Chap. 552. £ nglijb Herbs. 
Of PELLITORY of the Wall; 
I. ' 1 “' HE Karnes. It is called in Greek , 'Ea£w;, 
_L (the firft quod foliorum & fe- 
minum hirfutie v eft i bus adherent : the latter, quod 
Ter dices ea hbent er vefcantur : ) in Latin, Hclxine , 
Per dictum. It is alfo called Parietaria , or Pa- 
r it aria, alio Mur ahum, Ef Herb a Mural is (becaule 
it naturally grows upon Walls.) And by fome 
Authors, XJrceolaris , Vitrago , Ef Vitriolaris Herba. 
Galen and Paulus AEgineta faid, That in their days 
(alfo Cornelius Celfus , and Pliny out of him) that 
feveral did call it Partbcnium , but this erronious 
Name is fo Foreign to the Plant, that it needs no 
refutation : in Englijh it is called Pellitory and 
Paritary of the Wall. 
II. Che Kinds. There are but two peculiar 
Kinds ufed in Pnyfick, viz. 1. Parietaria vulga- 
ris, Pcrd ici u m c ommunc, Hclxine vulgaris, Helxine 
major, Parietaria major-. Our common or greater 
Pellitory of the Wall, or Greater Parietary. 2. Pari- 
e ff ria , 7711,1 ff i Hclxine minor , Parietaria exigua 
leffer Parietary , or Pellitory of the 
The Descriptions. 
III. The firft, or Our Common, or Greater Pel- 
litory of the Wall. Its Root is fomewhat long , 
with many fmall Fibres adjoined thereto , of a dark 
reddijh color, and abides all the Winter ( altho ’ the 
Stalks with their Leaves perifh ) and fprings up again 
afrejh every Tear. It rife s up with many browmfh, 
red, tender and weak, clear, and almoft tranf parent 
Stalks, about two Feet high. Upon which grow at 
the feveral faints , two Leaves, fomething broad 
and long, like unto thofe 0/ French Mercury, or 
Amaranthus, called Flower Gentle, of a dark green 
color, which afterwards turn brownifb, and fmootb , 
or not at all dented about the edges , which are a 
little rough and hairy cut the Stalks alfo are. At 
the Joints with the Leaves, from the middle of the 
Stalks upwards , where it Jpreads it felf out into 
fever al branches -, come forth many fmall pale pur- 
plifh Flowers , in hairy, or fomewhat rough Heads 
or Husks-, after which comes fmall black and rough 
Seed, which will ftick to any Garment or Cloth it 
Jhall touch. 
IV. T he fecond, or Leffer Parietary, or Pellitory 
of the Wall. Its Root is much like the former, and 
the Plant grows in like manner as that does, but 
Pellitory, ) 
f*. > of the Wall fmall. 
Paritary ^ 
not fo great or high • having tender, reddijh 
rough Stalks, J, mailer and Jhortcr than the other ' 
but with fomething greener Leaves thereon , yet 
rougher, ( not much unlike to thofe of Bafil) fo that 
they will ftick to any Cloth , ‘ or other thing they 
touch. The Flowers and Seed differ not much from 
thofe of the greater, but arc f mailer, and the Seed 
is more like unto Purflane Seed (when rubbed out of 
the Husk f,) than the former. 
V. The Places. The firft grows Wild generally 
throughout all England, about the Borders of 
Fields, and among Rubbifh, and by or on the fides 
of old Walls, chiefly Stone Walls * on the moift 
Corners 
Pellitory. 
0 R, 
Paritary 
of the Wall common. 
