1044 Salmon j Herbal Lib. I 
from the White Knobs in fome places of the 
Root, with a flat round Circle, reprefenting a 
Seal, whence came this Name. 
11 . The Kinds. Authors have made a dozen 
feveral forts or more, but we fhall content our 
felves, with what grows in Our Own Nation, 
or in Our Wefi-India Plantations in America, viz. 
i . Poligonatum Vulgar e , by fome Polygon at urn 
latifolium , by others majus-, and by many Sigil- 
Jum Solomonis , Our Commorr Solomon Seal. 2. 
Polygon at um Majus florc major e, Polygonatum latifo- 
lium fecundum Clufij , The Greater flowered, or 
fvveet fmelling Solomons Seal. 3. Polygonatum , 
Virginianum , Solomons Seal of Virginia. 4. 
Polygonatum racemofum Amcricaninn , Clutter like 
Solomons Seal. 5. Polygonatum Racemofum per- 
foliatum Americanum majus Ef minus. Thro- 
■ leav’d Solomons Seal of America greater and 
lefler. 
T be Dcfcriptions. 
III. The firlt, or Our Common Solomons Seal. 
The Root is of the thjeknefs of a Alans 
Ringer or Thumbs white and knobbed in fome 
places , with a fiat round Circle , reprefenting a 
Seal , lying along under the upper face of the 
Ground , and not growing downwards , but with 
Solomons Seal Common. 
many Fibres underneath. It rifes up with a 
round Stalk , about half a yard high , bowing or 
bending down the Top , Jet zoitb fingle leaves one 
above another , which are fomething large , and 
like unto the Leaves of Lilly Convally , and of 
the fame color , viz. with an Eye of blewijhnefs 
upon the Green , but mere yelldwifij underneath , 
with fome Ribs running through them. At tire 
foot cf every Leap ahnofi , from the bottom of 
the Stalk up to the Top , come forth fmall , long, 
white , and hollow pendulous flowers , fomething 
like the Flowers cf Lilly -Convally, but ending in 
five longer Points , for the mofi part two together , 
at the end of a long foot Stalk , and fome times 
but one , Jometimes alfo , /zw Stalks with 
Flowers at the foot of a Leaf , which have no 
fmcll at all, and ftand all on the one fide of 
the Stalk. After they arc paft , caw*? /» their 
places , fmall round berries , green at the firfi , 
blackifh green , tending to blewnefs , cofo/r 
they are ripe 5 i/z which lye fmall, white , hard, 
and fiony Seed. Camerarius ; 7 f Epitome fays , 
{citing Matthiolus dx /wx Author ) that it is 
Jometimes found with red Berries , alfo with 
Purple. Thefe Berries being ripe are cf the 
bignefs of Ivy Berries , 0/ a fweet and plea- 
fa nt Tafie. The Root alfo is fweet at the firfi 
t filing, but afterwards of a bitter Tafie with fome 
Jbarpnefs. 
IV. The fecond, or greater flower’d, or fweet 
fmelling Solomons Seal. The Root if this is ex- 
actly like the former, but larger if it grows in 
good Ground, otherwife leffer. The Stalks are 
fhorter, not much above a foot high, and fome- 
what flatter. The Leaves are flatter, and round- 
er pointed , fet on one fide of the Leaf, as the 
Solomons Seal greater Flower'd. 
the former, but ft and clofe together. The flowers 
are larger than the aforegoing (but by a Vault 
of the Cutter , in this f igure they are made lefter) 
of a greenifh white color , fmelling fweet like 
thofe of the Hawthorn, arifing from the bofems 
of the Leaves, upon Jhort foot Stalks, which be- 
ing paft. Seeds or Bernes follow, which arc firft 
Green, but afterwards black, containing within a 
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