X. The Fonder of the Seed of Peters- wort. 
Diofcorides , Pliny , and Galen fay , That if 
it is taken to the quantity of two Drams 
at a time in Mead , or Honied Water , that 
it purges Cholerick Humors, and thereby helps 
fuch as are troubled with the Sciatica or Hip 
Gout. 
PICK-PURSE, fee Shepherds-Purfe , Chap. 
PIGEONS- FOOT, fee Doves-Foot, Chap. 228. 
PIGEONS-GRASS, fee Columbine, Chap. 148. 
PILD-CORN, fee Oats Wild, Chap. 525. 
CHAP. DLXI. 
Of PILE - WORT. 
0 R, 
FIG-WORT. 
I. / “T“' H E Names. It is called by the Ara- 
_L bians , Memiten : in Greek 6 Xtu/Svioy 
[wie}v t in Latine Chelidonium minus , (and yet 
in truth is no Chelidonium , or Celandine , 
nor any Species thereof:) but the molt com- 
mon Latine Names are, Pic aria , iff Scrophu - 
laria (becaufe it cures the Kings-Evil,) alfo 
Amelh/s Virgillij Guilandino $ TeJUcu/us Sacer- 
dotis Sylvatici •, Ranunculus latifolius Lugdu- 
nenfts , (and yet it has no biting Talte as the 
Ranunculi have : ) Cbelidonia Rot undifolia Bau- 
hini -, and it is thought to be the Stru- 
tnea F/inij : in Englijh , File-snort , Fig-wort , 
and by fome , the Leffer Celandine , (tho 1 impro- 
perly.) 
II. The Kinds. There are two Species of 
this Plant , viz. 1. Ficaria feu Scrophularia 
major , Hi r undin aria major , The Greater 
Pile-wort , or Fig-wort. 2. ficaria feu Scro- 
phularia minor , The Lelfer Pile-wort , or Fig- 
wort. 
Tile -wort Great: double Flutter'd. 
The Descriptions, 
III. The firfl , or Greater Pile-wort, or Fig- 
wort. Its Root is Fibrous , full of many fmall 
Kernels or Knots , fome f mailer, fome greater , 
growing without any order , almoji like Grains 
of Wheat , but larger , and of a white color. 
The Leaves are round , thick and fmooth , grow- 
ing almoft as large as Afarum or Afarabacca, 
fome times a little waved about the edges , 
and fometimes not , each Leaf ftanding upon 
a longer foot Stalk than thofe of the fol- 
lowing or Lelfer Kind , yet lying upon the 
Ground. The Flowers which grow fever ally ^ 
as the next or lefer do, fund upon longer 
foot Stalks, are of a pale yellow color, and 
larger than they , con fifing but of five or 
fix Leaves , cut in at the ends unto their 
middle, and having fome reddijh Threads in the 
middle of the Flower Sr 
