774 Salmons Herbal . Lib. j 
Scabbinefs, it cures them ^ and is faid to cure old 
rotten Sores and Ulcers, tho’ the Flefh was fepara- 
ted from the Bones 5 Applyed to Diflocations after 
the Setting of the Joint, it {Lengthens the part, 
drys up Humors, hinders defluxions, and gives 
w eafe in the Gout, and other like Pains. If it is 
made with equal parts of the green Leaves oj 
Nettles , and Dwarf Elder Leaves , and applyed 
to the Gout, Sciatica , or Joint aches in any part, 
it quickly gives admirable eafe, and in a little time 
Cure. 
XXII. T he Difiillcd Water from the whole Tlant. 
It is faid to be good for all the purpofes to which 
the Juice and Effence are applyed, but nothing 
near fo powerful. But outwardly it is Cofmetick, 
and an excellent thing to wafli Wounds and Sores 
with, and to cleanfe the Skin from Scurff, Mor- 
phew, Leprofy, Scabs, and other Defcedations 
thereof. 
XXI II. Not a. The Garden or Roman Nettle is 
faid to be the moft effeUual of them all: yet where 
that cannot be had, the others may very well be 
ufed in its place -, and are thought by fome to be 
no lefs powerful •• and fome likewife think the leaft 
of the three, to be no lefs effe&ual than the 
greater, and it may be to exceed them in efficacy 
too. 
CHAP. DXIX. 
Of N I G E L L A; 
0 R, 
FENNEL - FLOWER. 
afoot high, full of Branches-, be fet tank Leaves, 
very much cut or jagged , much refembling the 
Leaves 0/Fumitory, but much greater. The Flowers 
grow at the top of the Branches , of a whitifh blew 
color , each Flower being divided into five fmall 
Leaves Star fajhivn. The Flowers being pafi away , 
Nigella Garden. 
I. 'T' H E Names. It is called in Arabick, Xa- 
JL min-, Sunis - Sunici, or Sunizi: in Greek, 
tAixavtiiov, £ v.iKu.vs'TKyMv: in Latine , Melanthium, 
Nigella, Salufandra , papaver Nigrum : in Englifh 
Gith, Fennel Flower and Nigella : Fuchfius and 
Cor du s took this Plant to be CuminumSylvefire 
alt e rum Diofcoridis. 
II. The Kinds. There are two principal Species 
of this Plant, viz. I. The Garden Kind, which are, 
1. Melanthium Uortenfe Nigella hortenfis Flore 
fimplici, Our Garden Nigella with a Angle Flower. 
2. Nigella Cretica latifolia odor at a^ broad Leav’d 
fweet Scented Nigella. 3, Nigella Cretica tenui- 
folio odor at a, narrow Leav’d fweet Scented Nigella. 
4. Nigella Citrina Flore albo fimplici, Angle Flower- 
ed white Nigella with yellow Seed. All the 
former are Angle Flowered ^ thefe following are 
double Flowered. 5. Nigella Damafcena Flore 
multiplici, Blew Nigella with a Double Flower. 
6. Nigilla Citrina Flore albo multiplici, white Ni- 
gella double Flowered. II. The Wild Kind. 7. 
Melanthium Sylvefire, Nigella Sylveflris. Wild 
Nigella. 
The DefcriptiotJS. 
III. The frft, or Garden Nigella with a Angle 
Flowat. It has a long fender Root, with fome ti- 
bres adjoining to it, from whence fprings forth a 
zeeak and brittle Stalk , and fonts times Stalks , about 
there come up fmall Knobs or Heads, having at the 
ends thereof, $ or 6 little fharp Herns or Point els, 
and every Knob or Head is divided into fever at 
fmall Cells or partitions, in which the Seed is con- 
tained, which is of a blackijh color, very like unto 
Onion Seed, fharp intafie, and of an excellent fweet 
fmell. 
IV. The fccond, or broad Leav’d fweet feented 
Nigella. Its Root is yellowifh, thready and An- 
nual -, from whence fprings up a f ender weak Stalk , 
divided into fome Branches, having long and divi- 
ded Leaves fet thereon, but not of the form of fome 
of the other Nigella, which are Fennel like , or 
Lark Spur-like, but much broader , and parted into 
feveral Divifions, fome what like to thofe of Ground- 
fel, but cut into leffer and finer parts. At the 
tops of each of the Branches, grows a Jingle white 
Flower , like unto the other Nigella’s, and Heads 
fomewhat like them fucceeding , containing black 
Seed alfo, and having a fweet fmell. 
V. 'The third , or narrow Leav’d fweet Nigella.' 
The Roots of this Candy Nigella, are faid to be 
harder than the reft, yet Annual like them: 
the Stalks which rife from thence are many, upright 
and fiender, parted into feveral Branches, with but 
few Leaves fet thereon, thofe below not being fo 
finely cut or divided , as are thofe which are higher. 
The Flowers are fmall, yellowifh, and white, grow- 
ing at the Tops of the Branches , after which come 
cornered black Seed, fharp , and fomething fweet , 
contained in fmall biformed Seed Vejfels or Heads, 
which are much like to two- fmall Berries. 
VI. The fourth, or Angle Flowered white Ni- 
gella, with yellow Seed. 'This fort of Angle Ni- 
gella 
