6^6 Salmon s Herbal. Lib. I. 
XV. The Ointment or half am. It digetts , 
cleanfes, and induces the healing of old running 
Sores, putrid Ulcers, Fiftulas and the like, and 
breeds Flefh where it is wanting. Apply 'd to 
parts or Joints pained with the Gout, it eafes 
them. 
XVI. T be Cataplafm. Made of the green 
Herb, and laid upon the Skin, it will in a final 1 
"time (as Tragus lays) raife Blitters thereon. Ap- 
ply’d immediately to the Biting ot a mad Dog, or 
Stinging of a Scorpion, Hornet, &c. it draws out 
the Poyfon and gives eafe. 
XVII. The Drfiilled Water. It has the Virtues 
of the Juice, but nothing near fo powerful! : and 
being dropt often into the Eyes, it eafes their pain, 
and allays their Heat and Inhumation. It may alfo 
ferve as a Vehicle to take fome of the other Pre- 
parations in. . 
XVIII. The Spirituous Tincture, It is Cordial, 
ftrengthens the Stomach and other Bowels, flops 
Fluxes of all kinds, caufes an Appetite and 
good Digettion, and is profitable againtt inward 
Bruifes : and gives prefent eafe in the .Colick. 
XIX. 'Tiie Acid Tinffure. It mightily ftrengthens 
the Stomach, and caufes a good Appetite ; and 
ftops Vomiting tho’ of long continuance. It may 
betaken in all the Patient Drinks, whether Ale, 
Beer, or Wine ; fo much at a time as to give the 
Liquor a pleafmg Iharpnefs * and that as well at 
Meals, as between Meals. 
CHAP. CCCCLXXXI. 
Of MELILOTE: 
OR, 
KINGS - CLAVE R. 
I. /_ Tp U E Names. It is called in Arabick , Al- 
L chilelmelick : in Greek , quafi 
Mellea lotus , from Lotus , which fmells fweet 
like Honey : in Latine , Melilotus : and in Englifh, 
Melilote. This Plant was anciently called in 
Latine , Sertula Campana, from its growing in Cam- 
pania, where they ufedtoput it in Garlands: alfo 
Corona Regia, becaufe the yellow Flowers Crown 
the Tops of the Stalks: and Trifolium Odoratum, 
from its pleafant f/eetnefs, but improperly, be- 
caufe the Trifolium Odoratum, truly fo called, is 
Our Garden Trefoil, of which w T e fhall fpeak here- 
after in its proper place. It is alfo called Tri foli- 
um Equinum , & Cabal/inum , becaufe Horfes delight 
to eat it, and thrive well with it: and fo in many 
places of England it is called Hart-Claver (from 
Deer and Stags greedly feeding on it ; ) and in 
fome places hart-wort -, but it is generally called 
with us Kings-Claver (as being the Nobleft and 
chiefett of all the Trefoils or three Leaved Grafles : ) 
and Melilote , from the Latine and Greek, as being 
the Name now moft ufed, and indeed beft under- 
ftood. 
II. The Kinds. Authors have given us fourteen 
or fifteen feveral forts of this Plant, but the molt 
of them being unknown and nor growing in 
England, nor in our Englifh Plantations beyond 
Sea , we fhall only deferibe the four following 
Species, viz. i. Melilotus Vulgar is, Melilotus major 
Vulgaris Tragi, Melilotus Gcrmanica Camerarij ■, 
Of Dodon&i ; Of Lobe hj • Trifolium Odoratum Tha- 
lijpj Dodonxi Lotus- ur liana Of fativa Matthioli, & 
Lugdunenfis ; Saxifraga Lute a altera, Euchfij 1 $ 
Lo nicer i : but Seri a and Sertula Campana, the old La- 
//WName, is now quite out of ufe: .Common Me- 
lilote. 2. Melilotus Elore albo Melilotus mat or Can- 
dida Tragi-, Lotus Sylvefiris Flore. albo Dalecbampij ■, 
white Flowered Melilote. 3. Melilotus Italiea 
Camerarij •, Melilotus Italiea folliculis Subrotundis 
Bauhini , Italian Melilote. 4: Melilotus Syriac a 
Melt loti vulgaris Species tertia Tragi-, Melilotus 
Irnlica Dodonxi , Euchfij, Gefneri, Cj Matthioli -, 
Melilotus Synaca odora Lobehj, (becaufe it came 
from Aleppo, as he fays, but is ufed in Italy for 
the true Melilot , and therefore called by other 
Authors, as aforefaid, Melilotus Italiea and this 
Tragus thinks to be the Melilote of Serapio :) 
Aiiyrian Melilote. 
The Defcriptows. 
III. The fir ft, or Common Melilote. It has a 
Root which is long, white , and tough, or pliant, with 
feveral Fibres or firings adjoining thereto, which 
dies not every Tear : From this Root rifes up feve- 
ral Weak green Stalks , about two or three feet 
high-, on which grow longifh Leaves; fet round 
about at the Joints, three always let together like a 
Trefoil, of a frefh green color, and fomewhat fweet 
fmelling, being unevenly dented or fnipt about the 
W § f $ Jl Of S. 
