1214 Salmon j- Herbal. Lib. 1 . 
fcarcely admit of fuch a Tranfplantation, nor 
thrive at all there, unlefs it be a very moift or 
watery Ground. 
VI. The Times. They both Flower in June , 
July and Auguff , viz when the Garden kinds 
alfo do. 
VII. The Amities, Specification, Preparations 
and Virtues of tnefe, are by Authors accounted to 
be the fame with thole of the Garden kinds in the 
former Chapter. 
VI I I . Not a i. The Juice of the Wild Valerian 
is held by later Herbarilts, to be good for fuch as 
are troubled with Ruptures, or broken Bellies, and 
fuch as are afflicted with Cramps and Convulfions * 
and to cure fimple Contufions occafioned by Falls, 
Bruifes and the like. Dofe 3 or 4 Ounces, Morn- 
ing and Evening, in a Glafs of Wine. 
IX. Nota 7. The Ponder of the Roots of either 
the greater or leffer kinds. If it is given to a Dram 
at a time in any convenient Vehicle, efpecially in 
White Port Wine, it is fa.id to cleanfe the Sto- 
mach and Bowels of Slimy, Acrimonious, and 
Filthy Humors , by Purging them away both up- 
wards and downwards. 
VENUS-BASON, fee Teafle, Chap. 686. 
VENUS-HAIR, fee Maiden-Hair, Chap. 463. 
VENUS-COMB,/^ Shepherds-Needle, Ch. 630. 
VENUS -LOOKING -Glafs, fee Corn-Violet, 
( Chap. 
CHAP. DCCXXI. 
Of V E R V A I N. 
I. 'T*' H E Names. It is called in Greek, 'U(£ 
J CoTttVn, i. e. Herba Sacra -, and rUe/r tgefy, 
Periflereon : in Latine, Sagminalis Herba , Matri - 
calls, Columbaria , Columbaris , Columbana , Exupera , 
Martialis , Herculania , terraria and Verbenaca ; 
but the molt ufual Latine Name for it is, Verbena , 
quafi herbena , i. e. Herba bona : in Englifh, 
Vervain. 
II. The Kinds. We (hall treat of but three forts, 
viz. 1. Verbena vulgaris , Verbena mas , Verbena 
retta , Common Male, or upright Vervain. 2. Ver- 
bena peregrina , Verbena taimina , Verbena fupina 
Foreign, Female, or bending down Vervain • and 
this fort all Authors call the Female kind. 3. Ver- 
bena Peruana , Verbena Americana , Verbena Caro - 
liniana , (which I fo call, becaule I found it thrice 
in fome parts of the South Carolina) American, or 
Peruvian Vervain. 
T be Defer iptions. 
III. The firft, or our Common Male, or upright 
Vervain. Its Root is /mail , long and jlringy , and 
oj little or no ufe. It has divers fome what long 
and broad Leaves next the Ground , deeply gafht 
towards their bottoms the other parts being deeply 
dented about life edges and fome of them only 
deeply dented , or cut all alike , of & blackifh green 
color on the upper fide, and grayifh underneath. 
The Stalk is J equate , and Jpread out into divers 
Branches , fifing up about 2 Feet high , ( efpecially 
VERVAIN. 
if you account therewith , the long Spikes of F lowers 
at the tops,) which are fet on all ftdes thereof one 
above another, and fometimes two or three together, 
being fmall and gaping, of a purplifh blew color , 
with white intermixt • after which, come fmall round 
Seed, in fmall and fomewhat long Heads. 
IV. The fecond, or Foreign Female, or bending 
down Vervain. The Root is altogether like the for- 
mer, perifhing after Seed time : It has divers Jmal- 
ler and weaker fquare Stalks, leaning or bending 
down towards the Ground, and fome of them al- 
mofi lying thereon, not flan ding fo upright as the 
former •, fpread out into many more [mailer Branch - 
es, and having fuch like Leaves growing on them at 
the feveral Joints, but much jmaller, and more di- 
vided or cut in, making them feem to be fo many 
Leaves fet on both fides the middle Ribs, of a gray- 
ifh green above, and more gray underneath. The 
Flowers grow in the fame manner which the others 
do, in fmall long Spikes, being of a deeper blew 
color than the other, otherwife in Form not unlike. 
The Seed which follows is like it alfo, and falling 
of its own accord, raifes it felf of its own Sowing. 
V. Thethird, or American, or Peruvian Vervain. 
This in its Roots , Stalks, Leaves, Flowers, and 
manner of growing, is much like unto the lafl, but 
grows greater , and. abides green in Winter, aa well 
cm Summer, in its own Native Place of Growth $ 
but with us, it will not abide our cold Winters, but 
perifhes by the LJnnaturalnefs and Frigidity of our 
Climates. 
VI. The Places. The firft grows Wild gene- 
rally throughout all England, by Hedges and 
High-ways fides, in Borders of Fields and other 
wafte Grounds. The fecond is no wild Plant with 
us, but is Nuift up in Gardens. Thelaft is a Na- 
tive of America, as in Peru and Carolina, in the 
South of which, I tound it in three feveral parts. 
VII. The 
