Chap. 514. 
759 
Strangers to us) has a long, white , creeping Root 
with many Fibres adjoining to it, which abides all 
Winter and penjhes not -. but creeping along under 
Ground , it fends up in Several places many ft ran 
Stalks which are ft leaked, and Jet about with gray- 
ifh green Leaves, fomewhat broad, and not very long, 
a little pointed at the end, and broad at the bottom 
comparing them - but thofe which grow at the foot 
of them have each of them a Jhort Joot Stalk, and 
are all of them unevenly denied about the edges : 
the tops of the Stalks are Spread into fame Branches, 
all of them rifwg to an equal height with many 
(mall white Flowers fet thereon, conftfting of Jour 
'Leaves apiece, and forming a large Vnib/e or lift 
where after they are pafi, come forth filial! round 
Seed VelTels, divided into two parts , like fame of 
the former Thlafpies ,with a fmallFointel at the end-, 
in each part of which is contained one Seed-, which 
i, hot and Sharp, as are alfo the Leaves. 
XV T he Places. Tne firft and third have 
been found growing Wild in feveral parts of Eng- 
land, as half a Mile from Hatfield by the Rivers 
fide under an Hedge, as you Travel to Hatfield, 
and in the Street of Beckham on Surry fide. The 
i'econd and fourth are alfo Natives of our Land 
and . have been found growing Wild in feveral 
places ■ thefe four firft Kinds grow Wild in Corn- 
Fields ’ upon Ditch Banks, and in Sandy dry and 
Barren Grounds, and in Stony and Untitled places. 
The firft of them Gerard fays, he found m Corn- 
Fields between Croydon and Godftone in fttcry, 
at South-fleet in Kent-, and by the Path which leads 
from Hornfey ("near London) to Waltbam-Crofs, 
and inmany other places. The others he fays were 
alfo found growing Wild in England, m feveral 
places, which he gathered, and placed in his Gar- 
den. The fifth, fixth, feventh, eighth, ninth, and 
Twelfth grow with us only in Gardens, as do alfo 
the firft ’four. The tenth, Label fays grows in 
Tort/and, and about P/inwuth, and upon other 
Rocky places, on the Sea Coafts of England. 
This fays Jobnfon, is a little creeping Herb, having 
fmall red, crefted Stalks, about a Span high; its 
Leave’s are’ thick , and fafhioned like Ivy-, and the 
white Flowers and fmall Seeds do in fhape and tafte 
referable the Th/afpies. The eleventh delights to 
grow more in the open Sun upon Hilly Grounds: 
ft has been found growing in the Weft of England, 
upon Dunghills and fuch like places: Gerard fays, 
he found it by the City Walls of Weli-Chelhr : 
alfo in a Flax Ground near Cambridge-, and at Fyms 
near Edmondton, not far from London. 
XVI T he Times. They molt of them Flower 
from May, through June and July to Auguft, and 
their Seed is ripe about a Month after. The 
feventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth, Flower about 
the end of June or beginning of July ; and their 
Seed is ripe not long after. The eleventh Flowers 
for the molt part early, fometimes in April, but 
ufually in May , and the Seed is ripe m June. The 
twelfth Flowers about the end of May, through 
June and July , its Seed ripening in the mean 
Seafon. 
XVII. The Vitalities. Treacle Muflard fthe 
four firlt Kinds are chiefly ufed, and of them the 
third Species is principal, and that which is always 
ufed in Venice Treacle and Mithridate ) is hot and 
dry in the end of the third Degree, or beginning of 
the fourth : Parkinfon determins it to be abfolutely 
hot in the fourth Degree, and near unto CreJJ'es. It 
is Attenuating, Attraaive, Aperitive, Abfterfive, 
Inciding, Cofmetick , Carminative, Digeftive, 
Diuretick, Stomatick, Neurotick, Nephrmck, 
Hyfterick, and Alexipharmick * for thar its Seed is 
an Ingredient in Mithridate , and Treacle as afore- 
faid, being of it felf an Antidote refilling Poifon : 
Venom, and putrifacfion, where, by its (harpnels it 
acuates thofe Compofi cions. 
XVKJ. The Specification. It provokes the Terms 
powerfully, and facilitates the Birth of Women in 
Labor, and expells the After-Birth. And has all 
the other Specifick properties of Common Muftard 
Seed , which fee in Chap. 511. 
XIX. The Preparations and Virtues , are the 
fime alfo with thofe of the Common Muftard 
Seed , in the aforecited Chap. 511. to which you 
are referred, but it is thought that the Treacle 
Muftard is the weaker (if any difference is) of the 
two. 
XX. Not a. t. The Ponder of the Seed , given 
to a Dram or more, forcibly brings down the Terms 
in Women, and caufes Mifcarriage, for which caufe 
Women with Child ought to forbear it. 2. A 
Clyftcr made of it with Mutton Broth, and Exhibited, 
gives eafe in the Sciatica, lb alfo, 3. A Cataplafm 
of it applyed to the Hip or Huckle Bone, draws 
out the Humor , and eafes the Pain. 4. The Ara- 
bian Muftard is as hot and fharp as any of the 
Th/afpies , and is effectual to the fame purpofes 
and according to Diof corides , is ufed inltead of 
Pepper to be put among Broths and Meats. 5. The 
PtiJ'ane made of its Seed is available to cut tough 
Flegm, which Huffs up the Brelt and Lungs, and 
caule an eafie Expectoration thereof. 
CHAP. DXIV. 
Of the MYRTIL L, 
I. np HE Names. It is called by the Arabians, 
X As, Aes , & Alas: in Greek , xj 
(Avppfait : Pena fays, fic vocatum volunt , propter amu- 
lam Myrrh a odor is gratidm , in ejus baccis recenti- 
bus : others a Myrfine Athenienfi puella arnica Pal- 
ladis. Alfo Mt/’fT©- ly. uvfat'yit, ab odore Myrrh a •, vel 
Upvtov, redolens: in Latine , Myrtllus , Myrfine , 
£7 Myrtus : in Englijh , the Myrtle. 
II. The Kinds. There is the Myrtle Tree or 
Shrub , of a confiderable Magnitude, of which we 
fhall not treat in this Chapter, but refer you to the 
proper place, in the fecond Book of this Work. 
What we fhall difconrfe of here, is a fmall bufhy 
Plant, fcarcely removed from the degree of an 
Herb, and is called Myrtus Nobilis , alfo Myrtillus , 
from the fmallnefs of the Plant being compared 
with the Alyrtus Arbor: This alfo is an Inhabitant 
of our Gardens , tor which reafon we give it a 
Place here. There are two Kinds of it, viz. 
1. Myrtus minor Tarentina. A\yrtus minor vulga- 
ris Lobelij , Myrtus Nobilis prima , Myrtillus Nobi- 
lis primus , Myrtus minor acuto folio , Myrtillus No- 
bilis acuto folio , The prime Noble Myirtle, or 
fmall fharp pointed Myrtle. 2. Alyrtus minor folio 
rotundiore , Myrtillus Nobilis alter , The other 
Noble Myrtle, or fmall roundifh or BoxLeav’d 
Myrtle. 
T be Descriptions, 
III. The firft, or Trime Noble Myrtle, or fharp 
pointed Myrtle. It has a Branched Woody Root. 
fpread 
