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them, which indeed can fignify very little to in- 
fert here, being given them purely from Whimfie, 
Fancy, and Fantafticalnefs, many of which, when 
the Flowers Die, their Names Die with them : 
for which reafon we forbear, thinking it fufficient 
what is already faid, and that we have given you 
enough Signs andManifefto’s todifcover and know 
all fuch, as you are to fet a good value and efti- 
mation upon. 
CLVII. What remains, has relation to their 
Qualities, Specification , Preparations and Virtues -, 
but they being the fame with the moll vulgar and 
Common Anemones , of which we have treated in 
Chap. XIII. and Chap. XIV. aforegoing, we fhall 
fay no more in this place, but will refer you 
thither. 
CHAP. DCCXXXIX. 
Of W I N T E R - G R E E N. 
I . r ~T*HE Karnes, It was unknown to the Greeks-, 
JL and is called by the Latines Pyrola (a fo- 
liorum Pyri arboris, tf florum ctiam fimilitudine ) 
from its likenefs to the Leaves and Flowers alfo ot 
the Pear-Tree : in Englilh, Winter-Green. 
II. The Kinds. Authors have made many Spe- 
cies of this Plant, molt of which ate perfett 
Strangers to us, we (hall only take notice of theft 
two, viz. 1. Pyrola nojlras vulgaris ; Pyrola vul- 
gatior : Our common Winter-Green. 2. Pyrola 
Europea AIJines flore ; Herba Trientalis Cordi ; 
Alfine A/pinaSclmcnkfe/dij ; Alfinantbemos Thalij , 
i. e. Alfines F Vos : European Winter-Green with 
Chickweed Flowers. 
Winter-Green. 
The Descriptions. 
III. The Firft, or our Common Winter-Green. 
Its Root k / lender , [mall, creeping , compatt of ma- 
ny fmall Fibres , or thready Strings • jrom which 
foot forth 7 or 8, or 9 Leaves , fan ding on a long 
foot Stalk , which arc a/mofi ns broad Of long , 
round pointed , of a fad green color , hard in hand- 
ling , and feme thing like to a Pear-Tree Leaf , 
(whence the ICame) or as fome will have it like to 
the fmall Leaves of Wild Beets-, whence comes forth 
for the mofi part but one (but fome times two) 
f ender zoeak Stalks , yet fianding upright , bearing 
at the Top many fmall white Flowers , f fuelling as 
fweet as thofe of the Lilly Co nv ally, laid open like 
a Star , con fifing of 7 round pointed Leaves , with 
many yellowifi) Threads in the middle about a green 
head , and a long f ile with them , which in time 
grows to be the Seed Veffel , which zvhen it is ripe , 
is quinqu angu l ar ? or five ftded , with a fmall point, 
at it, in which is contained Seed as fmall as duji 
n felf 
IV. The Second, or Winter-Green with Chick- 
weed Flowers. Its Root is made of many fmall Fi- 
bres, proceeding from a fmall round head. It rifes 
up with one or more, fir ait round Stalks , 6 , 7, or 
8 inches high, almofi bare of Leaves for a fpace 
next to the Root or at mofi with but 2 or 3 very 
fmall Leaves, fet one a little above another : but 
at the top thereof grows $, 6 , 7, or 8 Leaves , 
fomething long , and pointed at their ends, feme- 
thing like to a Pear Tree Leaf, but longer and not 
fo round being many of them an Inch and half 
long or more, tender, fmooth , green, having one 
middle Rib, with divers Veins in the Leaf, finely 
dented about the edges : From among which Leaves, 
rife up weak foot Stalks, rather than Stalks , about 
? inches long , fuftaining % or 4 Flowers, each by 
it felf, made of fix white pointed Leaves apiece , 
Star fafhion, fomething like a Chickweed Flower, 
but larger with feveral fmall yellowifh Threads 
in the middle -, which bring pa ft, there comes in 
place a fmall round head, J' matter than a Coriander 
Seed, containing within it divers fmall black Seed, 
covered with a thin white Skin. 
V. The Places. The firft grows in feveral of the 
Northern Parts of England, as Lancafhire, Torkfhire, 
and in other places farther North, and in a place 
called Crag-Clofe-, and in the Woods in Scotland, 
almoft every where, but rarely in Fields. The 
fecond in the Woods in Germany, in divers places ; 
as alfo in the Beech wood in Scotland, as Bauhinus 
fays, and likewife on the Mountains in Wales. 
VI. The Times. They both grow Winter and 
Summer, and Flower in the Months ©f June and 
July- • 
VII. The Qualities. They are Cold in the fe- 
cond degree, and dry in the third ; Abfterfive, 
Aftringent, and Vulnerary. 
VIII. The Specification. The firft which is only 
or chiefly ufed, as it is exceedingly Aftringent 
and Glutinous withal, fo it is a fpeedy Cure for 
Green Wounds ; as alfo for all inward Wounds 
and Bleedings : it ftops all Fluxes of the Belly, 
whether of Blood or Humors, the Bleeding of 
Wounds, and the overflowing of the Terms in 
Women: It alfo Cures old running Sores, putrid 
Ulcers, Fiftula’s, and the like. 
IX. The Preparations. You may have there- 
from, 1 . A Liquid Juice. 2. A DecoUwn in Wine 
and Water. 3. A Balf am or Ointment. 4. A Ca- 
taplafm of the Green Herb. 5. A Diflilled Water. 
6 . The Ponder offthe Herb. 
The 
