107B 
Salmon .r Herbal. Lib. I. 
Cl, IS ft. e. Vail, iris, becaufe it ufually grows m 
Valievs and low moift places.) Wood Spurge, 
of which in Chap. 658. 6 . Ttthymalus Valuflris, 
live ffula major Qermanica , Marlh Spurge, or 
Greater Efula, ot which in Chap. 6%<j- 7 ■ ' '■ 
thymalus parallels, Lattaria, berba halt aria, sea 
Spurge, of which in Chap. 66c. 8. 
Laureola , Spurge Laurel, of which in Chap. ,661. 
following: of all which in their order. 
ill. The Kinds of the Garden Species. The 
tnoft common are thefe three, viz. 1. Aaflww, 
Laibyris major hortenfis, Cataputia minor, Ihe 
Greater Garden Spurge. 2. Latbyms minor hor- 
tenfis, Calaputia minor , The leffer Garden Spurge, 
a. Laibyris minima, Latbyris minor TbalechampbiU 
Laibyris minor flare conglomerate) Bauhim, 1 he 
final left Garden Spurge, and this very probably 
is the Cataputia fufilla Ce/alpin ► The Name 
Spurs,’,, is fuppofed to be derived from its Pur- 
ging Quality, it being an exceeding great and very 
Vehement Purger. 
The Defcriptions. 
IV The firft, Or Our greater Garden Spurge. 
Its Root is long anti Woody, periling as foon as 
its Seed time is over, and fprings again every 
year of the Seed of its own Sowing, it njes up 
with one hollow fir ait whitifh Stalk , vf a Jingo s 
thicknefs , Jhadowed over as it were with a brown 
color 1 on which grow up to the Top for the p'Jt 
year , many thick fat long and fomewhat narrow 
Leaves , of a blcwifh green color on the upper Jide , 
and more whitifh underneath , font e thing like unto 
Willow Leaves for the form , which being cut or 
broken yeild M ilk as plentifully as any of the ci- 
ther Spurges . The next year after , it fpreads it 
Spurge Garden. 
felf into many J. mail Branches , with f mailer Leaves 
at every partition, every part whereof yield Milk 
as the others do. The flowers are of a rale yellow 
color, and Jland in Cups, as the other kinds do, 
but are f mailer than fame of them, yeilding fwcet , 
and nothing near fo hot and burning Seed, which is 
enclofed in Triangular heads or husks, fomething 
like to thofe of Palma Chrifti ; but rounder and 
larger, than in many other of the Spurges, which 
in the hot Sun ( the heads or husks cracking or di- 
viding) will fall out of their own accord. 
V. The fecond, or Leffer Garden Spurge. T his 
in its Roots, Stalks, Leaves, Branches, F lowers , 
Seed and form and manner of growing is wholly 
like the former, faving that in every fart there- 
of it is leffer, and can only be diferiminated from 
it by that very Jign, and by which it is diftinguiflit 
from the other. 
VI. The third, or Smalleft Garden Spurge. Its 
Root is fmall . , having many Strings with fibres 
adjoining to them. It fprings up with many J. lender 
branches lying on the Ground , fet full of fmall 
Leaves, no bigger than thofe of Knotgrafs, from 
among which rifes up a Stalk, about a foot high, 
having many other Branches fpringing from it, 
almojt from the bottom to the top, which are fet 
full of fuch like fmall Leaves, as grew below. 
Spurge Garden Smalleft. 
At the Tops whereof come forth many flowers , 
which are fmall and yellow, Cluftering thick toge- 
ther, upon fmall Tootftalks , but not fpread abroad 
like the former. The Leaves and Stalks of this 
yield a Milky juice like thofe aforegoing. 
VII. The T laces. Thefe all grow in fome places 
Wild about the borders of Fields ; but for the 
moll part in Gardens almolt every where, in which 
when they are once Planted, they do not eafiy quit 
their habitation. 
VIII. The 
