Chap. 660. ‘Englijb Herbs. 
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The Defcriptions. 
III. The firft, or Our Common Sea Spurge. 
Its Root is long and Woody , abiding long , and Jo 
do the Loaves on the Branches , not jailing away 
in Winter. It rifes up with J'everal reddifb woody 
Stalks , a foot or foot and half high , thick fet with 
Leaves from the Button/ to the Top , which are 
Spurge Sea, or Sea Lithymal. 
finally long , and narrow , yet broadeft in the mid- 
dle , fomething like to the Leaves of Line or Flax , 
but thick and whit iff. ), /#// of a white Milk , ;/ 
part of it be cut or broken which is fo 
hot , /btf/ being tidied, it burns the Mouth and 
Throat intoller ably. At the Tops of the Stalks , 
JIand many pale ycllowifh flowers , wi/A /wo Leaves 
tender them , encompajftng the Stalk , oj- ;j common 
to all the other kinds of Spurges , after which 
come fmall Triangular heads , in which is contain- 
ed round difcolored Seed. 
IV. The fecond,’ or Sea Spurge of Venice, or 
American. J/x JR00/ ;x £/ro/, woody, 
per annual and fending forth branches every year. I 
1 / has longer or taller and thicker Stalks than I 
the former , fomewhat hollow and reddifb , branch- 
ing forth into divers parts, befet with fmall long 
Leaves, two always flanding together, all along the 
branched Stalks, not much unlike the growing of Li- 
quorice. The flowers are fmall, pendulous and of 
a fad Turplifh color , confining of five fmall Leaves 
apiece , like a fmall Star, without any round Leaves 
under them, as is itfual to other Spurges • yet 
the heads of Seed are Triangular like the others, 
and contain like Seed. 
V. The third, or Baftard Sea Spurge. Its Root 
is long, woody and Fibrous. And it rifes up with 
or own if}/ Stalks, having many narrow Leaves grow- 
ing thereon , much like to the fir ft, or Our Com- 
mon Sea Spurge, but that they are fomething larger 
or longer, and a little broader. The flowers 'and 
Seed are like that alfo. 
r , VI - rbe T laces . The fir ft grows by the Sea 
hde both in Foreign Countries and on divers places 
ot the Englijb fhoar. The fecond grows on the 
in oars ot the Adrni tick Sea, and in the Ifiand Lie 
belonging to the Venetians, as alfo in many places 
of the American Sea Coafts, where I have found 
it in perfection The third in Franconia , and orher 
parrs adjacent to it, anti near to the Banks of 
the River Moyne ; but with us it grows only in 
Gardens. 1 
Vll The Times. They flower about the, latter 
end of June, and through the Month of July and 
the Seed is ripe in Auguft. 
VIU. The ® -salines , Specification , Preparations 
and Virtues of thefe are the fame wiih rhofe of 
the Garden Spurge, and fmall Spurge called F.fula 
being all hoc and dry in the fourth degree Burn- 
ing and. Exulcerating. The firft of thefe Sea 
Sparges is not mentioned by any Author, Ancient 
or Modern, to be ufed in Phyfick, becaufe of its 
vehement, and (harp Exulcerating Quality, an d 
tor that it is fo violent a purger both upwards 
and downwards, that it is fcarcely fife to ufe it 
inwardly, it Burning and Exulcerating the Skin be- 
ing outwardly applyed, but fo ufed it is profitable 
to take away Scabs, Scurf Morphew, Leprofv 
bears, Warts, and other defeedations and deformi- 
ties of the Skin, being prudently applyed. Yet I 
know by Experience, that if it be correaed and 
prepared by a wife and skilful hand, the prepare 
nons thereof may be given inwardly, as the pre- 
parations of the other Spurges may, and nearly 
ln , • < Q . e ^ ofe 5 But 1 own > il: is not for an 
unskilful perfon to meddle with it, becaufe of its 
violence. Galen fays, that the Milk or Juice 
thereof mixed with Meal of Wheat or Barly and 
made into a Pafte, and then cafl into the Water 
for the Pijh to eat it, that it will fo much over- 
come them, as to make them lye for dead and 
to rile and Swim on the Top of the Water fo 
that they may be taken with ones hand ’ 
IX. The Venetian Sea Spurge. The Roots are 
ufed at Ventce by the Phyhcians and Apothecaries 
there inftead of hfu/a, where they put them into 
the Bencdtlfa Taxattva, Purging Tills, and other 
Cathartick Medicaments, becaufe, as Pena fays it 
purges forcibly, and with great violence. Of the 
lalt. Authors have faid nothing ; tho’ it may be 
judged to have the fame qualities with other 
Spurges. 
CHAP DCLXI. 
Of SPURGE Laurel. 
I' T 'HE Names. It is called in Greek, 
, -I- O’ XamiJkfrmgii in Latine, Dapbnoiies 
(d Taurijoliorum fimilit uiine :) alfo Taureola ’ 
(quaft pufila Taurus vel Taurus minor:) in Eng- 
lilh Spurge Taurel -, and this Plant is that 
which Dodomus thinks to be the Cneorum ni- 
grum Theophrafii. 
II. The Kinds. The chief Species Authors have 
6 Z taken 
