1 17 6 Salmon 's Herbal. Lib. I. 
given to the fame quantity in red Wine, is laid 
to be of good effeft againft the Hemorrhoids or 
Piles : But I fuppofe it ought to be taken for fome 
confiderable time ^ I have had no experience of it, 
but the Learned about Montpelier affirm it. 
XIX- The Liquid Juice or Effenee of the whole 
Plant. They are more effectual to all the intenti- 
ons and purpoles aforementioned, than any of the 
laid Preparations-, and may be given from two to 
four Ounces, either alone, or mixt with fome pro- 
per Wine, or a Decoffion of Parfly Roots , and then 
fweetned with Sugar, to be taken Morning and 
Night, fo long as the Prudent Phyfitian fhall or- 
der or direft. The Juice and Effenee , befides 
reltoring in Confumptions, giving relief in the 
Stone, &c. are of excellent ule to breed plenty of 
Milk in NurfesBrealts. 
CHAP. DCCIX. 
Of TREFOILS Strawberry , 
and Starry. 
T. H,E Names. We know no Greek Names 
X belonging to thefe Plants : The firit is cal- 
led in Latine, Trifolium fragiferum •, and in Eng- 
liffi, Strawberry Trefoil. The fecond tho’ not 
mentioned by any Greek Authors, may be called 
Te'i'pvrntv ctr^v, ^ TelfuAxov eLrej&v : in Latine, T ' ri- 
ff olium Stellatum , Trifolium St ell are -, in Engliffi, 
Starry Trefoil , and Starry Headed Trefoil. 
II. The Kinds. Of the firft or Strawberry Tre- 
foil, we have but one Kind growing with us, 
viz. Trifolium fragiferum Gerardi \ Trifolium 
fragiferum Frificum , becaufe it alfo grows in 
pr if eland and fome call it Trifolium Veficarium. 
The fecond is called, Tri folium Stellatum glabrum 
Gerardi , Trifolium capitulis StellatU -, fmooth 
Starry headed Trefoil. 
'The Defcriptions. 
III. The firft, or Strawberry Trefoil. Its Roots 
Jpread themfelves with many long Fibres and it 
grows up with fever a l Stalks and broad pointed 
Trefoil Leaves upon them , being dented in , in the 
middle of their broad ends , making each Leaf in 
form much like a Heart, or not much differing from 
the Leaves of the Trifolium Cordatum, or Heart 
Trefoil, growing upon long Footjialks $ which Stalks 
are bare towards the tops, where grow J mail round 
Heads , with fmall blufh Flowers , rifing out of 
their Husks , which are like fmall Bladders made 
of thin Skins -, after the Flowers are paji , thefe 
Bladders fwell fomewhat bigger , and turn down 
their Brims , forming a Head like a Strawberry, of 
many red Grains fet together , but greater in each 
Husk , wherein is contained a few fmall yellow 
Seeds. 
IV. Johnfon in Gerard , deferibes it after this 
manner. The Roots , Stalks and Leaves , of this 
pretty Trefoil, do not much differ from the common 
white Meadow Trefoil -, but there is fome diffe- 
rence in the Flowers and Seed : For the Flowers of 
this are fmall , grow thick together , and are of a 
whit if}) blufh color after which follow Heads made 
of little Bladders or thin Skins , in fuch like man- 
Trefoil Strawberry. 
ner as they refemble a Strawberry or Rafpberry ; 
and they are of a grayifh color , here and there 
marked with red : The Leaves are ffiaped in form 
of a Heart, and the Stalks feldomgrow above a Hand 
breadth , or four Inches high. 
V. The fecond, or fmooth Starry Headed Tie- 
foil, (for there is a rough fort of it growing in 
Spain, not much differing from this , but is an ab- 
folute Stranger with us : ) It has a fmall long 
white Root , with feveral Fibres adjoining to it , 
from which rife up Stalks fometimes a Foot high , 
and fometimes very much fhorter , hairy, and divi- 
ded but into few Branches : The Leaves which are 
of a Trefoil jaflrion , ffand upon long Footffalks , 
and fomewhat longifh with all, (but thofe which grow 
in France, are found to be in form of an Heart j ) 
having no fmall Jharp pointed Leaves growing at 
the bottom of the Footjialks , next to the Stem of 
the Plant : The Leaves are green of color , and net 
fnipt , but fmooth about the edges. The Heads 
which grow on the tops of the Stalks are round , 
Jhort and green , with fmall purple , or clfe whit iff) 
Flowers , like thofe of the Common Trefoil, but 
leffer ffanding in Cups divided into Jive parts , 
viz. into five long Jharp Leaves , which lying open , 
do very much refemble the Form of a Star. The 
Flowers being fallen, the Heads grow fomewhat big- 
ger , harfher , and more prickly , opening themfelves 
a little , but not much. Jhc Seed is like that of 
Millet, but fomewhat rounder. 
VI. The Places. The firft grows in Friezeland , 
in the Low Countries , and other places adjacent to 
them, as well as with us. It grows here in molt: 
Salt-Marfhes, as in Hartford Salt Marfh in Kent, 
and in thofe below PurJleet , and the like places. 
The fecond Johnfon oblerved in Hartford. Salt- 
Marlh 1 
