Ditches in moll places of England. The fecond 
grows in Aujlria and other places of Germany plen- 
tifully. Gerard fays, that it grows YVild m many 
places of this Kingdom ; but it is ufually nurled up 
with us in Gardens. 
VI. The Times. Thev both flower m the Months 
of June and July , and fometimes longer ; and the 
Seed is ripe not long after. 
VII. The futilities. Specification, Preparations 
and Virtues of thefe, are the lame with thofe of 
the firll Yellow Kind in the foregoing Chapter ; and 
the firll of thefe is not inferior to that ; but in the 
Opinion of fome Phyficians, luperior thereto : and 
therefore to the former Chapter you are referred. 
CHAP. CCCCLIV. 
O/L O O S E-STRIFE not fpiked, 
0 R, 
WILLOW-HERB with difper- 
fed Flowers. 
confilt of fix fmall re&difh purple Leaves, with 
fome Threads in the middle. 
IV. T be fecond, or Leah purple-flowered Loofe- 
itrite not fpiked, or Leafl purple Willow-Herb. It 
•has a fmall , long and brown Root , from whence it 
rifes up (being the leaf Kind ) to be about a Foot 
high. The Stalks branch forth themfelves from the 
very bottom, and are fet thick with fmall,. long and 
narrow Leaves, almolt like thofe of Line or Flax, 
but fhorter •, with whom, at the Joints, come forth 
the Flowers, fometimes two at a place, but more 
ufually one, Handing in green Husks, like unto the 
laft, compofed of five fmall blewifh purple Leaves, 
enclining to red : in which Husks, after the Flow- 
ers are fallen, Hand fmall skinny. Heads, wherein is 
contained fmall whitifh Seed. 
V. The Places. The firll grows in moifi Medows 
and Grounds near unto Water-Couffes, as alfo in 
wet places about Ditches and moil! Woods. The 
fecond grows in the like wet places alfo. The firH 
is a Native of Hungary, as we gather from Clufius. 
The fecond grows in Italy and Germany : but with 
us they are only nurfed up in Gardens. 
VI. The Times. They both flower in June aDd 
July, as the former do, and perfect their Seed in 
fome fmall time after. 
VII. The Qualities , Specification, Preparations 
and Virtues of thefe, are laid to be the fame with 
thofe in the two former Chapters : and it is not to 
be doubted, they being fo like in Face and outward 
Form unto them, as alfo in Smell and Tafle, and 
other Properties, and as being a Specie of the fame ^ 
and therefore we refer you to Chap. 452, where 
they are handled at large. 
1 . 't* H E Karnes. It is called in Greek, Aw uul%@- 
X : in Latine, Lyfimachia non fpica- 
ta ■, and in Englijh, Loof e-fir if e not fpiked, or 
Willow-Herb with difperfed Flowers. 
II. The Kinds. There are two forts of this Plant 
alfo, viz. 1. Lyfimachia purpurea non fpicata, vel 
rubra minor, Lyfimachia purpurea fee unda five mi- 
nor Clufij, Lyfimachia rubra non filiquofa Bauhini , * 
The fmall purple-flowered Loofe-Hrife not fpiked, 
or Leffer purple Willow-Herb. 2. Lyfimachia pur- 
purea non fpicata minima, five rubra minima, Lyfi- 
machia rubra minima Clufij , Lyfimachia linifolia j 
purpurea cjtrulca Bauhini, The lealt purple-flowered 
Loofe-flrife not fpiked, or Leaf! purple Willow- 
Herb. 
The Descriptions. 
III. The firft, or Small purple-flowered Loofe- 
Hrife not fpiked, or Leffer purple Willow-Herb. 
Its Root creeps not as the others do, but is hard, and 
fomewhat woody, with many fmall Fibres fpringing 
from the fides thereof. This fmall Herb is much 
lower than that of the Purple fpiked Head , or firH 
Kind deferibed in the former Chapter, being but a- 
bout a Foot and half high, with fmooth and fquare 
Stalks, whofe tops are parted into many Branches : 
on the lower part thereof Hand long Leaves, fmal- 
ler and narrower than the other purple fpiked Head 
in the laH Chapter •, two always fet together at a 
Joint, one againH another ; but thofe which grow 
towards the tops of the Stalks, are fmaller than 
the lowermoH, and keep not that Order, but Hand 
confufedly thereon, one above another } near unto 
which, at the Joints with the Leaves, come forth 
leyeral Flowers, but not Spike-fafhion, ufually in 
fix fquaie Heads, whofe tops are not fo pointed, 
nor laid fo open as in the other, but being more 
elofe, thruft forth their Flowers out of them, which 
CHAP. CCCCLV. 
Of LOOSE-STRIFE Codded, 
0 R, 
Codded WILLOW-HERB. 
I. t ~jr s H E Names. It is called in Greek, tweiuL. 
1 ao CaSnf : in Latine, Lyfimachia filiquofa 
and in Englijh, Codded Loof e-fir if e, or Codded Wil- 
low-Herb. 
II. The Kinds. Of this Plant Authors have re* 
Counted the following Species, viz. 1. Lyfimachia 
filiquofa angufi folia, Cham.<nerium Gef fieri difla, 
( but this latter Name more properly belongs to the 
leventh Species following •, and Gcfncr himfelf ra- 
ther calls this firH Kind, FzaoCisp, Epilobium , a 
Word made of three, i. e. Lb qi {Jd v i 0 l d , 
id efi flos fuper filiqua nafeitur, of which he ac- 
counts fix leveral forts, at the end of Cordus his 
HiHory of Plants,) The narrow-leaved Codded 
Loofe-Hrife. 2. Lyfimachia Cbam.rnerium dilla Al- 
pina , The Mountain Codded Loofe-Hrife, 3. Ly- 
fimachia filiquofa major. Onagri genus . alteram Cc- 
Jalpini, The greater Codded Loofe-Hrife. 4. L\(fi 
machia filiquofa minor vulgaris fylvefiris. The Wild 
leffer Codded Loofe-Hrife. 5. Lyfimachia filiquofa 
fylvefiris hirfuta. The hairy Wild Codded Loofe- 
Hrife. 6 . Lyfimachia filiquofa Virginiana, The Vir- 
ginian Codded Loofe-Hrife, or Tree Primrofe of 
Virginia. 7. Onagra C&falpini, Pfeudolyfimachium 
purpureum minus Dodcnxi, Chamxncrium Gefnen, 
Cbanhxnerium flore Delphinij , Delphinium Buccinum 
Lobelij, as it is thought, which yet Parkinfon will 
hardly 
