Chap. 52:5, 'Englijb 'Herbs . 
7 8 3 
being very like unto it ■, but its Leaves are fome- 
what broader ■, and it has a greater (lore of Branch- 
es , but in its Holders and other particulars , it dif- 
fers not much. 
VI. 'The third , <jsr Clufius his Auftrian Nipple- 
wort. Its Root is fmall , fibrous , and enduring many 
Tears. And it has fever al fender fmooth and fo/id 
Stalks, not eafy to break , a Cubit high or .more ■, 
on which are Jet without any order , fomewhat long 
and narrow Leaves , broadcjl in the middle , and 
Jharp at the ends , waved a little about the edges , 
comparing tpem at the bottom , yielding a 
little Milk, from the upper Joints with the Leaves , 
fpread forth fmall firm Branches , <2 /////? 
bearing each of them four or five long green 
Husks , //? them fmall purplifh flowers , of five 
Leaves apiece , nicked in at the broad ends , with 
fome fmall Threads in the middle , which turn into 
Downe. which is carried away with the Wind. 
VII. The T laces. The’ firft grows almoft every 
where by High -ways, upon Walls made of Mud 
or Earth, in Stony places, upon the Banks of 
Ditches, and Borders of Fields, in moft Counties 
of England. The fecond near Wood-fid es and 
Hedge-rows. The third Clufius found in Hungaria , 
and in Saxonies Harcynia Sylva , and other places •, 
but with us it is only found Nurft up in G<?r- 
<lens. 
VIII. The Times. The firft Flowers from May 
to the end of Auguft , and the Seed is ripe in 
July, Auguft , and September. The fecond and 
third Flower in the Summer Months, and their Seed 
is ripe foon atrer. 
IX. The Qualities. The firft which is that which 
is only ufed, is temperate in refpefl to heat or cold, 
drynefs or moillure. Digeftive, Abfterfive, of thin 
parts, and able to abforb the Virulency of fharp and 
corroding Humors. 
X. The Specification. It is peculiar again!! 
Shingles, breakings out of the Lips after Fevers, 
fharp and running Sores, and the exulcerated Nip- 
ples of Womens Breafts , whence it came to be 
called Papillaris or Nipple-wort, 
XI. The Preparations. You may have there- 
from, 1. A Liquid Juice. 2. An Ointment. 3. 
A Cataplafm. 
' The Virtues. 
XII. The Liquid Juice. It cools Tnflamations, 
difculfes Tumors, and is good again!! fore Eyes, 
Shingles, Pimples, and breakings out of the Face 
and other parts •, applyed to the Sore Nipples of 
Womens Breafts, it heals them. 
XIII. The Ointment made with Hogs Lard , and 
a little Bees Wax. It is one of the belt things in 
the World to heal Womens fore Breafts and fore 
Nipples being applyed : it alfo heals fuperficial 
running Sores in other parts. 
XIV. The Cataplafm. It has all the fame Vir- 
tues of the Liquid Juice and Ointment : Abforbs 
the acid and corroding Humor , and cures fimple 
Contufions. 
NONE-SUCH, fee Flower of Conftantinople, 
(Chap. 280. 
/NOON-TIDE, fee Goats-Beard, Chap. 310, 
NOON-FLOWER , fee Goats-Beard, Ibid. 
NOSE-BLEED, fee Yarrow, Chap. 
NUTMEG, fee the Tree, Lib. II. 
CHAP. DXXIII. 
Of OAK of C A P P A D O C I A. 
f ' | ' H E Karnes. It is called in Greek , Au- 
lt e n/isyu : (quafi -n-mi bias Deorttm 
Gibus , the hood of the Gods, from its excellent 
fragrancy, and for that it feems to give long Lite 
toliichas eat thereof that they might be held to 
be in a manner Immortal.^ In Lanne, Ambrofm 
Hort'injis ; Ambrofa Vera ; Ambrofa Maritime Bau- 
hini , Ambrofa Saliva Camerarij , Dodon.fi, Lobeiij , 
& Taber nxmonl am -, Art emifafecundaP Unit ■ Ar- 
temi fa genus Gefneri , who with Angutllara and 
Cameraritis fuppofe it alfo to be Conyzu Htppocra- 
tis -, Artemifa monoclones Lugdunenfs : in Englijb 
Oak of Cappadocia. 
II. The Kinds. It is a lingular Plant, fui ge- 
neris h , I know other Authors make two or three 
forts of Ambrofa , but two of them are other 
Herbs, which have no relation to this, as rite Coro- 
nopus refins , f S' Corenopus repens Ruellij, Bucks - 
horn, or Wart-Crejfe , of which we have already 
difeourfed in Chap. 01. aforegoing: but what we 
treat of here is the firft Kind, both of Lobe/ and 
Gerard , which is the True Garden Ambrofa , thofe 
other being Ambrofa agria, and Plants of another 
Species. 
She Defcriptions. 
III. This Plant, or Oak of Cappadocia has d 
long flenier Root, fpreading itfelf Jonh, into many 
Branches and f ibres-, from -which apmes forth one 
hoary, while, piped, or freaked Stalk, rijing to 
be two Feet high at leaf, in any good fort of Ground 
which divides or fpreads it felf out into many 
Branches, from the very bottom-, on which grow 
without any certain order, Ledves Something large 
upon pretty long foot Stalks , very much cut in on 
the edges fomewhat refembling the divifons of 
Mugworc Leaves, efpecially the ends of them but 
much f nailer than they , being all whitijh or hoary 
upon the green, and of a very pleafng Smell,' net 
fo hot or flrpng as Botrys or Oak of Jerufulem, 
At the tops of all the. Branches both great and final/ 
grow the Flowers, which are fmall, round, yellow 
Mojfe Buttons, never opening abroad, nor bring 
mg any Seed, but fall away like Chaff. But under 
thefe Flowers from among the Leaves, come forth 
fmall Jbort Stalks, bearing two or three or four 
fmall rough and pointed Heads , without any Flowers 
before them, in which is contained fmall round 
blackift Seed, almoft like the Kernels or Stones oY 
Raifons or Grapes. J 
IV. Gerard gives us another defeription, which 
being compared with the former, will more excel- 
lently declare and fet out the Plant ^ and it is as 
follows. The Root and whole Plant perijhes with 
us in England at thefirfi approach of Winter. Di- 
ofcorides jfy’r, that it grows about three Handfuls 
high , but in Gerards Garden , it grew to be about 
three Feet high , yielding many weak , crooked , and 
ftreaked 
