Salmon .r Herbal. Lib. 1 
1254. 
XI. Hcmine. This anfwers to the Frumenty , 
made of our boiled Wheat. They take either of the 
former boiled Maize, or of the Full age, what quan- 
tity they pleafe : to which they add a fufficient 
quantity of Milk , which being boiled, may make it 
of the thicknefs of our Englifh Frumenty ^ and 
fome put in Jo much Milk as to make it a little 
thinner, according as every one likes. They gene- 
rally e.it it, being made Savory with Salt and 
Butter, and fome put Sugar to it It has all the 
former Virtues and Effects, befides it cleanfes the 
Bowels, and always keeps them Soluble, at lealt 
from being Coftive. 
XII. Bread, Cakes, Puddings. They are made 
of the Flower, with Water or Milk. This Bread 
whillt New, is wonderful Sweet, beyond any that 
can be made of European Wheat -, but being Stale, 
it eats fomething harfh, and more unpleafing : Af- 
ter one is ufed to it, it is then Eaten with a Grate- 
fulnefs to the Stomach. Some make the Bread, &c. 
with half Flower of Maize , and half Flower of 
Wheat and fome add to the Flower of Maize, 
Eddo Roots boiled /oft, which makes the Bread 
keep moift a good while. 
XIII. Parched Corn. This whether it be of the 
dryed Corn, or before it is ripe, is much eaten by 
the Indians , becaufe of its ealie Preparation, and 
. its exceeding Gracefulnefs to the Palate. 
XIV. The Cataplafm. The Flower mixed zvilh 
Leven, and brought to a Confifiency with Oil of 
the Seeds Ricinus or Palma Chrifti, or frefh But- 
ter being applyed, isfaidto ripen Apollems. 
XV. The whole Grain. It is given to Cows, 
Oxen, Horfes, Hogs, Poultry, Coe. to Nourilh 
and make them Strong, and alfo to Fatten them. 
CHAP. DCCXXXV. 
OfWHITLOW-GRASS: 
0 R, 
NAIL-IVORT. 
I, -T-' H E Karnes. It is called in Greek ruso- 
JL m-#* : in Latin Paronychia ; and in Englilh 
Whit bw-Grafs, or Kail-Wort. 
II. ’Vhc Kinds. There are 1. Paronychia vulga- 
ris Dodonai, Paronychia communis Jolio Alfmes 
Lobcitj, Lugdunenfis, W Camerarij-, Thlafpios mi- 
nima fpecies Thalij-, Myoforis altera fpecies Lugdu- 
nenfis Burfa Paftoris loculo oblongo Bauhini ; 
Our Common Whitlow-Grafs. 2. Paronychia fo- 
lio rutaceo Lobcitj ; Paronychia fotijs incifis, Pa- 
ronychia altera Dodontci -, Paronychia tertia Taber- 
nxmontani -, Jagged, or Rue like Whitlow-Grafs. 
a. Paronychia major ; Pi/ofel/a Si/iquata mayor 
Thalij- -, Aizoon Telephium Delcchampij Lugdu- 
nrnfi -, The Greater Whitlow-Grafs. 4. Parony- 
chia altera minor , Pi/ofc/la Sihquaia minor Thalij-, 
Paronychia all era jolty s AJyogri Gefneri ; The 
Leffer Whitlow-Grafs. 
T be Defcriptionr. 
III. The firlt, or our Common Whitlow-Grafs. 
Its Root (onjijls of a Bunch of fmall fibres ; 
from whence proceed many fmall and long Leaves 
lying next to the Ground, fomewhat like to thofe 
of Chickweed, but fomething longer and whiter 
Whitlow-Grafs Common. 
from among which, feveral flender naked Stalks, 
not above 4, or 6 Inches high, bearing many 
white f lowers one above another, exceeding fmall ; 
after which, come fmall flat Pouches, leffer than 
any of Thlafpi ; in which U contained very fmall 
Seed, of a (harp Tajle. 
IV. Thefecond, or Jagged, or Rue-like Whitlow - 
Grafs. lit Root is fmall and fibrous like the 
former, which fends forth fome pale or reddifh 
green Leaves, cut in on the edges into t or 3 
(mail parts , a/moft in fajhion like to the Leaves 
of Rue ; from among which, grow up divers al- 
J mojl 
