7 6 8 
Salmon ’ s 'Herbal. 
Lib. I. 
and Digeftion, eafes the Colick, provokes Urine, 
gives relief in the Strangury, and induces the Cour - 1 
fes in Women. It is good againft all forts of Poi- 
fon, and is ever an Ingredient in Venice Treacle , viz. 
the Seed of the Burn as dulcis , and both Diofcondes , 
• and Pliny fay, that the Seed ot the Garden Bunicu 
is put into Antidotes, not the Seed of the Wild: 
and yet that of the Wild is certainly the Itronger 
and the more effectual : it kills alfo Worms in 
Children. Dole from half a Dram to a Dram or 
more in any fit Vehicle, Morning and Night. 
XXI. The Oil of the Garden Root, by Inflation 
or Decotfion. It allays Incarnations, difeuffes hot 
Tumors, and is profitable againlt Chilblains ^nd 
Kibes, they being anointed therewith. • 
XXII. The Wine made of the Juice of the Root 
of Navew Gentle, the Root is to be Ground in 
an Engine or Mill, and the Juice to be prelfed 
forth, which is to be put into Wooden bats or 
Veifels, and left to Ferment, as Wine or Cyder, 
are: The Fermentation being over, and the Liquor 
grown Fine, you will have a noble delicate Liquor 
for drinking, very Pleafant beyond Cyder, and much 
ftronger j and not much Inferior to Wine. This 
Wine if well made, by reafon of the ftrength of 
its Body will keep fome Years. 
them, a yard high, or more , full of Branches, bear- 
ing at every Joint, two broad Leaves , for form and 
largenefs fomewhat like unto Bawm , but longer 
pointed, fofter, whiter, and more hoary , and notch'd 
alfo about the edges, which have a flrong fweet 
fnell, not ojfenfive to any , but very pleafing to Cats, 
Nep: or, Cat-Mint Common . 
CHAP. DXVII. 
Of N E Pi or, CAT-MINT. 
I. H E Names. It was unknown to the 
Greeks, fo far as we can Learn } the La- 
tins ealled it Nepeta, Mentha felina, Mentha Catta- 
ria, and by fome is limply called Cataria, and Cat- 
taria, alfo Herb a Gattaria : we in Englijh called 
it, Nep, Neppe and Cat-Mint. 
II. Ti )e Kinds. Authors make many Kinds 
hereof, but the following fix are Principal, viz. 
I. Nepeta major Vulgaris, Herb a Gattaria Matthi- 
oli • Nepeta Cordi & Tragi-, Cattaria, Cf Mentha 
Cataria Lobelij-, Common Garden Nep, or Cat- 
Mint. 2. Nepeta Media , Cattaria Media-, The 
middle Kind of Nep, or Cat-Mint. 3. Nepeta 
minor Camerarij, Mentha Cataria minor Bauhini , 
Cattaria tenuifolia Hifpanica Clufij 5 Our fmall 
Nep or Cat Mint. 4. Nepeta Peregrina latifolia, 
Mentha Cattaria Peregrina latifolia Lobelij , Men- 
tha felnia fativa latifolia Taberncemontani , Nepeta 
Perigrini Be fieri, Cattaria altera Gerardi -, Strange 
Nep, or Cat-Mint with broad Leaves. 5. Nepeta 
Peregrina auguft folia , Mentha Cataria augup folia 
minor Bauhini -, Mentha Cattaria Peregrina aguftifolia 
Lobelij, Cattaria folio longiore DodonTi, Salvia Ro- 
mana Gerardi -, Strange Nep or Cat-Mint with 
narrow Leaves. 6 . Mentha Cataria minor Alpina, 
Nepeta minor Alpina, Small Mountain Nep, or 
Cat-Mint. 
The Descriptions. 
III. The firft, or Common Garden Nep or Cat- 
Mint. Its Roots are compofed of many long Strings 
and Fibres, faftning themf elves ftrongly in the 
Ground, and abide with green Leaves thereon all 
the Winter. From this Root Jhoot forth a hard 
four fquare St alky or Stalks , with an boarinefs cn 
who will rub themf elves thereon all over , and alfo 
eat the Leaves thereof, they are fo much delighted 
with it, whence came the Name. The Flowers grow 
in large Tufts at the tops of the Branches , and un- 
derneath them like wife on the Stalks , many to - 
getber, of a whitifh purple color. In this parti- 
cular of the blowers, our Figure here inferted is 
defell ive. 
IV. The fecond , or Middle Kind of Nep, or 
Cat-Mint. Its Roots are greater, longer, and more 
Woody than the former , abiding many Tears in the 
Ground, but retaining no green Leaves thereon in 
the Winter Seafon. It hew like wife hard fquare 
Stalks, not fo great as the former, but rather 
more in number, and fome times as high: the Leaves 
are f mailer aim of by half harder, greener, and no- 
thing fo flrong feented \ and are Jet by couples on 
the Stalks, which fpread not themf elves out in 
Branches, in that manner which the firft does. The 
Flowers are fewer , fmaller, and growing only by 
f paces, along them, up to the tops, of a faint pur - 
plifh color , gaping like the other, and after them 
fuch like fmall round Seed in tbe Husks. 
V. Tbe third, or Our fmalL Nep , or Cat- 
Mint. It has a long, fmall. Fibrous, IVoody Root , 
which fends forth fever a l four -fquare , hard and 
hoary Stalks, which die not away after Seed bearing, 
but Jhoot forth again frefh Branches , not above a 
foot high -, with two fmall and long narrow Leaves , 
J'nipt or dented about the edges, and hoary alfo, of 
a ftronger Smell than the fi/fi or Common Kind, 
and of a hotter Tajh. The Stalks j hoot forth into 
many 
