Chap, 5 58. EngUJh ‘Herbs. 
ing upon the Ground, running far about, and 
/hooting out fmall litres at the Joints as it runs, 
taking thereby frcfh hold in the Earth, and rooting 
it J elf again in many Places. At the Joints of thejc 
Branches grow two fmall dark green fhining Leaves, 
Jomething like Bay Leaves but f mailer and with 
them ccme forth alfo the Flowers, one at a Joint, 
funding upon a tender joot Stalk, being Jomething 
long and hollow, parted at the brims or edges , fome - 
times into four, and fome times into five Leaves. 
The Common fore are of a pale blew color , and 
fome are of a pure white -, but fome again are of a 
dark reddijh purple color , and theft are thofe which 
are only planted in Gardens. 
V. The third, or Perwinkle with double purple 
Flowers. Its Root is very Bujhy and Fibrous like 
the former : and this Plant is very much like to the 
fecond leffer Kind juft now defer ibed, in dll things, 
except in the Flower, which is of that dark reddijh 
purple color, which is in the former fingle leffer 
Kind, but herein it differs , that this bus another 
row of Leaves within the Flower, fo that from 
the two rows of Leaves, it came to be called double 
Perwinkle, but the Leaves oj the Flowers of this 
are leffer than the Leaves of this fingle Flowered. 
VI. The Places. The hr It or Great Perwinkle, 
grows in Spain, Italy, France , and other hoc Coun- 
tries, from fome of which places it has been Tranf- 
planted to us, and grows only in our Gardens. 
The fecond or Blew fmaller Perwinkle, grows in 
many Woods and Orchards, by Hedge fides in many 
parts of England', fo alfo does the white Kind 
here and there : but the Single purple, and Double 
purple, or third Species, grow only in our Gardens 
with us. The fecond Species whether Wild or 
Garden, is faid to be the Common or Vulgar Kind, 
and that which is only, or chiefly in Ufe. 
VII. The Times. They are laid to Flower all 
in March and April, and the Branches remain or 
abide always green, more efpecially if they grow 
in moilt and lhady places , in which they chiefly 
’delight. 
VI I I . The Vitalities. Perwinkle is hot and dry 
in the fecond Degree, Aftringent, Emphra&ive , 
Styptick and Vulnerary. 
IX. The Specification. It flops all forts of 
Fluxes of the Belly, chiefly the Dyfentery or 
Bloody Flux} as alfo all other Fluxes of Blood, 
as Spitting or Vomiting Blood, Piffing of Blood, 
and the overflowing of the Terms in Women, and 
the too abundant Flux of the Loches of Women in 
Child-bed. 
X. The Preparations. You may have there- 
from, 1. A Liquid Juice. 2. An Effence. 3. 
Decottion or lnfufion in Red Wine. 4. A Pon- 
der of the Plant. 5. A Cataplafm of the green 
Herb. 
The Virtues. 
XI- The Liquid Juice. Two or three Spoon- 
fuls of it taken alone, or in a Glafs of Red Styp- 
tick Wine, it flops all Fluxes of the Belly, and 
Bloody Fluxes of what kind foever, and in what 
Part of the Body foever. It is faid never to fail in 
the Cure of a Bloody Flux , Spitting of Blood, 
or Pilling of Blood, or the Terms •, but it ought to 
be taken Morning and Night, till luch time as the 
Cure is performed : Injected up the Noftrils, it 
flops the Hemorrhage there j fo alfo InjeUed up 
the Womb with a proper Womb Syringe ( as 
well as taken inwardly by the Mouth) it con- 
tributes more immediately to flop the overflow- 
857 
ing of the Courfes, or Loches in Women as afo, re- 
fa id. 
XI I. The Effence . It has all the Virtues of the 
Juice, being ufed in the lame Dofe, and in the fame 
manner, but is more effectual to the purpofes in- 
tended^ applyed outwardly it flops the bleeding of 
Green Wounds, and contributes very much to the 
fpeedy healing of Ample Wounds or Ulcers, more 
efpecially, if the Pouder of the Herb , be ftrewed 
pretty thick upon the fame. 
XIII. The Decottion, or lnfufion in Red Wine. 
It has the Virtues of the Juice and Effence i 
and may be given Morning and Night to five or 
fix Ounces. Outwardly, it is Vulnerary and con- 
tributes to the fpeedy healing of Wounds and 
Ulcers. Ufed as a Gargle to a Sore Mouth 
or Throat, it cleanfes the fame and quickly 
heals it. 
XIV. The Pouder of the Herb. It has 'all 
the Virtues of the Juice , Fffence, and Decottion 
or lnfufion, but operates not altogether with that 
fpeed they do. Dofe from two Scruples to a Dram 
or Dram and half, in Styptick Red Wine: out- 
wardly applyed to Wounds it flops their Bleeding : 
and ftrewed upon Ulcers, it cleanfes, drys and 
heals tbemv 
XV. The Cataplafm. Applyed to Bleeding 
Wounds, it presently flops the Hemorrhage : and 
to inveterate running Ulcers, it in a fliort time flops 
the Fluxion. 
CHAP. DLIX. 
Of the PERU-FLOWE R, 
O R, 
MARVEL of PERU. 
I. / np H E Names. This Plant is called by the 
X Indians of Peru, Hachal , and for that 
reafon fome Authors call it Hachal Indi : It has no 
Greek Name: but our Modern Authors call it 
Admirabiits y . Mirabiia Peruana Lj Peruviana 
Plant a Admirabilis Gelfimum vel Jafninum Mexi- 
canum, Jafninum rubrum (J Indicum Solanum 
Mexicanum Bauhini ■, Solanum Odoriferum Admi- 
rabilia Peruviana Clufij : in Englifh it is •called, 
Marvel of Peru, Marvel of Mexico , and Marvel 
of the World . 
II. The Kinds. Authors have deferibed two va- 
rieties of this Plant, viz. 1. Mirabilia Peruviana 
major , The greater Marvel . 2. Mirabilia vel Mira- 
bilis Peruviana minor , Solanum Mexicanum Flore 
parvo , The leffer Marvel , whofe Defcriptions 
follow. 
H be Defcriptions » 
III. The firft , or Greater Marvel. It has a 
Root which is long and round , greater at the Head , 
and fmaller downwards to the end , like unto a Ra- 
difh, fpreading out into two or three or more Branch- 
es-, blackijh on the out fide, and whitijh within. 
Thefe Roots have often been preferved by Art thro' 
the Winter Seafon, yea for two or three Winters to- 
gether (for they will perijh if they be left abroad. 
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