io88 Salmon j- Herbal . Lib. I. 
fidt and white within , /we/!', 0/7J fpr ced- 
ing divers ways • ffo bark whereof is thicker , 
and more flejhy , than in any of the ref , en- 
dures the extremities of Winter , tho ’ //;<? branches 
thereof perifh for the mofl part every Autumn , 
and rife anew every fpr'tng. It rifes up with 
Spurge Marjh. 
many great round reddifh Stalks , 0/7 which are 
fometimes thick fet , wa/ry /flag, fomewhat 
broad green heaves , ^07 770/ y*0 broad , nor 
J'o long as thofe of Wood Spurge , other wife not 
much unlike. The Tops of the Stalks are fur - 
nifhed with fewer and. f mailer yellow flowers , 
than fuch a great "Plant might be expelled to have. 
Some flowers break forth alfo below the Tops , 
the under joints , flandtng upon their Stalks , three 
or four together at mof - after which come fmall 
round Seed like unto the others. This great Marjh 
Spurge , 7 i alfo called Efula major, /0 diflinguifh 
it front the Efula minor, dW //;0 o/for Spurges. 
IV. Gerard deferibes it thus. It has very many 
and great Roots , covered over with a thick Bark 
or Rinde, plaited as it were with many Surculous 
Sprigs •, from which rife up fever a l frong and 
large Stems of a fingers thicknefs , three 
feet high , befet with many pretty large and long 
Leaves like Lathyris, 0;* Garden Spurge , but that 
they are not fo thick : and the Seed and flowers 
are not unlike the other Tithymals or Spurges. 
This Plant fays Gerard called Efula major, is that 
which Martinus Rulandus had in great Venera- 
tion , out of which he made his Extract for the 
cure of many inveterate difeajes , as may and 
does appear at large in his Centuria curationum 
F.rpericamum, dedicated to the Duke of Bavaria. 
-'Tis true he in that Book often fpeaks , and makes 
ufc 0/ Extra clum Efula:, with which he did wonder- 
ful Cures ; but in none of all his works has he 
hft ' behind him , or difeovered whether that his 
Extra 8: was trade from the major or .minor Efula, 
fo that the true Plant is left only to cotre- 
tt ure. 
V. The fecond, or fmall Marfli Spurge. Its 
Root is Jingle , fmall, and f ender , and of no ufe. 
If fpreads its fmall purplifh Branches upon the 
Ground , more plentifully than the other , and much 
lejjcr • for it brings forth a greater fore of 
branches more clofely knit , and as it were wound 
together with finning twifls an handful and half 
long. The Branches arc fet with many fmall 
Leaves , almofl like , but leffer than thofe of Peplus, 
but not fo round at their ends , of a Purplifh color 
underneath and oftentimes above , and not much 
unlike to Wild Purflane , cfpccially in the begin- 
ning and heat of the Tear. The flowers are fmall 
and yellow : and the Seed is great like that of 
Peplus, but bigger , and funding two together for the 
mofl part , not only upon the Tops , but here and 
there upon the Branches alfo. As in Name, fo 
in Shape , this refcmbles Peplus, (faving that it 
is fuller of Branches) and comes in mofl refpetts 
nearer to the fignification of Peplum or Flammeo- 
lum than Peplus doth. 
VI. The Places. The firft grows in many 
Places of Germany-, and as Lobcl fays in his 
Obfervations, in a Wood formerly belonging to 
one Mr. John Coltes , nigh to Bath, very 'plenti- 
fully j but but for the molt part it grows with 
us in England in Gardens. The fecond grows 
near the Sea Side, in Narbone , and out Mar- 
feilles in Prance, and near the Sea Coalis of other 
x Nations. 
VII. The Times. They both flower in June and 
July , and their Seed is generally ripe in July and 
Augu fl. 
VIII. Tide Vitalities, Specification, Preparations , 
and Virtues of thefe Plants, more elpecially of 
the firft, are the fame with thofe of fmall E- 
fula in Chap. 6 $ 5. aforegoing, to which we re- 
fer you. 
CHAP DCLX. 
Of SPURGE Sea. 
I. ’ | TIE Names. It is called in Greek, T/0 iWa@- 
X rnffhi ©- : in Latine, Tithymalus par alius 
Maritimus -, herba lattaria, and Lattaria maritime. 
(from its Milky juice by fome, Lac Lupinum, 
Wolfs Milk j by others Lattuca marina, and Ca- 
prina , becaufe Goats delight to eat it : and in 
English, Sea Spurge, and Sea Tithymal. 
II. The Kinds. Thofe which are moft known 
and of ufe to us, are, 1. Tithymalus Par alius, 
five maritimus, Lattaria marina. Our Common 
Sea Spurge. 1. Tithymalus maritimus Venetus , 
Tithymalus maritimus Americanus vel Ploridanus 
(becaufe I have found it upon fome of the Plori- 
dan fhoars) Alypum Diofcoridis Auguillara, Efula 
rara Venetorum Pend CJ Lobe Ho, Sea Spurge of 
Venice, or American. 3. Tithymalus Linifolius 
Paralio congener > vel cognatus Camcrarij Tithy- 
malus maritimo affinis LinaridifoUo Bauhini -, Tithy- 
malus amygdaloides anguflijolius Taberndtmontam 
Baftard Sea Spurge. 
The 
