Chap. 460. UngUJh Herbs, 
kies, Difcolormgs, Scurff, Morphew, Pimples, and 
other Breakings out, ffe. It is good againft Scabs, 
malign Ulcers, Ragades, liens in Ano, &c. being 
duly applied. 5 
XIX. Kola. Here is to be obferved, that the 
Wild Lupine is Paid to be much the ttronger and to 
exceed the Manured or Garden Kind , for all the 
Purpofes aforementioned. 
LUST-WORT, fee SumDew, Chap. 
L\ NE or LINE, fee Flax, Chap. 267. 
2 f ldies - Man 4 e. Qnp, 421. 
t'vktS Snap-Dragon, Ohnp. 
LSp QRT ’^' Hellebor White, Chap , 3,1. 
MAD-NEP, Jce Parliiep Cow, Chap. 
yellow Husks with Seed of Bolbonoch , or Lunar'm 
major, which is the White Sattirt , but that thefe are 
(mailer, rougher and harder ; and in which lies 
Imall, hat, reddilh Seed, in a double order, on both 
lides of the thin middle Skin, which in this is nor 
white, like that of the Sattirt, but elfe very like. 
Greater Mad-wort of Diofcorides. 
4 
C HA P. CCCCLX. 
10 morrjV • rii m:<: : ■■ ! 7 » . 
Op M A D - V V O R T. 
i- "P H E Karnes. It is called in Greek, ’AXvW 
2 £»""> i and ini 
httghjh Mad- wort • fo called becaufe it is a prefent 
Remedy for the Biting of a Mad Dog, as Galen de 
Am, dot, si, b. 2. writes, being an Herb very like to 
tlorehound, but rougher, and more full of Prickles 
bW the F1 ° WerS ’ whidl are a Color ending to 
II. T he Kinds. Authors have found out five fe- 
vetal forts of this Herb , but by Reafon the molt of 
them are not to be found in England, we (hall only 
defcribe that of Diofcorides his Greater and Xef- 
for, viz. r. Alyjfum & Atyffos‘b',bfcbridis major, as 
Camer -fi“L Uufus, hugdunertjs and 
Lnif/ fhmk ; and Label fays farther, That there is 
no Herb to be found which better agrees witli Diof- 
cerides his A/yffim in all things, than this doth. 
< ome will have it to be Luttaria Grace, and call it 
Lunar, a major, and L, maria lutea ; Cafalpimts calls 
it Lunar, a Grace tenia and Gefner, Lteniria dt- 
making it a Kind of Moon-wort ■ but is doubt- 
lels the Greater Mad-wort of Diofcorides. 2. AJyf- 
ftm Diofcoridis alter urn d minus, Leucoium Alyf- 
fudes clypeatunL minus Bauhim (for he calls the 
nnt Leucoium A/yffoides Clypeatum majus ) The lef- 
fer Mad-wort of Diofcorides. 
The Descriptions. 
III. The firft or Greater Mad-wort of Diofcori- 
des. It has a Root which is fmall and woody, dying 
I ar A ,e S “ A Z™*Seed, but feldom pe- 
rtjhes the firft dear before it runs up to a Stalk It 
has many hoary, hard and rough Leaves lying on 
the Ground, fomewhat broad and round for the firft 
““ * elr . Springing , but the next Year, when 
the Stalk begins to grow up, they grow thereon both 
greater and longer, and a little torn in on the edges 
in feme places, which Stalk is hoary, and about a 
Foot and half high, fpreadmg it felf into two or 
three Branches * at the tops of which come forth 
feveral pale, yellow, and very fmall Flowers ftand- 
°V bov e L ?nother feverally, on both Tides of 
the Stalks which convert into fomewhat large 
and round flat, thin, hoary, hard, rough Husks re- 
fembhng little Bucklers ; or rather molt like the 
"SB® 
Mad-wort of Diofcorides the Lejfer. 
