Chap. 643. Englijh Herbs ■> 
roc, or exulcerate the Entrails of Sheep it they 
eat it, and kill them. 
If. The Kinds. There are various farts here- 
of, as, 1. Ylamniula major , The Greater Spear- 
v.-ort. 2. Ylamsnda miner , The lefier or Our 
Common Spearwort. 3. Ylamniula Serrate, Saw- 
like Spearwort. 4. Ylammuia Maritime, Marfh- 
Spearwort. 5 . Ylammuia palufris rotundifoila , 
Sccler at a Apuleij , round, leav’d Marfa Spearwort. 
This fome will have to he the true Apium rifus , 
or Axpium Sardonium, v/hilft others are of another 
Opinion, taking that to be a kind of Yulfatila or 
Yafjue-flower. 
The Defcriptzons. 
III. The fiift, or Greater Spearwort. It has 
al long jointed Root , Jlorcd with many blackifh 
Fibres , from whence rife up a thick jointed 
fmooth Stalk , two feet high , furnifhed with 
large and long fhining and fmooth Leaves , thin- 
ner than thofe in the next *, fome of them , 
being more than half a foot long , /too or 
three Inches broad , but fmaller up towards the 
top , where fland a few pale yellow Crowfeet like 
flowers, but larger than in the others. 
IV. This Plant Gerard deferibes thus. Its 
Root is compabl of divers bulbs , or long clogs 
mixed with an infinite number of hairy Tbreds 
It has an hollow Stalk full of Knees or Joints , 
Spearwort Greater. 
on which do grow long 'Leaves a little hairy , 
not unlike thofe of the Willow, of a fhining green 
color. The flowers are very large, and grow at 
the Tops of the Stalks, confifting of five Leaves, 
of a fair yellow color , very like to the field 
Gold Cup, or Wild Crowfoot. After which come 
round knobs or Seed Vcficls, in which the Se c d 
is contained. 
V. The fecond, or LefTer, which is Oar Com- 
mon Spearwort. Its Root confifls of an infinite 
number of Strings, but in its' Stalks, Leaves, 
and flowers it is much like the former, /living that 
it is a/togctlcr lejfer. Its Root is nothing but 
Spearwort Common or lefs. 
