Chap. 637. EngUJh Herbs. 
final l Seed , ns big ns a Vetch or Tare , and as 
hard as a Stone. 
V. The third, or Solomons .Seal of Virginia. 
The Root of this is f lender , long and Creeping , 
//Tr ot her s of the Virginia Plants , and 
not Tuberous as the former are. It rifes up 
with a Stalk or Stalks , </ foot or more high , «>/>£ 
Leaves of the fame fafhion , /oz^, Nervous, very 
green and finning, funding one above another 
upon a Jingle upright Stalk, which is fometimes 
a little branched. Thefe leaves arc not of fo 
fad a green as the other, nor difcolored under- 
neath-, at the very Top of the Stalk come forth 
the flowers, and many of them grow together, 
which are whiter and ] mailer , and nothing fo 
long and Pendulous, ending in fmall fine point- 
ed Leaves. After which come the Berries, which 
in this are f mailer than any of the former, and of a 
moll Orient Red, or fear let color ( which fomc 
by a miflake formerly took for Chernies Berries , 
but were in truth no fuch thing, thefe not be- 
ing jit to dye withal ) which while they arc white, 
and before they are ripe, have fix black Strokes 
on every of them, equally dijlant, but arc quite 
worn out being ripe -, within which are contained, 
white, hard. Stony grains or Seeds, like thofe of 
the others. 
VI. The fourth , or CluRer-like Solomons- 
Seal. Its Root is thick* white. Tuberous, long, 
and jointed , as it were j?y diflanccs, with Jc- 
vcral Fibres thereon. It foots up a round 
brownifh fingle Stalk, and fometimes parted or 
branched , about 2 or 3 feet high, fet with ma- 
ny fair , broad Leaves, forne ribs being of a 
redd if, others of a fad green color , harder than 
others , and comp a fed about the edges with a 
rougher and darker Lift. At the Tops of the 
Branches, grow in open Clufiers, many fmall pale co- 
lored Tbreds, like unto Vine Bloffoms , which puf- 
fing away, there fucceed feveral fmall Berries, 
in form almojl of a Clufter of Grapes, and each 
of the targe nefs of a Juniper Berry, ycllowifh be- 
fore they be ripe, and finely fpotted with blood 
Jpcckles , which after they have hung fo long 
to be ripe, wear out, and the whole Berry grows 
red like a Cherry, whofe Pulp or Juice is fweet, 
and contain ivithin them fmall white rourtdifh 
Grains or Seed. 
VII. The fifth, or Thro-leaved Solomons Seal 
of America, the greater kind. Its Root is nothing 
fo thick or white, as the loft deferibed, but is 
faftned by many firings into the Earth. It has 
a flender fmooth Stalk or two, about half a foot 
high or more, parted about the middle into two 
branches , and each of them again into others, 
having fair, broad and long, and very pale green 
ribbed Leaves, encompajfing the Stalk wholly at 
the bottom-, at each of which joints, with the 
Leaves, and at the Tops, alfo Hand the flowers 
fingly, compofcd of fix long and narrow yellow 
Leaves hanging downwards, in the middle whereof 
is a crooked bead or horn, compared with fix 
yellow heads or Chives, when the flower, ispaft the foot 
Stalk thereof rifes up, bearing that Crooked or 
horned, three cornered skinny Cod on the end, 
having whitifh Seed within it. The leffer fort 
is in all things and refpetfs like to the greater, 
but every ways leffer, the Leaves being not only 
f mailer but much narrower alfo. 
VIII. The Places. The firft grows Wild fre- 
quently in many places of England, as on the 
North fide of Mend ip in the Parifh of Shepton- 
Mallet, in Some rfet [hire-, upon a Row Hill by 
Crayford in Kent, in Odium Park in Hampfhire , 
7045 
" ear 3 foiir Mil« from 
Wiltjhm., in a Village near Horfl'ey 
five Miles from Guilford in Surrey: in a fluid 
Mil “ from Gmterbmy.m 
a Bujhy clofe belonging to the Parfonage of M- 
derbury near Clarmdon , two Miles from Salis- 
bury ; and in Chiffon-Wool on Cheffon-hill be- 
tween A emngton and Stttittgburn in Kent as 
™ ^ ever 5 , 1 ot her places. The fecond grows 
Wild m Our Gordons ; and I found it alfo growing 
m Carolina. The other three, grow in foera! 
Ijhoes in America , but with us only in Gar- 
and^th Jfii-f MR* T . he f all fpring up in March , 
run UL 5 - fl ° wers “ -%-5 the other Anteri- 
rine in w an , d the Berries are 
?f, e i September, and continue on the Stalks, 
till the broils come, -and then they fall down 
'r SW i kS ’ V' hlc S rot ani Petilfi with all 
above Ground; the Root abiding all Winter 
an i ~ otm g f? n h a new every year. ’ 
• X v n ^l‘ a {' ues - Solomons Seal is temperate 
in refpeft to heat or cold, but dry in the fe- 
Gvs d tW*' • ft is Aftrin S ent . ani as Galen 
0 , a ™xt property, being partly binding 
and partly of a fharp and biting quality, with 
a little bitternefs, which properties we perceive 
not in thole which grow in Our Countries 
XL The Spec, feat, on. The Root is chieflv 
ufed and that principally, of the firft kind. It 
heals Ruptures and broken Bones, flops fluxes 
of the Belly, the Reds and Whites in Women 
and running Of the Rems in Men; as alfo Vo- 
mitings, Bleedings, and defluxions of humors 
upon any part; and is very available to heal 
mple Green Wounds, running Sores, and other 
like Hurts whether outward or inward. 
11. The Preparations. You may have there- 
H '' T Ce J‘ r E V ence °f ,he R °ot and 
Herb. 2. A Deed!, on oj the Root in Wine or 
Water. 3 An InJ ufion of the Root in Wine. 
4. A Ponder of the Root. An Ointment or 
oalfam of the Root. 6. A Cataplafm of the Root. 
1- An Apophlegmatifm of the Root. 8. A Diliil- 
lei Water. 9. A Spirituous TinHure. 
The Virtues. 
XIII. The Juice or E (fence. A Spoonful of 
either of them, or fomerhing more, taken at a 
time morning and evening in a Glafs of Stvp- 
tick Red Wine, or in Smiths Forge Water ; 
is laid to Cure Ruptures when the Guts fall 
into the Cods, a Cataplafm of the Root being 
applyed outwardly to the fame. They are alfo 
available, to cure the over-flowing of the Terms 
and Whites in Women, and a Gonorrhcca in 
Men, and incomparably good to knit and conglu- 
tinate broken bones inwardly taken.- outwardly- 
applied being made into a Cataplafm with Rye 
or Wheat Meal, They dry up and conglutinate 
the lips ol Green Wounds, and ftop the flux 
of humors upon Ulcers, they being walked and 
cleanfed therewith. Snuffc up the Nollrils they 
are faid to draw flegm out of the head and io 
eale the pain thereof. 
XIV. The PecoU'wn in Wine or Water. It has 
all the former Virtues; is available for ouc- 
ward and inward Bruifes, Falls or Blows, eafe 
pains, dilioive congealed blood, and take away 
the black and blew marks made by Contufions, 
or other hurts. Dofe half a Pint, 
XV. The 
