i2 9 4 
Salmon’/ tlerbal. Lib. 1. 
gives eafe in old painful running Sores and Ulcers, 
allays their Inflamations, digelts, cleanfes, incar- 
nates, and heals them. 
XIV. T he half am. It digefts and cleanfes ad- 
mirably all running, putrid or filthy, and foul 
running Sores and Ulcers ; and with the Mixture 
aforegoing, quickly incarnates and heals them. 
XV. The Cataplafm. Beaten up with Nitre in 
fine Pouder, adding thereto a little Wine Vinegar, 
and bringing it to a confiftency with Barley flow- 
er, and lo applyed to a Simple recent Contulion, 
it difculles it, hinders thd Inflamation, and takes 
away a hot Fluxion if prefent : It difculles hot 
Tumors alfo, eafes Pain, and is truly profitable 
againft the Gout. 
CHAP. DCCLII. 
Of YUCCA; HIUCCAi 
o R, 
C A Z A V L 
I. '"p H E Karnes. It being to us a Plant of 
_L new Invention, it cannot be fuppofed to 
have any Greek or Latine Name, but it is called 
by the Indians Hiucca , Jucca and Yucca • alfo 
Mandioca , Manihot , and Cazavi many, or all ol 
which Names, are brought into the Roman Tongue ^ 
and the lalt, viz. Cazavi , or Cafavi , is made 
Englifh . 
II. The Kinds. It is divided into the True and 
Suppofititious. The True Yucca , or Cazavi , is 
j. Hiucca , five Yucca , five Mandioca Genuina 
Mexicana , folijs Cannahim s , The True Indian 
Cazavi or Yucca , Hemp- Leav’d. 2. Hiucca , five 
Yucca , five Heiich Americanum The Mallow- 
Leav’d Indian Cazavi , or Potatoe-like Cazavi. 
3. Yucca, folijs Aloes , five Jucca India put at a , 
The Suppofititious Indian Cazavi : This is not the 
True Yucca , or Cazavi of Oviedut , Thevet , and 
others, of which the Bread Cafavi is made, as 
Monardw has plainly demonftrated -, for the True 
Yucca is the Hemp- Leav’d Yucca , firft Named, its 
Leaves being divided into 7, 8, or 9 parts, Hand- 
ing on long Footftalks, as immediately will be 
declared. 
The Descriptions. 
III. The firft, or True Indian Yucca, or Cazavi. 
It has a pretty great long Root , as great as that of 
a large Carrot, brown on the out fide, and very white 
within , alfo Sappy , and full of a Juicy Plefhy 
Subflancc. This Root is Planted every Year , or 
every other Year , and quickly grows to be very great 
or large , and long withal. Prom this Root Springs 
forth one or more woody Stalks , of 4, $, or more 
feet high , growing up to be as it were a fmall 
Shrub. Upon the Stalks grow many fair broad 
Leaves , each upon a long footfall:, and divided 
into 5, 6 , 7, or more parts, or fingle Leaves as it 
were, not much unlike to HeUeborafter, or Hemp- 
Leaves, (whence it has part of its Name,) which 
Leaves are about 6 Inches long , two Inches or more 
broad, not indented, but even about the edges, and 
abiding always Green. The Stalk is divided into 
divers unequal Branches, bearing many pretty large 
flowers , Spotted a little they are narrow at their 
bottoms, long and /harp pointed, and are in number 
fix, white on the infde, but of a dead brownifh 
white color on the outCide ; fo that it is a flower 
of no great Beauty, and is only to be ejleemed as 
mi Exotick rarity . 
IV. The fecond, or Mallow - Leav’d Indian 
Cazavi, or Potato-like Cafavi, or Yucca. This 
has a Root 7, 6 , 7, 8, or 9 Inches long , and fome- 
times longer, great and thick at its top, and Jharp 
pointed at the bottom , very like to thofe of the 
great long Turneps : This Plant is of two forts , 
viz. one which is yellowifh, and another which is 
white , when they are Boiled or Baked into Bread, 
from the top of this Root, fprings forth many long , 
fender, tender weak Branches of Leaves, fome of 
them being very long, and fome much Jhorter fome 
not a half , and fome not a third part of the length 
of the longer Stalks of Leaves. Tbefe Stalks have 
each of them at their extremities , one large Leaf 
much larger than thofe which grow below them, 
about the middle , or other parts of the Stalk , 
which are not a quarter part, and many times not 
an eighth part , or tenth part of the Magnitude of 
the great Leaf at the end of the Stalk all which , 
both greater and f mailer, are roundifh , with fome 
refemblance of a Mallow-Leaf, whence come part 
of the Name. Thefe Stalks of Leaves are fo weak , 
that the longer of them never grow upright , but 
always trail upon the Ground, and the veryfhortefl 
of them lean much, never growing per fettly upright, 
but in a declining pofiure. 
V. The third, or Suppofititious Indian Cafavi. 
It has a great thick , and withal long tuberous Root , 
J p reading it felf out in time , into many other Tube- 
rous Heads, from whence fhoot forth many long, 
hard, and hollow , or narrow guttered Leaves , of a 
Yucca Suppofititious. 
thick Subjhmce , Jharp edged, and Jharp pointed, 
encompafjing one another at the bottom , of a gray- 
,J 1 , green color , abiding frejji continually , or Jel- 
dom falling away, with fever al hard Thread! run- 
ning in or thro ’ them length-way! which when 
Withered , become pliant withal, to bind thing! up 
with. Prom the middle of this Bunch of Leaves , 
fprings up a firong round Stalk, and that every 
