1042 Salmon s 'Herbal. Lib. 1 . 
j, i}) and Jixlh kinds, fiving, that it Jf reads ti- 
ll road a lit tic more than they , and that its flowers 
are of a pie of ant Milk White Color. 
X. The eight, or lefler Wild Snap Dragon. 
The Middle or greater kind we have defenbed 
at Sect. V LI. above: this lejfer fort grows lower 
by one half, yet Bitfhes out thicker with Branches , 
having long narrow Leaves not half fo great , 
Snap Dragon Wild lejfer. 
flowers J mall alfo and whitijh , and the Seed /mail 
and blacker than the Seed of that. Its Root like- 
wife perifhes after Seed time, and the Plant is 
railed the next year again of the Seed. 
XL The Places. The fail four are called the 
Garden kinds : the latter four, the Field or Wild 
kinds j altho’ they all grow Wild in Spain, Italy , 
and other hot Regions : but with us they all 
of them grow only in Gardens, the firft four of 
which are chiefly fet by. 
XII. The Times. The firft four flower for 
the moft part the fecond year after Sowing, from 
April, even to July, aud the Seed is ripe not 
long after. The Wild flower alfo much about the 
fame times, thro’ June and July even to the 
end of Augufi. All thefe feveral forts of this 
Plant, if they be once Sown in Gardens, they 
will grow continually there of their own accord, 
if they be fuffer’d to fhed their Seed. 
XIII. The Qualities, Specification, Virtues and 
XJfes of thefe Plants are as yet unknown in 
the Art of Phyfick: But Matthiolus fays, that 
given (I fuppofe he means their Juice) mixed 
with Rofe-water-, or the Pouder of the Seed; 
in like manner, they are good againft Fits of 
the Mother. And Apuleius fays, that the Di- 
ftilled Water or Deco&ion of the Herb and Root 
in Water, is a fpeedy remedy againft the Rheum 
or Watering of the Eyes coming of a Hot Caufe, 
by waffling them therewith, and bathing the Fore- 
head, ^Temples and Eye-Brows with the fame. 
SNAKE ROOT, of Virginia, fee 
SNAKE’s BUGLOSS, lee, Vipers Buglofs. Chap. 
SNAKE WEED, fee Biflort. Chap. 
SNEESE, ROOT, fee Ucllebor White. Chap. 
CHAP. DCXXXVI. 
0/ SNEES-WORT. 
I, ' T'HE Names. It is called in Greek, nr4tfJuii 
X in Latine, Ptarmica , Ptarmica Sylveflris , 
and St cr nut ament oria : in Englifh, Snees-zoort. 
II. T he Kinds. There are feveral forts hereof, 
as, 1. Ptarmica agreflis vcl fylveflris, Sternuta- 
mentoria Sylveflris. Wild or Common Snees- 
wort. 2. Ptarmica Sylveflris flore pleno. Snees* 
wort with Double Flowers. 3. Ptarmica auftri- 
aca Cluftj. Snees-wort of Auftria. 4. Ptarmica 
Imperati, Ptarmica minor . Spanifh or Naples 
Snees-wort. 
The Defcriptiotts. 
III. The firft, or Wild df Common Snees-wort. 
Its Root is tender, and full of Strings, creeping 
far about in the Earth ; and in no long time takes 
up much Ground. It fprings up for the mofl 
part with but one Stalk , which is replenifhed 
with many round and brittle Branches , befet with 
long and narrow Leaves, dented about the Edges 
like a Saw. At the Tops of the Stalks do grow 
Snees-wort Wild Common. 
