Chap. 6j i . Engiijh Herbs, 
ii 1 1 
The Descriptions. 
III. The fir ft or fmall Stone - Crop, or Wall- 
Pepper. It has a long , /lender, fibrous or ftringy 
Root, creeping under the Earth not very deep. It 
grows like the other Stone-Crops , with very many 
and /lender Stalks , and fmall roundi/h fat thick 
leaves fet thick upon them -, at the tops of which , 
grow fmall pale yellow Flowers in Tufts , as the 
others do. The tafte hereof is very J, harp , hot and 
biting upon the Tongue , by which it is chiefly di- 
finguijhed from all the reft tbo ’ it is alfo di- 
ftinguifhed in fome meafure by its form , being a 
J mall Riant, audits Stalks very thick fet with fmall , 
fat, or thick leaves as aforefaid, its Root /pringing 
up from its Fibres, and fo fp reading very far, 
quickly taking up much Ground. 
IV. The fecond, or Infipid Stone Crop, or 
Wall-Pepper. It is a fmall Riant like the former, 
growing altogether like it, in Leaf, Stalks, and 
Flowers, which are as thefe, ycllowifh : and is only 
di/Ungui/hed. by the Tafte from the frft • this being 
nothing biting, but as it were unfavoiy, and with- 
out any Tafte. 
V. The third, or Summer Stone -Crop. Its 
Root is fmall, fibrous and perifhing. It has on fmall 
Stalks, which fpread them/ elves out into many 
Branches, many thick, round, long and juicy 
Leaves, fet together without any order \ the Branch- 
es being ftored with many yellow Flowers at their 
Tops. 
Stone Crop White Flower d : 
AND 
Tricl ^ Madam Common Greater. 
Vi. The fourth, or Greater White Flower’d 
Stone Crop with round pointed Leaves. ItsRcot 
creeps like the reft, and Leaves pmJi 
Stalks every dear. U creeps upon the Ground w 
£ ? V”' r a ’,' h ‘ 0,ba ' s io - fender 
S'alks and long round Leaves upon them, of a hlcw- 
ff green color not Jharp , but round pointed 
feetiling like Wheat - Corns , or Pine Apple Kent 
ne p-. be ' n g fferfedly fet thereon: at the tops of 
mhich, ft and J mall white Star like flowers , in fmall 
Lufts or fparfed Umbels. This very much re- 
ft e mb les the Greater Prick-Madam, r'aChap. 778 
“foregoing and. differs chiefly from that in 
the flowers ■ thefe here bang white , thofe being 
yellow : And therefore the Cut here placed, may in- 
differently ferve for both Species. ' 
e™ r Thc * h > or Smaller White Flower’d 
f™l Cl 0 p dJ‘ ,n U! l ] 00, U Stalks, Branches, 
Leaves and Flowers, are like the l aft , but it growl 
lower, andheu a greater ftore of thofe fmall round 
Leaves like Wheat Corns, which are thicker fet 
' he vn\' n, d,J r er u £ in ft 0,hin e ‘Ife therefrom. 
VIII. The fixth, or Stone - Crop with Turning 
heads. Its Root in like manner at the former' 
creeps and /hoots forth in divers places. This 
bat fucb like Stalks with Leaves thereon, as that 
“If pi Vl -/bove-, fo that it is hard to difiimuijh 
this Riant from that, or the Greater Prick- Madam 
in Chap. 578. Se£l. ;. aforegoing of this Book, un 
til u comes to flower, which then may be difcer- 
ned to differ from, hem, only in the turning if its 
7 u pS -r ?fp el J° w rbaen, which turn or bend like 
the Lad of a Scorpion ( whence the Name ■ ) or 
other Herbs which are rcfemblcd to it. Lobel bat 
fematodes.^ ^ """" which he c ““ > 
IX. The feventh or Field, or Marlh Stone- 
u^'riu 0 ? 24 °% fl^der, creeping and ft. 
bt ous like the former Kinds which fends up feve- 
ralredd.Jh Stalks fet with fmall fit long Leaves 
Jome thing hairy and much greener than any of the 
former. The flowers arc fmall , /landing like 
Stars, many m a Tuft together, of a pale red or 
Carnation color. It abides green all the Winter 
and has as little Tafte as any of the five former. ’ 
X. The Places. The firft tho’ it grows natu- 
rally on Old Brick, Stone, and Mud Walls and 
other Barren, Wall and UntiU’d places, yet it is ge- 
nerally nurlt up alfo in Gardens ; as are alfo many 
ot the following forts. The next five grow either 
on Mud or Stone or Brick Walls, or among Ruh- 
• ! V p f alfo m Sa “ty, Gravelly, Barren and Un- 
nl d .Places, and oftentimes upon the fides of old 
Tiled Houles and I enthoufes , hut the laft grows 
only in moift Meadows and Marlhes. 
The Times. They all Flower in the Sum- 
mer Months, viz. June, July and Augufl, and 
fometimes in May ; and the Leaves of many of 
them continue Green all the Winter. 
’ jSP' Thc f Specification, Preparations 
3 Hi Virtues of the Six laft Kinds , are in all re- 
fpeas the fame with thofe of Prick- Madam in 
Chap.jjz. from Sed. IX. ad Sell. XVIII. i nc i ufive 
to which we refer you. ’ 
The Virtues of the Firft Kind, viz. 
Stone-Crop Biting , Or, Wall-Pepper. 
c X l II 'rs n ’ f pities. Ir is hot and dry in the 
Bllfters onfrV XU l Cer a tin >, S theSkin ’ and rail 4 
Bhlters on it, tfapplyed thereto; and will do it 
as ltrongly as Ranunculus or Crowfoot. And in- 
wardly taken, it is Emetick. 
XIV The 
