Lib. I 
Salmon ’ s Herbal. 
when the Seed is perfected. From whence I boot 
forth round Stalks, green, brittle, and full of Juice, 
divided into many Branches, much thicker and 
higher than thole of our Common Garden 
Camom\l\ the Leaves in like manner are broader, 
3nd of a blackifh green color-, the Flowers are 
like in form and color to thole of Camomil , but 
commonly larger , and of a rank fmell ^ the 
whole Plant giving all'o a rank or ltinking fmell. 
This grows more upright than either the 
Common Garden Kind, or the non feetida which 
follows, and its Leaves are longer and greater 
than it, as alfo are the Flowers, by the fmell 
of which Alone this fort is diftinguiflled from the 
others. 
IV. The fecond , or May-weed not ltinking 
or without fmell. T be Root of this is like the 
former ■, and its manner and form of growing alfo : 
but it grows not altogether lb high, yet creeps not 
or runs on the Ground, nor takes Root at the Joints 
or Branches, as the Garden fort does-, but the 
Leaves hereof are longer and greater than thole of 
that, yet very like, but of a paler green color, 
having no fmell at all : the Flowers are alfo very 
like to the former, and to thofe of the Garden Kind , 
but larger, both in the white row or border oi 
Leaves , and in the yellow middle Thrum : by 
which this fort is difeerned from that of the 
Garden. 
V. The third , or Double Flowred May- 
weed. This is very like to the firfi Kind here 
defer ibed , and difjers nothing at all from it , 
but in the flowers , which are commonly very 
double, and almolt as large as double Camomil 
Flowers. 
VI. The Places. They grow plentifully Wild, 
in molt Counties of England , in Corn-Fields , and 
in, or near unto Furrows in Plowed-Lands , and 
by Path-ways in the borders of Fields. The 
double Kind has been often found in feveral 
parts of England , growing Wild, as the Single 
Kinds do. 
VII. The Times. They Flower in the Summer 
Months, fometimes in June , alfo in July and 
Auguft -, fometimes earlier, and fometimes later, 
according as the feafon of the year is kind- 
ly. 
The Virtues. 
VIII. Thefe Plants as they are never ufed for 
Food, nor yet fcarcely for Medicine, lb their Medi- 
cal Qualities and Properties are for the molt part 
unknown. Yet, 
IX. The Juice or E fence cf the fir ft, or finking 
Kind , is Commended as Gerard lays, againlt 
Difeafes of the Womb, and Hyfferick Fits, and 
therefore may be profitable againft Vapours , and 
other fainting Fits and Difeafes of like Kind. 
Dofe a Spoonful or two in a Glafs of fair Water, 
or in Angelica Water, or in fome other fit Ve- 
hicle. 
X. The Ointment and Cataplafm made of 
the Herb. They are faid to be good to diffolve 
Tumors or Swellings ; to difeufs Wind-, and 
to eafe Pains and Aches in the Joints jj 
efpecially being made of the Stinking Kind, 
and applyed Morning and Night to the parts 
affefled. 
MAY -BLOSSOM, fee Lilly Convally, Chap. 444. 
MED 1 CK-HTCH, Jee Cocks-head, Chap. 141. 
MKDIC K-fODDFK, fee Snail Claver , Chap. 13c. 
MEDOW-.PARSNTP, fee Parfnep-Cow, Chap. 
CHAP. CCCCLXXX. 
Of M E D E - S W E E T: 
0 R, 
Q.UEEN of the Meddows. 
I- ' 1 ' H f. \jmcs. It is thought to be un- 
JL known to any Ancient Greek or La tine 
Authors: but later Writers call it Ulmaria , 
* foliorum Ulmi fimilit udine, from its likenefs to 
time Leaves j in Englijh , Mede-fweet , Meddow- 
fweet , and Tfuecn of the Aleddozos. 
II. The Kinds. There are two Species hereof 
viz. I. Ulmaria Vulgaris 5 Regina Prati Dodonxi =, 
Barba , vel Barbula Capra, or Barba Caprina Tragi 
Barba Capri Fuchfij -, Barbi Capra Lobelij • Mede- 
fitfium Cordi , our Common Mede-fweet, or 
Meddow-fweet : fome have thought it to be 
Rodora Plinij , but that fcannot be pollitively 
affirmed: Tragus thought it might be Picnoco - 
mon Diofeoridis, as did alfo, Gefner in hortis Cf 
Lonicerns. 2. Ulmaria major, five altera, Poten- 
tilla major prima Anguillat£\ Argentina major 
Thalij , The Greater Mede-fweet, or Meddow- 
fweet. Lugdunenfis fays , l'ome took it to be 
Melandrum Plinij and lome call it Drymopogon. 
Camerarius fays the Germans call the firft Worm- 
kraut , Worm-w'ort , becaule fays he, the Root 
is often found , as if it were eaten by Worms : 
but it is more likely , from its curing Horfes 
of the Botts and Worms, lor which purpofe the 
Country people uled it. 
T he Dcfcriptions. 
III. The firfi , or Our Common Mede-fweet. 
It has a Root which is fome what I Foody and black- 
ifh on the out fide, and browmfh within, zvith feve- 
ral greater Strings , and lejfer Fibres adjoining 
of a Jlrong Jmcll, but nothing fo p leaf ant as the 
Flowers or Leaves ■, it perifiics not in Winter, 
but abides many Tears, footing forth a nezo every 
Spring. Its Sralks are reddifii and_ eafy to break, 
rifing to be 3 Feet high, and fometimes to 4 or 5; j 
having at the Joints thereof, large winged Leaves, 
Handing one above another at DiftanceSj which 
are made of many fomewhat broad Leaves fet on 
each fide of a middle Rib, being hard, rough, or 
rugged, and Crumpled much like to Elute Leaves, 
from whence it took its Name^ but having alfo 
fome fmaller Leaves with them, like as Agnmony 
has, 
