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SIVE ENCHIRIDION BOTANICUM. OR A COMPLEAT HERBALL Containing the Summe of what hath hitherto been published either by Anci­ent or Moderne Authors both Galenicall and Chymicall, touching Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Fruits, Flowers, &c. In an Al­phabeticall order: wherein all that are not in the Physick Garden in Oxford are noted with asterisks.

Shewing their Place, Time, Names, Kindes, Temperature, Vertues, Use, Dose, Danger and Antidotes.

Together with An

  • Introduction to Herbarisme, &c.
  • Appendix of Exoticks.
  • Universall Index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England.

By ROBERT LOVELL St. C. C. Ox. [...].

OXFORD, Printed by WILLIAM HALL, for RIC. DAVIS. An. 1659.

ISAGOGE PHYTOLOGICA. OR An Introduction to HERBARISME.

Curteous Reader,

AVoiding the Prolixity and te­diousnesse of a Proemiall Discourse (Brevity being here intended) thou mayest first consider the Quid sit of Phytologie; which is the Art of knowing and finding out the Temperature, Ver­tues and Ʋse of Plants, as serving to the Cura­tion or Sustentation of the Body; as also of their Danger; and the Remedies thereof.

The parts hereof are two. 1. Therapeutick or curatory. 2. Threptick or alimentary. In both which, Vegetables may be considered accor­ding to their substance and consistence, or else according to their accidents.

I. According to their substance or consi­ [...]ence, they are 1. Thin or Grosse. 2. Laxe [...] Constrict. 3. Clammy, or Brittle. 4. Heavy [Page]or Light. Tenuity of parts is in those things which are aerious in essence and substance: which being subtile do easily communicate their vertue unto any liquor, and are of easie distribu­tion in the body. Crassitude of parts is in those things which are terrene: which being more grosse, do not quickly communicate their vertues unto liquids, and therefore the vertues thereof are exerted in the stomack, and seldome or ne­ver passe unto the liver. Rarity is in dry bodies: hardnesse in the dry and terrene. Clamminesse in moist bodies: Brittlenesse in dry. Heavinesse in thick bodies: and Lightnesse in the rarified. Tenuity looseneth and penetrateth: Crassitude obstructs: Softnesse lenifies and conglutinat­eth, and Hardnesse resisteth and dryeth, &c.

II. According to their accidents, they may be taken notice of, as medicamentous and ali­mentary. I. As medicamentous, and so accor­ding to their immediate and more remote acci­dents. I. According to their more immediate, sc. the qualities, and way of finding out there­of. I. The Poiotetologie or qualities, first, second, third, and fourth.

The first are 1. Calidity or heat, which causeth motion and disposeth the parts, by a right conjun­ction, and situation thereof. It heateth, subtilizeth, digesteth, openeth, maturateth, and rarifies, and causeth agility: if excessive, it doth accende, inflame, attract and disturbe, as thapsia, &c.

2. Frigidity or coldness, doth coole, conjoyne, in­spissate, and hinder digestion, by the obtusion of calidity, & by shutting the passages hindereth di­stribution: also if excessive it so filleth, that it expelleth the juice, coagulates and congeales, as poyson, &c.

3. Humidity or moisture, is of easie separation, lenifying and lubrifying: if excessive, it bur­deneth the spirits, and loadeth the same: and if [...]queous, it causeth nauseousnesse, and suffocates the excitation of heat, causeth flatulencies, oppila­tions, slownesse of action, and debility of motion and of the parts: otherwise it lenifies, lubrifies, looseneth, maketh the bloud and spirits more grosse, and obtundeth the acrimonie of humors, as mallowes &c.

4. Siccity or drynesse, doth colligate, and bind, and cause a stronger disposition of the body: if excessive, it constringeth the passages, and hin­dereth the excretion, presseth forth the juice out of the body, and causeth tabefaction: if in the last degree, it consumeth moisture, causeth intercep­tion, suffocation, and death as cresses, &c.

Here the Degrees are foure. The 1. Scarce sen­sibly altereth the body. The 2. Manifestly, yet without trouble or hurt. The 3. Vehemently, but without corruption. The 4. Most violently, and with great hurt unto the body: in each of which degrees there are three Mansions, acting remisly, intensly, or in a meane: or in the be­ginning, middle, or end thereof. The Chymists in stead of these foure qualities or elements, sub­stitute 1. Their sal, from which is all sapour or taste, which is as it were the ashes of a body. 2. Sulphur, whence all odour or smell ariseth, and is like the flame. 3. Mercurius, whence is all colour, and is represented by smoke or fume.

The second Qualities are 1. The Malactick or mollifying, to which the ecpuetick or suppura­ting hath affinity: for both have an equall and symmetrick heate, and a correspondent siccity, yet differing in mode. The suppurating doth [Page]produce heate most like unto that of the body with­out any consumption or addition of humidity. The emollient accends heat a little beyond the proportion of nature, and contracteth a little hu­midity, wherefore that rather operates by quan­tity than by the quality of heat, but the emol­lient, rather by quality. Therefore that which is exactly suppuratory is emplastick, yet some­times emollition is the consequent of humidity, if joyned with moderate calidity or heat, and is usefull in scirrhus's, and tumors.

2. Scleryntick or hardening, which properly is that, which doth exiccate without any excesse of heat or cold: for cold also may make obdu­rate, as also too much heate, yet after another manner than only by exiccation, for though that which is dry is hard, yet all that is hard is not dry. But Siccity doth dry and indurate two wayes; sc. by altering and making more dry the essence of the parts, which most properly; or by consuming the humors in the pores; yet some­times obduration may also be caused by repletion or fullnesse.

3. Araiotick and rarefying, or diaphoretick and resolving, which are moderately hot, with tenuity of parts and very little resiccant or drying, for excessive heat doth not rarefie but burne, and by adustion doth condensate and dry. But moderate heate openeth the passa­ges and deeply penetrateth by the tenuity of its substance, and easeth paine: also it openeth the pores and attenuates the substance.

4. Pycknotick or condensating, contrary to the rarefacient, contracting the pores, and in­crassating what is rarefied and humid, and making it more solid, which is in those things [Page]which refrigerate yet are not terrene, or aerious, but aqueous, and are nothing at all, or but little astringent; for these do weakly contract, and bind, sc. by reason of their softnesse.

5. Anastomotick or aperient, opening the mouths of the vessells, and is in those things that are of grosse parts, hot, sharp, and biting.

6. Stegnotick or binding, contracting, occlu­ding, and constringing, shutting the mouthes of the vessels, and restraining sensible excretion, and is in those things which are frigid, of grosse parts, and without acrimony, as many terrene bodies are: for those things which ought strongly to con­stipate and bind, must also have a more strong and renitent faculty.

7. Helctick, epispastick or drawing, attra­cting the humors from the center, and is in those things, which are hot, and of thin parts: for that which is hot attracteth, and that more strongly which hath a conjunct tenuity of parts, but those moderately attract, which are hot and dry in the second degree, if in the third more effectually, and chiefly those that are so in the fourth: for the attraction is according to the degree of heate, and is either more naturall, or by putrefaction. yet some things attract specifi­cally, and not by a manifest quality: as things that are cathartick or purging, and alexitery or resisting poyson.

8. Apocroustick or repercutient, repelling the humors flowing from the center, as in those things which are frigid and of grosse parts. For that which is cold repelleth, and if it hath a crassitude of parts also, it is more violent, as that which is acerbe or austere; yet those things also repell which are astringent, especially those [Page]which are helped by the tenuity of their parts: for the thinnesse of the substance doth much conduce to astriction, therefore other things that are astrictive, by reason of the crassitude of their substance, cannot easily penetrate the more remote parts, precluding the passages.

9. Ryptick, abstergent or cleansing, removing glutinous and clammy humors in the superficies or adhering to the pores of the skin, or ulcers: and is in those things which have power to ex­iccate with tenuity of substance, neither is it of any great moment whether they are hot or cold, by reason that neither quality hindreth action, except excessive.

10. Eccathartick, ecphractick, and expur­gatorie or removing obstructions, not only opening the pores of the skin, but the inferior ductus of the bowells; as in those things that are nitrous and bitter, although they have some small astri­ction, and by reason of substance doe not differ from those that are absterfive, but in degree: for those things that cleanse the pores and inward passages, have a greater tenuity of parts, and are moderately hot, as those things which are ni­trous & bitter: but those things which being outwardly applyed to the skin do clense the skin, or ulcers from their excrements, are destitute of the astrictive faculty: but being taken inwardly although having a certain astriction, yet never­theless they may purge, & cleanse the greater pas­sages, and withall strengthen the same.

11. Leptyntick or attenuating and making thin, as in all those things that are expurgatory, hot and of thin parts: extenuating grosse and tough humors.

12. Emplastick, viscid or clammie, contrary to [Page]the abstersive: for being applyed, it doth tenaci­ously inhere in the pores of the skin, fill and ob­struct the same, as in those things that are sat, and glutinous; as also terrene, wanting acrimonie, and asperity or roughnesse.

13. Emphractick or obstructing, pachyntick, and thickening, which are the same: for as those things which are detergent and purging doe free the pores and passages from obstruction, so these obstruct and fill the same, and make the humors of the body tough and thick.

14. Anodyne, paregorick or easing paine, as in those things which have thin parts, and are moderately hot, not much exceeding the tem­perate, sc. being hot in the first degree and rarefacient: so evacuating, digesting, rarefying, ex­tenuating, concocting, and equalizing whatso­ever humour either sharp, tough, or grosse, is in­hering in the smaller pores, or grieved parts: and all vaporous crass, grosse or cold spirits not find­ing way of evacuation.

15. Narcotick or stupifying the parts by its coldness, and not properly mitigating the paine, nor taking away the causes of the griefe: yet stu­por is somewhat lesse than insensibility, or the privation of sense, the same also is hypnotick, or somnifick & [...]auseth sleep being taken, sc. its sub­ject, which doth vehemently refrigerate, sc. in the 4th degree; so that it doth not only stupifie the sense; but being liberally taken, causeth death, as opium; & that not only by its exuperant quality; but also by a certaine propriety of substance and its concurring essence, its narcotick vehe­mency being but little repressed by the mixture of hot correcters, though it hath some bitter parts.

16. Amyctick, metasyncritick, or rubefacient causing rednesse, contrary to the former, causing paine, as in those things which heate, and dis­solve unity, of this kind also are escharoticks causing crusts, which are hotter, caustick or burning: not only hot and dry in the fourth de­gree, but also of a grosse consistence, therefore being fixed in any part, they excruciate and tor­ment the same by their stisnesse: like unto these are those things that are septick or corrosive which are vehemently hot and dry, but of thin parts and consistence; which therefore with a little paine and biting, or else without any sense of paine eliquate the part, and are called also putrefactives.

The third Qualities arise from the mixture of the first and second, and are 1. The Ecpue­tick or suppurating, turning into matter contused flesh and humors remaining in swellings, as in those things which are moderately hot, and next unto emollients, yet differing in this that they have also an emplastick faculty, obstru­cting the pores, increasing the substance of heat, and not intending the quality, and are also called pepticks or maturatives.

2. Sarcotick or generating flesh, as in those things which produce flesh in hollow ulcers, and fill the cavities, and are hot in the first de­gree, a little detersive and that without biting and astriction.

3. Colletick or conglutinating, as in those things which dry in the second degree, and are in a meane as to those which generate flesh, and cicatrize; they are not abstersive, but astrin­gent, and prohibit the flux of humors to the lips of wounds, ulcers and fistula's; they are [Page]also called symphyticks, traumaticks and enaima.

4. Epulotick or cicatrizing, as in those things which greatly dry, and bind without biting, drinking the humidity of the flesh and con­tracting the same, and covering with a thin callus like unto the skinne; therefore doe more dry than incarnatives or glutinatives, for they binde, contract, constipate, and indurate: there is also a sharp and biting epulotick that con­sumes dead flesh called cathairetick, and a third, drying without astriction.

5. Porotick or generating callus, by which broken bones are ferruminated and knit, and is neither bone nor flesh but betwixt both, being a hard, dry, white body: to the generation of which are required a convenient dyer, and me­dicines applyed which are emplastick and mo­derately hot.

6. Diuretick or provoking urine, as 1. In those things that are moist and liquid, and of a thin consistence, and easie penetration, encrea­sing the quantity of urine: so operate by acci­dent. 2. In those things which purge and attenuate and open the passages, some of which are cold and of thin parts; sometimes expelling what sticks in the passages: which operate af­ter a middle way, sometimes by accident, tem­pering exuperant heat which seiseth on the veines and resolveth the serous humidity, that the hu­mours may be more easily attracted by the reines and descend by the bladder. 3. In these things which purge the passages, and open the same, extenuate grosse humors and the bloud, and separate what is extenuated from the more grosse prts: which the reines then easily [Page] attract and send away by the urinarie passages: which kinds of diureticks are very hot and dry, to wit in the 3d degree, sharp, and of a very thin substance, coactive, and separating.

7. Lithontriptick or breaking the stone, dis­solving & expelling the gravell, as in those things which are diuretick, hot, dry & of thin parts: sharp, but more remissely, and some what bitter.

8. Emmenonagogick or drawing out the termes, as in those things which are hot and of thin parts, that they may concoct and digest crude humors, extenuate and incide the grosse and tough, and remove obstructions by clensing the passages: such as are all propper diureticks: which also promote the expurgation of the menses; and if they are also stinking or bitter, they are more effectuall: stinking things depressing the wombe: and the bitter being purging. There are also accidentall hystericks: as those which are analeptick or strengthening after extenuation: or which refrigetate and humect the body dryed by too much heate: to these also have affinity, those things which expell the secundine, & dead birth: especially those which are more strong, sc. hot & of thin parts, stinking & bitter with acrimony, especially if taken in a greater quantity and often.

9. Bechick or helping the cough, as in those things which cause or stop the same: for those things which conduce to the expectoration of grosse humors, doe also cause coughing; but on the crontrary, those things which incrassate thin humors stop and ease it: but those things are hot and of thin parts, and extenuating which ex­pectorate tough humors; yet there are also others which in some measure purge the breast, not much hot nor very dry, but a little moistening, or at [Page]least lenifying what is exasperated; yet diureticks of the middle kind also are agreeable to the breast and lungs: which if they are cold, they incrassate thin humors & stop coughing, and espe­cially those which are narcotick or stupefying.

10. Galactogenetick or generating milk, as partly in meates partly in medicines: as for meat, it's such as is euchymick & polytrophick or of good juice and of much nourishment, and a little hotter and dryer, if the bloud be cold and pituitous; but more moist and lesse hot, if troubled with choller. Medicaments causing milke, are of thin parts and hot, and of affinity to those things which properly provoke urine, yet most gentle; but those things which are more strong and provoke the courses, hinder the generation thereof by too much eliquation of the humors.

11. Spermatogenetick or generating sperme, as in those things which are hot and not very dry but flatulent, as also aliment of good juice and whatsoever increaseth the quantity of bloud.

The 4th Qualities are such which follow the substance, or property of the essence, & are found out only by experience: and are therefore called occult, latent and specifick; as in poisons, theri­ack and alexipharmick remedies, amulets and catharticks, things antipathetick and sympathe­tick, as also appropriate to any part or adverse unto the same; the greatest signe of which (ac­cording to some) is Signature.

II. The Poiotichnologie or way of finding out these qualities, as I. the manifest; it is I. by reason. 1. by odour or smell, which is either sweet familiar unto the spirits of the brain & a signe of heat, or stinking and offensive cold & moist, the first is in [Page] hot bodies, of thin parts, among which there's difference according to the degrees thereof; but those things which are without odour, are of a grosse essence and humid, as those things which are salt and austere; also such things which are of a mordicant and bitter smell are hot, but those that smell like vineger and acerb are cold, for in somethings the sense of odours is like that of sapors, yet not of so safe conjecture, by reason of the inequalitie of substance; for most bodies are of an unlike consistence, of each of which parts odour sheweth not the temper, but where there are tenuous effluvium's or vapors, whereof, the sweet strengthen the heart, the rank excite the animal spirits, the stinking help the suffo­cation of the matrix.

2. By Colour, which is either 1. Lucid, exciting the animal spirits and drawing them outwards, as the white. 2. Or tenebrose, calling them in­wards, and causing sleep, as the black. 3. Yellow, helping the jaundise. 4. Or green, usefull for the eyes: the white and pale shew moistnesse of temper and imbecillity. The yellow proceedeth from heat. The red and croc [...]ous &c. shew ex­cessive siccity and calidity or heat. The green and porraceous are signes of much moisture.

3. By sapors or tastes which (according to some) are I. More perceptible or manifest. I. The simple, which are 1. hot, first more hot, & so first of more thin parts, as the sharp, secondly of more thick parts, as the bitter, [...]nitrous, and salt▪ secondly lesse hot, as the sweet & is diverse according to the diversity of tenuity and hu­midity. 2. Cold, first of grosse terrene parts. First more grosse as the acerbe. Secondly lesse grosse, as the austere and astringent. Secondly [Page]of subtile aqueous parts and doubtfull, as the acid. II. The mixt, as the vinous, compounded of the acid and sweet. II. Lesse perceptible and almost insipid. 1. Aqueous, first more sub­tile, as the aquinsipid, secondly more grosse. First glutinous, as the humilent, Secondly fat, as the oleous. 2. Terrene, 1. succulent, as the ado­reous. 2. More dry as the lignite [...]reous. The sa­pors or tastes are I. Active, 1. Bitter or Aloe­tick, which is contrary to the nature of living creatures, the taste whereof doth vellicate the tongue. It consisteth of terrene combust parts, of which some are, more subtile, others more grosse and terrene, exiccated by exuperant heat, or coagulated by cold, as appeares in opium and aloes. It is not nutritive, it openeth the mouthes of the veines, causeth hemorrhages, and thirst, & makes the bloud fluxible: it attenuateth, incid­eth, biteth, exasperates, cleanseth, melteth, at­tracteth, yet more moderately dryeth and heateth, it consumeth and resisteth putrefaction, drinking up supervacaneous humors, and resisting sweetness: its hot and dry in the second degree terra usta.

2. Sharp, aromaticall or arsenical, hot, dry and burning, pricking the tongue, and biting the mouth, it consisteth of thin, dry and hot parts, as pepper, onions &c. If it be not vehe­ment, and hot under the third degree, taken in­wardly it doth penetrate, open, and attenuate thick humors, applyed outwardly it rarifieth the skin, and draweth forth humors. If it be hot above the 3d degree, it troubleth the head with thin vapors. If it be of a more grosse essence it is caustick and causeth blisters & scabs: and if it be of an adverse substance, it's septick and dead­ly: also it is of quick operation and strong, it [Page]attracteth from remote parts, it separates, cor­rodes, incideth, heateth, burneth and inflameth: it resolves, discusseth, excoriates, exulcerates, & strongly inciteth to expurgation, if of more thin parts, it's diureticall: if of thicker, caustick: it's more intense in dryer bodies, and more re­misse where there is an aqueous humidity. It's hot and dry, ex aqua & terra attenuata.

3. Acid or ammoniacall. It penetrateth the tongue with its tenuity, yet without any manifest heat. It consisteth of tenuous, cold and dry parts, as vineger, the juice of limmons &c. It penetrat­eth and incideth no lesse than the sharp sapour, therefore it incideth, attenuates, biteth, detergeth, reserates obstructions, repels and dryes: & by rea­son of its penetrating coldness, it repells all fluxi­ons: and by its siccity stops all eruptions of bloud. Also it helps nauseousness, corrodeth, and conden­sates without heat; it exasperates & resists pu­trefaction. It's of doubtfull qualities, fiery and aqueous, hot and cold, and of all contraries. It's cold and dry 2°, aqua ignita cum halitu terreo.

4. Nitrous, which is in a mean between salt and bitter; yet weaker than this, and more intense than the other; it's biting and corroding, as ni­tre. It openeth the belly, and purgeth the reines, terra spiritibus compulsa.

5. Salt or serous. It corrodeth the tongue by exiccation, yet heateth not much; it consisteth in a meane matter with heat and drynesse, and is generated of that which is terrene & dry, at­tenuate & preassate by heat with an aqueous hu­midity, so not altogether terrene, as salt; therefore it contracteth the pores, incideth, detergeth, di­gesteth & drinketh up humidity by its drinesse, without any manifest sense of heate, and so re­sists [Page]putrefaction. It openeth, biteth, exasperateth, abstergeth, cleanseth, troubleth, provoketh to ex­pulsion, purgeth, subverteth the stomack, causeth thirst, dryeth, deobstructs, aggregates, condenseth, roborateth, and contracteth. It's hot and dry in the 2d degree and corrosive.

6. Sweet or saccharine. It dilateth the tongue, and is pleasant having no exuperant quality, and being in a mediocrity, as sugar and hony; there­fore it levigates what is exasperated, lenifies, ma­turates, concocts, is anodyne, and only nourisheth; also it digests, rarifies, distributes, looseth, filleth the liver, stops the spleen, and is hot and moist in the first degree and of terraqueous parts.

7. Acerb or aluminous. It contracteth the tongue, and doth unequally exasperate the same by exiccation: it's neere to the austere, but more troublesome to the tongue, astringent, cold, and dry. The matter thereof is terrene & dry, with­out any manifest moisture, in which coldnesse is exactly predominant with siccity, as services; therefore as cold it repelleth fluxions, as astrin­gent it stoppeth the force of humors, as dry it doth coarctate, condense, and cicatrize wounds, as terrene it incrassates humors and condensates the superficies, it shuts, corrugates, and indurateth, so the austere. It resists poyson, & is cold & dry 2°.

8. Austere or vitriolate. It moderately bind­eth the tongue & mouth, coarctates the same with a certain asperity, and doth in some measure refrigerate & dry. It consisteth in a meane matter participating of that which is terrene and wa­terie, in which frigidity is predominant, as med­lars and wild peares &c. It manifestly refrige­rateth, extinguishes, bindeth and contracteth moderately stops fluxions, and repelleth. Its [Page] subacerb, lesse cold and dry, and exasperating, stopping, roborating and indurating, terra spiri­tu commota, as vitriol. The astringent is weaker, as quinces. Mat. Med. sicc. crass.

II. Meane. 1. Oleous. It's fat, unctuous and temperate; generated of that which is moist, aerious and moderately hot by elaxation of the waterie part, whereby it becomes more aeriall, as oile. It's slow and weake in operation, stopping the gustick or tasting organs. It doth humect, lenifie, and soften, loosen, obstruct and cause flatulencies, and nauseousnesse, having a certaine obscure and remisse sweetnesse, and mean substance.

2. Aquinsipid. It's scarce perceived by the tongue, hardly participating of any terrene siccity, and consisting in a crude juice, it's ra­ther a privation than a sapor: it's matter is somewhat grosse, yet not altogether terrene, dry, or astringent, but moistened with a certain humidity, which also is not exquisitely mixed by the activity of heat, as water. It is empla­stick, stopping and obstructing, lenifying what is exasperated, and conglutinating that which is disjoyned; and although it hath some affini­ty to sweet, yet it differeth in this, that it con­sisteth in a matter a little more grosse and crude: it refrigerateth and doth more moisten sc. from the second to the third degree.

III. Passive. 1. Ligniterreous, which is more gross, altogether terrene, and unactive, yet it hath some heat, spirit and humidity, but exceeding little, as the caput mortuum, and dry bodies without juice. Mat. cras. terra absque spiritu depressa prorsus terrea.

2. Humilent. The matter thereof is grosse, [Page]tough, aqueous, in which the earth being well mixed causeth corpulency, and it's humid, little affecting the taste, more grosse and crude than the sweet. It's emplastick, stopping the passages, conglutinates what is disjoyned, lenifies what is exasperated, and doth in­crassate, as mucilages. Mat. Crass. frig. obscur.

3. Adoreous, most agreeing to our nature, it recedes from sweetnesse in this, because its matter being unactive is hardly perceived, and it is more grosse; yet well tempered to a ter­rene equally mixed siccity, which easily be­comes passive, and is apt for distribution and solidity, as bread corne, Materia aequalis recep­tibilis.

4. By the tactile quality or touch: so crassitude is a signe of the abundance of terre­striall parts or humid and congealed: tenuity, of the fiery and aerious: density of exciccation or congelation: rarity of drynesse: hardnesse, of siccity and earthinesse, except caused by the repletion of humors: softnesse of humidity, gravity is the companion of density: levity of rarity: clamminesse of humidity: aridity or friability of siccity: smoothnesse of an aereous or aqueous humidity: asperity of siccity.

5. By disposition or mutability: so, that which more soone receiveth heat, is counted hot; and that most cold, which is soonest con­gealed.

6. By age: so for the most part, those things that are young, are more humid: the old more dry, also whilest they are growing and immature, they have an austerity and acerbity: so, cold.

7. By the place of growth: so plants growing by lakes, are for the most part of a [Page] cold, and moist temperature: the marshy, cold and somewhat dry: the fluviatile, dry, and very hot: the marine, cold and dry: those of a fat soile are hot and moist, or temperate there­in: those of a hungry ground, hot and dry: those of a meane earth, tepid and suitable to mans nature: those of a sandy ground, hot & dry, and of thin parts: those of a doubtfull growth, are of a mixt temperature: the amphibi­ous, if growing in springy places, cold and dry; if in litorall and marine, hot and dry: the mountaine plants, are dry, hot and of subtile parts: the field, moderately hot and dry: they that grow in hollow places, are cold and moist: the hilly, temperate: those that grow wild, are colder and dryer than the domestick, (if of the same species) the domestick, are milder and more weake.

8 By the operations of the soure first Qua­lities, as above said.

II. By experience, which in certitude ex­ceeds all the rest, and must be made with a simple body, without any externall quali­ty, and that in a temperate subject: in all which that must be distinguished which is done per se, from that which is per accidens.

Thus of the way of finding out the manifest qualities, sc. of the first: after which the second are known as arising from the first: but especially by sapour or taste.

II. Now follow occult Qualities; and these according to some, as Querc. Croll. Noll. Bapt. Port. Coles, Schrod. Culp. &c. are guessed at. I. By Phytognomy or Signature. I. Phytop­ricall or externall, either in forme, colour or property; and so the appropriations are as fol­loweth.

For the Head in generall, Walnuts, piony, poppy, squills, larch tree its agarick, and tur­pentine.

For the brain, Wood betony, sage, rosemary, lavender, marjerome, primroses, cowslips, beares eares, lilly of the vally, and misletoe.

For restoring haire, Quinces, mosse, and maiden-haire.

For the eyes, Fennell, vervaine, roses, celan­dine, rue, eyebright, clary, and hawkweed.

For the eares, Assarabacca, ground ivy, ivy, poplar tree, night-shade, sow-fennell, and sow­thistle.

For the nose, Wake-Robin, flower de luce, horsetaile, shepheards purse, willow, bistort, tor­mentill, cinkefoile, and sowbread.

For the mouth in generall, Medlar, mulber­ries, mints, purslaine, and golden rod.

For the scurvy, Scurvy-grasse, small housleek, aloes, fumitory, and cresses.

For the teeth, Pine, pomegranate, mastick, master-wort, corall, corall-wort, restharrow, henbane and wild tansey.

For the drynesse of the mouth, Flea wort.

For the diseases of the throat, roughnesse, quinsy, Kings evill &c. Throat wort, date tree, winter green, horse tongue, figge wort, archangell, foxe glove, orpine, pellitory of the wall, wheat, barly, garlick, liquorice, figge tree, hyssope, rag-wort, plantaine, columbines, cudweed, and Jewes eares.

For shortnesse of breath, coughs, expe­ctorations, hoarsenesse &c. Elecampane, almond tree, vines, reeds, sugar cane, juju­bes, sebestens, soabious, coleworts, nettles, and turneps.

For contracting womens breasts. Ladies mantle, and sanders.

For breeding milke. Anniseed, nigella, mal­lowes, dill, rampions, periwinkle, and lettuce.

For swollen breasts. Fennell gyant, gourds, basil, beanes, lentills, and lillies.

For sore nipples. Dock-cresses.

For the lungs, stoppings, consumptions thereof, &c. Hore-hound, lungwort, tabacco, sun-dew, hedg-mustard, coltsfoot, woodbinde, mullein, cowslips of Jerusalem, sanicle, polypo­dy, whortle-berries, and sweet-cicely.

For the heart, qualmes, saintnesse, &c: An­gelica, saffron, borage, violets, strawberries, wood-sorrell, bawlm, marigolds, swallow wort, goats-rue, vipers-grasse, pome-citrons, gentian, scordium, burnet, avens, cloves, clove-gilloflow­ers, lignum aloes, cinnamon, and vipers buglosse.

For stitches, and paines in the sides. Car­duus benedictus, our ladies thistle, camomile, sweet trefoile, melilote, oates, valerian, stitch-wort, flax and linseed.

For purging the stomack. Wormewood, my­robalanes, groundsell, radish, black alder, oyly nut ben, sene, daffodills, white hellebore, and purging cassia.

For breaking winde. Carrawaies, cummin, camels-hay, ginger, galanga, cardamoms, pepper, nutmeg, coriander, and orange.

For cooling and strengthening the stomack. Apples, peares, peaches, apricocks, plummes, cherries, gooseberries, barberries, and currans or ribes.

For the liver. Rubarb, turmerick, agrimony, liverwort, succory, alecoast, and maudlin, docks, sorrell, beetes, smallage, cleavers, and chickweed.

For the dropsie. Elder, soldanella, bryony, mechoacan and Jalap, broome, ash, ague tree or sassafras, palma Christi or great spurge, glasse­wort, spurge-lawrell, toad-flax, and bastard marjerome or organie.

For the spleene. Dodder, black hellebore, tamarinds, spleenewort or miltwast, hart's-tongue, ferne, capers, tamariske, germander, calamint, poley-mountaine, and lupines.

For the reines, bladder, stone, and stran­gury, &c. Asparagus, parsly, marsh mallowes, goats thorne, spiknard, sweet smelling flagg, cy­perus or English galingale, hops, knotgrasse, parsly pert, saxifrage, dropwort, gromell, onions, winter cherries, dogs-grasse, butchers broome, chervill, brooklime, hawthorne, limmons, cypresse­tree, kidney-wort, kidney beanes, oake, bucks­horne plantaine, sampire, fraxinella, and al­heale.

For the collicke. Bay tree, holly, juniper, o­live tree, coloquintida, and bindweed.

For the wormes. Centory, lovage, tansey, lavander-cotton, carrots and parsneps, spignell, bishops weed, English worme seed, leekes, and horse-radish.

For loosnesse, and the bloudy flix, &c. Su­mach, myrtle, cistus, black-thorne, bramble, tea­sell, rice, flixweed, pilewort, and water betony.

For provoking lust. Artichocks, sea holly, potatoes, skirrets, pease, rocket, mustard, cotten, fistick-nut, chesnut, chocholate, satyrions, and dragons.

For abating lust. Agnus or the chast-tree, hempe, water lilly, hemlock, camphire, and tut­san.

For provoking the termes. Mugwort, pen­nyroyall, [Page]southernwood, savory, time, alexander, and anemonie.

For stopping the termes and the whites, Comfry, mouseare, yarrow, mede-sweet, adders tongue, lunaria, trefoile, mony wort, darnell, flower gentle, blites, dragon tree, beech tree, and hasell nut-tree.

For the mother, Motherwort, feaverfew, ca­lamint, burdock, butter burre, orach, assa foetida, and cow parsnep.

For expediting childbirth, Birthwort, mer­cury, madder, dittany, dittander, pepperwort, holme oake and its chermes.

For expelling the dead child, and after birth, Ground pine, savin and birch-tree.

For ruptures or burstnesse, Rupturewort, thorow wax, Solomons seale, balsame apple, doves foot or cranes bill, and elme.

For the French pox, Guajacum, china, and sarsaparilla.

For the swellings in the groine, Starre-wort, and herb Paris.

For green wounds and old ulcers, Saint Johns wort, arsmart, bugle, selfe-heale, Saracens consound, loosestrife, daisy, and speedwell

For drawing out splinters, Pimpernell.

For fellons, Wooddy nightshade.

For surbated feet, Ladies bedstraw.

For excrescencies, Agarick, galls, and other excrescencies of trees.

For the jaundise, Celandine, saffron, and centaurie.

For pimples, tetters and ringwormes, The barke of the birch tree, and tree lungwort.

For spots, Garlick, wake-Robin, friars cowle, arsmart, and spotted lungwort.

For the Polypus, The root of the lesser ce­landine, and of polypodie.

For the scab, Polypodie, and savin.

For yellow choller; as Aliment, Saffron, beete, figgs: as Medicine, Aloes, sene, worm­wood flowers, spurge, coloquintida, and ru­barb &c.

For prassine choller, Those things that have a green and herb like colour, as blites and orach.

For pale choller, Briony having pale flowers.

For melancholy, Black blite, borrage, bu­glosse &c.

For flegme, Gourds and lettuce.

For mixt humors, Things of a mixt colour.

II. Astrologicall or Internall, and so the ap­propriations are I. To the Planets. 1. To the Sun, which is a benevolent planet, moderately hot and dry, a friend to Jupiter and Venus, and an enemy to the rest, and as it were the heart of the macro­cosme, and therefore it produceth the vitall spirits thereof, by which the whole universe is cherish­ed, and it is the fountain of peculiar influen­ces, by which it particularly helpeth things familiar, and hindreth what is contrary to it selfe. Ʋnder which are, Angelica, ash tree, bawme, one blade, burnet, butter burre, camomil, celandine, centaury, eyebright, Saint Johns wort, lovage, marigolds, misletoe, peony, S. Peters wort, pimpernell, rosa solis, rosemary, rue, saffron, tormentill, tornsole, vipers buglosse, and wallnut tree; as also all spices, sorrell, wood sorrell, mallow, borage, marjerom, dittany, gentian, ivy, elecampane, lavender, bay tree, olive tree, mints, date tree, oranges, pomecitrons, tyme, vine­tree, [Page]wood of aloes, zedoarie, mastick, frankin­cense, and myrrhe.

2. To the Moon, which is a Planet in a mean, between good and bad: moderately cold and moist, a friend to Jupiter, Saturne, Venus, and Mercurie, and an enemy to the other two, and is correspondent to the brain and therefore sympa­thetick with the nervous parts and animall spirits: or it is the generatorie of humidity, by which the whole universe is moistened; & is the fountain of peculiar influences, by which primarily and peculiarly it doth affect things familiar to it selfe and secundarily things agreeing to Saturne, Jupiter, Venus, and Mercurie, as being benevolent unto the same: or (as some) it is as it were the liver of the macrocosme. Ʋnder which are, Adders tongue, cabbages, coleworts, columbines, water cresses, ducks meate, yellow waterflagge, flower-de-luce, fluellin, ivy, lettuce, water lillies, loose-strife, with and without spiked heads, moonwort, mouseare, orpine, poppies, purslain, privet, rattle grasse, white roses, white saxifrage, burnet saxifrage, wall flowers, or winter gillowflowers, and wil­low tree: as also chast-tree, winter cherries, garlick, reeds, brooklime, onions, cammomile, frog­stolles, hyssop, mastick tree, mandrake, nutmegs, wall nuts, line tree, water plantain, turneps, house leek, and common leeks.

3. To Saturne, which is a malignant planet, diurnall, masculine, and very cold, a friend to Mars, and an enemie to the rest, and answereth to the spleen of the microcosme; yet some ascribe it to the head, as also Jupiter and Mars. Ʋnder it are, Barley, red beetes, beech tree, bi­foyle or tway blade, birds foot, bistort or snake­weed, [Page]blew bottles, buckshorne plantaine, wild campions, pilewort, cleavers or goosgrasse, clowns woundwort, comfrey, cudweed or cottonweed, sci­atica cresses, croswort, darnell, dodder, epithymum, elmetree, osmond royall, fleawort, flixweed, fumi­tory, stinking gladdon, goutwort, winter green, hawkweed, hemlock, hemp, henbane, horsetaile, knapweed, knotgrasse, medlar tree, mosse, mullein, night shade, polypodie, poplar tree, quince tree, rup­ture wort, rushes, Solomons seale, Saracens con­sound, service tree, ceterach or spleenwort, ta­marisk, melancholly thistle, black thorne, thorow wax, tutsan or parke leaves, and wood: as also aconite, chast tree, parsley, stinking tree, a­sphodill, starwort, orach, shepheards purse, capers, cummin, cypress, fearn, black hellebor, great dock, mandrake, mulberrie tree, opium, herb truelove, pine tree, savine, sage, sene, and sen­green.

4. To Jupiter which is a benevolent planet, moderately hot and moist, a friend to all the rest, except Mars; answering to the liver, and cherishing the faculties thereof by its influ­encies. Ʋnder which are, Agrimonie, Alex­ander, asparagus, avens, bay-tree, white beets, water betony, wood betony, bilberries, borrage, bugloss, chervill, sweet cicely, cinkfoile, alecost or costmary, dandelion, docks, bloudwort, doggs or quich grasse, endive, harts tongue, hyssop, sen­green or housleek, liver-wort, lung-wort, sweet Maudlin, oak-tree, red roses, sage, sauce alone or jack by the hedge, scurvy grasse, succory, and our ladies thistle: as also al­monds, wallnuts, barberries, calamint, cherries, cornell-tree, hounds tongue, beanes, beech­tree, strawberries, ash tree, fumitory, liquorice, [Page]barley, white lillie, flax, darnell, mace, apple-tree, mints, mulberries, myrobalans, nuts, basil, olive tree, organie, raisins, pine tree, peach tree, roots of peony, poplar tree, pur­slaine, plum tree, selfe heale, peare tree, rubarb, currans, madder, service tree, spike, consound, wheat, violets, vine tree, mastick, storax, sugar, and all other sweet things.

5. To Mars, which is a planet exceeding hot and dry, a friend to Venus, and an ene­my to all the rest, cherishing the bladder and gall of the microcosme. To which belong, Arsmart, asarabacca, barberrie bush, sweet bazill, bramble bush, briony, brooke­lime, butchers broome, broome, broomerape, crowfoot, wake Robin, cranes bill, cotton­thistle, toade-flax, furze bush, garlick, haw­thorne, hops, madder, master-wort, mu­stard, hedge mustard, nettles, onions, pep­per wort or dittander, carduus benedictus, radish, horse radish, rubarb, rhapontick, ba­stard rubarb, thistles, starre thistle, tabac­co, woolly thistle, treacle mustard, mithri­date, mustard, dyers-weed, and worme­wood: as also birthwort, chamelion thistle, cornell tree, dane wort, esula, euphorbium, spearwort, hellebore, spurge laurell, medlars, monks-hood, plantain, leekes, plum tree, oake tree, tormentill, nettle, scammonie, and all poysonsome things.

6. To Venus, which is a benevolent planet, nocturnall, feminine, moderately cold, a little more intensly moist, a friend to the Sunne, Mars, Mercurte and the Moone, an enemy to Saturne, and having an influence [Page]upon the genitors, and urinarie parts. Ʋnder which are, Alehoof or ground ivy, black al­der tree, apple tree, stinking orath, arch­angell or dead nettles, beanes, ladies bed­straw, birch tree, bishops weed, blites, bugle, burdock, cherry tree, winter cher­ries, chick weed, cich pease, clary, cocks­head, colts foot, cowslips, daisies, devills bitte, elder, dwarfe elder, eringo, feather­few, figwort, filipendula, foxgloves, golden rod, gromewell, groundsell, herb Robert, herbe true love, kidnie wort, ladies mantle, mallowes, marsh mallowes, mercury, mints, motherwort, mugwort, nep, parsnep, peach tree, peare tree, penny royall, periwinkle, plantain, plum tree, primroses, ragwort, rocket, winter rocket, damaske roses, wood­sage, sanicle, selfe heale, sopewort, sorrell, wood sorrell, sow thistles, spignell, straw­berries, garden tansey, wild tansey or silverweed, teasels, vervain, vine tree, vio­lets, wheat, and yarrow: as also asphodill, maiden haire, coriander, sow bread, figgs, ground ivy, flower de luce, all kinds of lillies, melilot, pomegranats, daffodill, stone parsley, sweet peares, roses, saunders, satyrion, wild tyme, tyme, vervaine, violet, ladanum, muske, amber, and all kinds of perfumes.

7. To Mercurie, which is a mutable planet, good with the good, and bad with the bad: hot with the hot, and cold with the cold: dry with the dry, and moist with the hu­mid, a friend to Saturne, Jupiter, Venus and the Moon, and an enemy to Mars and the Sunne, representing the lungs, which it doth sympathetically strengthen by its [Page]influences; yet some appropriate it unto the middle of the belly. Ʋnder it are, Ca­lamints or mountaine mint, carrots, car­rawaies, dill, elecampane, ferne, fennell, hoggs fennell, germander, hasell nut tree, hore-hound, hounds-tongue, lavender, liquorice, wall rue, maiden haire, golden maiden-haire, sweet marjerome, melilote, money-wort, mulberry tree, oates, parsley, cow­parsnep, pellitory of the wall, chamepitys or groundpine, -rest -harrow or cammock, sampire, summer and winter savory, sca­bious, smallage, southernwood, meadow trefoile, garden valerian, and hony-suckles or woodbinde: as also marsh mallowes, ani­seed, columbine, daisy, cammomile, cubebs, beanes, fumitory, wall-nut tree, juniper tree, mer­cury, navew, cinquefoile, stone parsley, butter burre, burnet, peony, lungwort, elder, speedwell, wild tyme, and coltsfoot. All which are said to cure diseases by sympathy, so each planet cures its owne: or antipathy, so the contrary. And are under the planets primarily and directly; or immediatly: or secundarily by the respective amity of the rest.

II. To the signes, as followeth, amongst which there are foure degrees, after the manner of the foure first qualities; so they are appropriate. 1. To Aries, which is a masculine fiery signe, or hot and dry, sympatheticall to the head. Thus in the first degree, Red mugwort, betony, succory, larkspurre, dane-wort, mints, peach kernells, butter-burre, wild time, coltsfoot: and fluellin; and are to be gathered in the end of the dog dayes, after the full of the Moon. In the second degree, Sperage, S. Johns wort, milfoile, plantain, and [Page]peony, and are to be gathered the Sun and Moon being in Cancer. In the third degree, Agarick, garden spurge, mezereon tree, wild gourds, spurge, coltsfoot, gentian, privet, nutmeg, palma Christi, elder, and sarsaparilla: and are to be gathered betwixt S. James's and S. Laurences day. In the fourth degree, Southernwood, calamint, capers, cinnamon, white hellebore, marjerome, hore hound, wild cresses, rosemary, turbith, and spike: and are to be gathered partly in Aprill, partly in September.

2. To Taurus, which is a terrestriall femi­nine signe, cold and dry, sympathetick to the neck and throat. Thus in the first degree, Betony, milt­wast, germander, ground ivy, the root of white lillies, mints, daffodill, polypody, roses, rosemary, valerian, and violets: and mollifie the tumors of the jawes, and spleen. In the second degree, Mai­den haire, winter cherries, columbines, ivy, Solo­mons seale, oake tree, and misletoe of the oake: and help wounds. In the third degree, Buglosse, our Iadies thistle, hounds tongue, agrimon [...]e, the lesser docke, organie, stone parsley, oake tree, cinque­foile, sanicle, figwort, tormentill, perwinkle. and silver weed, and are traumatick. In the fourth degree, Mouse eare, great burdock, wild betony, great celandine, ash tree, mallowes, lung­wort, scabious, and ground ivy: and have anti­pathie with the sublunaries, which are under Libra, and Scorpio, but sympathetick with those that are under Cancer and Sagittarius.

3. To Gemini, which are a masculine signe, airie, hot and moist, possessing the shoulders. Thus in the first degree, Aniseed, marsh mallow, buglosse, borrage, fennell, hyssop, stone parsely, selfe heale, and wall rue. In the second degree, great [Page]burdock, buglosse, ferne, white line tree, tur­neps &c. In the third degree, Chickweed, wake Robin, mace, and dead nettle. In the fourth degree, Sorrell, germander, cammomill, celandine, mug­wort and rubarb: and they have an antipathie with the sublunaries of Capricorne and sympathie with those of Libra and Aquarius.

4. To Cancer, which is a feminine signe, watery, cold and moist, sympathetick to the breast and lungs, as also to the ribbs and spleen, and cu­reth the diseases thereof. Thus in the first degree, Chickweed, cabbage, thistle, the flowers and fruit of beanes, ladies bedstraw, turneps, rampions, sage, & figwort. In the 2d degree, Strawberry tree, cones of the firre tree and pine, comfrey, nightshade, tur­pentine, & misletoe. In the 3d, brooklime, foxgloves, cudweed, rushes, cresses, seed of stone parsley, purs­lain, willow, saxifrage, and stone crop. In the 4th degree, water lillie, piony, housleek, & corall: and are antipathetick to the sublunarys of Sagittarius, and sympathetick to those of Yaurus and Libra.

5. To Leo, which is a masculine signe, fiery, or hot and dry, governing the heart and stomack, Thus in the first degree, Basil, saffron, cypress tree, carnations, hyssop, lavender, water plantaine, sundew, sea bindweed, and tyme. In the 2d degree, Wild angelica, tway hlade, centorie, galingale, gentian; and devills bit. In the 3d degree, stinking mayweed, carrot, mints, garden cresses, penny roy­all, crowfoot, & nettles. In the 4th degree, Birch tree, box, broom and bay tree: the 1. are to be ga­thered the Sun being in Pisces, the Moon in Cancer. The 2d sort in the beginning of May; before Sun rising, or in the end of Aug or the Sun being in Taurus and the Moon in Gemini. The 3d, the Sun being in Leo, and the Moon in Virgo and the last [Page]ouadrature; or for refrigeration, the Sun being, in Taurus and the Moon in Gemini. The 4th, the Sun being in Pisces & the Moon in Aquarius, or both.

6. To Virgo, which is a feminine signe, earthy, cold, dry, & sympathetick to the liver, intestines, and belly. Thus in the first degree, Sorrell, wood sorrell, burdock, succory, plantain, peare tree, and and wild sage. In the 2d degree, white beetes, medlar, Solomons seale, and briar bush. In the 3d, birthwort, bugle, flea bane, selfe heale, and oake tree. In the 4th, Carduus benedictus, small cen­torie, black alder tree, adders tongue; sloe tree with all its parts, fruit & flowers, tormentill & bistort.

7. To Libra, which is a masculine signe, airie, hot and moist, sympathetick to the reines, & blad­der. Thus in the first degree, All sorts of daisies, bugle, feaver few, cowslip, goats beard, & water parsnep. In the 2d degree, Marsh mallow, cam­momil, mistetoe, martagon, mallow, line tree, vervain, & silver weed. In the 3d degree, Calves snout, mugwort, nut tree, and wall rue. In the 4th degree, Chickweed, great celandine, black mints, scabious, figwort, and housleek.

8. To Scorpio, which is a feminine signe, watery, cold, and moist, and sympathetick to the genitors. Thus in the first degree, Crosse wort, hawthorne, & service tree, as also all simples of the 1. degree of Cancer gathered in Oct. In the 2d degree, Ash­tree, all sorts of apples, and plumtree. In the 3d, Barberrie tree, box, feaver few, & sopewort: hereto belong all herbs of the 2d degree of Cancer. In the 4th, Great red beetes, mercurie, daffod ill & ribes.

9. To Sagittarius, which is a masculine signe, hot and dry, sympathetick to the loines, &c. Thus in the first degree, Comfrey, onion, radish, figwort, flowers of line tree, sesamum and vervaine. In [Page]the second degree, Garlick, wild angelica, hen­bane, lovage, and leaves of willow tree. In the third degree, Red beete, asarabacca, celandine, saffron, ferne, ground ivy, madder, divells bit, and turmerick. In the fourth degree, Gum thistle, oresses, and white vine.

10. To Capricorne, which is a feminine signe, terrestriall or earthy, cold and dry, sympathetick to the knees and nerves, Thus in the first degree, Marigold, black cherries, elecampane, mulberry tree, bramble bush, and whorts. In the second de­gree, Black berries, mullein, and garden endive. In the third degree, Acorus, wake Robin, shep­heards purse, comfrey, gourds, galingale, garden mallow, and all kinds of sowthistles. In the fourth degree, Hellebore, henbane, mandrake, monkes hood, herb true love, savin, night shade, and staves acre.

11. To Aquarius, which is a masculine signe, aerious, hot & moist, sympathetick to the legs. Thus in the first degree, Angelica, wild carrot, fig tree, flowers of the ash tree, ground ivy, wall nut tree, melilot, sanicle, Solomons seale, and perwinkle. In the second degree, larkspur, cummin, dodder of time, cranes bill, clot-bur, rose root, wall rue, wild sage, and white nettle. In the third degree, Agri­monie, mouseare, clurie, mercurie, saxifrage, and dragon. In the fourth degree, The leaves of asa­rabacca, motherwort, hemlock, and medlars.

12. To Pisces, which are a feminine signe, aque­ous, cold and moist, and sympathetick to the feet. Thus in the first degree, long birth wort, cabbage, gourds, elecampane, myrobalans, navew, water­lillie, purslain and turneps. In the second degre, Artichocks, calves-snout, blew bottle, and golden flower gentle. In the third degree, Nigella, gar­den and wild poppy, and sowthistle. In the fourth [Page]degree, Hemlock, henbane, monks-hood, horned poppy, and white mightshade.

II. The occult Qualities are found out by Peiralogie or experience, which is most sure and safe.

II. Next follow those things which are more remote that concerne plants and other medici­nalls, as commonly to be compounded therewith.

As 1. The Topologie or place of gathering them, Thus 1. Herbes, are to be gathered in mountaines, hills, and plain places, in those that are highest especially, and exposed to the sun, and winds, except some few, as Germander & Ground­pine, which are more odoriferous, and frequent in hills; but those that grow only in plain places, are to be gathered in more dry places, and more remote from lakes and rivers, except they delight in more moisture, as water caltrops, water lil­lie &c. 2. Flowers, are to be gathered in the same places, in which there are the best plants. 3. So Fruits, 4. And Seeds. 5. So Roots also. 6. Woods are to be taken from trees where they are well grown. 7. Barkes, where there plants are best. 8. Juices, are to be taken from the best herbes, chiefly the well grown and greater (as being lesse excrementitious) & that before they grow wo [...]ddy or rotten. 9. Liquors and Gums &c. are to be ta­ken from mature stalkes which are the best in their kind, as the rest.

2. The Chronologie or time. Thus 1. Herbs, are to be gathered in the time of their flourishing; and beginning to goe to seed, which is for the most part in June & the beginning of July, if they are to be kept, and that at noone, in a cleare day being some considerable time, or certain dayes before freed from showers and not too dewy, or scorched [Page]by too much heat of the Sun, which is chiefly in the Spring, or beginning of Summer. But those which grow green all the yeare in gardens, may be gathered at any time: and those that have neither stalk, flower nor seed, as mai­den haire, spleenwort &c. are to be gather­ed in the vigour of the leaves, sc. when they are most green, and greatest; yet some be­cause while they flower or beare seed they are wooddy and dry, are to be gathered before that time, as succory, beete &c. 2. Flowers, in the vigour of their maturitie, when opened (except the rose) at noon in faire weather, after the Sunne hath taken off the dew, and before they wither or fall off, which for the most part is in Spring. 3. Fruits, when they are ripe, and before they wither. 4. Seeds, out of fruits thorough ripe, when they begin to be dry, and before they fall off, and out of plants when dry and are no longer green, as in the Summer, sc. June or July. 5. The Juice of plants, is to be pressed out whilest they are green and their leaves yet tender, and especially out of the well grown and greater. 6. The Earkes of fruits, are to be taken when the fruits are full ripe, and those of roots when the herbs have lost their leaves, but those of trees when they are in their vigour. 7. Woods, when the trees are full grown. 8. Liquors and gumms, &c. are taken by opening the stalke in the vigour thereof, and gumms when congealed, and mature. 9. Roots, when the fruit is fallen off, and the leaves also begin (which for the most part is in Au­tumne) and are to be digged up in faire wea­ther: which is necessary alwaies to be observed, as also (according to some) the decreasing [Page]of the moone, the day of decreasing, and the morning, that time being halsamicall: as also the fortitude of the planet, familiar to the thing to be gathered, and the signe of the zodiack.

3. The Dropologie or manner of gathering them, (as some affirme) some plants having di­verse faculties, according to the diverse manner of gathering them, as upwards or downewards; so hellebore, the leaves drawing the humours up­wards or downewards accordingly; so the root of elder also, and the budds, which being gathe­red upwards cause vomiting, and purge if downe­wards: also some observe the site of the regent planets, as whether they are orientall, or occiden­tall, &c.

4. The Parasceuologie or the manner of pre­paring them for asservation. Thus 1. Flowers, are kept for the most part separated from the stalkes and leaves. 2. Herbs or leaves, if they are greater, and having more thick stalkes, they are kept apart from them; but if more slender they are kept together, & sometimes with the flow­ers. 3. Fruits, as apples, &c. are to be placed with their stalkes downewards, and last longer if lai­ed on a heape of barley. 4. Roots, some are kept whole, as those of birth-wort, gentian, hermoda­ctils, satyrion, &c. others are dissected, as those of bryonie, elecampane, flower deluce, &c. also some have the wooddy matter taken away, as those of fennell, stone parsley, &c. As for the parts of living creatures, 1. The fleshy parts are first to be washed with wine, or some other convenient decoction, and are then to be dried in an oven, & so kept in leaves convenient, or wrapped up in wormewood to present putrefaction; so also the lungs, the trachea or rough arterie being first taken [Page]away, and thus are prepared the liver, spleen, &c. 2. Things that are Fat and oilie, are to be washed often in water, untill they become pure, after which they are to be melted by a gentle fire, strai­ned, and pured out upon cold water, and are then to he kept in a cold place, thus is hoggs grease prepared, lard, marrow, &c. and are best kept if a little salted. 3. Skinny parts, as the inte­stines are to be dissected longwaies, and to be wa­shed in wine or some convenient decoction, after which being cut into pieces, they are to be dried in an oven, and kept in leaves as aforesaid. 4. Bloud, is to be separated from the serous hu­mour, and to be dried in an oven. 5. Galls, are to be separated from the liver, then tied with a thred, after which they are to be hung up in a chimney to dry. 6. Curds, are to be dried in the smoke, or sun, and so kept.

5. The Phylacologie or way & place of keeping them; which in generall ought to be pure, conve­nient, high, dry, open, of a North or South si­tuation, where they may not be burnt by the Sun, or moistened by the walls, &c. more. particularly: 1. Vegetables, as 1. Flowers, are to be dried in the shade, and then they (especially those of good odour) are to be kept in teile caskets. 2. Herbs, are to be dried in the shadow, except those that have thicker stalkes, and moister leaves, and so subject to putrefaction, which must therefore be dryed by the more intense heat of the sun, or some other way, and when they are well dried, they are to be kept in linnen baggs, or (which is better) in woodden caskets, that they may be de­fended from dust. 3. Seeds, are to be kept in a dry place, and in woodden or glazed vessells, be­ing wrapped up in papers, that they may last the [Page]longer, and without impurity. 4. Fruits, in boxes, panniers, or scuttles. 5. Gums, and dry rosins in a dry place, and in woodden vessells, but the more liquid in pitchers. 6. Barkes, in woodden coffers, and a dry place. 7. Roots, in a dry aire, and the lesser and more thin whose vertues may be easily dissipated by the heat of fire or the sun, are to be dried in the shadow and wind, as those of parsley, fennell, &c. but the more grosse, by the sun or wind, as those of Bryony, Gentian, Mandrake, and Rhubarbe. 2. Mineralls, as 1. Earths in baskets or woodden coffers. 2. Things Salt, in woodden or glasse vessells, and a dry place. 3. Things watery, in glasses or glazed pots. 3. Living creatures, as 1. Their dryer parts, in woodden boxes, so bones, &c. 2. Fats and Marrowes, are to be kept in pots, or earthen glazed vessells, and in a cold and dry place.

Things prepared by art, as 1. Vinegers and distilled waters, are to be kept in glasse ses­sels, or stone bottles, and in a temperate place. 2. Balsames, as the sweet, in tinne boxes, or (bet­ter) in glasses well stopped, but the more liquid, and distilled, like distilled oiles and spirits. 3. Cerots, as emplaisters. 4. Things condited and the like, in earthen vessells. 5. Comfeits covered with sugar, in woodden coffers, and a place moderately hot and dry. 6. Conserves, lo­hochs, and electuaries, in glazed earthen ves­sells. 7. Extracts, in earthen or glasse vessells wide mouthed, that they may be taken out with the spatula; or if they are more dry, they are kept as pills. 8. Flowers and faecula's, &c. in glasses. 9. Morsells, are kept as confections. 10. Oiles, made by infusion and expression, in glasses, or [Page]glazed potts, the distilled oiles in narrow mou­thed glasses. 11. Pills, in woodden or tinne boxes, being wrapped in bladders, or cerate papers, and in a dry place. 12. Preparations, in glasses, and dry places. 13. Rolles, as confections are kept in woodden boxes, and a dry place. 14. Salts, in glasses and dry places. 15. Species aromaticall, in leather bagges well sewed, or in glasse or woodden vessells. 16. Spirits, in narrow mou­thed glasses well stopped, and in a temperate or cold place. 17. Juyces liquid, in narrow mou­thed glasses, a little oile of almonds, or olives being poured thereupon: the thicker juyces agree with extracts. 18. Syrupe [...], in earthen vessells, especially those that are acid, and are to be kept chiefely in those that are glazed, that they may not attract any minerall tincture, as they doe in vessells of mettall. 19. Troches, in woodden boxes. 20. Emplaisters and cerots, in coffers, or dry boxes, being wrapped in a bladder, or in a waxed paper. 21. Unguents and li­niments, in earthen vessells, or tinne box­es.

6. The Monelogie or duration of them. Where note, the time of keeping them must not exceed that of their duration, which is diverse ac­cording to the greater or lesser solidity of the substance, by which they are more or lesse sub­ject to dissipation. In particular, 1. Vege­tables, as 1. Flowers may be kept so long as they retaine their colour, smell and taste, which for the most part is halfe a yeare, therefore they are to be changed every yeare: note also, they are best when freshest. 2. Herbs may be kept longer, yet it's better to change them yearely. [Page] 3. Seedes, by how much they are more hot, sharp, and aromaticall, by so much also are they more durable, therefore may be kept two or three yeares, but those that are lesser and col­der must be changed every yeare, and must be kept carefully, least they grow mouldy. 4. Fruits, must be changed every yeare; but the exotick that have a harder barke or shell, &c. may be kept two or three years. 5. Gums and Rosins, are more durable. 6. Barkes, last a yeare or more. 7. Roots, if they are little, slender and thinne, they are changed every yeare; as those of Asarabacca, Sperage &c.; but the greater, and having a grosse substance, last two or three yeares, as those of Birth-wort, Bryony, Gentian, Rubarbe, and Hellebore. 2. Mineralls, for the most part (except some that are sulphu­reous and aqueous) because they are of a more solid and durable nature, they are also of a lon­ger duration. 3. Living creatures, and their parts, may be kept till they are corrupted, which will appeare by their ranke-smell, taste, place, and change of colour, as the rest, but those parts are most durable, which are most dry and solid, and the softer more corrup­tible, and are therefore to be changed every yeare.

Things prepared by art, as 1. Vinegers by infusion, are to be changed every yeare, or to be renewed by the addition of new vineger, and in­fusion of new materialls. 2. Distilled wa­ters that are phlegmatick are to be chan­ged, or renewed every yeare by new plants and distillation: but those that are fuller of spirits may be kept longer. 3. Aro­maticall [Page]balsams, may last two or three years. 4. Things condited, as fruits, may be kept two years. 5. Confections, last longer than things without sugar. 6. Conserves, abide one yeare. 7. Decoctions, last good but few daies. 8. Ele­ctuaries lenitive, one yeare: the solutive, a yeare and halfe, and the more pleasing, the lesse while. 9. Elixyrs, being full of spirit, if carefully kept, last diverse years. 10. Extracts that are more hard, are not easily hurt in many years, except by exiccation or drinesse. 11. The Faeculae of ve­getables, may be renewed every yeare, yet they will last two years or more. 12. Flowers, va­rie according to the matter from which they are sublimated. 13. Juleps are to be made accor­ding to occasion. 14. Lohochs, which take in almonds and cold seeds, apt to mould, hardly last above one yeare, but the rest two years. 15. Ma­gisteries, made by precipitation out of hard things, last three years or more. 16. Morsells last some considerable time; yet they are best fresh. 17. Oiles by expression that are temperate, as of almonds, orpine, apples, &c. especially those that are to be taken inwardly, can hardly be kept a moneth without moulding: the cold may last a yeare; the hot, three or foure, and those that are pressed out of sweet smelling fruits, (as out of nutmegs &c.) may last halfe a yeare. Those that are distilled last longer; but if made by in­solation they are wont to be changed every yeare or two. 18. Pills, by reason of the aloes and their bardnesse may be kept two or three years, especi­ally those that have opium as an ingredient. 19. Preparations, being of a lesse hard, and volatile essence, may last two or three years. 20. Pow­ders, are best fresh. 21. Robs or hard juyces are [Page]to be changed every yeare. 22. Rolles, are made as occasion requireth. 23. Salts, will last diverse years, especially the chrystalized. 24. Species aromaticall, are to be renewed every yeare, or yeare and halfe. 25. Spirits, if well kept that they do not exhale, may last very long. 26. Juy­ces liquid, are to be changed every yeare, but the more hard and thick may be kept two or three years or more. 27. Syrupes simple, are to be changed every yeare; but the compound and aro­maticall may last two yeares. 28. Tinctures, in powder may last diverse years; but the liquid last according to the diversity of the menstruums. 29. Troches, and dry collyries, may last one yeare, except those that containe opium, or seeds apt to grow mouldie, for those with opium may last six or seaven years, and the rest hardly one. 30. Ce­rots, scarce endure one yeare. 31. Clysters, last not long, & are therefore to be made when usefull. 32. Emplasters, hardly endure a yeare and halfe. 33. Ointments, for the most part are kept a year, or a year and halfe.

7. The Criseologie or discrimination and distinction thereof; thus are to be shunned; 1. Herbs, that are greatest, smallest, and withered, as also those that are of an evill taste, smell and colour. 2. Flowers, that are corrupted, broken, unripe or stale, or of an evill taste, smell or colour. 3. Fruits, that are wrinkled, not corpulent, or rotten, of an evill taste and smell. 4. Seeds, that are withered, unripe, or not corpulent, rotten, of an evil smel or taste. 5. Barkes, that are worme-eaten, rotten, or soked in water. 6. Juyces, that are stale, without good smel, taste or colour. 7. Liquors and gums, that are old, and have lost their vertues. 8. Woods, that are rotten, [Page]light or corrupted, 9. Roots, that are worme-eaten, or withered. 10. Parts of living creatures, that are taken from those that are sick, old, or dying by diseases: hence appeareth the choyce. Also 1. Emollients or the softening remedies, are known by their temperatenesse in heat and moisture, al­so by the gustile and tactile quality, or touch and taste, being in taste neere sweetnesse, but of a fat and oilie substance, so that they are neither sharpe austere, acid, salt, or of any other taste, that may shew either astriction, or vehement heat or cold, neither doe they seem rough or glutinous being touched. 2. Indurants or the hardening, are known by sapor or laste, which is such, that neither shew­eth heat, nor biteth or contracteth the tongue; but is rather insipid, cold, so neither salt, sharp, bitter, sweet, acerb, austere or acid. 3. Tendents & lax­ants or the stretching & loosening, are known as emollients; yet laxants are lesse hot and dry than e­mollients. 4. Rarefacients & densants or rarify­ing and thickening, are known as emollients, sc. by sapor, shewing moderate heat: so also densants being contrary hereunto, and not vehemently cold, therefore (according to Gallen) those things which vellicate the tongue, by a biting sapor, or astringent, are not to be accounted among densants. 5. Aperients or the opening, are known by their sharpnesse and biting, pricking and fretting the tongue. 6. Occludents or the closing, are distin­guished by their coldnesse, and astriction without biting; for they coarctate and bind the tongue, but do not vellicate or eate the same. 7. Attenuants are sharp, and bitter, yet they rather dissolve the tongue, than contract it, being of thin parts, and without astriction. 8. Attrahents or the drawing, are known as attenuants, both having tenuity of [Page]parts, and no small heat, so that they differ secun­dum magis & minus, yet tenuity of parts is more proper to attenuants, and heat to attrahents, and sheweth the same, not only by the taste but touch al­so. 9. Discutients or the dissolving, by tast which burneth the tongue, being sharp, very hot, and of thin parts, without astriction, not contracting the tongue. 10. Repellents or the resisting, by taste, a­cid, acerbe or austere: for these participating of astriction, do presently contract the tongue by their contact. 11. Adurents or burning, by touching ra­ther than by taste: for such rather corrode the thick skin and humors, and consume the same; but the weaker are sharp, & being tasted doe prick the tongue. 12. Extergents or the cleansing, are not distinguished by one sapor, for they may be either sweet, salt, or bitter: but those that are cold shew themselves rather by some tactile quality, than by taste, for they are neither said to be acid, austere, or acerbe, not having astriction, which doth more impact the sordes or excrements. 13. Emplasticks, by being without sapor, or having one that sheweth excesse neither of heat, nor cold: they are therefore either fat, insipid, or sweet in some measure, and tough & viscous being touched. Furthermore me­dicines of the 3d qualities, 1. Suppurants, or things causing matter, are known by not having any sa­por which may shew excesse of heat, and by being without astriction, & not biting or nitrous. 2. Diu­reticks or provoking urine, by their sharpnes, heat and incision: the cold by their nitrous qua­lity, with some small sharpnes or bitternes. 3. Em­menagogicks or provoking the courses, by heat 30, incision and abstersion, & biting of the tongue without contraction, being sharp, or somewhat bit­ter. 4. Galactogeneticks, or causing milk, by a sweet [Page]taste, and temperate; yet some have a little acri­monie. The contrary diminish milke, as things bitter, acerbe, austere, &c. which shew excesse either of heate or cold. 5. Spermatogeneticks, or causing sperme by heat and moisture, almost like the former, but that they are more fat and viscous or tough, and those that stimulate the sperme, are known by their sharpnesse. 6. Ano­dynes, or easing paine by their temperatenesse, and thinnesse of essence. 7. Sarcoticks, or generating flesh by their exiccation and abstersion or cleansing of the filth and corrupt matter. 8. Glutinants, or closing by astriction, and more exiccation than the former. 9. Epuloticks, or cicatrizing and healing, as the last; yet exceeding in degree. 10. Alexipharmicks, or things resisting poyson by their corroberating, contrary, or extrusive faculty.

8. The Taxilogie or way of placing them in Receipts: so 1. Those which want longer pre­paration are first to be put downe, as 1. Woods that are not sweet, and barkes, 2. Then Herbes, 3. Fruits, 4. Seeds, Lastly Flowers, and whatsoever are sweet or purging, &c. 2. Things that are to be boiled or infused, be­fore things that are only to be powdered. 3. In things that want and are of the same prepara­tion, those are to be first placed, of which the greatest quantity is required. 4. In those things of which there is the same preparation, and quan­tity, those are to be first placed, which either in commoditie or nobilitie do exceed. 5. Those things are last to be prescribed, which have the place of Matter, as aloes in pills, wax in unguents, and hony in great confections.

9. The Pharmacopoetologie, or way of compounding them: here, 1. Vinegers, are [Page]made of wine vineger, and vegetables, incided or contused, by infusion in a warme place, or by di­stillation. 2. Waters, are made by distillation, infusion, decoction or the mixture of herbs, flowers, roots, woods, spices, and living creatures, being first centused or bruised. 3. Balsams, that are sweet are made of sweet oiles incorporated in white wax purifyed &c. The distilled, are distilled spirits with a little oile drawn forth of rosins, gumms, spices &c. by the spirit of wine. 4. Boles, are made by mixture, or inspissation or thickening &c. Of electuaries, pulps, conserves, and powders reduced into a deglutible and lesse fluid consistence. 5. Cataplasmes, are made chiefly of herbes (green or dry) roots, flowers, seeds, oiles, fruits, greases, crums of bread &c. reduced with or without fire into the forme of a pul­tise. 6. Clysters are made of convenient liquors, among which the purging are most usuall, which for the most part are compounded, and made of 4. or 5. parts of some emollient decoction, and 1, or 2. of oile, and some purging and stimulating ele­ctuaries, or species &c. in a double quantity to what is taken downwards. Note, oile is to be added when there is need of emollition, and not when of purgation or revulsion. Hereto belong Metrenchy­tes, made of some distilled water, decoction or juice &c. to which way be added powders, ele­ctuaries, oiles &c. as also other injections to be used with a syringe. 7. Conditures, are made of roots, barkes, stalkes, fruits, nuts and flowers, of which the more grosse are to be mollifyed, and dissected and then edulcorated or sweetened with purifyed and dissolved sugar, and sometimes with clarifyed hony &c. 8. Confections with sugar are made by dropping dissolved sugar by degrees [Page]on things to be prepared as seeds, kernells, spices, roots, barks, as also flowers, and tops of plants, and they are canded with more grosse liquor. 9. Con­serves, are made by stamping the matter in a stone morter, and mixing the sugar therewith in a double proportion in things more humid, and treble if more dry, with a little distilled water, thus are prepared flowers for the most part, sel­dome herbs, lesse often roots, and fruits almost never, and are then to be filtrated. 10. Decocti­ons, are made of all things that may communi­cate their vertue unto liquors, as mineralls, ve­getables, and animals, or living creatures; but Apozems chiefly of vegetables, sc. roots, barkes, herbes, flowers, berries, fruits, and woods, with spring water, whay, hydromel, or wine, from a foure fold proportion of the liquor to twelve, with a due preparation, decoction, and clarification with the white of an egge. 11. Lambatives and [...]ohochs, are made of pectoralls, sc. powders, conserves, mucilages, syrups, decoctions, honey, pulps, &c. mixed to the consistence of honey: note the proportion of powder is halfe an ounce to 2 of syrup. 12. Electuaries, sc. the common or opiats are made of fine powders, with warme clarified ho­ny, being set to ferment in some warme place, af­ter the mixture of the dissolved solubles; but mixtures are made of powders, electuaries, con­serves, extracts, and dissected confections, with some convenient liquor, or so much syrup as may suffice. 13. Elixyrs, are spirituous liquors of excellent faculties, impregnated by infusion, and agree for the most part with liquid tinctures. 14. Emplaisters and cerots, are made of fat things, as oiles, rosins, grease, marrow, wax, & gums, and sometimes powders, to the wax melted are last [Page]added: the proportion of oile, fat or hony is three ounces, to one of dry things, of wax 1 pound, of ro­sins 8 ounces; thus are Cerotes made, yet softer: hereto belong Dropaces, made of pitch, a little oile, & other materialls, as pepper, pellitory, rosemary, euphorbium, castor, bitumen, brimstone, salts &c. 15. Emulsions, are made of the inward parts of fruits, and milkie seeds, as almonds, the 4 greater cold seeds, seeds of purslain, lettuce, pine apple kernells, &c. with spring or distilled water, the decoction of barley, liquorice, raisins or jujubes be­ing pounded, & strained, and then sweetened, a­voiding things acid. 16. Errhines, are made of ex­tracts, liniments or powders. 17. Epithemes, are made of distilled waters, juices, decoctions, emul­sions, &c. alone or mixed with powders, species, electuaries &c. and some wine vineger, or spirits for penetration, and so applyed with a spunge or linnen cloth, &c. the proportion is halfe a pound, of liquors, of powders from 1 dram to half an ounce, of wine or spirits 1 ounce. 18. Extracts, are drawn out of mineralls, vegetables and animalls by preparing them for infusion and then pouring the menstruum thereon to a convenient height, (sc. the spirit of wine &c.) after which set it in a warme place, and then extract it according to art. 19. Faecula's, are made of roots & sometimes of leaves by pound­ing them in a morter, and pouring on water till like a pulpe, which is then to be pressed, and set to settle. 20. Flowers, are made by chymicall sepa­ration by sublimation. 21. Gargarismes and den­tisrices, are made for the most part of waters, juices or convenient decoctions, to which way be added of syrups, or hony 2, 3, or 4 ounces, to 1 pound of water, with a little vineger &c. 22. Gellies, are made of succulent fruits, of hornes & tender bones, [Page]by decoction and filtration, edulcoration and co­agulation, to which also may be added powders and extracts &c. 23. Infusions, are made of minerals and animals, but chiefly of vegetables, and such as are purging, with their corrigents, together with some distilled or spring water, whay, muscadell, mede, or wine &c. to cover the matter, 1, 2, or 3. fingers, which after steeping is to be pressed. 24. Juleps, are made of some potulent liquor, as distilled or spring water corrected by a toste, or some decoction, as of harts horne, liquorice, or barley &c. in which juyces and spirits may be dissolved, and of syrrups 1, or 2, ounces may be added to a pint of liquor. Hereunto belong morets, made of spices and other confortatives, with su­gar or syrrups. 25. Stones, are made by digestion, extraction and coagulation. 26. Liquors, are made by deliquium, &c. 27. Magisteries, are made of animals, vegetables, and minerals prepared by solution in some convenient or acid liquor, preci­pitation, ablution in common water, and gentle ex­iccation. 28. Masticatories, are usually made of mastick, raisins, bastard pellitory, cubebs, sage leaves, agarick &c. made into powder, balls, or troches with wax, figgs, turpentine, or hony &c. and so are to be chewed. 29. Morsells and rolls, may be made of all kinds of remedies, as powders, seeds, conserves, oiles, extracts, with sugar dis­solved over the fire, putting them in by degrees and stirring them, after which it's to be poured forth upon some plain thing and cut into tablets. In those that are purging manna may be put in stead of hony, things condited are to be first cut in pieces: distilled oiles are last to be dropped in, or used outwardly, so muske and amber being dissolved in rose water. Rolls also are thus made, [Page]but the powders must be finer and in a lesse quan­tity, and if there are acid juices they must be made only by mixture. 30. Oiles, as first the de­stilled, are made of animals, vegetables and mi­nerals. 2. Those by expression, of seeds, and cer­taine oleous kernells. 3. By decoction, the sim­ples being cut and boiled in oile mixt with water, wine, or some convenient liquor, untill the aque­ous humidity be exhaled, or by maceration in oile, as that of olives, or the omphacine if the simples are more dry. 31. Pills, may be made of any dry thing incorporated by some viscid and glutinous liquor, as syrrups, mucilages, inspissate or thickened juices, extracts &c. or they may be made only of juices and inspissate extractions. 32. Potions, are made of syrrups, electuaries, extracts, manna, powders &c. with decoctions, infusions, and chief­ly distilled waters, usually only by mixture. 33. Pomanders, are made of sweet powders, to which oiles may be added, which may be incorporated with wax, storax, Indian bal­same, the mucilage of tragacanth, with a little turpentine when need, and a little rose water, and so made up into small balls. 34. Pre­parations, are made by powdering the more hard matter, sprinkling thereon some cordiall water, sc. rose water for the most part, and afterwards drying it in the shadow. Those things that are more solid are to be calci­ned. 35. Powders and species, are made by triture or levigation, and the lesse if of a volatile substance, and apart if of a di­verse hardnesse. 36. Fomentatorie little baggs, may be made of any in [...]ided or contu­sed vegetables, sowed up in small bagges, and are then to be applyed warme either dry or moist. [Page] 37. Salts, are made by incineration, macera­tion, transcolation, and evaporation or cry­stallization. 38. Wash-balls, are made of sope especially that of Venice, with which sweet things finely powdered are to be mixed with some fragrant water, as of roses, &c. 39. Spirits, if more volatile, are made by a more gentle fire, as by BM. vel cinerum. The more fixed, by a retort and stronger fire, and are made of ani­mals, minerals, and vegetables, and the more vo­latile of leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds and spices: but the more fixed out of woods, barks &c. The first differ not from distilled waters, but that they are lesse flegmatick, and separated by rectification after contusion, and fermen­tation. 40. Juices, are drawn seldome out of animals, but chiefly out of vegetables; yet not all, as those that are oleous, and more dry: and are made by contusion, expression, cla­rification, filtration or digestion, and the lesse succulent by maceration, or elixation first. 41. Sinapismes, are made of mustard seed, cresses, nettles, sowbread, bryony, squills, gar­lick, euphorbium, cantharides &c. with the pulp of figgs, leaven, hony, oxymel, sope, &c. And Vesicatories, of cantharides pre­pared, sc the heads and wings being cut off, 30 being powdered, and of sharp leaven 1 ounce, with sharp vineger if need. 42. Suppositories, are used for divers indications, but chiefly the de­jectory, of which, 1. the more gentle are made of lard, an open figge, candle, wax, meat boiled in water, stalkes and roots; as of beets, cabbage, blites, mercury &c. 2. The meane with a cer­taine acrimonie, are made of hony boiled thick, sope, and boiled tupentine, to which sometimes is [Page]added mousedung, salt or sugar. 3. The morestrong and purging, are made of agarick, aloes, hier [...] picra, hellebore, scammonie &c. in the powder of which the suppositorie may be rolled. Here the proportion of hony is 1 ounce, of powder more gently purging 1 dram, if more strongly halfe a scruple, halfe a dram or 1 dram. They are also at last to be annointed with oile or butter. Pessaries and nascals are made in the forme of a finger, of hysterick remedies, which are to be put into a long linnen bag, or made up with picked wooll or cotton, or incorporated with hony, lauda­num, galbanum, wax, juices &c. they are in figure like suppositories, but thicker and longer. Roots also may be used in stead thereof, as of madder, cyperus, lillies &c. 43. Syrups, are made of some medica­mentous liquor, decoction, infusion, juice, distilled water or vineger, which being clarifyed, sugar or hony (for preservation & sapour) are to be added, then boiled and clarifyed: it's to be inspissated to the consistence of more liquid hony. The proportion of liquor to sugar or hony is almost double or treble. Hereunto belong physicall honies, and syrupized Robs. 44. Tinctures, of which the more liquid are nothing else than extractions, without an abstracted menstruum: the more solid are pow­ders without combustion, remaining out of the liquid tinctures, the menstruum being abstracted; and are made after the manner of extracts. 45. Tro­chiskes, are made of all kinds of remedies, which being powdered are made up in some convenient viscous liquor, as in some mucilages with traga­canth, juices, syrups, &c. Hereunto belong sumale candles made of odoriferous powders, with tragacanth, storax &c. as also troches for the same, not differing in the way of making. [Page] 46. Inunctory balsames, liniments and un­guents, hardly differ in their preparation, but consistence, which in the first is more liquid, like hony: in the second a little harder, and scarce fluid: the third more hard, and lesse fluid: and are made of oile, butter, fats, marrow, rosins, mucilages, juices, &c. as also of powders and things that may be melted. To 1. ounce of oile is used of fats almost 1, or 3 drames in liniments. 1. dram or a half in balsams. 1 dram & a half or half an ounce in ointments, with 1. dram of pow­der &c. Also balsames are without wax, lini­ments have a little, or none, as 1. dram to 1 ounce of oile; but unguents have more, and sometimes gummes, and are made by mixture or liquefaction.

10. The Dosologie or quantities thereof. I. As Ingredients. So 1. the doses of Herbs, as used [...] are proportioned by handfulls, in clysters and decoctions, 1, or 2. for one time: so if dry, in externall and great remedies, but in others, as powders for the head and stomack &c. from one dram to hafe an ounce, or an ounce. 2. Flowers, if dry are measured by weight and measure, if fresh they are proportioned by measure only: the dry in antidotes and more noble compositions, from a scruple to two drams; as in cordiall, capitall and stomachick pow­ders, and unguents; but in syrrups, apoz emes, and other decoctions from halfe a pugill to 2, 3, or more, as also in bathes and clysters; not being efficacious therein, unlesse in a great quantity: when fresh they are more effectuall to refri­gerate, humect, or loosen; and are therefore used only in syrrups, and apozemes, and other de­coctions of the like nature, and that from halfe a [Page]pugill, to more: and are not weighed except for conserves. 3. Fruits, if great, whole and discrete, are prescribed by number, and not weight, except some part thereof only be to be used, and in exact compositions. And in some the diversification is to be made according to the scope and use, as prunes, tamarinds &c. for if used to refrigerate or alter choller a little number will suffice, as two or three couple; but tenne or twenty, if to purge: so of figgs &c. in inward remedies; for in bathes if to cleanse and relaxare they may be put in, in a grea­ter quantity, sc. 50 couple; and loosening, detergent and emollient fruits from 10 couple, to 20. The refrigerating and lenient, in injections agaist the inflammation of the intestines to 10. couple, as prunes, sebestens and tamarinds: so also the sweeter fruits in clysters easing paine, lenient, loosening, detersive, and drawing downe wormes: so also the astringent in cly­sters for fluxes, but in a lesse quantity in al­tering decoctions, least they should cause ob­structions. The detergent in loosening remedies from 20 couple to forty, and in the altering to 5, or 6 couple; but in pectorall decoctions, or syrrups in a mean quantity, or to 10. couple, as figgs, jujubes &c. also the pulpe thereof is pre­scribed by measure, as the pulp of raisins to two ounces in solutive electuaries; in lohochs in a mean, and in hepatick corroborating or malactick cataplasmes from a quarter of a pound to a pound; so all astringent fruits: the lesser fruits as currans &c. in a greater or lesser weight, ac­cording to the scope, nature, strength, and jorme of the remedies: and the indiscrete fruits are pre­scribed by weight, not number. 4. Seeds, are [Page]always proportioned by weight. The hot and plea­sant to 1 or 2 drams, as aniseed &c. in pep­tick powders: the lesse acceptible to halfe or 1 dram, and the more sharp in a lesser quan­tity: the temperate from 1 dram to an ounce in inward remedies; and in baths, fomentations, and clysters, from 1 ounce to more. The Diuretick, according to the scope and acrimonie: if to pro­voke urine, from 1 dram to 3, or 4. and with purging remedies from a scruple to a dram. And in aperient remedies in a mean quantity. In arteriacks from one scruple to a dram, as also in Bechicks. Those that expell wind, in clysters, remedies easing paine and the collick, from two drams to 6: in antidotes from one dram to three: the hottest seeds, used powdered in inward remedies from one scruple to one dram, and in the externall from 2 drams to an ounce; but in decoctions to be taken inward­ly, from one dram to three, and in externall remedies from 3 scruples to an ounce and half. The greater cold seeds, in diureticks from two drams to an ounce. In pectoralls from half a dram to three. In loosening remedies from a scruple to a dram. In clysters from halfe an ounce to an ounce. In bathes from two ounces to 6: but the lesser cold seeds, in inward remedies, as powders, from a scruple to two drams. In the outward, from half a dram to halfe an ounce. Narcotick seeds, from halfe a dram to two or three, as in remedies for the collick: but in the exter­nall, from a dram to half an ounce. Cerealls, that are whole are to be measured by pugills or small handfulls; more in baths: in clysters one or two pugills. In the decoctions of syrrups, injections and gargarismes from halfe a pugill [Page]to a whole one: but when they are powdered, by weight; as in cataplasmes, from one pound to two: and to inspissate the juice of herbes, as much as may reduce it into the consistence of hony; as in bechick and arteriack remedies from one dram to three. Pulses, are measured as cereals, but are weighed when powdered. 5. Roots, in syrups and apozems, from one ounce to three, if for more doses; if for one, from 3 drams to an ounce, more or lesse, according to their nature and strength and the scope: in baths they are proportioned by pounds or handfulls. In clysters from 2 ounces to 3. and more for fomentations, irrigations &c. 6. Woods, if sweet, more noble, and pretious, from halfe a dram to a dram, for the most part, in inward or outward remedies, as suunders &c. but the more grosse & ignoble, of which are made decoctions, as guajacum &c. from an ounce to a pound. 7. Barkes, the more rare and excellent, from a scruple to half an ounce, as cinamon &c. The more base, from one ounce to more; except ungratefull to the taste, as guajacum &c. 8. Juices, according to the scope & forme of remedies. 9. So Rosms, the liquid taken alone, from a scruple to 3 drams to cleanse the reines; if to loosen the belly, from 2 drams to halfe an ounce; in plaisters and unguents, from halfe an ounce to more, according to the scope; but the more dry, as pitch &c. in outward remedies, as plaisters and unguents, from half an ounce to an ounce or more. 10. Living creatures, if used whole, are proportioned by number, except small, their parts by number and weight: the more liquid, by weight: so those that are burned, or prepared, and that from one dram to three, as rasped harts horne, &c. but those that are more sharp, foetid, or sweet, if used in [...] wardly [Page]from two graines to a dram, as muske, amber &c. but more, if used outwardly. The Intestines, from one dram, to two, if taken alone or with wine, but in opiats and powders for more doses to one or two ounces. The lungs and liver, if unpleasant, stinking and dryed, from halfe a scruple to a dram, or two if mixed with sweet things. Excrements, if more sharp from halfe a dram to two drams, and outwardly from halfe an ounce to two ounces: and if more gentle to a pound, as that of the cow &c. Galls, by weight, more or lesse, according to their acrimonie and consistence: those of four footed beasts to one dram, of birds to two, of fishes to three. Hornes, being burned or rasped from one dram to foure, but the more precious, as the Ʋnicornes, from 6 graines to a dram. Shells, of fishes burnt from one dram to three, and in out­ward remedies from halfe an ounce to two ounces. Pearles in cordials, &c. from one scruple to two drams. 11. Mettalls, by weight, according to their strength and acrimonie, and the strongest from a dram to an ounce, the weaker in a greater quan­tity; but those that may be eliquated, and are em­plastick, as litharge &c. from an ounce to a pound, or more: and the sharpe, as verdigrease &c. from halfe a dram to two drams; if washed in a grea­ter quantity: those that have but little acrimonie, us lead, tuttie &c. and those which dry with­out biting, from a dram to an ounce. Mineralls, that are very sharpe, as brimstone, alome, &c. are to be used only in strong remedies: the caustick as vitrioll &c. from half a scruple to a scruple used alone, or a dram used with more gentle remedies. Precious stones, as the sapphire &c. from halfe a scruple to a dram: the stronger and [Page] acrid, as the lapis cyaneus, according to the scope and manner of preparation, sc. in cordialls, from 7 graines to halfe a scruple, in purging remedies, from a dram to two drams and a half; & in a greater quantity, if in greater compositions: and those that are burned in a lesse quantity, than those which are not, or not washed, but those stones that are without acrimonie, as the lapis Judaicus, &c. from halfe a dram to two drams. So Earths also. More particularly. 1. In Decoctions, the proportion is of leaves 5 handfulls, of flowers 4 pugills, of roots 3 or 5 ounces, of seeds 4 or 6 drams, of water 2 or 3 pints, boiled to one halfe or a third part, with trans­colation, edulcoration, and clarification, to each dose of which, one ounce of syrup may be added, and sometimes catharticks with correctors So also in insusions. 2. In Clysters, in a double pro­portion to what is taken by the mouth, sc. of sim­ple purgers, as coloquintida &c to two or three drams, of the compounded, as of hiera p [...]cra &c. to an ounce or an ounce & half &c. according to the strength of the patient and vehemency of the disease: of oiles 3 ounces, of sats, hony, and su­gar &c. halfe an ounce or an ounce, of the yelks of eggs 2 or 3, of common salt a dram and halfe, more or lesse according to the intended p [...]orita­tion of the expulsive faculty. 3. In Gargarismes, a triple weight of liquor to that of physicall jui­ces and syrups, sc. 6 ounces to two hereof, and of dry medicines 2 or 3 drams to halfe a pound of a decoction. 4. In Errhines, of the leaves of ce­phalick purgers being incided and contused, 4 handfulls to 4 ounces of white wine &c. in soft [...]hines, to two ounces of the juice aforesaid an ounce and a halfe of wine, and of hony as much [Page]as may serve to make it into the forme of an opiat being boiled, of sharp or purging powders 1 scruple: in the solid, to a sufficient quantity of turpentine and wax 2 drams of powders. 5. In Epithemes, to 1 pound of liquors a dram and halfe, or two drams of the species, or 1 ounce of wine, and a few graines of saffron, as in cordiall epithemes; but in the hepatick and splenetick, halfe an ounce of vineger to one of the waters. 6. In Fomen­tations, to each 1 or 2 handfulls of herbes one pint of liquor. 7. In Embrocations, for the most part 1 pint of liquors to 2 handfulls of herbes, which are then to be boiled to a medietie. 8. In Insessions, of herbes from 5 handfulls to 8 or 10. of roots from 2 ounces to 4: of seeds from 6 drams to 6 ounces: and of water as much as may serve thereunto, which are to be put into a bagge and boiled to a third part. 9. In Baths, of liquids as much as may rise to the mouth of the stomack, of herbs from five handfulls to fifteen, more or lesse, according to the nature of the disease and strength of the patient, of flowers from one pugill to 12, of roots from three ounces to five pound, of seeds to an ounce, of pulses from 6 ounces to two pound, of mineralls from three ounces to three pound &c. which are to be boiled to a third part. 10. In Lotions, of herbs from 4 handfulls to 10. with a convenient quan­tity of liquids. 12. In Tragaea's, of sugar one ounce to every dram of species, especially if bitter and lesse pleasant. 13. In Aromaticall electuaries, of hony or sugar a threefold or sixfold quantity to that of the species. 14. In Cathartick or purging electuaries, of the species one part to three of hony or sugar being well mixed with their correctives and the dirigents. [Page]So also in Opiats, or narcotick and stupefactive antidotes, which are to be compounded with great care. 15. In Conserves, for the most part, to one part of the herbs shred, or flowers, 3 of pow­dered sugar. 16. In Conditures, the proportion of sugar is according to the nature and temper of the matter. 17. In Lohochs, the proportion of the recipient matter is fourefold to the ingredient powders, so that to 4 ounces thereof, there is one of the powder usually. 18. In Liniments, to one ounce of oile, 2 drams of butter, fats and creams. 19. In Unguents, to one ounce of oiles one dram of species, and two of wax. 20. In Plaisters, to one ounce of dry things 3 of oyle, and to 3 ounces hereof, one pound of wax, of rosin 8 ounces, that they may be more tenacious. 21. In Cataplasmes, to each handfull of the leaves or other things, of oile or fats an ounce, or an ounce and halfe. 22. In Cerots, to one ounce of oile, a dram, or a dram and halfe of the species, of hard wax halfe an ounce, with a little rosin. 23. In Sinapismes, to two parts of contused mustard seed, one of figgs: in those that are more weake, the contrary. 24. In Tablets, Troches, and Morsells, 4 ounces of sugar to 2 drams of the species; in tablets that are purging, to one pound of sugar 8 drams of spe­cies, or 12 thereof. 25. In Collyries, a little of the white of an egge, to a convenient quantity of depurate or purified juyce. 26. In Suppo­sitories, to one dram of the species and salt, one ounce of hony. 27. In Juleps, of dulcorants or sweetening things, from an ounce to an ounce and halfe; of clarified juyces orliquors, if more strong, as the acid, to halfe an ounce, else an ounce; of confections from one scruple to two, and lesse if [Page]more pretious, as bezar stone, to foure or six grains, of Ʋnicornes horne halfe a scruple, and of pearles one scruple for one dose. 28. In Physicall wines, to one pint of wine cathartick three or foure ounces of sugar, and of cinamon two drams. 29. In Emulsions, of dulcorants or sweetening things for one dose, an ounce, or an ounce and halfe, of fruits an ounce and halfe or an ounce or two, so of seeds, and of rose water, of manus Christi one dram, of liquors s.q. 30. In Amygdalates or Al­mond milke, of blanched almonds two ounces, of warme water halfe a pint, of sugar one ounce or two. 31. In Ptisans, of cleansed barley two ounces, of sugar one or two ounces, of water s. q. or twenty parts. 32. In Hydromel or Metheglin, to one part of hony eight or twelve of water, of cinamon two drams or halfe an ounce, and it's then to be boiled to the consumption of a 4th part. 33. In Diet drinks, to a pint and halfe of water, one ounce of ingredients, which are then to be boiled to a third part for sweating, and for or­dinary drinking to two ounces of ingredients twelve pints of water, of sugar halfe a pound, of cinamon three drams or halfe an ounce, boiled to the consumption of a fourth part. 34. In Hydro­saccharates, of spring water depurate or purified by boyling, twelve parts to one of white sugar; and of cinamon, or sanders in fevers, from three drams to halfe an ounce. 35. In Broths analeptick or restaurative, to each pint of white wine, of cordi­all juyces or convenient liquors three ounces, of sugar two, of cinamon, and of the confection of alkermes one dram: in restaurative distillati­ons, to three or foure pints of the liquor, of cor­diall waters eight or twelve ounces, of conserves and conditures three or six, of the confection of [Page]alkermes, &c. three drammes or halfe an ounce. 36. In Boles, of conserves three drams or halfe an ounce, of powders one scruple, of confections a scruple or halfe a dram. 37. In Pandaleons, of fruits two drams, of seeds an ounce, of powders three drams, of sugar s. q. of conserves three drams or halfe an ounce. 38. Of the Basis for Pills, according to the strength thereof, with convenient syrups. 39. In Dropaces, to an ounce or an ounce and halfe of pitch halfe an ounce or six drams of oile, or so much of hot powders. 40. In Vesicatories, to two ounces of old leven, as much of cantharides, which are then to be knea­ded together with aqua vitae or vineger. 41. In Frontals, to three or four pugills of flowers halfe an ounce of seeds; if in a humid forme, halfe an ounce of oiles to a sufficient quantity of unguentum populeon. 42. In Oxyrrhodines, to foure or six ounces of oiles, two or three of vineger, and foure of water, being shaken together. 43. In Cuou­pha's, of roots one ounce, of dry leaves three hand­fulls, of flowers two or three pugills, of spices three drams or halfe an ounce, of gums one or two drams, of muske halfe a scruple or a scruple. 24. In Moister Collyries, of herbes appropriated to the eyes, six or eight handfulls, of seeds an ounce and halfe or two ounces, of herbes for the head two handfulls, of spices halfe an ounce or six drams, of galls two ounces, of urine halfe a pint or a quart, of hony halfe a pound or a pinte, of wine two pintes. 45. In Apophlegmatismes, the same quantity as in gargarismes. 46. In Suffu­migations, of gums foure or six drams, of pow­ders three drams, of amber, muske and civet, as every one pleaseth, so in pomanders. 47. In Stomack plaisters, of mastick two ounces, of powders half [Page]an ounce, of sweet gums 2 drams, of turpentine s.q. 48. In Pessaries, of juyces 2 ounces, or 3, of hony an ounce and halfe, of powders halfe an cunce. 49. In Injections for the Eares, of pow­ders halfe a scruple or a scruple, of fats 2 drams, of hony halfe an ounce, &c. For the Bladder, of syrups one ounce, of fine powders one or two drams.

II. As Compounds, &c. and so, 1. Altering re­medies, if temperate, they are given from 2 drams to 2 ounces: if in the first degree, from a scruple to an ounce: if in the second, from halfe a scruple to halfe an ounce: if in the third, from 5 graines to 2 drams: if in the fourth de­gree, from 2 graines and a halfe, to a dram. 2. Purging remedies, in the first degree, if in the first mansion, from 2 ounces to 8, as syrups of roses and violets solutive: in the second, from 2 ounces and a halfe to 5. as the hony of roses and violets solutive: in the third, from two ounces to foure, as the juyce of roses and violets, and sy­rupe of peach flowers: in the second degree, if in the first mansion, from halfe an ounce to two ounces, as tamarindes and cassia in pulps: in the second, from halfe an ounce to an ounce and halfe, as the seed of bastard saffron, in infusion: in the third, from three drams to seaven; as dod­der of time: in the third degree, if in the first mansion, from one dram, to halfe an ounce, as mirobalans, or five drams, as polypody: in the second, from two scruples to two drams, as rhubarb, agarick, sene, and bryonie of Mexi­co and Peru: in the third, from halfe a scruple, to one dram, as aloes, hermodactiles, turbith, hedge hys [...]ope and jalap: in the fourth degree, if in the first mansion, from ten graines to halfe a dram or two scruples, as mezereon, coccus [Page]Cnidius, asarabacca, and coloquintida: in the second, from five graines to fifteene, as elate­rium, and the barke of black hellebore: in the third, from three graines to ten, as euphorbium, esula, and scammonie. 3. Apozems and di­stilled waters, from two ounces and a halfe to five. 4. Boles, to one ounce. 5. Clysters, to those that are middle aged, about a pinte; to children, two or three ounces or more, &c. 6. Confitures, in the quantity of a wallnut: so Conserves. 7. Electuaries, that are alterative and strengthening, from one scruple to a dram and halfe: the lenient from one dram to 4: the purging to an ounce or thereabouts. 8. Elixyrs, from halfe a scruple, to a scruple & halfe. 9. Emulsions, are to be taken often, as need requireth. 10. Extracts, if harder and alterative, from one scruple to a dram and halfe; if cathartick or purging, from one scru­ple to a dram. 11. Liquors, as of salts & the like; being dissolved, from 5 drops to a scruple. 12. Ma­gisteries, if corroborating and strengthening, from halfe a dram, to a dram: the purging according to their efficacy. 13. Morsells, from one ounce to 2 or more. 14. Oiles distilled, from 2 graines to 15.15. Pills, if laxative, from halfe a dram, to two drams; if purging, from 2 scruples to 4.16. Pre­parations, from a scruple to a dram. 17. Powders and species aromaticall or purging, from a scru­ple and halfe, to 4 scruples. 18. Salts of vegeta­bles, from a scruple to a dram. 19. Sapes and Sy­rups, from one ounce to 3.20. Spirits, if mine­rall, from 3 graines to halfe a scruple, or to 2 and more if weaker; if of vegetables, to a spoonefull, when needfull. 21. Troches, to 4 scruples. Here note, that these quantities are proportioned for such as are strong and middle aged, and [Page]for others, they are to be moderated according to the ingredients, and constitution of the patient: as also that the more pleasant may be taken in a greater quantity, and oftner; but the unpleasant, in a lesser, and at once.

11. The Chresiologie or use of them. Thus Temperate remedies, are used where there is no manifest distemper of the first qualities, as heat and cold, &c. as also in fevers of flegme, and to preserve the body in good temper, strength, and vigour, and is to be done by such things that are appropriate thereunto. The Rest, as 1, The Hot, if so in the first degree, are used, to reduce the body to naturall heat, ease paines, take away wea­rinesse, and to help feavers, as also to cause good digestion, and breed good bloud: if in the se­cond, to help moist stomacks, remove obstructi­ons, and open the pores: if in the third, to cut tough humors, provoke sweatings, and to resist poyson: if in the fourth, to cause inflammations, and raise blisters. 2. The Cold, if cold in the first degree, they are used to qualifie the heat of food, and asswage that of the intestines and bow­ells: if in the second and third, to asswage the heat of choller, help the inflammations of hot swellings, and to cause sleepe: if in the fourth, to mitigate paine, by stupefying and dulling the senses. 3. The Moist, if so in the first degree, to lenifie and lubrifie, to help the cough, and rough­nesse of the threat: if in the second, to mitigate the sharpnesse of humours, and loosen the belly, and other parts. 4. The Dry, if so in the first degree, to drink up moisture, and stop fluxes, and help the slipperinesse of the parts: if in the second, it strengtheneth the parts made feeble by too much moisture, and disposeth them to action.

Remedies endued with the second qualities: As 1. The Mollifying, are used in scirrhus's and hard tumors, and swellings. 2. The Hardening, are used to represse the heat of the humours in swellings, and to hinder the flux of the thinner bloud, and defluctions thereof. 3. The Loosen­ing, are used in convulsions, caused by cold and si [...]city. 4. The Rarefying, to open and dilate the pores, that the vapours of the bloud may be expel­led, and to mitigate paine. 5. The Densant, to strengthen the skin, to resist externall injuries, as also to prohibit too much sweat, or the dissolution of the spirits. 6. The Opening, to help the quantity and pravity of the bloud, and open the he morrhoids. 7. The Attenuating, to open obstru­ctions, purge the breast of flegme, move the cour­ses, and cleanse the passages of the bowells. 8. The Drawing, to unload the bowells of vitious hu­mours, help the criticall evacuation in a [...]scesses, draw out poyson, and help chilled parts. 9. The Discutient, in diseases of repletion, to dispell the serous humidity, and evill vapours by sweat, or insensible transpiration, to draw out hydropick water, help the goute and sciatica, and to asswage phlegmons and other tumours. 10 The Repelling, in hot tumours, pains of the head, &c. for hereby in fevers, are the vapours diverted from the head, they also hinder the increasing of phlegmons. 11. The Burning, to help dried, tabid parts and al­most extinct, by causing attraction of aliment; they also serve to extirpate haire, hard rumors, warts, and to help hard and callous swellings, and the polypus, &c. they also help cold griefes, gouts, old pains of the head, and other cold and moist affections of the head, as also fistula's and malig­nant ulcers, together with dangerous fluxes of [Page]humours to the superficies, and draw out the same. 12. The Cleansing, to take away the filth, matter, and excrements of ulcers. 13. The Glewing, to helpe the rage of the bloud, suppu­rate, and to stop fluxions.

Remedies endued with the third qualities, as first those Causing matter, are used to ripen phlegmons. 2. Those Provoking urine, to helpe dropsies, &c. 3. Those Moving the courses, to help diseases caused by the retention of the men­ses: to ease the body, dropsie and epilepsie, &c. 4. Those Causing milke, to prevent diseases by re­tention thereof, &c. 5. Those Generating sperme, for the preservation of the species, rather then vo­luptuousnesse. 6. Those Easing paine, to prevent the dangerousnesse of symptomes. 7. Those Causing flesh, to fit hollow ulcers, for glutinating and cicatrizing remedies. 8. Those Glewing wounds, to help di [...]joyned continuity. 9. Those Cicatrizing ulcers, to perfect the cure of wounds. 10. Those Refisting poyson, to preserve the vi­tall faculty. 11. The Beautifying, for known purposes. 12. The Occult, in occult disea­ses.

The Appropriate, as the cephalicke or those respecting the head, & parts thereof, the pectorall, cordiall, stomachick, splenetick, nephritick, cystick, hysterick, arthritick, and cathartick or purging, are various according to the intention or scope, and variety of the griefe and part. The Compounded remedies, as first Syrups and Juleps, are used to prepare the humours of the body for purgation, open the passages, remove obstructions, cut tough humours, deterge, or clense, digest and dissipate matter contained in the habit of the body, op­pugne distempers by their qualities, and gently [Page]to purge. 2. So Decoctions or apozems and Infusions. 3. Clysters, are used to purge, temper humours, ease paine, heale ulcers, and cause sleepe, &c. 4. Gargarismes, in diseases of the head, mouth, and jawes, sc. to draw flegme from the head, hinder the swellings of the mouth, and discusse them, or to cleanse and consolidate wounds. 5. Errhines, in old diseases of the head, especially in the falling sicknesse, dimnesse of the eyes, stoppings of the no­strills, and ulcers thereof, want of the smell, drawing of the face awry, and Kings evill, &c. 6. Epithems, in fevers, hectick, squalid, burning, and pestilentiall, inflammations of the bowells, and heat of the whole body, also in the pantings of the heart and passions thereof, in the erysipelas or St Anthonies fire, and weaknesse of the body, &c. 7. Fomentations, to rarify the skin, and help perspiration; to attenuate bloud and viti­ous humours in inflammations, to concoct crude humours, mollifie, and digest by vapour, as also to asswage and ease paine. 8. Embrocations, in hot diseases, chiefely of the head, to cause sleepe, and in fevers with raging. 9. Insessions, in stead of baths, and to help the decay of strength. 10. Baths, if laconick or dry, to heate the humours in the body, melt, & evacuate the same, to loosen the skin, and extenuate the corpulent: if of sweet wa­ter moderately hot, it's usefull for children & old people, to heate, moisten, ease wearisomenesse, miti­gate paine, help fulnesse, soften hard parts, discusse flatulencies, & cause sleep: if luke warme, to moi­sten and coole, to help drying fevers and hecticks, as also sunburnings: and if too hot, it heateth and moisteneth not so much: if of milke, to helpe leannesse, also weaknesse, and pining: [Page]if of whay, to help the itch, and heat of the skin, and breakings out in children: if of wine, to strengthen debilitated parts: if of oile, to help cold agues, and pains of the sinews thence arising, as also to help convu [...]sions caused by punctures or wounds, and to strengthen naturall heat, resolve hurtfull matter, and help pains of the joynts, &c. if naturall, to drie, heat, and binde, &c. 11. Lotions, to cleanse the sweatings and filth of the head, and open the pores of the skin. If for the feet, to draw the humours downewards from the upper parts, help wearisomenesse, and cause sleepe. 12. Oiles, to help paines, roughnesse, and many other maladies, as also to make unguents, cerots, and plaisters. 13. Powders and aroma­ticall species, to strengthen the heart, and restore nature, &c. 14. Tragaea's, to strengthen the sto­mack, dissipate flatulencies, hinder vapours, and to help the maladies of other intralls, and parts. 15. Electuaries, if aromaticall, to comfort the principall parts chiefly: and the other to purge. 16. Opiats, in great paines, collick griefes, and other distempers requiring ease. 17. Conserves, are used for pleasure, and to strengthen. 18. Conditures, for pleasure, and help the stomack enfeebled by distempers. 19. Lohoch's, to help the roughnesse of the throat, inflammation of the lungs, ulcers, difficulty of breathing, coughs. cau­sed by the flowing of humours and distillation thereof, and help those that expectorate tough matter ready to suffocate. 20. Extracts, are used when there is nauseousnesse by reason of the taking of medicines in a great quantity, these o­perating in a small dose. 21. Liniments, to lenifie rough parts, ease paine, heat, rarifie, re­frigerate, dry, moisten, discusse, cleanse, mollifie, [Page]or ripen. 22. Unguents, to alter, mollifie, digest, cleanse, &c. 23. Plaisters, to repell the fluxe of humours caused by inflammations, ease paine, strengthen the members, soften, discusse, concoct, ripen, draw forth things infixed, suppurate, purge, open, glew, and cicatrize. 24. Cataplasmes, to ease paine, concoct humours, and digest chiefely. 25. Cerots, to heat, moisten, loosen, concoct, binde, &c. 26. Dropaces, in extenuations of the body, to moisten, warme, attract the bloud, repaire the losse of flesh, to help vomiting, crudities, collicks, and in stead of cataplasmes in old griefes. 27. Sinapismes, to draw from the center to the super­ficies in old affections, as in the inveterate head­ache, megrim, falling sicknesse, vertigo and madnesse, also in distillations, and long griefes of the stomack, and sciatica, goute, reso­lutions, refrigerations, as also in acute diseases, sc. the lethargy, and catalepsie, &c. 28. Tablets and Morsells, to purge, alter, and strengthen. 29. Troches, to preserve remedies: and if used downeward, to helpe diseases below the navell: The other, to alter, purge, open, and strengthen. 30. Pills, to purge the head and habit of the bo­dy when cold. 31. Collyries, in diverse disea­ses and affections of the eyes, as ulcers, wounds, fistula's, and suffusions, &c. 32. Apophlegma­tismes, in all old affections of the head, dimnesse of the eyes, deafenesse, resolutions of the tongue, and wheals in the head or face. 33. Errhines, in old griefes of the head, especially the falling sicknesse, dimnesse of the sight, obstructions of the nostrills, want of smelling, drawings awry of the face, and kings evill. 34. Confections, to please the pallat, and to strengthen the body. 35. Suppositories, to open the belly, and prepare the [Page]body before bloud-letting, in stead of glisters, as also in burning feavers, when vapours arise unto the head, in sleepie diseases of the head, when clysters worke not at a convenient time, also for revulsion, to kill wormes, open the haemorrhoides, and heale ulcers of the straight gut. 36. Little baggs, to heate, coole, strengthen &c. 37. Pessaries, if emollient or softening in the inflammations of the wombe, exulcerations, or aversions, and windinesse: if opening, to draw out the termes, and open the compressed wombe: if astringent, for the contrary purposes. 38. Per­fumes, to comfort the spirits, strengthen and pre­serve, and Suffumigations, to cause a good smell, to help distillations from the head upon the infe­riour parts, to help heavinesse, obstructions, cold diseases of the braine, and drive away the infe­ction of the plague, and are used to the nostrills, also in asthma's, and stoppages of the breast by cold and thick humours, in suppurations, coughs, and stitches of the sides, in the syncope, in the recoveries from sicknesse, as also in cold distem­pers of the liver and womb. 39. Physicall wines, in cold distempers of the body, chronicall di­seases, as the asthma, obstructions, palsies, & cru­dities of the stomack: if altering, to discusse and consume the reliques of diseases, strengthen, pro­voke urine, and help long diseases. 40. Emulsi­ons, to lenifie, coole and moisten, to help the in­tralls, fevers, and cause sleepe. 41. So Amygda­lates. 42. Ptisans, in fevers, to coole, cleanse, nourish, moisten, and to help the diseases of the breast, and hecticks. 43. Hydromel, in cold flegmatick diseases; as the palsie, to strengthen naturall heat, resist putrefaction, provoke urine, and cleanse: if vinous, it concocteth crude hu­mours, [Page]expectorates, strengtheneth the stomack, concocteth crudities, and helps the asthma: if phy­sicall, it helps inveterate cold griefes. 43. Diet drinkes, in long diseases, to attenuate, resolve, consume, rarefie, and prepare the humours for purgation: if evacuating, in diseases deeply rooted, to dissipate and discusse, as in the dropsie, and French pox, &c. 44. Hydrosaccharates, to moi­sten, coole, and cleanse, in fevers, hot diseases of the liver, stomack and reines. 45. Broths resto­rative, to nourish, and repaire the solid substance. 46. Bolès, if purging, they are used in distempers in the lower region, and neere parts; if roborating, to strengthen the stomack and parts affected. 47. Pandaleons, as lohochs. 48. Pills, if purging, in diseases in the habit of the body, and third region, especially in the pituitous, and obstructions; if usu­all, in bodies cacochymick, to strengthen the sto­mack; the altering, to help hoarsenesse, &c. 49. Frontals, chiefely to coole, in fevers, & watch­ings, to repell vapours, as also to ease paines of the head, and phrensies, &c. 50. So Oxyrrho­dines, and to repell thin fumes in burning fevers. 51. Cucupha's, in cold and moist diseases of the braine, catarrhes, fluxions, and to recreate the animal spirits. 52. Collyries liquid, to help the heat of the eyes, repel, and discusse, dry and clense. 53. Stomack plaisters, to strengthen the stomack, cause concoction, stop vomiting, and help the cold distempers thereof. 54. Injections, to help in­flammations, paines, ulcers, to cleanse and cica­trize, &c.

12. The Cairologie, or season and manner of using them. So those that are temperate, or of the first qualities, are to [...] be used when the body is in good temper, or exceeding and defective therein.

Remedies of the second qualities, as 1. the At­tenuating, are not to be used, before the stomack and intralls are clensed of their evill humours; lest they cause obstructions, or fevers, &c. 2. The Discussing, in the dec [...]ination of diseases, and with the repelling, in the increase or state of phlegmons. 3. The Repelling, in the beginning and increase of hot tumors, when the humours are flowing, and in the state with discutients: also they are dangerous in great paines, and where there is much matter, except first evacuated. 4. The Burning, after the body hath been well pur­ged, the parts being first fortified, and they mix­ed with correcters. 5. The Extersive, the body being neither plethorick, nor cacochymick, nor symptomes troublesome.

Remedies of the third qualities, as first the Suppuring, in the state of phlegmons. 2. Those Provoking urine, the urinarie passages being first opened. 3. Those Moving the courses, after pur­gation, if the body be full of bad humours. 4. So those Causing milke, and sperme. 5. Anodynes, when symptomes are most violent, with things respecting the cause. 6. Those Causing flesh, af­ter the distemper, paine and symptomes are remo­ved, and varie according to the scope. 7. The Glewing, after abstersion and incarnatives. 8. The Cicatrizing, when the ulcer is almost full of flesh, observing the nature of the part affected. 9. Those Resisting poyson, according to the nature there­of, using vomits, purges, and sweating remedies. 10. Cosmeticks, after preparation of the body. Remedies Appropriate to certain parts of the body, as to the head, &c. after generall and par­ticular evacuation or purging, sc. the corrobora­ting, observing the times and symptomes of the [Page]disease, and nature of the parts: the purging three or foure houres before meate: the lenient, an houre, or halfe an houre before; but cephalick pills may be taken after.

Compounded remedies, as 1. Syrupes and Juleps, are to be used in the morning, being war­med, and in the evening, if to cause sleepe. 2. So Decoctions or Apozems, and infusions, the sto­mack being empty. 3. Glysters, two or three houres before meat, and are to be retained about halfe an houre. 4. Gargarismes, in the morning, and evening before meat. 5. Errhines, after pur­gation or bloudletting, the stomack being empty, and the mouth first filled with water. 6. So Epi­themes, in the morning or evening, in the state oftē. 7. Fomentations, before cataplasmes or unguents, after evacuations of the body, and in severs be­fore their accessions, the body not being full of humours and excrements. 8. Embrocations, are to be used often, and renewed. 9. Infessions, two or three houres before meat, the body being first purged, and excrements evacuated, being warme, in which the aboad is to be about an houre. 10. Baths, if laconick or dry, in the winter, and be­ginning of spring, or when the aire is temperate: if of sweet water, in the spring, summer, and end thereof, the body being first evacuated and clen­sed, and excrements purged forth, in the morning or evening, after digestion, in which the abode may be for two or three houres, if a fat, cold, and moist body. 11. Lotions, if for the head, in the morn­ing before meate, warme, the excrements being e­vacuated, after which the head is presently to be dried with towells: if for the feet, in the morn­ing or evening before meat, or sleepe, after which the feet are to be wrapped up in a moist towell. [Page] 12. Powders and aromaticall species, in the morning, being fasting, and that in some conve­nient wine, broth, syrupe, or other liquour. 13. Tragaea's, in the morning, the stomack being emp­tie, and in the evening, two or three houres be­fore supper, and after meats if to represse vapours, with a tost soaked in wine. 14 Aromaticall ele­ctuaries, when needfull, in the morning and eve­ning, three or foure houres after supper. 15. Pur­ging electuaries, in the morning, the stomack be­ing emptie. 16. Opiates, in the evening going to bed, in wine or some other convenient liquor. 17. Conserves, often, but chiefely in the morn­ing or evening, in the quantity of a wallnut alone, or with other corroborating spices with syrups. 18. Conditures, before or after meat. 19. Lo­hochs, at any time, before and after meat, but chiefly at morning and evening, and are to be ta­ken with a liquorice stick, and held in the mouth untill they dissolve, and so are to be swallowed. 20. Extracts, in the morning, the stomack being empty, and that alone, in pills, or some liquid thing, or else mixed with other remedies. 21. Lini­ments, two or three houres before meat, being warme. 22. Unguents, before meate. 23. Plai­sters, before meat. 24. Cataplasmes, if heating and discutient, and to be applied to the hypo­chondriums, the body being first evacuated. 25. Cerots, before meat, the stomack being empty, and then also, if pectorall, and stomachicall. 26. Dropaces, the body being freed from excrements. 27. Sinapismes, are then also to be used. 28. Tablets, rolls, and morsels, before meat, two or three houres, or foure if purging. 29. Troches, are often to be used and held in the mouth. 30. Pills, if capitall, three or foure houres after a light [Page]supper, or at midnight, or after the first sleepe: if lesser, one or two houres before meat; and the meane in the morning. 31. Dry Collyries, at morning and evening. 32. Apophlegmatismes, in the morning, the body being freed from excre­ments. 33. Dry errhines, the whole body being evacuated by bloudletting or purges. 34. Com­feits, at any time before or after meat. 35. Sup­positories, one or two houres before meate, being first anointed with butter. 36. Little baggs, ac­cording to the nature of the disease. 37. Pessa­ries, in the evening and at bedtime, and are not to be drawen out till six or seaven houres after. 38. Physicall wines, in the morning, or two houres before dinner; in the winter, for ten or 20 daies space. 39. Emulsions, in the morning and evening, and at bed time if to provoke sleepe. 40. Almond milke, at any time, but chiefely be­fore sleepe. 41. So Ptisans. 42. Metheglin, for ordinary drinking. 43. Diet drinkes, in the morning. 44 Hydrosaccharates, as ptisans. 45. Restoratory broths, at any time, or three or foure times in a day. 46. Boles, in the mornings, as other purgers. 47. Pandaleons, as lohochs. 48. Frontalls, at bed time. 49. Oxyrrhodines, when there are violent symptomes, and are often to be renewed. 50. Cucupha's or quilts, are to be worne some convenient time together, but chiefely at nights. 51. Moist Collyries, are to be used warme, for a quarter or halfe an houres space to­gether. 52. Suffumigations, at any time. 53. So Perfumes and Pomanders. Note, hence appea [...]eth the way and forme of prescripts, the forme of re­medies, and time of use &c. being considered.

II. As alimentous. Thus of the faculties of me­dicinales, now follow those of aliments; which are [Page]such vegetables, that nourish and increase the bo­dily substance, by restoring that which is deper­dite, the body being in a perpetuall decay, and therefore wanting refection by meat and drinke: and this, if it do not greatly affect the body by any other quality, is properly and simply called aliment, and is in some measure like unto the sub­stance of the body, into which it is to be convert­ed; but if it change the body by any exuperant quality, it is not simply aliment, but medicamen­tous: such are those things which with sweet­nesse have adjoyned an acid, acerb, bitter, or sharp quality: and from hence ariseth the difference of aliments: of which some are.

1. Euchymick, or of good juyce, sweet in tast, pleasant to the pallate, and not of any unpleasant smell: as also fat things, and some which are in­sipid, as bread of the best wheat &c.

2. Cacochymick, or of evill juyce, which be­sides sweetnesse, have some other quality mixed therewith, as sharpnesse, bitternesse, saltnesse, a­cerbity, and too much acidity: also all fetid things, of an unpleasant smell, and corrupted; as the ole­raceous, (especially the wild,) except lettuce and succorie, also cucumbers, corrupt corne, things grow­ing in cenose and dirty places, as also thick, au­stere, and acid, beere made of bad graine, &c. and some of these ingender 1. A cold, pituitous and crude juyce, as the hasty fruits and cold herbs. 2. But others, a hot and bilious, as all things that have acrimony, so garlick, onions, leekes, wake [...] Robin, cresses, mustard &c. 3. And some a me lancholi [...]k, as pulses, especially lentils, and cab bage.

3. Of grosse nourishment, as those things which have a strong and hard substance, as bread [Page]baked under ashes, and whatsoever is made of meale without leaven, chestnuts, acornes, frogstooles, thick, sweet, and black wine, and ale, also whatsoever is viscid and glutinous, and are to be shunned by all that live at ease, and use no exercise before meat; but those are the best for dyet, that are in a meane between incrassating and attenuating.

4. Of thin juice, as things thin and friable, es­pecially if joyned with acrimonie; as garlicke, oni­ons, leekes, hyssop, organie, savorie, bread of wheat well fermented, and twice baked, bitter almonds, peaches, and thin white wines: These also open the passages, cleanse away what is viscous, incide and extenuate what is grosse; but are to be shunned by those, who are of a chollerick temperature; the long use of them causing bilious and serous excrements; yet are agreeable to those whose body and veines are full of a crude, pituitous and me­lancholick juice. Here note, an attenuating diet differeth from a slender one, the last prefixing a mode in the quantity, and the other being so called by reason of the tenuity of the alimentary juyce.

5. Eupeptick, as things easily resoluble, con­cocted or corrupted; as most fruits.

6. Dyspeptick, as all things of a solid substance and thick juyce. An Experiment of all which may be made by decoction in water. For the li­quor, if sweet, sheweth the thing to be of good juice; if thick, of grosse juyce; if well boyled, of much nourishment: if thin, of little: if slowly boyled, not easily altered in the stomack, and so the contrary. Also some are 1 flatulent, of cold unconcocted hu­midity. 2. Without wind, of easy elixation. 3. Ea­sily descending, acrid, salt, insipid, or excremen­titious. 4. Slowly, as things dry & binding.

Thus Reader desiring thy health I rest,

Thine, T. L.

A catalogue of the names of Authors, as they are cited in the following dis­course, with the explication there­of, and number of their cuts.

  • ACac. Acacia.
  • A Cost. A Costa.
  • Actuar. Actua­rius.
  • Aeg. Aegineta.
  • Aelian. Aelianus.
  • Aemil. Mac. Aemilius Macer.
  • Aet. Aetius.
  • Agric. Agricola.
  • Agrip. Agrippa.
  • Ald. Aldinus.
  • Aldrovand. Aldrovan­dus.
  • Almeyd. Almeyda.
  • Alpin. Prosper Alpi­nus. 46.
  • Amat. Lus. Amatus Lusitanus.
  • Anguil. Anguillara.
  • Ant. Musa. Antonius Musa.
  • Apollin. Apollinaris. 141.
  • Apollod. Apollodo­rus.
  • Apul. Apuleius.
  • Aquap. Aquapendens.
  • Arab. Arabum.
  • Arist. Aristoteles.
  • Augen. Augenius.
  • Aug. Augustani.
  • Avic. Avicenna.
  • Auth. Pandect. Author Pandectarum.
  • BApt. Port. Bapti­sta Porta.
  • Bapt. Sard. Bap­tista Sardus.
  • Barth. Ang. Bartho­lomaeus Anglus.
  • Bauh. Bauhinus. 3547.
  • Begu. Beguinus.
  • Bellon. Bellonius.
  • Benz. Benzo.
  • Bern. Paludan. Ber­nardus Paludanus.
  • Bles. Hortus Blesensis.
  • Blochwit. Blochwiti­us.
  • Bokel. Bokelius.
  • Bont. Bontius.
  • Bor. Borellus.
  • Bras. Brasavola.
  • Bruns. Brunfelsius. 238.
  • CAEsalp. Caesalpi­nus.
  • Cam. Camerari­us. 1003.
  • [Page]Campeg. Campegius.
  • Cass. Bass. Cassianus Bassus.
  • Cato.
  • Cels. Celsus.
  • Chalm. Chalmeteus.
  • Cieca.
  • Clowes.
  • Clus. Clusius. 1135. (exot. 194.)
  • Col. Coles.
  • Columel. Columella.
  • Column. Columna. 205.
  • Cord. Cordus. 272.
  • Cornar. Cornarius.
  • Cortus. Cortusus.
  • Crat. Crato.
  • Cratev. Cratevas.
  • Cresc. Crescentius.
  • Croll. Crollius.
  • Culp. Culpepper.
  • Cuzen. Cuzenus.
  • DAl. Dalecham­pius.
  • Dam. à Goes.
  • Damianus à Goes.
  • De Laët.
  • Diosc. Dioscorides.
  • Dod. Dodonaeus. 1305.
  • Dond. De Dondis.
  • Dorst. Dorstenius.
  • Droet. Droetus.
  • Dur. Durandus.
  • Durant. Durantes. 879.
  • ERast. Erastus.
  • Ern. Ernestus.
  • Eyster. Hortus
  • Eystettensis. 1083.
  • FAb. Faber.
  • Fall-Fallopius.
  • Fern. Fernelius.
  • Ficin. Ficinus.
  • Florent. Florentinus.
  • For. Forestus.
  • Fracast. Fracastorius.
  • Freitag. Freitagius.
  • Fuch. Fuchsius. 516.
  • Fum. Fumanellus.
  • GAl. Galenus.
  • Gall. Gallorum.
  • Garc. Garcias.
  • Gaza.
  • Gebelk. Gebelkove­verus.
  • Ger. Gerard.
  • Ger. Berg. Gerardus Bergensis.
  • Germ. Germanorum.
  • Gesn. Gesnerus.
  • Goclen. Goclenius.
  • Gron. Hortus Grö­ningensis.
  • Grul. Grulingius.
  • Guainer. Guainerius.
  • HAf. Hortus Haf­niensis.
  • Hart. Hartman­nus.
  • Heurn. Heurnius.
  • [Page]Hieron, Hieronymus herbarius.
  • Hipp. Hippocrates.
  • Hisp. Hispanorum.
  • Hoier. Hoierus.
  • Holler. Hollerius.
  • Horn. Hornius.
  • Horst. Horstius.
  • Hort. san. Hortus sani­tatis.
  • Hubn. Hubnerus.
  • Hugo Soler. Hugo So­lerius.
  • JArric. Iarricus.
  • Ind. Indorum.
  • Jo. Joel.
  • Jo. Spiringus.
  • Johns. Johnson. 2730.
  • Jordan. Jordanus.
  • Jonb. Jonbertus.
  • Isaac.
  • Isid. Isidorus.
  • Ital. Italorum.
  • Jul. Alex. Julius A­lexandrinus.
  • Junck. Junckers.
  • KEgl. Keglerus.
  • Kentman. Kent­mannus.
  • Kunr. Kunradus.
  • LAcun. Lacuna.
  • Lemn. Lemnius.
  • Linschot. Lin­schottus.
  • Lips. Lipsius.
  • Lob. Lobelius. 2116.
  • Lonic. Lonicerus. 833.
  • Lugd. Lugdunensis. 1587.
  • Lugd. Hort. Lugdu­nenfis hortus. Bat.
  • MAc. Macasius.
  • Maff. Maffaeus.
  • Manard. Ma­nardus.
  • Matth. Matthiolus. 957.
  • Mes. Mesue.
  • Mind. Mindererus.
  • Miz. Mizaldus.
  • Monard. Monardes.
  • Monardus.
  • Montag. Montagnana.
  • Mont. Montanus.
  • Morescot. Morescot­tus.
  • Myl. Mylius.
  • Myreps. Myrepsus.
  • NEand. Neander.
  • Nicand. Nican­der.
  • Nic. Nicol. Nicolaus. Nicolus.
  • Noll. Nollius.
  • OFfic. Officina­rum.
  • Orib. Oribasius.
  • Ovied. Oviedus.
  • PAllad. Palladins.
  • Palmar. Palmari­us.
  • Parac. Paracelsus.
  • [Page]Parey.
  • Par. Hortus Parisien­sis.
  • Park. Parkinson. 2786.
  • Pat. Hortus Patavinus.
  • Paul. Paulus.
  • Pem. Pemel.
  • Pen. Pena.
  • Penot. Penotus.
  • Pers. Persarum.
  • Phyt. Brit. Phytologia Britannica.
  • Pisan. Pisanellus.
  • Platear. Platearius.
  • Plat. Platerus.
  • Plaut. Plautus.
  • Plin. Plinius.
  • Plut. Plutarchus.
  • QUerc. Querceta­nus.
  • RAb. D. Chim­chi.
  • Rau. Rauwolfi­us. 42.
  • Recch. Recchus.
  • Ren. Renealmus. 42.
  • Renod. Renodaeus.
  • Rhas. Rhasis.
  • Ric. Ricius.
  • Riol. Riolanus.
  • Riv. Riverius.
  • Rondel. Rondeletius.
  • Rud. Rudius.
  • Ruell. Ruellius. 350.
  • Ruland. Rulandus.
  • Rums. Rumsey.
  • SAla. Angelus Sala.
  • Savon. Savonaro­la.
  • Scalig. Scaliger.
  • Schenck. Schenckius.
  • Scholtz. Scholtzius.
  • Schrod. Schroderus.
  • Schwenckf. Schwenck felt.
  • Senn. Sennertus.
  • Serap. Serapio.
  • Seren. Sam. Q. Sere­nus Samonicus.
  • S. Seth. Simeon Sethi.
  • Smith.
  • Solenand. Solenander.
  • Stock. Stockerus.
  • Sylv. Sylvins.
  • Sylvat. Sylvaticus.
  • TAb. Tabernae­montanus. 2087.
  • Tentzel. Tent­zelius.
  • Terent. Terentius.
  • Thal. Thalius.
  • Theoph. Theophra­stus.
  • Thevet. Thevetus.
  • Tradesc. Tradescant.
  • Trag. Tragus. 567.
  • Tral. Trallianus.
  • Tulp. Tulpius.
  • Turc. Turcarum.
  • Turn. Turner.
  • [Page]VAl. de Tar. Va­lescus de Ta­ranta.
  • Vall. Valleriola.
  • Varig. Varignana.
  • Var. Varro.
  • Vesling. Veslingius.
  • V. Vid. Vidus Vidius.
  • Vigon. Vigonius.
  • Vill. Villanovanus.
  • Virgil. Virgilius.
  • Virgin. Virginiae.
  • Virtruv. Vitruvius.
  • Vlstad. Vlstadius.
  • Vntz. Untzerus.
  • WArs. Hortus Warsavien­sis.
  • Weck. Weckerus.
  • Weinrich. Weinrichi­us.
  • Wirsung. Wirsun­gus.
  • Worm. Wormius.

A table of such abbreviations as are used in this Work.

  • P. Place.
  • T. Time.
  • N. Name.
  • K. Kinds, or Species.
  • T. Temperature.
  • V. Vertue.
  • H. Hurts.
  • ap. applied.
  • c. cause, causeth or caused.
  • d. drunk.
  • fl. flowers, or floured.
  • h. help, helpeth or helped.
  • m. mix or mixed.
  • pp. prepared.
  • p. aeq. equall parts.
  • q. s. or s. q. a suffici­ent quantity.
  • gr. a graine.
  • ob. half a scruple.
  • scr. a scruple.
  • drach. a dram.
  • unc. an ounce.
  • acetab. two ounces and an halfe.
  • lib. a pound.
  • sem. halfe.
  • an. a like quantity.
  • m. an handfull.
  • a pugill. a little hand­full.
  • no. in number.
  • ferè. almost.
  • 1°. in the first degree.
  • 2°. in the 2d degree.
  • 3°. in the 3d degree.
  • 4°. in the 4th degree.
  • initio. in the begin­ning.
  • medio in the middle.
  • fine. in the end.

A

Adders Tongue, Ophioglossum.

  • Place. It groweth in moist Meadowes.
  • Time. It is found in Aprill and May.
  • Name. It's call'd [...], Lingua Serpentis, Lancea Christi, Eneaphyll: lingua vulneraria.

ADDers Tongue. Gerard, Johns: Kinds. As the common, and mishapen. Tempera­ture. Is drie 3°. Vertues. The leaves stamped and boyled in oyle Olive, untill the herbs be parched, then strained, yeeld an ex­cellent balsame for green wounds: Like that of S. Jo: wort. Park: Temp. It's temperate between hot and cold, drie 2°. Vertues. The juyce drank with Horse-taile water distilled, helpeth all Wounds, Vomiting, flux of blood, and Whites. The powder helpeth Ruptures: decoct in red Wine, it helpeth watering eyes. Col: It cureth Fevers, and all heat in the body. The juyce taken in the distilled water of Oken budds, stopps the Courses. With Hoggs grease, it hel­peth S. Anthonies fire, also the leaves mixed with Swines grease, and gently boyled, strai­ned, and applied, helpe, burnings, hot tumors, apostumes, and spreading sores, & also represse inflammations in wounds: being infused in Oyle Olive, with clear turpentine and insolated, it cureth the bitings of Serpents by signature, (as some affirme) See the Isagoge.

Adonis floure, Flos Adonis.

  • P. It groweth in the west part of England amongst the Corne.
  • T. Fl. In May, June, July, and later.
  • N. [...], Eranthemum. Flos Adonidis.

Adonis flowre. Ger. T. That with red floures according to the tast, seemeth to be something hot, but not much. V. The seed is thought to be good against the stone, the seed stamped, and the powder given in Wine, Ale, or Beere, to drink, doth with great ef­fect help the Collick: which also is affirmed by Parkinson, who saith it hath been certainly tryed by experience, and the first is consented to by Bauh. Tabern. it's hot and dry 2°, and is u­sed in sudatory baths, against cold humors.

Agrimony. Agrimonia.

  • P. It groweth in barren places, by high ways, &c.
  • T. It floureth in June and later: and seedeth in Summer.
  • N. [...]. Eupatoria, Lappa inversa Philanthropos.

Agrimony. Ger: T. is hot and moderately bindeth, it's temperate in drinesse. Gal. Of sub­till parts, cutting and scouring: it openeth the Liver, and strengtheneth it. V. The leaves decoct, h. naughty livers, and pissing of blood. the seed d. in wine, h. the bloody-flix, and biting of Serpents, the leaves stamped with [Page 3]old swines grease, ap. close ulcers that be hardly healed. boyled in wine and d. it h. he­patick fluxes in old people. The water Ag. Ger. J. K. as the common, & common Durch Ag: T. the leaves and root are hot and dry 2° scoure, open, and attenuate. and d. h. scabbs, jaundice, wounds, and tertians. Park: K. as the bastard, hemp like, and broad leafed hempe-like Ag: of America. V. the sweet is the best, which being decoct and d. h. the Collick and cough. ap. with swines grease, it is magneticall, & draweth out things fixed in the flesh, and h. luxations; the juyce drop­ped into the eares h. impostumes: so the di­stilled water, and hempelike Agrimony, d. it h. dropsies and all impostumes c. by cold. boy­led with Fumitory in whey and d. it h. the itch. scr. 1. taken kills worms. Matth. the herb or seed d. in wine h. the dysenterie: and unc. 6. d. in white wine with sugar h. the strangury.

Ague-tree, Sassafras.*

  • P. In the west Indies neer the sea in temperate places.
  • T. It is green and flourisheth all the yeare.
  • N. It is called by the Indians Pavame, & Wi­nanke.

Ague-tree. Ger. T. the wood and branches are hot and drie 2°. of somewhat subtil parts: the rind is hotter, sc. 3°. V. the best of the tree is the root, and that the best, which hath the rinde fast cleaving to it of a tawny colour, and sweet smell. The distilled water thereof [Page 4]smelleth and tasteth as the Cinamon, and pro­duceth the same effects; the decoction of the wood in water, boyled to the colour of Claret wine d. for certain daies h. the dropsie, open­eth the Liver, and cureth quotidian and terti­an agues, and long fevers: the root comforteth the liver and feeble stomack, [...] appetite, consumeth winde, stops vomiting, and persu­meth the breath, it provoketh urine, and c. fruitfulnesse. Park. The decoction of the bran­ches is inwardly given in all cold diseases, and obstructions of the liver and spleen, as al­so in cold rheumes and defluctions of the head, on the teeth, eyes, or lungs, warming and drying up the moysture: and strengthning the parts. It h. coughs, and other cold disea­ses in the upper parts, it also drieth up the moy­sture of the wombe, which in most is the cause of barrennesse, its generally used in all disea­ses c. of cold, raw, thin, and corrupt hu­mors: it h. the French disease; the leaves ap. h. wounds.

Alder tree. Alnus.*

  • P. Groweth in low and moist places.
  • T. The black fl. in spring. berries in Aut. the fruit of the 2d is ripe in Sept.
  • N. [...]. the common, & Amedamus. The other is called Frangula, & Avornus.

Alder-tree black. Ger: T. its inner barke is purging and drying. V. the infusion thereof purgeth phlegm and choller by stoole and vo­mit; decoct in vineger it h. the tooth-ache [Page 5]and scabs, &c. the drie is lesse violent, the leaves c. milk in beasts. The common and rough leaved Al: T. the leaves and barke, are cold, drie, and astringent. V. the leaves h. hot swell­ings, ulcers, and all inward inflammations, as of the almonds &c. the barke serveth for the Di­ers. Park, the leaves put under the feet refresh travellers; the other's bark boyled with agri­mony, wormwood, dodder, hopps, fennell, smallage, and endive roots d. h. Cachexy, the outmost barke h. lasks.

Alexander. Hipposelinum.

  • P. Groweth almost every where: the 2d in Candy
  • T. The seed is ripe An. 2. in Aug. the 2d fl. in June.
  • N. [...]. Equapium, apium Sylv. Smyr­nium. petrosel. Mac.

Alexander. Ger: T. the seeds and root are hot and drie 3°. as of the garden parsly, clean­sing & attennuating. V. and, eaten h. the sto­mack; the seeds bring down the flowers, ex­pell the secundine, break winde, provoke urine, and h. the strangury: so the root decoct with wine. That of Candy. T. Is hot and drie 3°. V. the leaves dissolve wens, drie ulcers, and green wounds, the seed is opening and diuretick, & h. the lungs; the root h. the asthma and coughs. Park. the seed taken in wine h. the bitings of Serpents.

Alkanet. Anchusa.

  • P. Montpellier. Narborne. Kent. Cornwall.
  • T. Fl: in the summer months, the roots are bloody in harvest.
  • N. [...]. Fucus herba. Onocleia. Buglossa Hisp. Orchanet.

Alkanet. Ger: J. K. as the red, yellow, and small Alk. T. the roots are cold and drie. Gal. binding, bitter and cleansing choler, the leaves are weaker. V. Diosc. a cerot of the root with oile h. old ulcers, with parched barly meal it h. the lepry, tetters & ring-wormes: as a pessarie it extracts the dead birth: the decoction with hydromel, d. h. the yellow jaundice, diseases of the kidnies, the spleen, and agues. the leaves d. in wine h. laskes. the root boiled with wine and sweet butter taken, h. bruises by falling. d. with hot beere it expells the measles and pox. unc. 2. of the root with oile olive a pint, earth­worms pp. no. 20 boiled and ap. h. deep pun­ctures. the root is used by women to paint the face. Park. K. the tall and low. V. kill wormes, d. with hyssop and cresses. the leaves and root d. in wine h. the mother. Bauh: the root boyled with oyle and wax, h. burnings: ap: with barley meale it h. the erysipelas. The other, called Alcibiadion, being taken, h. the bitings of venemous beasts. Plin: the leaves ap. with hony and meale h. luxations.

All-heale. Panax.

  • P. The 1. groweth in Syria, Boeotia, &c. the Clownes-Allheale, in moist places.
  • T. The 1 Fl. from May to the end of Septemb: the 2. in Aug. and seedeth in Septemb.
  • N. [...]. The Clownes Allh: is called Stachys palust. and aquat: & tertiola.

All-heale. Ger: K. as that of Hercules, and the great Allh. T. the barke of the root is hot and dry: Gal: yet lesse then the juyce, so 3°. V. the seed powdered and d. in wormewood wine h. poyson, and the bitings of venemous beasts. the leafe or root stamped with hony, till like an unguent, ap: cureth ulcers and wounds, and covereth naked bones. The Clownes All­heale. T. is hot 2° drie 1°. V. the leaves stam­ped with axungia, h. green wounds, ap. as a pultise: so also with oile and turpentine: taking inwardly Saracens confound with ho­ny and sugar, boiled in Claret wine. Park: K. as the American with shining leaves, the cru­sted berried, and costus-like all-heale V. the gum of that of Herc. purgeth flegme from re­mote parts. ap. and d. it h. cold diseases so the last.

All-seed, Atriplex sylvestris.

  • P. Neere path wayes, ditches and dung-hils.
  • T. Fl: and seedeth in June, to the end of Aug.
  • N. [...]. Polyspermon Cas­sani Bassi.

All-seed, or Arrach wild. T. Gal. is moist 2° [Page 8]cold 1° see orach. Col. K. as the great com­mon wild narrow leafed, and wild Arrach, with so much seed that it is called All seed. V. The common wild Arraches, are neere as cold as the garden sorts, but more drying, serving chiefly for inflammations, being applied out­wardly thereunto; applied they coole apo­stumes, & h. S. Anthonies fire, and such like maladies: so Park. applied they dissolve tumors, with vineger & nitre ease paine of the Goute, and cure scabbed nailes.

Almond tree. Amygdalus.

  • P. Hot regions, any where if planted.
  • T. Fl. with the Peach: the fruit is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Nuces graecae Caton: the fruit amygdalum.

Almonds. Ger: T. the sweet, dried, are mo­derately hot; the bitter are hot and drie 2° and fat. V. the sweet are nourishing, grosse when fresh, and bind the belly. The milke h. the lask, the bloody flixe, and plurisie, open­ing, concocting, and cleansing, they h. the chest, and lungs, and raise up rotten humors, taken before meat they stop the belly, with barley water, h. feavers. the oyle of the sweet Almonds h. all aches, and plurisies; d. after phlebotomy: and stone of the kidnies, it lu­brifies the ureters, opens the belly, h. col­lick, and womens throwes, smoothes the face, and clenseth the skin. Bitter Almonds atten­nuate, and open the liver, and spleen, h. pain of the side, open the body, provoke urine, bring downe the menses, h. strangury, with [Page 9]a looch clense the lungs: and with starch stay haemoptysis. 5 or 6 taken fasting keep from drunkennesse, they mundify the skin & ulcers: with hony h. the bitings of mad doggs: and ap: with vineger h. head-ach, cough, and short­nesse of wind▪ the oile d. is diuretick: so ap. Diosc. the gum healeth & bindeth. h. haemopty­sis, paines of the stone, sharpnesse of urine, de­coct with licorish, and tetters dissolved in vineger. Park. V. the oile with powder of sugar candy, h: dry coughs, and women after travel: the powder of the cakes smoothes the skin: the bitter, with amylum and mints h. haemop­tysis.

Aloes. Aloe.

  • P. India, Arabia, Aegypt, Asia, Spaine, and nigh the Sea.
  • T. It is alwaies green. Fl: in the summer months.
  • N. [...]. Amphibion. Sempervivum. Sedum.

Aloes. Ger: J. K. as the common, and prick­ly. T. the juyce is hot 2° drie 3°. very bitter: emplasticke, and something binding, ap. V. it purgeth the belly, comforteth the stomack, it purgeth more if not washed: if so, it more strengthneth the stomack, and purgeth choller out of the next passages: it preserveth from putrefaction, killeth wormes, h. stinking breath, and openeth the piles; taken in a small q. it c. monthly courses, and openeth obstru­ctions, drach. 1. taken. It helps wounds, clenseth ulcers, as in the fundament, &c. its put into medicines which stanch bleeding; & h. the eyes, troubled with roughnesse and itching. [Page 10]with vineger & oyle of roses ap. it h. the head­ach, and with wine, the falling of the haire. with wine and hony it h. swellings and ulcers of the mouth: with hony, the spots coming of stripes: the juyce, aloë succotrina, purgeth phlegmatick, cold, and cholerick humours, in plethorick bodies. drach: 2. taken in a stewed prune, expell superfluous humors, h. the jaundise, and all fluxes of blood: so ap. Lignum aloes. T. is moderately hot and drie, of some­what subtil parts: taken, it h. moist stomacks and weake livers; the dysenterie, and plurisies, & is cordiall; chewed, it perfumes the breath; if burnt, the roome. Park. V. the leaves of the herb h. scalding, the juyce ap. with oyle of wormewood to the navill kills wormes. The American. T. is bitter and sharpe, the juyce h. wounds and old sores, with wormewood the wounds of Serpents: the fume taken h. the French disease.

Anemonie. Anemone.

  • P. They grow not wild in England, or rarely.
  • T. Fl: in Jan: to the end of April
  • N. [...]. Herba venti. Ranunculus sylva­rum. Leimonia Th.

Anemonie. Ger: J: K. as the purple, double scarlet, great double of Bythinia, and sin­gle, chesnut, broad leaved, double yellow, storcks-bill, Matthiolus's white, three leafed, & poppy wind flower. T. are all sharpe and bind­ing. V. the juyce snuffed up into the nose, [Page 11]mightily purgeth the head. the root chewed, is an apophlegmatisme. In collyries, it easeth inflamed eyes. the juyce clenseth corrosive ulcers. the leaves and stalkes boyled and eaten, cause milke: provoke termes, & ease the lepro­sie, in bathes. The other Anemonies of Johns. K. as the broad leaved skarlet, the skarlet with the large flower, broad leafed of Const. small leaved with the sanguine flowre, small leaved skarlet, light purple small leaved, whitish small lea­ved, striped flesh-coloured, small leaved dou­ble crimson, and double darke purple Ane­monie. T. are hot and biting, the juyce h. scarres of the eyes. Trallian. the flowers beaten in oyle ap. cause haire to grow: and agree with the 1. The wilde. Ger: J. K. as the yel­low, white, double white wood, and double purplish wood Anemonie. T. V. agree with the garden Anemonies. Col. the root chewed, pur­geth water and phlegme very forcibly, there­fore h. the Lethargy, by spitting. Park. the leaves are used in the ointment martiatum & h. cold distempers.

Anet. Anethum.

  • P. Gardens, and other places.
  • T. Fl: and seedeth in Aug:
  • N. [...]. Anetum, Dill: & So called by all.

Anet Ger. Gal. T. is hot fine 2di drie [...] the decoction of the dried tops, [...] causeth milke, h. windinesse, [...] [Page 12]rine, increaseth sperme, and stayeth the hicket: so smelled to or ap. with wormewood wine. Gal. the seed burnt and ap. to moist ulcers, heal­eth them, as in the secret parts: the oyle in which it is boyled, is digesting, and anodyne: causeth sleepe, concocteth humors, and provo­keth lust. the fume of dill boyled in wine, h. the suffocation of the mother. Park. T. it's hot 3° drie 2°. green: drie, 3° & digesting. V. boy­led and d. it h. pains & swellings, stops the flux, & vomiting, h. windinesse of the mother, and much d. h. venery.

Angelica. Angelica.

  • P. In gardens sc. the 1. the rest in fields, &c.
  • T. Fl: in July and Aug. the roots perish after the seed.
  • N. [...]. radix Spiritus S: the last archan­gelica.

Angelica Ger: J: K. as the garden, wilde, and great wilde Ang: T. especially that of the garden, is hot & drie 3°, opening, attennuating, digesting, and hydrotick. V. the root of the garden Angelica h. poyson, plague and all infe­ctions by cotrupt aire, chewed in the mouth, and that by urine and sweat. it h. pestilent fe­vers, drach. 1 of the powder d. with thin wine, the distilled water of card. b. or of tor­mentil, vineger, or treacle: it openeth the liver and spleen, draweth down the termes, and expelleth the secundine. the root d. in wine h. the cold shivering of agues. the root [Page 13]green h. the asthma, by expectoration. it h. surfe­ting, loathing of meat, c. concoction, comfort­eth the heart, and cureth the bitings of vene­mous beasts: so the wild, but lesse effectually. Park. K. as the mountain, & great water Ang. V. the distilled water h. all pains of cold and winde, 3 spoonefulls taken at once, and with the powder of the root h. the pleurisie and diseases of the breast, collick, strangury, tu­mors, and stoppages, the juyce ap. h. the scoto­ma, deafenesse, tooth-ach, ulcers, and sciatica. Pem. the distilled water d. h. the mother, and ap. h. the gout.

Aniseed. Anisum.

  • P. Candy, Syria: the East Countries and Gar­dens.
  • T. Its to be sown in May: the seed is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Matahalna, yerva dulce Hisp.

Aniseed. Ger: J. K. as the common, and star­ry headed An. T. Gal. the seed is hot and drie 3°, as others 2°, or drie 1° hot 2°. V. the seed h. wind and belchings, and gripings of the belly: gently provoketh urine, causeth milke, and lust, h. laskes and the whites, chewed it sweetens the breath, h. short wind, and dropsie; quench­eth thirst, and h. the hicket; dried and taken with hony, it clenseth the breast from flegme; with bitter Almonds it h. old coughs, it pre­vents falling sicknesse, & with hony, vineger and hyssope gently boyled, h. Squinancy being gargled. Park: V. the seeds h. consumptions, decoct with figgs and licorish. 3 or 4 dropps [Page 14]of the oyle d. in wine, h. giddinesse; ap. it draws things out of the eyes, and h. bitings, sc: the seed, with oile of roses ap: it h. the ears; the quintessence h: convulsions.

Appletree. Malus.

  • P. Orchards, and fertile ground: the rest in horsedung.
  • T. It bloom's in Aprill, and May: the fr: is ripe in July, and Septemb.
  • N. [...], Malum the fruit, and pomus the tree.

Apples. Ger: K. as the pome-water, Ba­kers ditch apple, the Queening, the summer and winter Peare-maine. T. are all cold and moist superfluously; the sweet are not so cold and moist, but more nutritive and descend more slowly: the soure are colder and moister, of lesse nourishment, and eaten before meat, mollify the body; the austere unripe are cold, c. grosse blood, winde, and the colick, the middle tasted retain the faculties of the other. V. the roasted, are better then the raw: apples h. a hot sto­mack; the austere strengthen it enfeebled by heat: and ap: h. all inflammations. the juyce of the sweet and middle tasted temper melancho­ly; the ointment of the pulpe, with swines grease and rose water, beautifieth the face, and h. rough skinnes: the pulpe of the roa­sted, n°: 4 or 5. especially of the pomewater apples m: in a quart of faire water; till like lambs-wooll, and d. last at night, h. the [Page 15]strangury, and gonorrhaea's, &c. the leaves coole and binde, and h. inflammations in the beginning: apples cut in pieces, and distilled with camphire and butter-milke, h. the markes of the small pocks, ap: in their state: ta­king also milke with saffron, or mithridate d. Madde apples. Ger: mala insana. T. are cold fe­rè 4° and hurtfull; yet those of Toledo eate them with scraped cheese pickled, to pro­cure lust. The apples of love. Ger: are very cold, and moist. V. they are olygotrophicke and cacochymicke, yet in hot countries are eaten, boiled with pepper, salt, and oyle. The Aethiopian apples. T. are as those of Love. V. they are eaten as sauce, as the former. The thor­ny apples and those of Peru. T. are cold 4° and narcoticke as Mandrake. V: the juyce boyled with axungia to a salve, h. all inflammations & burnings: and the leaves with oile olive boyled till crisped and strained, then with wax, rosin, and a little turpentine boyled to a salve, h: old ulcers and sores of the secrets, and new wounds. Park: V. the soure h. thirst, the sharp cut flegme, & h. the appetite, the rotten h: inflammations. Adams apple. T. as lemmons, yet milder: dissect and ap. with powder of brimstone, heated under cinders, it h. the itch and scabbs. The Indian. T. is binding, and h. laskes. The tart Indian h. the appetite, & chol­lerick agues: and ap. the web in the eye. Thornie apples. V: the seed h. the stone and u­rine. Adams apple, Serap: fructus musae. T. heateth and moistneth fine primi. V. the fr: is of little nourishment, h: a hot breast, the lungs and bladder, provoketh urine, and c venery, too much eaten it hurts the stomack and stopps the liver.

Apricock-tree. Malus Armen.

  • P. Gardens, against walls.
  • T. Fl: in Aprill: the fruit is ripe in July.
  • N. [...]. Praecocia, the lesser. Chrysomelon.

Apricocks. Ger: K: as the greater, and lesser. T. are cold and moist 2° yet not so moist as Peaches. V. they are more wholsome to the stomack then Peaches, oligotrophick, and full of excrements: they putrifie taken after meate: and before it, cause other meats to de­scend as Peaches; the kernel is sweet; the leaves not yet used. Park. V. apricocks have no use in Physick. Matth: the oyle of the kernells h: inflamed piles, tumors, hoarsness, and pains of the eares unc: 5. d. with unc: 1. of musca­dell, h. the stone and collick.

Arch-angell: Lamium.

  • P. By hedges, walls, waies, borders of fields.
  • T. Fl: all summer, chiefly the beginning of May.
  • N. [...], Ʋrtica iners, & mortua, Arch­angelica.

Arch-angell, Ger: J: K. as the white, yel­low, red, Hungary, hedge, & Hungary with the variegated floure, T. they are hotter and dri­er then nettles, nigh to hore-hound. V. stam­ped with vineger & ap: as a pultis, they h [...] wens, hard swellings, the Kings evill, in­flamed kernels under the eares, and [...]awes, neck, arme-holes, and slankes: so bathed be­ing [Page 17]decoct, the white flowres conserved and taken, stay the whites; the distilled water c. a good colour, mirth, and refresheth the vitall spirits. Park: also the Spanish: V: as the rest h. obstructed and hard spleenes d. and ap: it h. the gout, and draweth out splinters, and stopps bleeding ap: to the neck.

Aromaticall reed, Acorus.

  • P. The 1 in gardens, planted: the 2d in Arabia.
  • T They put forth their leaves in spring.
  • N. [...]. Calamus Aromaticus, to which Aco­rus is a substitute.

Aromaticall reed. Ger: K. as the true aco­rus, and true aromaticall reed of the antients. T. Diosc. the roots are hot Gal. Plin: hot and dry and of subtill parts. V. the decoction of the root of calamus d. provoketh urine, h. pain in the side, liver, spleen, and brest; convulsi­ons, gripings, and burstings, and h. strangury, provokes the courses d. or the fume taken; the juyce with hony h. dimme eyes, the hard­nesse of the spleen, and all infirmities of the blood: the root boiled in wine, stamped and ap. to the secret parts h. all swellings, and hardnesse thereof. scr: 2. ss: of the root d. in unc. 4. of muskadel, h. bruises by falls, the root is alexipharmick, and in lohocks h. the chest opprest with cold humors. Johns: the root pre­served h. the stomack, & prevents contagion by the aire. Diosc. the best acorus is well compact, white within & full. The true calamus Dios. d. is diureticall, and h. those that are hydropick, ne­phritick, [Page 18]troubled with the strangury, or brui­sed, it moves the courses d. or ap. the fume taken by the mouth with dried turpentine h. the cough; its used also in perfumes. Park: Acorus taken with wormwood wine h. cold stomacks: & ap. h. tumors.

Arrow-head. Sagittaria.

  • P. In the ditches, as neere Oxford. &c.
  • T. Fl: in May and June.
  • N. [...]. Magopistana. Lingua serpentis.

Arrow-head. Ger: K. as the great, small, & narrow-leaved. T. are cold and drie. V. like plantaine in faculty and temper. Lugd. cold and moist; but they are rather cold and dry, and astringent, like plantain: so the seed given in wine h. fluxes, spitting of bloud, the fretting in the gutts, distillations, bloudy urine, and consumptions, the seed d. h. the dropsie, and falling sicknesse; the powder of the leaves kills wormes, and ap. h. sores inflamed.

Arsmart. Persicaria.

  • P. Moist plashes, almost every where.
  • T. Fl. from June to Aug.
  • N. [...]. Hydropiper, the 2d plumbago, the 4th noli me tangere.

Arsmart. Ger. J. K. as the common, dead or [Page 19]spotted, small creeping, and codded Ar. T. Gal. it is hot and drie, yet not so hot as pepper; the dead is cold and something drie. V. the leaves and seed wast all cold swellings. it dissolves the congealed bloud of bruises; bruised and ap. to a fellon for an houre it h. the paine; and laid under the saddle refresheth the tired horse. The dead Ar. ap. h. inflammations & green wounds, boyled with oyle olive, wax, and turpentine. The 4th, Lob. is venemous. Trag. a vomitorie; yet doubtfull. Park. V. the milde h. putrid ulcers ap. and killeth worms. The root ap. h. the tooth-ach, the juyce dropped into the eares killeth wormes therein, and fleas. Col. the water ap. with aqua vitae h. goutes and aches.

Artichocke. Cinara.

  • P. A fat ground, set with ashes.
  • T. 'Tis planted in Novemb. the slips in Aprill.
  • N. [...]. Scolymus Diosc. Cactos Theoph.

Artichocke. Ger: K. as the great red, great white, and wild Art. T. is cacochymick, and of cholerick juyce. V. the nailes and middle pulpe with pepper and salt, boyled with fat flesh, c. lust: so the ribbs, & are windy. It stayeth the gonorroeha: the budds steeped in wine, and eaten, provoke urine and lust. the root h. the smell of the armeholes, decoct in wine and d. the pith being taken out: for it expells stink­ing urine. The Jerusalem Art: T. are windy. V. and become meate (yet of evill juyce) boyled [Page 20]and stewed with sack and butter, with a little ginger, or baked in pies, with marrow, dates, ginger, raisins of the sun, sack, &c: they cure torments of the belly. And as Artichocks are thought to be hot and dry 2° the infusion of the budds provokes urine.

Asarabacca. Asarum.

  • P. In shadowie places, and Gardens.
  • T. It's alwaies green, Fl: in the spring.
  • N. [...]. Nardus rustica, Perpensa.

Asarabacca. Ger: K: as the common, and Italian. T. the leaves are hot and drie, pur­ging, with astriction: the roots are more hot and drie, of subtil parts: they procure urine, & the menses, & are stronger then the roots of Acorus. V. the leaves by vomit, bring out phlegme and choler, and move the belly more forcibly then the roots; the roots h. stopping of the liver, gall, and spleen, wens hard swellings and long agues, and in a greater q. operate as the leaves. drach. 1. of the root pou­dered d. in ale or wine if grosse, c. vomit: if fine it's diuretick. or drach: 3. or 4, if infused in whay or honied water: or 9 leaves stam­ped: it also h. the sciatica, dropsie, and quartan agues: given as a vomit. Pem: d. it h. the green-sicknesse, and asthma: ap. it h. wounds, cold headaches, and drieth up milke; it's not to be given to weake bodies, or wo­men with child. Park: K. as the Virginian, and bastard. V: this attennuats and clenseth.

Ash-tree, Fraxinus.

  • P. Moist, as about meadowes, the 2d on moun­tains.
  • T. Leaves and keyes in Ap: and May. the 2d Fl: in May, berries in Sep.
  • N. [...], Ornus, orneoglossum. sc: the wilde: the seed lingua avis.

Ash-tree. Ger: T. the leaves and barke are drie and moderately hot, the seed hot & drie 2° V: the leaves d. and ap: h. bitings of vipers: and stop the belly; so the barke, boiled in water and vineger, they stay vomiting ap: to the stomack; boiled in wine and d. they open the liver and spleen, and corroborate them; 3 leaves d. in wine every morning make leane, the keyes provoke urine, increase sperm, and cause lust, poudered with nut­meggs and d. the shavings of the wood d. are deadly: lee made of the ashes of the barke h. the scurse and rough skin. The wild ash, V. the leaves boiled in wine, h. pain in the side, stop­pings of the liver, dropsie, and tympany. Park, the oile of the wood m. with water of violet fl. h. pimples.

Aspen-tree, or Poplar, Populus.

  • P. Meadowes, ditches, and by water sides.
  • T. The buds in March and beginning of Apr: then to be gathered.
  • N. The 1 [...], farfarus, the 2d [...], the 3d [...], Lybica Plinii.

Aspen-tree or poplar, Ger: J: K. as the white, black, aspen, Indian, & lesser leav'd white Poplar. T. Gal. the white clenseth, and is of a waterie warme, and thin earthy substance. V. Diosc. drach: 1. of the barke d. h. the sciatica and strangury: the leaves d. c. women to be bar­ren, the juyce dropped into the eares h. their paine. the rosin of the black poplar budds, is hot and drie, of thin parts, atte­nuating, mollifying, and anodyne: so the leaves, yet more weake, and with the young buds h. paines of the gout ap. with May butter as an ointment. the ointment of the budds h. all inflammations, bruises, and falls. Park: V. the wa­ter dropping from the black poplar h. warts and pushes, the seed d. h. the falling sicknesse.

Asphodill, Asphodelus.

  • P. In France, Italy, Spaine naturally, and in gardens here.
  • T. Fl: in May and June, beginning below.
  • N. [...]. Albucum. that of the water, is called Pseudoasphod.

Asphodill, Ger: J: K. as the white, branched, [Page 23]red, yellow, & dwarfe Asph: T. are hot and dry ferè 3°. V. Diosc. Aet: the roots eaten provoke urine, and the termes, especially being stam­ped, and strained with wine and d. drach: 1. d. in wine h. paines in the sides, ruptures, con­vulsions, and old coughs: the roots boyled in dreggs of wine h. phagedens, all inflammations of the duggs or secret parts, and ease the fellon ap: as a pultis, the juyce of the root boyled in old sweet wine, with a little myrrh and saffron makes an excellent collyrie for the eyes. Gal: the ashes of the rootes m. with ducks grease, h. the alopecia, and c. haire. drach: 1. taken in wine, h. burstings; in broth, the biting of venemous beasts, and c. vomiting. The juyce of the root h. the white morphew ap: after ru­bification. Onion asphodill. T. Gal. operates as Aron, and hath an abstersive quality, the root doth attenuate and open. V. the young springs h. the yellow jaundise. Gal: the ashes of the bulbe h. the scalld head. Bauh: the root and fl: of the first, ap. with wine h. the bitings of serpents. the joyce of the root put into the op­posite eare h. the tooth-ache. Oile being hea­ted at the fire in the excavated root thereof, h. burnings and kibes, and paine of the ears.

Avens, Caryophyllata.

  • P. High mountains, thick woods, shadowy places.
  • T. Fl. in May, till Aug: the seed is ripe in July.
  • N. [...] Sylvat. Sanamunda, Herba benedi­cta, Nardus rustica.

Avens. Ger: J: K. as the common, moun­taine, [Page 24]fine leaved, red fl: mountaine, and dwa [...] T. the root and leaves are manifestly d [...]y, something hot and scouring. V. decoct in wine and d they h. crude stomacks, the col­lick, bitings of venemous beasts, stitches and pains of the sides, stoppings of the liver, and scoure the intralls, and with wine h. the wind, the leaves and roots d. h. clotted bloud, the roots in Autumne dried kill moths, are odori­serous, and operate as Cinquefoile. Park: the root thereof d. h inward wounds, fluxes, and ruptures. The infusion of the root d. in the morning prevents the plague, or any poyson. Matth: the mountaine Avens operate as the first, and more speedily. Schrod: it's hot and drie 2°, a little astringent, discutient, cepha­lick, and cardiack.

B

Balme-Aple. Balsamina.

  • P. Hot Regions, Gardens, Italy.
  • T. It's to be sowen in April in horse-dung.
  • N. [...]. Pomum Hierosol: Viticella, Ca­ranza.

BAlsame-apple. Ger: T. the apples and leaves are much drying, moderately coo­ling, or hot 1°, & drie 2°. V. the leaves h. green wounds, bruised and ap. d. with wine they h. the collick, burstings, and convulsions. The leaves of the male, poudered and d. in wine h. those that are deeply wounded, and [Page 25]the collick: the oile of the fruit h. green wounds, cramps, and shrunk sinnes ap: and pains of child-birth, the hemorrhoides, and all other pains of the fundament. The leaves d. in wine, h. ruptures. The female is neer the first in temperature, the oyle of the fruit h. inflamed wounds, and consolidateth, it h. ulcers of the duggs, and privities with a pessa­rie. The apple ap: h. wounded and pricked si­news, scalding, and scarres ap: and d. and bar­rennesse bathed and ap. Park: The oile h. scarres proceeding of wounds, pains of the stinging of bees, and consumes moisture.

Balsam-tree, Balsamum.*

  • P. In Egypt, and the Indies.
  • T. It's green all the yeare.
  • N. [...]. The liquor opobalsamum, the fr. carpobalsamum. the wood xylobalsamum.

Balsam-tree. Ger. T. balsam is hot and drie 2° with astriction. V. naturall balsam taken fasting in the morning with rose-water or wine, the q. of 5 or 6 drops h. rhose that are asthmatick, it h. paines of the bladder and sto­mack, and comforteth the same, it h. stinking breath, and the shaking fits of the quotidian a­gue, also it cureth consumptions, and clenseth the wombe being used as a pessarie; the sto­mack being annoinred therewith, it h. di­gestion, preventeth obstruction and windi­nesse; it h. hardnesse of the spleene, & pains of [Page 26]the reines and belly c. of cold, and all aches ap. with a linnen cloth, also it dissolveth oede­matous tumors, and strengthneth the mem­bers, it comforteth the braine, h. palsies, con­vulsions, and all griefes of the sinews ap. and speedily cureth green wounds. Balsam-tree of Hispaniola, yeeldeth a [...]uyce which being boy­led in water to the thicknesse of hony, h. wounds and ulcers, stops bleeding, and is more effectuall then the true balsam; the water which issueth out of the branches being cutt off, is vulnetary, and h. all cold diseases being drunk some few daies together. The balsame­tree of Clusius, called Molle by the Indians. T. is astringent, hot and compounded of diverse faculties. V. the berries sod in water make a most wholsome drink, vineger, and hony. The leaves boyled and the decoction d. h. all cold diseases; the white gum being dissolved in milke. ap. h. the web of the eyes, and clear­eth the sight, the decoction of the barke used as a bath, h. the paine, and swellings of the leggs. This tree is of such estimation among the Indians, that they worship it as a God, according to their savage rites, and ceremonies. Park: V. the liquor of the first h. all poysons, and infections, all agues arising from obstru­ctions, and all diseases of cold and wind, and the cough. The Indian is as the first.

Barbery-bush. Berberis.

  • P. Deserts, Woods, borders of fields.
  • T. It hath leaves in Aprill. Fl: and Fr: in Sept:
  • N. [...]. Crespinus. oxyacantha. uva crespina.

Barbery bush. Ger: T. the leaves and ber­ries are cold and drie 2°. Gal: of thin parts, & cutting. V. the leaves season meat as sorrell. The decoction h. cholerick agues, heat of the bloud and liver: so the berries & h. hot laskes, bloody flix, and bleeding. The green leaves made into a sauce as sorrell, h. hot stomacks, burning agues, and appetite lost: the conserve of the fruit more effectually. The roots steeped certain daies in strong lie of the ashes of ash­tree, colour the haire yellow. Johns: the bark of the roots h. the jaundise. Park: the juyce stopps womens courses, taken with Southern­wood water and sugar it killeth wormes, it h. haemoptysis, fastneth the teeth, stopps rheumes, & gleweth wounds: the inner bark d. h. the jaundise.

Barley. Hordeum.

  • P. Loose and drie ground almost every where.
  • T. It is to be sowen in March, it's ripe in Aug:
  • N. [...]. these barleyes are called distichon and polystichon.

Barley. Ger: K. as the common, and beare [Page 28]Barley. T. is cold and drie 1°, abstersive and drying more then bean meale. V. Diose. it cleanseth, provoketh urine, c. windinesse, and hurteth the stomack: the meale boyled in hy­dromel with figgs h. inflammations: with pitch, rofin, and pigeons dung, it softneth and ripe­neth hard swellings: with melilot and poppy seeds it h. pain in the sides: ap. with line-seed, senugreek, and rue, it h. winde in the gutts: with tar, wax, oile, and the urine of a boy, it doth digest, soften, and ripen hard swellings in the throat, as the Kings evill: boiled with wine, myrtles, the barke of the pome-granate, wilde pears, and the leaves of brambles, it h. the laske: the ale or beere made of it, boyled to a salve, and ap: h. pains of the sinews and joynts: or for old and new sores, take strong ale lib. 2. one oxe gall, boyle them gently with stirring, adde vineger lib. 1. olibanum unc: 1. fl. of camomill and melilot an. unc: 1. rue finely poudered unc: sem: a litle hony, and a small q. of the pouder of cominseed, boyle them to an unguent and ap: it h. old and new sores: also the meale boyled in wa­ter, with garden night-shade, the leaves of garden poppy, the pouder of senugreeke, lineseed, and a litle hoggs grease. h. all hot swellings, and the dropsie. The naked Bar­ley. Ger: V. boyled in water h. burning cho­ler, also in vehement fevers, adde the seeds of white poppy and lettuce to cause sleep, and for shortnesse of breath, adde figgs, raisins of the sun, licorise, and anniseed, boyled with whay, the leaves of sorrell, marigolds, and scabious, it h. the thirst, and inflamed livers d. [Page 29]1 and last in the day. Wall-barley, and burnt, stamped, and ap. c. haire to grow. French barley. Pem: h. severs of choller, diseases of the brest, sharpnesse of the throat, and c. milke: outwardly it mollifieth. Park: Way barley makes haire grow: the caustick is hot 4°. Barth: Ang: the ptisan of barley quencheth thirst, and h. the feverish heat of the body, also it nouri­sheth, and comforteth the same. Fuch: Diose: the best is white, and the ptysan thereof h. the roughnesse of the throat. Cam: Matth. it h. the plurisie, tabes, and marasmus, and those that are hectick, especially with the seeds of gourds, cucumbers, &c.

Barren-wort. Epimedium.

  • P. In moist meadowes: and shadowy places.
  • T. Fl: in Aprill and May, and unto the middle of Aug.
  • N. [...]. Epimetrum. Epipetron.

Barren-wort. Ger: Gal: T. is moderately cold, with a watery moisture, as yet not used in physick. Park: it keepeth womens breasts from growing over great, being made into a cataplasme with oyle and applied. Plin: Di­osc: Gal: the root maketh women barren: ta­ken inwardly, as also the leaves poudered, and taken in wine for some time, so Bauhinus.

Basill. Ocymum.

  • P. Gardens. The wild in gravelly watery ground.
  • T. Fl: in June and July, by little and little.
  • N. [...]. Basilicum. The wilde Acin [...]s.

Basill. Ger: Johns: K. as the great, citron, bush, and Indian. T. Gal: is hot 2° with su­perfluous moisture. ap: it doth digest, distri­bute and concoct. V. Diosc: if much eaten it dulleth the sight, mollifieth the belly, breedeth winde, provoketh urine, drieth up milke, and is dyspeptick. The juyce with fine meale of parched barly, oile of roses, and vineger, h. inflammations, and the stingings of venimous beasts. The juyce d. in sack h. the head-ach: & ap, clenseth the eyes, and drieth them. The seed d. h. melancholy, short windednesse, and strangury, and is a sternutatory. The smell h. the heart, and head. The wild. K. as the stone, Fish, Austrian field, and wild Basill of the Alpes. T. the seed of these wild Basils is hot and drie. V. ap: with wine the herbe h. paine of the eyes, the juyce mundifieth them, and h. catarrhes instilled. The stone Bas. stoppeth the laske and courses: ap: it h. inflammations, these have moderate heat and astriction, and cure the contrary diseases. The cow-basil is not used in physick. Ephemerum or quick fa­ding Fl: boyled in wine h. the toothach, garg­led. Pem. Basill, d. provoketh the termes, ex­pells the birth, & poyson, h. swounings and c. venery. ap: it h. the lethargy, iaundise and dropsie: put into the eares with goose grease it h. the paine in young children. with hony ap: [Page 31]it h. spotts in the face, the dose is from 1 ser. to 43 gr. Park: the seed kills wormes, lessens the spleen, and with oxe gall h. scarres. The broad leafed wild as the rest h. cramps, hoe swellings and lasks. Bauh: Trag: the first h. the flegme of the lungs being hot, resolving and in­cisive.

Batchelours buttons. Lychnis hortensis.

  • P. Gardens for ornament.
  • T. Fl: in June and July.
  • N. Batrachion: rapum D. Anthonii the double.

Batchelours buttons. Ger: J: K. as the red, white, and degenerate with green floures. T. V. are not yet discovered. Double batchelours buttons. K. as the double crowfoot, double white, double wild. T. doc bite as the other crow feet doe. V. the root applied doth exul­cerate and attract the humours: yet Dod. they are not so hot and dry as crow-foot.

Bawme. Melissa.

  • P. Gardens, Mountains, woods.
  • T. Fl: June, July, and Aug: So the Assyrian.
  • N. [...]. Melites. Aprastrum. Citrago. Melissophillum.

Bawine. Ger: J: K. as the common, Turky, bastard with white, and with purple Fl: the [Page 32]smiths bawme, smooth Molucca, and thorny. T. is hot and dry 2°. Gal: like hore-hound. V. d. in wine it h. the bitings of venimous beasts, melancholy, and comforteth the heart: the common d. h. the mother: the juyce glu­tinateth wounds: so the herbe with aqua vitae, the hives of Bees rubbed with it draw others: it h. the infirmities of the heart, cold and moist stomacks, c. concoction, and openeth the braine. d. in wine and ap: it h. the bitings of mad doggs, and d. it h. the tooth-ach, the or­thopnoea, and eyes: the leaves with salt h. the Kings evill, hard swellings, and the gout. Smiths bawme h. greene wounds, and rup­tures, and stayeth the whites. Pem. d. it ex­pells poyson, and the plague: it hurts hot and dry bodies, the dose poudered is scrup: 1 or 2. Park: K. as the unpleasant, and Assyrian, great, and prickly. V. killeth wormes, and h. the jaundise. Sim: Seth: taken before sleep it c. pleasant dreames. Plin: d. in wine it h. the tormina. Schrod: its hot 2°, drie 1°.

Bay-tree. Laurus.

  • P. Gardens. Hot regions. In France, Spaine, &c.
  • T. It's green Winter and Summer. Fl: in spring.
  • N. [...]. Laurea. Laudea veterum: the wild, Tinus.

Bay-tree. Ger: Gal: T. the berries and leaves are hot and very drie, yet the berries most: the bark is more bitter and astringent. V. the [Page 33]berries with hony h. ptysicks and consumpti­ons of the lungs, asthma's, all rheumes about the chest: and d. in wine h. the bitings and stingings of venimous beasts, cure poyson, and clense the morphew: the juyce h. pains of the eares, and deafnesse, dropped in with old wine and oile of roses: with ointments, it h. weari­nesse, heateth and discusseth, and inwardly, quickneth: the berries also h. cramps, and con­vulsions, the diseases of the stomack, liver, spleen, and bladder, warme a cold stomack, concoct raw humors, h. appetite, open the liver and spleen: and bring down urine, the menses, and secundine: the oyle h. scabbs, bruises, spotts, and congealed bloud, and dis­cusseth. The leaves bathed h. the mother, and bladder: and ap: h. the stinging of Bees: with barley meale parched and bread, they h. all in­flammations, and d. h. paine of the stomack, and c. vomit. The berries stamped with scammonie, saffron, vineger, and oyle of roses m. to a liniment, and ap: h. the megrim. 2 leaves eate first h. drunkennesse: the barke of the root d. in wine h. urine, breaks the stone and driveth it forth, openeth stoppings of the inward parts, and killeth the Foetus: it h. the dropsie, jaundise, and floures stopped. The wild K. as the common, and Portingale. T. V. are not discovered. Cherry bay. T. V. the fruit is good to be eaten, &c. not discovered. O­range-bay. T. V. the fruit is usually [...]aten, the rinde being taken off, and is of easie concoction. Green, it h. fluxes, ripe it looseneth the belly. The decoction of the leaves h. swollen leggs, and the obstructed [Page 34]spleen; the fruit is cold & h. fevers; 'tis called Guayava, and groweth in the West Ind. Park: a decoction of the berries with cumminseed, hyssop, origanum, euphorbium, and hony h. rheumes. The oyle h. all griefes of cold, and wind ap: bruises, scabbs, and pains of the eares. That of Alexandria h. urine, and the termes. Strawberry bay. Johns: T. the fruit is like that of the Strawberry tree.

Beade-tree. Zizipha.*

  • P. In Italy, Spaine, and Germany.
  • T. Fl: in Italy and Spaine, in June, the fruit is ripe in September.
  • N. [...]. Zizyphus. Sycomorus Ital: Bellon.

Beade-tree. Ger: K. as the common, and that of Cappadocia. T. Avic: the flowers of the first are hot 3° and dry fine primi: the second is cold and drie. V. the floures of the first open the obstructions of the braine. The distilled water kills nitts and lice: m. with white wine ap: it preserveth the haire from falling: the fruit is troublesome to the stomack, dangerous and deadly. The decoction of the barke with fumitory and mirobolans h. agues c. by flegme. The juyce of the uppermost leaves with hony h. poyson. Rhas: the tree is hot and dry, and operates as aforesaid. Matth: H. the leaves and wood are deadly unto beasts: the poyson thereof is h. by the same remedies that Olean­der is. That of Cappadocia, worketh as the first, but the decoction thereof h. the heate of urine, [Page 35]and diabetes the running of the reines, and exulcerations of the privy parts: a looch made of it, or the syrupe h. haemoptysis, or spitting of bloud, c. by distillations of sharpe and salt humors. Manard: Beades of the roots of S. Elen: T. V. the powder h. griefes of the sto­mack, stone, and ischury: the smell doth cor­roborate, and strengthen. Park: V. the water of the Beade tree given to doggs in their meat, presently killeth them. The beades of S. Hellen, radix Sanctae Helenae. T. are dry initio 2di, and hot fine. V. the pouder sprinkled on the body, bindeth the skin, and strengthneth the mem­bers. Bauh: they are hot fine 2di, and drie 1° or a little more.

Beane. Faba.

  • P. Gardens and fields commonly.
  • T. Fl: in April and May: is ripe in July and Aug.
  • N. [...]. The black its called Faba veterum & graec.

Beane. Ger: K. as the great garden, & wilde. T. before ripe it's cold & moist, when dry, binding, and windy, of light substance, clean­sing and flowly descending. V. if parched they loose their windinesse, and are of hard dige­stion, and grosse juyce, when green they are excrementitious: boyled with vineger and salt taken, they h. bloudy flix with laskes, and vomiring: they raise phlegme out of the chese and lungs, and ap: h. the gout boyled with wa­ter [Page 36]and m. with swines grease. The meale with oxymel ap: h. the fiery heat of bruises, and wounds: and pultised h. the privities and papps inflamed, and drieth up milke: tempe­red with the meale of fenugreeke and hony it h. black spotts c. by beating, & wasteth ker­nells under the eares: with rose leaves, fran­kincense, and the white of an egge, it h. wa­tering eyes, the pin and web, and hard swell­ings: tempered with wine, the suffusions, and stripes of the eyes: the beane chewed with­out the skinn, and ap: to the sore head h. rheumes: boyled in wine it h. the inflammation of the testicles: the skins ap: hinder haire: with barley meale parched, and old oyle ap: they h. the Kings evill: and decoct, die wooll. beanes ap: without the skins stop the bloud: The black beane is not used. Kidney beane Ger: J: K. as the white, black, red, pale yellow, Italian with a small white fruit, and small red fr: narrow leafed, of Brasile, party coloured, and purging of America. T. Diosc: doe more loose the belly then peason, are lesse windy, and of good nourishment: hot and moist.—V. eaten before ripe they are not windy, loose the bel­ly, and provoke urine, when ripe they are un­wholsome. Park: the distilled water of bean husks h. the stone and urine: fried beans eaten with garlick h. coughs: the ashes of the husks with hoggs grease h. old pains and gout: the lesser bean operates as the 1. The Molucca beane h. the braine.

Bears-breech. Branca ursina.

  • P. Moist and stony places: and gardens.
  • T. Fl: in summer: the seed is ripe in Autumne.
  • N. [...]. The smooth, melamphyllos.

Bears-breech: Ger: J: K. as the garden, and prickly. T. the garden Bears-breech is between hot and cold, somewhat moist, mollifying and digesting: and h. in clysters, the root Gal: is more drying. V. Diosc: the roots h. burnings ap: and luxations: and d. provoke urine, stop the belly, h. burstings, crampes, and consump­tion of the lungs, the ptysick, spitting of blood, bruises, and straines, as the greater comfrey: a plaister of the root h: aches, and the num­nesse of the hands and feet. Park: the root outwardly ap: h. the goute. Ger: it helpeth in clysters against sundry maladies. Crescent: T. it's hot and moist 1°. the leaves applyed with ax­ungia helpe cold apostumes, and with oyle, the deseases of the Spleen.

Beares-eares Auricula ursi.

  • P. In Gardens when planted there.
  • T. Fl. in Aprill and May.
  • N. Lunaria arthritica, paralytica Alpina. Sa­nicula.

Bears-eares. Ger. K. as the yellow, purple red, scarlet, blush coloured, bright red, & stamell, T. [Page 38]are drie and very astringent. V. it healeth all inward and outward wounds of the breast and enterocele d. often: it's of the vertue of sa­nicle. The root of Damasonium taken poude­red drach: 1 or 2 h. those that have devoured the sea hare, taken too much opium, or have been bitten by a toad. d. with Daucus seeds, it h. the tormina, and bloudy flix, the convul­sion, and affects of the wombe: the herbe staies the flux, moves the courses: and ap: as a pul­tis asswageth oedematous tumors. Johns: Park: Beares eares, h. the palsie and trembling of the joynts, prevent paines in the head, and giddi­nesse. The leaves of Cortusa are a little hot. Cam: the oyle thereof is excellent for wounds. Matth: Beares eares refrigerate, dry, glutinate, and restraine. Bauh: Gesn: being chewed they h. the tooth-ach.

Beech-tree. Fagus.

  • P. Plaine, open, and forrests.
  • T. Fl: in April and May: the fruit is ripe in Sept.
  • N. [...]. It is called Oxya and Scis­sima.

Beech-tree. Ger: T. the leaves doe coole, the kernell of the nut is somewhat moist. V. the leaves ap: h. hot swellings, blisters, and excoriations, and chewed h. chapped lips, and paine of the gums. The kernells h. paine of the kidnies coming of the stone, earen, and bring forth the gravell. Crescent. The water in the hollownesse of Beeches h. scurfe, tetters in man [Page 39]and beast: and scabbs ap. Park: the juyce of the young leaves, is cooling and binding, the water that cometh out of the tree bored h. tetters, and sore mouths. Matth: the ashes ap: h. the stone, & the reines, the leaves corrobo­rate.

Beete. Beta.

  • P. Moist and fertile, Gardens: the white nigh the sea.
  • T. It's to be sowen in the spring, & is ever green.
  • N. [...]. The white is called Si­cula and Sicla.

Beete. Ger: J: K. as the white, red, and red Roman. T. the white is temperate in hear and moisture: the other are drie, and all ab­stersive: the white cold, moist, and nitrous, so clensing, and an errhine. V. boiled and eaten it looseth the belly, and is of little nourish­ment: the juyce put in the nostrills purgeth phlegme out of the head. The great Beet with vineger oyle and salt, is a good sallad. The Ro: beet boyled and eaten with oyle, vineger, and pepper, is a good salled also. Pem: the juyce provoketh urine, openeth the liver and spleen, h. venime, vertigo's, and head-ach: the red stopps flu [...]es, & ap: h. bleans in the skin, kibes, cankers and scurse. Park: K. the prickly stal­ked, and candy, as the rest h. inflammations.

Bell-flower. Campanula.

  • P. The 2 first in Gardens: the rest in sandy places.
  • T. Fl: From May to Aug.
  • N. Rapunculus and Rapuntium.

Bell-floure. Ger. K. as the Peach-leafed steeple milky, round leafed, yellow, little white, and little purple. T. these especially the 4. last are cold & dry. V. & of the nature of Rampions whereof they are kinds. Park. the roots of the wild bell-flours. K. as of the wild field, and time leased. V. with vineger oyle and pepper h. the stomacke eaten, and cause appetite, & milke in Nurses sc. the greater roots, and beaten with the meale of Lupines h. spots, so the wa­ter. They may also be used in gargles for the mouth.

Bettony. Betonica.

  • P. Shadowy woods, borders of pastures &c.
  • T. Fl. in June and July: the second in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Vetonica. cestron: that of the water, Clymenon.

Betony. Ger. T. is hot and drie 2°. Gal. cut­ting. V. it h. deseases of the head of a cold cause, and the falling sicknesse, it clenseth the lungs and chest. h. obstructions of the Liver, Milt, and Gall, and the yellow Jaundise. It c. a good appetite, h sower belchings, and the strangu­ry, pain in the Kidnies and the Bladder, it breaketh and expelleth the stone, it h. rup­tures, [Page 41]cramps, and convusions, the bitings of mad dogs and serpents and poyson, d. and ap. it h the sciatica. A conserve of the flowrs h. the head-ach, drach. 1. of the root d: in honyed water causeth to vomit grosse humours. The powder of the leaves d. in wine h. the spitting, & pissing of bloud, and all inward wounds. the pouder with meate loosneth the belly gently, and h. the epilepsie with madnesse and head­ach, and all paines of the head, it killeth wormes. h. agues, clenseth the mother. and cureth bruisings. Water Bettony. T. is hot and drie. V. the leaves scoure, and clense, & mun­dify ulcers, that are foule, especially the juice boyled with hony: the juyce ap. h. red faces and deformity. Pem: the 1. h. the dropsie m. with hony, the cough and thin rheume: and wind collick d. Ap. it draweth out splinters, & h. biles. The juyce instilled helpe the paine of the eares, Park. with axungia it h. plague sores, d. with pennyroyall and mede it h. agues.

Bezar-tree. Moringa.*

  • P. It groweth in Malabar.
  • T. The time is not observed.
  • N. The Arabians and Turkes call it Morian, the Persians Tame.

Bezar tree Park. T. the seeds are sharp, the roots alexipharmick, & as effectual as unicornes horn, bezarstone, or any treacle, V. the natives use [Page 42]it against all kindes of poysons, and bitings of venimous creatures, even of that most veni­mous serpent called by the Portugalls Culebras de Capillo, d. and ap: it also h. the winde collick, and leprosie, it being used many have been cured thereof: it is mixed also with those medicines that purge melancholy: All which is also affirmed by Bauhinus.

Binde-weed. Volubilis.

  • P. Almost every where: the blew in Syria.
  • T. Fl: from may to Aug.
  • N. [...]. Of the Prickly Sarsa parilla: that of the Sea, Soldana.

Binde-weed. Ger: J: K. as the great smooth, small, lavender leafed, silver-leased, and black. T. are hot and drie. V. the juyce of the black, much openeth the belly: the stamped leaves ap: dissolve & wast hard swellings: the rest are not used in physick. Blew bind-week. K. as the com­mon, round leaved, and small. T. is hot and dry 1°. Serap: 3°. V. it purgeth thick phleg­matick, and melancholicke humors, expelleth wormes, and troubleth the belly. Rough bind­weed. K. as of Peru, the common, that of Por­tugall, and Germany. T. the roots are hot and drie of subtill parts, and decoct c. sweat. V. the roots h. old paines of the head and joynts, and cold diseases, and such as are cured by swea­ting if there be no ague joyned. the leaves d. h. poyson. Sea bind-weed. Soldanella. K. as the common mountaine, and small mountaine. T. is hot and drie 2°. the 2d bitter and astrin­gent. [Page 43]V. it mightily purgeth waterish humors, openeth the liver, and h the dropsie d. in fat broth: the pouder in weak bodies, must be mixed with aniseed, cinnamon, ginger, and su­gar. The leaves of the mountaine bind-weed ap: to the navill draw out hydropick water, so in other parts: and h. wounds: the whole herb troubles the stomack. Purging bind­weed, Scammonium. K. as the Syrian, that of Valentia, and the French. T. it's the strongest purger that is, moderately hot and dry. V. it purgeth choller, water, and flegme, and hurt­eth the stomack, and fretteth the intrailes, it openeth the vaines, hurteth the heart, if much taken c. swounings, vomiting, bloody flix, and tenesmus: except boyled in a quince, with the mucilage of psyllium, pulpe of prunes & mastick: or m. drac: 2 of aloes with scr. 1. thereof: or give the quince in which it was roasted: the dose is from gr: 5 to 12. Park: Great binde-weed K. as the blew with a triparted leafe, and red. V. the first purgeth phlegme, and melancholy, & killeth flat wormes. The small: purge and dis­solve. K. as the mallow leafed, purple, and Arabian.

Birch-tree. Betula.

  • P. Woods, fenny grounds, in most places.
  • T. The catkins 1, thē the leaves in Aprill & later.
  • N. [...]. Betulla. Semos. Semuda Theoph:

Birch-tree. Ger: T.V. is not yet used. Park: the juyce of the leaves while they are young, or the distilled water of them, or that which [Page 44]cometh out of the tree being bored with an auger, d. for some time together, breaketh the stone in the kidnies or bladder, and is also good to wash sore mouthes, a lie made of the ashes of birch-tree barke, is effectuall for the same. Col: the leaves are cooling, the barke and cat­kins hot: the inner barke h. the wombe.

Birds-eyne. Paralysis.

  • P. Moist and squalid grounds.
  • T. Fl: from Aprill to Aug.
  • N. Sanicula angustifolia: & paralytic a alpina.

Birds-eyne. Ger: K. as the red, and white. T. V. as of other primroses. So T. they are drie and astringent, and a little hot, cephalick, and neurotick, and h. the palsie, the roots decoct h. the stone an oinment of the leaves & hoggs grease h. wounds, wrinkles, spots, & sunbur­ning. the juyce of the root purgeth the brain and helpeth the megrim, the leaves d. h. the brest.

Birds-foot, Ornithopodium.

  • P. In divers parts of England, as Hamstead and black heath &c.
  • T. Fl. from June to the midle of September.
  • N. [...] Diosc. quorundam, [...]. pes avis, the knotted, herniaria.

Birds-foot Ger. J. K. as the great and small. [Page 45]T. V. are not used in meate or medicine: yet c. milke in beasts. Park: T. they are a little drying and binding. V. they are good to be used in traumatick potions, and h. wounds ap. Lugd. the lesser breaketh the stone in the kidnies, & driveth it forth the decoction being taken, and h. ruptures d. and applyed to the part: all which is affirmed by Bauhinus, of the tuberous birds-foot of Delechampius, called herniaria.

Birds-nest, Nidus avis.

  • P. The north parts of England.
  • T. Fl. in June & August & then seedeth.
  • N. [...]. Coagulum terrae Plin. orobanche Gesn.

Birds-neest. Ger. T. V. is not used in Phy­sick, Bauh. the taste of the root and whole plant is bitter; and very ungratefull to the pallate, and as yet its not discoursed of, as to any known vertues.

Birth-wort, Aristolochia Saracenica.

  • P. Fat and campion soiles.
  • T. Fl. in May, June and July.
  • N. [...]. terrae malum. pistolochia.

Birth-wort, Ger. J. K. as the long, round, [Page 46]climing, Saracens, small, and Virginian snake­root. T. are hot and drie 3° and cleansing. V. drach: 1. of the long birthw. d. with wine and ap: h. against serpents. d. with myrrh and pepper it expells what is in the matrice, the flowers and dead child, so also as a pessarie: so the round as the 1. it also h. stuffings of the lungs, the hicket, shiverings of agues, hardnesse of the milt, burstings, cramps, convulsions, & pain of the sides, d. in water it plucketh out thornes, and splinters: and in plaisters and pultises, scales or bones, it h. corruption, mun­difieth ulcers, and filleth them with flesh ap: with ireos and hony. The branched birthw. Gal: is more sweet and weaker d. in water it h. bruises. The round doth beautify, cleanse, and fasten the teeth rubbed with the powder. The root of the Virginean Pistolochia is aroma­tick, and h. the bitings of Adders or Vipers, chewed ap: and swallowed. Johns. it also h. the plague, small pox, measles, and such like maligne and contagious diseases. Pem: the round root purgeth flegme and choler, atte­nuateth, h. the intestines, the falling sicknesse: killeth wormes, and drieth scabbs. ap: with hony it h. ulcers of the mouth, and adding aloes, lime, and chalke, it h. the polypus: note its not to be given to women with child. Park. K. as the running, bushy, and ever green bushy rooted. V. the 1. h. the falling down of the mother as a pessary. Col: it h. windinesse: it h. the nerves with syrupe of vineger: the wa­ter h. ulcers.

Bishops-weed. Ammi.

  • P. The first groweth by hedge sides.
  • T. Fl: in June and July, the seed is ripe in the end of Aug.
  • N. [...]. Ameos. cuminum Aethiopicum, & regium.

Bishops-weed. Ger: J: K. as the common, Candy, and small Bish. T. the seed is hot and drie fine tertii. V. it h. gripings of the belly in making of urine, and the bitings of Serpents taken in wine, and bringeth downe the floures: ap: with hony it h. spotts c. by stripes: so also the seed of Sison, being hot and dry 3°, of thin parts and diuretick. The seed of Ameos d. in wine h. against all poyson, pestilent fe­vers, or the plague, and is used in the corre­cting of Cantharides: pounded, hony being added to the herbe, it scattereth congealed bloud, and h. markes caused by stripes, being applied as a plaister. Park: d. and ap: it aba­teth an high colour, and maketh it pale, and the fume thereof taken with rosin and raisins; clenseth the mother. The Aegyptian or Ara­bian seede is said to provoke venery. Gal: Diosc: Ammi T. is hot and dry 3°, of thin parts a little bitter and sharp: therefore digesting, and opening, &c.

Bitter-sweet. Amara dulcis.

  • P. Moist, nigh ditches, rivers, hedges &c.
  • T. Fl. in Iuly, the berries are ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Strychnodendron. Solanum lig­nosum.

Bitter-sweet. Ger. T. the leaves and fruit are hot and dry, clensing and wasting. V. the de­coction of the leaves opens the liver and gall d. and h. the yellow jaundise. The juyce h. fallings from high places, and bruises, dissolveth clotted blood and healeth. Trag. the wood sliced and boiled with wine gently purgeth by urine and siege, those that have the dropsie or jaundise. Diosc. so also that with white flowers drach. 1. of the fruit d. with unc. 3. of white wine for 40. dayes h. the spleen, and dyspnoea: and clenseth woomen brought to bed. Park. V. a drink made of the wood h. putrid seavers and agues: the berries ap. h. fellons. Col. it helpeth ruptures and wounds. the leaves ap. with ba­con h. fellons.

Bladder-nut. Nux vesicaria.

  • P. Kent and many other places.
  • T. Fl. in May: the nuts are ripe in Aug. and September.
  • N. Pistacium Germanicum. Staphylodendron Plin.

Bladder-nut. Ger. T. is superfluously moyst. [Page 49]V. It troubles the stomack, and is somewhat binding, so not to be eaten: it's not used in physick, yet some use it to provoke venery Park. and others, to cure the stone. Col. but it hath diverse evill qualities, whereby it is loth­some and overturneth the stomacks of those that eate it. Bauh: some affirme that being planted in gardens, it driveth away venimous beasts.

Blew-bottle. Cyanus.

  • P. The 1. groweth in gardens, the rest in corn­fields.
  • T. Fl: from May to harvest.
  • N. [...]. the common, Flos frumenti, and Baptisecula.

Blew-bottle. Ger: J: K. as the great, com­mon, double, double purple, broad leafed cree­ping, small creeping, purple, violet, and varia­ble. T. the common is something cold. V. it h. inflammations of the eyes: the rest are not sufficiently known as to their faculties. Park: V. the powder of the dried leaves of the great blew-bottle d. h. inward bruises, and broken veines taken in plantaine, great comfrey, or horse-taile water, and resists poyson, and in­fection, and fevers taken in wine: the juyce h. wounds ap. So the lesser.

Blite. Blitum.

  • P. Gardens and fields, and wast places.
  • T. Fl: all summer long: seed in Aug: and Sept▪
  • N. [...]. Of the black, Sanguinaria, and Blitum nigrum.

Blite. Ger. J. K. as the great white, great red, small white, and small red. T. is cold and moist 20, of little nourishment. V. it looseth the belly, yet not vehemently, not being ni­trous or sharpe. Park: it is more hurtfull to the stomack, head and eyes, then other herbs, being insipid and provoking castings. Col: it causeth fluxes and gripings of the belly being much eaten: yet the red is used to stop fluxes of bloud in man or woman. The white blite with much seed, which by some is called all­seed, is a very acceptable baite unto fishes. Note all blites hurt the eyes. Lonic: the red ap: h. inflammations, and cornes. Bauh: Plin: d. in wine, it h. against Scorpions. Matth: the black refrigerates, humects, and is emollient.

Bloud-wort. Lapathum sativum sanguineum.

  • P. In gardens, and diverse other places.
  • T. Fl: in June and July, the seed is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Lapathum nigrum, rubrum, Sanguis draconis herba.

Bloud-wort. Ger: T. is cold and drie. Park. it is an excellent herbe to be eaten, the seed is much commended for any flux in man or wo­man, being inwardly taken: so likewise is the [Page 51]root, being of a stiptick quality. Col: it com­forteth the liver. The seed decoct in wine or water h. wambling pains of the stomack, the root boyled in vineger h. scurfe.

Borage. Borrago.

  • P. Gardens, and there it encreaseth very much.
  • T. Fl: in summer, till Autumne be far spent.
  • N. [...] Corrago. Porrago▪

Borage. Ger: K. as the garden, white flou­red, and never-dying. T. it is evidently moist not so hot, but in a meane betwixt hot and cold. V. the flowers in sallads exhilerate and comfort the heart. The leaves boyled in pottage loosen the belly: and in honied water h. hoarsnesse and rough throats. The leaves and fl: in wine, h. melancholy. A syrup of the fl: exhile [...]ateth, purgeth melancholy, and h. the phrensie; so a conserve of the fl: a syrupe of the juyce with the powder of the bone of the stags heart, h. swouning, the cardiack passiō, melancholy, and epilepsie. The root is not used in medicine: the leaves eaten raw c. good bloud in them that have been lately sick. Pem: it h. fevers, cooling and opening. Park: the seed c. milke. Aemil: Macer, it h. the memo­ry: and clenseth the lungs.

Box-thorne. Lycium.*

  • P. In Cappadocia, and Lycia, &c.
  • T. Fl: in Feb: and March. The fr: is ripe in September.
  • N. [...]. Pyxacantha. Buxea spina.

Box-thorne. Ger: J: K. as the common, and Spanish Box: T. Gal: the juyce is drying, and compounded of diverse kinds of substances, one of thin parts digesting and hot, another earthy and cold, so binding: it's moderately hot, and therefore used for severall purposes. V. Diosc: the juyce cleareth the sight, it h. the festered sores of the eyes, the itch, and inve­terate distillations of humors: it h. runnings of the eares, ulcers in the gums, and almonds of the throat, as also against the gallings of the lipps and fundament. Park: K. as the Italian, the yellow grain of A vignon, the 1 and 2d of Candy, the supposed Indian, and Lycium like Egyptian tree. V. the juyce stopps all fluxes.

Box-tree. Buxus.

  • P. Barren ground: and gardens: &c.
  • T. Fl: in Feb: and March: the seed is ripe in September.
  • N. [...]. The lesser is called Chamaebuxus.

Box-tree. Ger: T. the leaves are hot, dry, [Page 53]astringent, and of a lothsome smell. V. it's not used in medicine; yet some Empericks use the wood against apoplexies &c. The bastard dwarfe box, chamaebuxus fl: coluteae. T. the leaves are bitter and hot. V. it's not used in physick, nor the faculties yet known. Park: V. some use the wood of the first in stead of guajacum, against fluxes and the French pox. Fernel. the leaves purge, unc: 1. decoct in whay, or drach: 1. of the pouder d. in broth. Given to horses they h. the botts: with penny­royall they h. the bitings of doggs.

Bramble or blackberrie bush. Rubus sylvestris.

  • P. In hedges: the 2d in gardens planted.
  • T. Fl: in May and June: the fruit is ripe in Au­gust and September.
  • N. [...]. Sentis, Vepres, Batus, Cynosbatus: the fr: Mora bati.

Bramble-bush. Ger: J: K. as the common, the raspis, stone black-berry, and knot-berry bush. T. the young budds of the bramble bush, the fl: and leaves, and unripe fruit, are very dry and astringent. V. chewed they h. inflamma­tions of the mouth, and almonds of the throat, and stay all fluxes, so decoct with hony: they h. the eyes hanging out, knots in the funda­ment, and ap. stay the haemorrhoides. The indurate juyce of the stalkes, leaves, and un­ripe fruit is more effectuall. The ripe fruit is sweet, temperate, and wholsome: it hath [Page 54]astriction, so helps the stomack dried unripe: too many eaten c. head-ach: the root is bind­ing, and of thin substance, and wasteth the stone in the kidnies. The berries and flowers provoke urine, and decoct in wine h. the stone, the leaves boyled in water, with hony, allum, and white wine ap. h. sores in the mouth and privities, and fasten loose teeth. The Raspis is thought to be like the bramble in temperature and vertues, but not so much binding or dry­ing. Diosc: it operates as the bramble. The fruit h. weak stomacks. Park: the berries of the first h. against poyson: the juyce with mulberies h. the stomack and heart burning with hypocistis and hony. The leaves poude­red h. ulcers.

Bread of India. Jucca.

  • P. All the tract of India.
  • T. It's green all the yeare.
  • N. Hiucca, Hiurca, Manihot: the bread thereof Cazavi.

Indian bread. Ger: T. it is hot and dry 1°, the poysonous juyce being pressed forth, it's drie in the middle of the 2d. Park: bread made of the root, the juyce being pressed out, and the root poudered, then with water made in­to cakes, is of good nourishment, yet exaspera­ting the throat, except eaten with liquors to mollify it: the juyce [...]aw is poysonsome, but halfe boyled away, wholsome. Terent: it's aro­maticall and h. ulcers.

Brook-lime. Anagallis aquatica.

  • P. River sides, and watery ditches.
  • T. Fl: and seed in June, July, and Aug.
  • N. [...]. Becabunga, Berula, Cepaea.

Brook-lime. Ger: J: K. as the common, great long leaved, round leaved, the 4th of Lobel, and that of the garden. T. it's hot and drie, yet not so much as water-cresses. V. ea­ten in sallads it h. the scurvy, used as water-cres­ses, and scurvy-grasse: yet weaker. Boyled and ap. it h. swollen leggs, and the dropsie. The leaves boyled, strained, and stamped with the powder of fenugreek, line seed, the root of marsh-mallowes and hoggs grease, unto the forme of a cataplasme, ap: h. any swelling in the leggs or armes, and preserve wounds from apostumation. The leaves stamped, strai­ned and d. in wine h. the strangury, and griefes of the bladder: and eaten with the ten­drels of asparagus, oyle, vineger, and pepper, h. the strangury and stone. Park: K. the long chick-weed leafed. V. as the rest. They break the stone, provoke womens courses, and expell the dead birth: and fried with butter and vineger and ap. warme h. S. Anthonies fire, also it h. scabbs in horses.

Broome. Genista.

  • P. Dry, sc: the 1 and 2d: the rest in hot regions.
  • T. Fl: in Aprill and May: Seedeth in Aug. the Rape, in June.
  • N. [...]. Spartum, Broom-rape is called Ra­pum genistae.

Broome. Ger: J: K. as the common, rape, long floured, great floured, and branched, the Spanish, English dwarfe, and dwarfe of Hun­gary. T. the twiggs, flowers, and seeds are hot and dry 2°, of thin parts, clensing and o­pening, especially the seed, which is drier and not so moist. V. the twiggs and topps decoct, clense and open the liver, milt, and kidnies, purge watery humors with water; and with wine h. the dropsie: so the seed. A lie made of the ashes of the stalkes and branches dryed and burnt, with white or Rheinish wine, h. the green sicknesse, and dropsie, and expell­eth watery humors with the urine. All its parts trouble, cut, attenuate, and violently purge by vomit and stoole flegme and raw humours out of the joynts: sc. of Spartum: it breaketh and expelleth the stone: the young budds pickled and eaten c. appetite, open the liver and spleen: stamped with axungia and ap: h. the goute: & with hony of roses, or an egge h. the Kings evill. Broome-rape boyled in wine, h. paines of the kidnies and bladder, the stone, and provoketh urine: the juyce h. green wounds, and clenseth old ulcers. The distilled water of the fl: d. h. surfeits, and the [Page 57]black jaundise, the leaves dried and poudered with the seed, d. 1 and last. Sliced and infused in oyle olive, it h. spotts, freckles, and pushes. The fl: or seeds of Spanish-broom d. with meade q. drach: 1. c. strongly to vomit: and taken alone, loosen the belly, and purge wa­tery humours. Base-broome. K. as the green weed, wooddy, winged, globe, hares-foot, and small with hares-foot fl: T. V. as the first are hot and drie 2°, and bitter, yet not so well known. Spanish base broome K. as that without leaves, and the white leafed lesser. T. V. the seeds and juyce draw mightily. drach: 1. of the seeds and fl: d. with meade c. vomi­ting: the seed purgeth: bruised and steeped in water and d. it h. the sciatica, and squinancy d. in the morning: in a clyster with sea water it purgeth. Park: K. as the white, Spanish greene, and white. V. are referred to the rest. The thorny-broom is hot and dry, opens the liver and spleen, and h. the jaundise, and urine stopped.

Bryony. Bryonia.

  • P. Almost every where: on banks, and under hedges.
  • T. Fl: in May, June, July, and August.
  • N. [...]. Vitis alba, & Vitalba. Viticella. The black, Sigillum Maria.

Bryony Ger: K. as the white. T. is in all [Page 58]parts hot and drie 3°, much clensing, purging choler, flegme, and water. V. the first springs boyled and eaten, purge by siege and urine. the root d. in meade in the spring, or decoct and d. purgeth as before, and troubleth the stomack, h. dropsies, falling-sickness, & vertigo. The root as a pessarie extracts the dead child, so as a bath boiled and ap: it taketh away wrinkles and freckles, sunburnings, spots, and scarres, with meale of vetches, or boiled in oile, it h. whitlowes: stamped with wine and ap: it breaketh biles, and draweth out bones. The fruit ap: h. scabbs and lepry. An electua­ry of the roots with hony or sugar h. short windes, old coughs, pains in the sides, bur­stings, and dissolveth clotted bloud. The root stamped with salt and ap: h. filthy ulcers, and scabbed leggs: so the fruit. It's root, and that of wake-Robin stamped with brimstone ap. h. the morphew and freckles made in a nodulus ap: with vineger. Black bryonie T. the root is hot and drie 3°, the fruit is weaker: both scoure and waste. V. the roots d. purge water, and d. in wine h: the dropsie. The fruit h. sun-burning ap: and spots of bruises: so the root ap: as a plaister it h. deformities of the skin, breaks impostumes, draweth out splinters, and easeth ache ap: and dissolveth clotted bloud. Bryony of Mexico and Peru, mechoacan. T. the root is of a mean, between hot and cold, yet dry. V. it purgeth flegme and water, drach: 1 or 2. d. with an appropriate water, h. all diseases of flegme and cold hu­mors, old head-aches, coughs, the dyspnoea, collick, paine of the kidnies and joynts, reins, and belly. Park: the faecula of bryonie taken [Page 59]to the q. of 2 or 3 graines in wine or broth, purgeth flegme out of the chest. Mechoacan h. the dropsie and jaundise, expelleth winde, and h. old agues. The jalap is more strong. Col: the wa [...]r drawn out of the root of bryo­ny d. h. the fits of the mother, clenseth the wombe, and h. the courses.

Buck-horne. Coronopus.

  • P. Barren plaines, and sandy ground.
  • T. Fl: when the plantaines doe: May, Jun. Jul.
  • N. [...]. Herba stella, Sanguinalis, & Ha­renaria.

Buck-horne. Ger: J: K. as the harts-horne, and swines cresses. T. is like the common plantaine, binding, cooling, and drying. V. the leaves boyled and d. 1 and last h. sore eyes, watery, and blasted, &c. the leaves and roots stamped with bay salt, tied to the wrest h. fitts of the ague. Sea Buck-horne. K. as the com­mon, small sea, small buck-horne plaintaine, and mouse taile. T. coronopus is cold and dry much like plantaine. Mouse-taile is cold and something drying with astriction. V. their fa­culties in working are referred unto the plan­taines and harts-horne. Park: K. the upright, T. as the 1. V. buck-horned. in wine h. bitings of the viper, the stone and laske, and all fluxes and rheumes. The root h. the collick: Col: and warts.

Buck-thorne. Rhamnus.

  • P. The borders of fields, and untilled places.
  • T. Fl: in May: the berries are ripe in Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Spina infectoria. Burgispina. Spina cervi Cordi.

Buck-thorne. Ger: J: K. as the common, middle, and dwarfe. T. the berries are bitter and binding, hot and dry 2°. V. they purge thick flegme and choller, drach: 1. or drach: 1. & sem: being taken: or the berries, from 15 to 20, decoct in fat broth with salt. The juyce of the ripe berries boyled with a little allum, co­loureth a deep greene: and steeped when un­ripe colour yellow. Ram-thorne rhamnus. K. as the white fl: and purple, and sallow. T. is drie 2°, cold 1°, and digesting. V. the leaves ap: h. S. Anthonies fire. The 3d decoct and ap: h. the palsey and goute. Park: K. as the sea R. with willow leaves, red fl: Bavarian, mirtle leaved, and black berried. V. h. inflam­mations.

Buck-wheat. Tragopyrum.

  • P. Any ground, and it enricheth the soile.
  • T. It's sown in Aprill and May, and is ripe in August.
  • N. Fegopyrum, Erysimum Theoph: Irio Plin.

Buck-wheat. Ger. T. it nourisheth lesse than wheat, rie, barley, or oates; yet more than mill or panick. V. bread made of it's meale is [Page 61]eupeptick, of quick descent, and oligotro­phick. Park: yet not cacochymick, and is with­all a little flatulent: it mightily impinguats fowle: it provoketh urine, increaseth milke, looseneth the belly. Taken in wine it h. me­lancholy, and instilled, clears the eyes.

Bucks-beane. Trifolium paludosum.

  • P. Fenny and boggy places.
  • T. Fl: and flourishes from June to September.
  • N. [...]. Menianthes Theophrasti.

Bucks-beane. Ger: T. Diosc: the seed d. with meade, h. the cough, and paine in the chest, weake livers and haemoptysis. Gal: it clenseth & cutteth tough humours, yet with astriction. Park: it purgeth and clenseth the liver. Col: it serveth for many griefes of the brest. Lugd: the seed is bitter and subacerbe, and also is a­stringent, and contracting, so h. excreation: so Dod: &c.

Bugle. Bugula.

  • P. Woods and Copses, shadowie, and moist places.
  • T. Fl: in Aprill and May.
  • N. [...] Renealmi, Consolida media, So­lidago minor, Laurentina.

Bugle. Ger: K. as the middle consound, and [Page 62]white. T. is of a mean between heat and drie­nesse. V. d. it h. inward burstings, rents, and bruises, dissolveth congealed bloud, h. wounds inward and outward d. and ap: it h. the weak liver, opening and strengthening it. The deco­ction of Bugle d. worketh the foresaid effects, openeth the liver and gall, h. the jaundise and long fevers, rotten ulcers, and sores of the mouth and gummes, and is excellent in curing wounds and scratches, and sores of the secrets, or the herbe bruised ap: Park: K. as the blush coloured, and sweet Portingall, as the rest. V. h. those that are liver-grown, fractures and dislocations d. and ap: and made into an oint­ment with scabious, sanicle, and axungia h: all hurts.

Buglosse. Buglossum.

  • P. The 1 in gardens, the 2d by watery ditches, the 3d in dry places.
  • T. Fl: from May to Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Lang de beefe is called Lingua bubula: the wilde Echioides.

Buglosse. Ger: J. K. as the garden, lang de beefe, and small wilde. T. the leaves operate as borage, and make soluble. V. the root ap: with oyle h. green wounds, and with barley meale h. S. Anthonies fire. The juyce with a­qua vitae rubbed on the body c. sweat in agues. The leaves, fl: and roots are used in stead of borage, which exhilerate, comfort, and streng­then the heart. The other buglosses. K. as the [Page 63]wall, vipers, rough, & red fl: vipers bugl. T. are cold and dry. V. the root, leaves, and seed d. in wine h. the bitings of serpents, &c. plenty of milke in womens brests. The herbe chewed, and the juyce swallowed downe h. poyson, and venemous bitings: so also applied. Park: K. as the small garden, great wilde, Lancashire, and small creeping. V. the roots are clammy, and binding, & in a lohoc h. coughs, and con­densate rheume. The wild sorts are somewhat hotter & drier: near to the vipers bugl: the roots of wall buglosse h: wounds, inflammations, rheumes, and fluxes. Stone bugloss is sharp, hot & bitter: it c. birth. The vipers, K. as the hoa­rie, white, & black, exhilerate, & h. the back. The Sea Marsh bugl. h. fluxes & heat. Vigon: the 1 maturateth felons. Serap: it purgeth choler.

Bulleis-tree. Prunus sylvestris.

  • P. In loose ground: the wild in most hedges.
  • T. Fl. about March: the berries are ripe in Sept:
  • N. [...]. Prunellus, Spinus Virgil:

Bulleise. Ger: or wilde plums. T. stay and binde the belly, so all unripe plums, being then sharpe and soure. V. the juyce of sloes stoppeth the belly, laskes and bloudy flix, menses, and all issues of bloud, and may be used in stead of acatia, being as effectuall. Park: the fruit is cold, dry, and binding, h. pains of the inte­stines by scouring: so the distilled water of the fl: the leaves h. sore throats, & stop rheume of [Page 64]the eyes: so also the water of the green ber­ries, & ap: h. head-aches, of heate. Col: the bark d. h. pissing of bed.

Burre-dock. Bardana.

  • P. The 1 groweth every where: by ditches and high wayes.
  • T. the season is in July and August.
  • N. [...]. Prosopis, Personata.

Burre-dock. Ger. K. as the great, and lesser, T. the leaves of clot-burre are moderately dry and wasting, the root is something hot. The seed of the lesser burre Gal: is hot, dry, and digesting. V. the roots taken with the ker­nells of Pine apples, h. the spitting of bloud, and corrupt matter: and stamped with salt and ap: h. the biting of a mad dog. The juyce of the leaves d. with hony provokes urine, h. paines of the bladder, and d. with old wine, the bitings of serpents: the herbe with salt ap: after scarrification, draweth out the poyson of vipers: so the root, and h. the Kings evill. The stalke of the clot-burre when young, boyled, the rinde being pilled off, with fat meat, c. venery, h. ulcers of the lungs, and haemoptysis with the kernell of the Pine ap­ple. The juyce of the root d. with ale, h. a windie or cold stomack. The leafe ap: to the goute with treacle of Androm: and the whites of eggs p. aeq. helpeth it, and easeth the paine. [Page 65] Diosc: the decoction of the root of the great burre, with the seed ap. h. the toothach, burn­ings, and kibed heeles. d. in wine it h. the strangury, and paine in the hip. The fruit ap: h. hard swellings: the root stamped and strai­ned with malmesey h. the running of the reins, whites, and strengtheneth the back with the yelkes of eggs, pouder of acornes and nutmeggs m. and d. first and last. Park: the leaves ap: h. the shrinking of sinews or arteries. the seed d. in wine 40 daies, h. the sciatica. The roots prepared h. consumptions: the roots with wine ap: h. hard spleenes. The burres decoct, make haire yellow. Col: the leaves ap: h. the mother.

Burnet. Pimpinella.

  • P. Gardens, barren places: dry sandy ground.
  • T. Fl: from June to September, and then the seed is ripe.
  • N. [...]. Sanguisorba, Sanguinaria, Bipi­nella, Sorbastrella.

Burnet. Ger: K. as the garden, and wilde. T. is drying, binding, and doth meanly coole, the lesser hath a temperate scent. V. this h. wounds, stoppeth bleeding, d. and ap. it stayeth the laske, and bloudy flixe, and menses. The lesser is eaten in sallads, and [Page 66]doth exhilerate. The decoction d. h. all flux­es, so the pouder of the herbe or seed d. with wine or chalybeat water: the leaves are vul­nerary, and d. in wine macerated h. the trem­bling of the heart. Park: it h. pestilentiall a­gues. K. as the great and American. The thor­ny is drie and binding, d. it stays lasks, and flux­es. Pem: it's hot and drie 2°. the distilled wa­ter h. the skin.

Burre-reed. Sparganium.

  • P. Moist medowes, fennes, and ditches.
  • T. They knot in August.
  • N. [...]. Platanaria. Carex Dod. Buto­mus Theoph.

Burre-reed. Ger: K. as the branched, and great water b: T. are cold and dry. V. the knops boyled in wine, h. the bitings of veni­mous beasts, d. and fomented: so Park: K. as the unbranched, and great branched of Virgi­nia. Schwenck. the branched or ramous, hath a drying faculty. Trag: the seed h: the bitings of venimous beasts: as the root. So Lugd: Ruell: Plin: Diosc: Dod: its cold, but not much.

Butchers-broome. Ruscus.

  • P. Rough and barren grounds, and heaths.
  • T. It's sprouts are gathered in spring: the berries in Aug:
  • N. [...]. Centromyrrhine. S [...]opa regia.

Butchers-broome. Ger: T. the root is hot, [Page 67]meanly drie, and of a thin essence. V. the roots d. decoct in wine, break the stone, and expell it, and h. the strangury: Diosc: so the leaves and berries, and provoke termes, h. the head­ach, and yellow jaundise. The roots gently raise up tough and grosse flegme, sticking in the lungs and chest, and concoct the same. Park: the roots and leaves are hot 2°, drie 1°, the young shoots are more bitter then aspara­gus, yet eaten like it, open obstructions, and provoke urine. The roots d. and ap: h. bro­ken bones, and luxations ap: as a pultis. Col: the juyce of the leaves taken with sugar, h. the spitting of bloud, and clenseth the wombe: and h. the stinke of the mouth. The pouder of the roots with anniseed and fennel seed d. h. winde.

Butter-burre. Petasites.

  • P. In moist grounds almost every where.
  • T. Fl: in April: the leaves continue till winter.
  • N. [...]. Iphium Theoph: Persolata Plin: as 'tis thought.

Butter-burre. Ger: T. is hot and drie 2°, of thin parts. V. the roots stamped with ale and d. h. pestilent and burning fevers, coole and abate their heate, poudered and d. in wine h. the plague, c. sweat, and drive from the heart all venome and ill heate: it killeth wormes, and h. the suffocation of the mother: ap. it h. all filthy ulcers: d. it provoketh urine, and the termes. Park: the root taken with zedoary and angelica h. the suffocation of the mother: [Page 68]decoct in wine h. shortwindednesse. The pou­der h. blemishes in the skinne. Col: the oile of the root ap: h. shaking fevers: and coldnesse of the joynts: it h. farcian in horses d. and ap.

Butter-wort. Pinguicula.

  • P. It groweth in Yorkeshire, &c.
  • T. Fl: from May to August.
  • N. Sanicula Eboracensis, Diapensia, Consolida quinquefolia.

Butter-wort. Ger. is hot and dry 3°. V. the inhabitants of York-shire annoint the duggs of their kine with the juyce thereof, being bitten of venemous creatures, or chapped: and say it rotts sheep feeding on it. Park: it h. ruptures in children, and healeth green wounds: used as an ointment it helpeth the hands chapt by the wind. The people in Wales make a syrup thereof, as of roses, with which they use to purge themselves, and their chil­dren, and put into broth it purgeth flegme effectually. The herb made into an ointment with butter h. obstructions of the liver.

C.

Cabbage. Brassica capitata.

  • P. Gardens: a fat and well manured soile.
  • T. It is sowen in spring, or Sept: removed in Ap:
  • N. [...]. Caulis capitulatus, Sam­busium Cresc.

CAbbage. Ger: K. as the white, red, and open Cabbage. T. as Coleworts, are dry­ing and binding sc. the substance: the juyce is nitrous and clensing, and the 1 loos­eth the belly, and is of little nourishment. Park: V. they are to be eaten with fat meat. Eaten they dry up milk in nurses breasts, as some think: Matth: but they rather increase milke: the seed grossely bruised, and boyled in flesh broth h. the collick d. and easeth all pains and gripings, & stone in the kidnies. A lohoc of the pulpe of the boyled stalkes, with hony and almond milke, h. the consumption and lungs.

Cacao-tree. Cacao. *

  • P. In the West Indies, in hot and shadowie places.
  • T. As soon as it is touched by the sun it withereth.
  • N. Cacavate, the confection thereof, Chocolate.

Cacao-tree. Col: K. as the common, [Page 70]and broader, T. the kernells of the fruit, are of different parts: first they are very cold and dry, so should be restringent and obstructive; yet they so farre participate of heate and moi­sture, that if they be well ground and mix­ed, their restringency and obstructivenesse will be corrected. V. the confection of chocaletto, being taken alone, or relented in milke, c. venery, procreation, and conception, and fa­cilitates delivery, preserves health, and impin­guates, it h. digestion, consumption, and cough of the lungs, the plague of the gutts, and other fluxes, the greene sicknesse, jaundise, and all manner of inflammations, and oppilations, it h. the morphew, clenseth the teeth, and sweet­neth the breath, provokes urine, cures the stone and strangury, expells poysons, and pre­serves from all infectious diseases. Bauh. Benz. the Indians use it with pepper for drinke, but it's better for hoggs then men.

Calamint. Calamintha.

  • P. Mountains in the shadowy and gravelly parts.
  • T. It bringeth forth fl: and seed from June to Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Calamintum montanum. Cala­mintum.

Calamint. Ger: J: K. as the common, the more excellent, and field. T. the Mountain calamint is hot, biting, and of a thin substance, drie 3°. Gal: it digesteth or wasteth thin hu­mors, and cutteth the thick. V. d. with meade [Page 71]it manifestly heateth, provoketh sweat, con­sumeth superfluous humors, and h. the shive­rings of agues, so the sallet oyle in which it is boyled, chafed on the body: decoct and d. it provoketh urine, menses, and expelleth the dead child, so ap: it h. those that are bruised, also cramps, convulsions, orthopnoea's, and the cholericke passion. It h. the yellow jaundise, openeth the liver and gall, and clenseth. d. and ap: it h. the bitings of serpents, and spotts, and clenseth the skin: it killeth wormes d. with salt and hony, and those of the eares dropped into them: the juyce as an errhine stopps blee­ding, the root used in cute with mirtle seed gargarized h. the squinancie. Ap. it h. the sciati­ca: eaten it h. the leprosie, drinking whay af­ter it: of it is made diacalaminthe, which doth wast crudities and c. menses. Park: K. as the greatest, and small. V. ap: as a pessarie it pro­voketh the courses, and the birth. ap: it h. the spleen: the decoction with sugar h. old coughs. Col: it preserves meate.

Calathian violet. Pnemonanthe.

  • P. Medowes, untilled places.
  • T. Fl: in Aug: and Septemb:
  • N. Viola autumnalis. Campanula Autumnalis.

Calathian violet. Ger: T. is hot in faculty, somewhat like gentian, but far weaker, V. it h. pestilent diseases, and the bitings and sting­ings of venimous beasts. Park: it serveth in stead of the greater gentians. It resisteth pu­trefaction, [Page 72]and h. against faintings and swoun­ings. The roots taken with mirrhe, rue, and pepper, h. the bitings of mad doggs &c. in wine they h. those that are liver-grown, and dejected appetites, and steeped in wine h. those that are wearied by travell, and lame in their joynts, and have stitches in their sides: taken in the distilled water of the herb it h. all agues: as a pessary, it draweth forth the dead child: the juyce h. wounds & tumors.

Caltrop. Tribulus.

  • P. In myrie lakes and ditches.
  • T. Fl: in June, July, and August.
  • N. [...]. Tribulus marinus. Saligot.

Caltrops. Ger: J: K. as the water, small wa­ter, and small froggs lettuce. T. is cold and moist, the land Caltrops, are more earthy. V. the herbe used as a pultis h. all inflammations, boyled with hony and water, it h. cankers of the mouth, sore gumms, and the almonds of the throat. The bread of the kernells, bindes the belly. The fruit d. green in wine h. the stone, and resisteth poyson, so ap: the leaves d. h. all inflammations of the mouth, and ul­cers, corruption of the jawes, and Kings evill▪ the pouder of the nutts d. h. the pissing of bloud, gravell, and bindeth the belly. The les­ser agree with the first. Land Caltrops. T. are cold, earthy, and binding. V. the fruit d. wast­eth the stone being of thin parts. d. and ap: it h. the bitings of vipers. d. in wine it h. poy­son. [Page 73]The decoction kills fleas sprinkled. Park: it h. inflammations, impostumes, and flux of humours, tumours, and paines. Gargled it h. sore mouthes: the juyce h. rheumes of the eyes Instilled.

Calves-snout. Antirrhinum.

  • P. The 1 groweth in gardens, the rest among corne▪
  • T. Fl: in May, untill July: the seed is soon ripe after.
  • N. [...]. Orontium, Canis cerebrum, Os Leonis, Leo herba.

Calves-snout. Ger: J: K. as the purple, white, yellow, small, and small creeping. T. they are hot and dry, and of subtile parts. V. the herbe is of the faculty of Star-wort, but lesse effectu­all. Apul: the distilled water, or decoction of the herbe and root in water, ap: h. water­ing eyes of a hot cause. Park: V. the wilde snapdragons are little used. Matth: the leaves, flowers, and seed, h. the rising of the mother, m. with rose water and hony. The herbe ap­plied to the fore-head, h. the pin and web in the eye. Croll: it helpeth against phantasmes. Lonic: ap. with oyle of lillies it is cosmeticall.

Camels-hay. Schoenanthum.

  • P. Easterne countries: Arabia, Syria, &c.
  • T. Their time answereth other reeds and flaggs.
  • N. [...]. Jun­cus odoratus rotundus, Ʋnguentarius.

Camells-hay. Ger. K. as the common and ba­stard. T. is indifferently hot, and a little astri­ctive. V. it provoketh urine, termes, and h. winde in the stomack. It c. head-ache being hot and of thin parts. Diosc: it dissolves, di­gests, and opens the veines. The flowers d. h. the pissing of bloud, paines of the gutts, stomack, lungs, liver, and reines, fullnesse of the stomack, dropsies, convulsions, or shrink­ing of sinews drach: 1. d. with pepper for cer­tain daies. Boiled in wine, it h. inflammations of the matrice, the fume being taken, and ba­thed. Park: the decoction of the fl: h. hae­moptysis, poyson, and inflammations of the body, d. and ap: the pouder h. creeping sores. Turn: it looseth the vessells & ripeneth.

Cammocke. Aresta bovis.

  • P. Fertile pastures, and borders of fields.
  • T. Fl: in July and Aug: & are full grown in Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Anonis, Acute [...]a, Remora aratri, Furze.

Cammocke. Ger: K. as the common purple [Page 75]without prickles, and yellow. T. the root is hot 3°, attenuating and cutting. V. the ba [...]ke of the root d. with wine provoketh urine, breaketh the stone, and expelleth it. Boiled in water and vineger gargarised hot, it h. the tooth-ache: boyled with oxymel it h. the fall­ing sicknesse. Matth: the pouder often taken h. ruptures, the tender spriggs pickled, are a pleasant sallade. Park: K. as the greater yellow gentle and variable. V. the pouder of the barke of the root d. in wine, or the decoction h. the haemorrhoids, and openeth the liver and spleen, so the conserve. The pouder ap: h. hard tumors.

Cammomill. Chamaemelum.

  • P. Gardens, and many other places.
  • T. Fl. most part of all the summer.
  • N. [...]. Anthemis, Leucanthemis, Cham [...] ­milla.

Cammomill. Ger: K. as the common, sweet naked, double fl: and Romane. T. Gal: is hot and dry 1°, of thin parts, digesting and rari­fying: it h. wearinesse and paine, and mollifi­eth: V. it h. the collick and stone in clysters, and provoketh urine The oile h. all aches, bruisings, shrinking of sinews, hardnesse, and cold swellings: decoct in wine and d. it h. cold stomacks, soure belchings, winde, and provoketh the termes. It h. cold agues. De­coct in white wine and d. it expelleth the dead child, and secundine, and clenseth those [Page 76]parts. The herbe boyled in posset ale d. h. the wind of the chest, expelleth flegme, and h. agues in children: in baths it c. sweat, and o­pens the pores: it h. gnawings of the belly, pains of the sides, and mollifieth hard swell­ings: so the oile of the flowers: it's anodyne, and h. wearisomenesse. The wild. T. is hot and dry as the 1. and h. the mother. Park: the fl: decoct and d. c. sweat, and h. cold aches: the syrupe h. the jaundise, and dropsie. Turn: the strongest is the purple fl: the yellow & white fl: h. the stone. Trag: the distilled water of the fl: h. obstructions, and ap: h. the head. Pem: ap. it h. the collick, and wastes humors: the oile h. cramps.

Campion. Lychnis.

  • P. In the borders of plowed fields, and ditches.
  • T. Fl: from May, untill Autumne.
  • N. [...]. The feathered are called, Flos cu­cult. Armoraria pratensis.

Campion. Ger: J: K. as the red wilde, Eng­lish sea, wilde hairy, hoary wilde, small hairy, overworne, spatling, and white wilde. T. they are referred unto the garden Campions. V. drach: 2. of the seed poudered and d. purge choller, and h. those that are stung by veni­mous beasts. The other wilde campions. K. as the red, white, and degenerate batchelors buttons with green fl: broad leafed wilde, and creeping mountaine camp. T. V. are not yet [Page 77]discovered. Park: K. as the ordinary rose, and nonsuch. T. the seed is hot and dry 2°, the seed of the 1 d. h. poyson: the leaves ap: h. ulcers. The wilde. K. as the white with streaked husks, corne, cockle, & narrow leafed. V. stop fluxes, operate as the 1. and h. the stone.

Capers. Cappares.*

  • P. In Italy, Spaine, and hot regions.
  • T. Fl: untill Autumne, the knops are our sauce.
  • N. [...]. Caparis, Inturis Gazae.

Capers. Ger: K. as the sharpe, and round leafed. T. Capers, or the flowers not fully grown, are hot, and of thin parts, eaten green they are oligotrophicke, and a medicine, ra­ther than a meate. V. they cause appetite, and h. a moist stomack, clensing away the flegme, that cleaveth to it: they open the liver and milt, and h. those that have a quartane ague, and ill spleens. The barke of the root, heat­eth, clenseth, purgeth, cutteth, and digesteth. It h. hard spleenes taken, or ap: boyled with oximel, it expelleth grosse humours by urine, and siege, so h. the spleen and sciatica: it pro­voketh the termes, and draweth flegme out of the head. Diosc: the barke clenseth old sores, and scoureth the crusts about the edges: be­ing chewed it h. the tooth-ache. Stamped with vineger, it scoureth tetters and ring­wormes, [Page 78]hard swellings, and Kings evill. The barke d. h. hardnesse of the spleen, the palsie, and ruptures, and is diuretick. Beane-capers. T. V. are not of any known use. Park: the barke of the root with oxymel, h. the palsie, and weaknesse of the nerves, and drawes out humors that are the cause of ruptures, convul­sions, and cramps. The roots boiled in oile. h. paines of the eares: the oile h. the spleen. The Arabian sort is almost exulcerating. Rauwolf. Bean capers kill wormes.

Carrawaies. Carum.

  • P. Germany, fruitfull fields and meadowes.
  • T. It fl: and seedeth from May to September.
  • N. [...]. Carnabadion Sethi. Careum.

Carrawaies. Ger: T. Gal: the seed is hot and dry 3°, and is moderately binding. V. it consumeth winde, h. the stomack, c. conco­ction, and provoketh urine: the root may be eaten as the carrot. The seeds confected h. di­gestion, provoke urine, dissolve winde and operate as annise seed. Park: the seed h. all cold griefes of the stomack, and head, the bowells and mother, and h. the winde in them: and sharpneth the sight. The pouder ap. with a pultis h. spotts in the skin: fried with the herbe ap. in a bagge, it h. the wind collick. Hart. the oile d. in wine, from 3 dropps to 7 with a like q. of that of amber hastens the birth.

Carnations. Caryophyllus.

  • P. Gardens, set in pots, in warme places.
  • T. Fl: most part of the summer.
  • N. [...] Theoph: Scalig. Herba tunica, O­cellus Damascenus, & Barbar.

Carnations. Ger: J: K. as the great double, double, white, blew, and single. T. the flow­ers with the leaves and roots, for the most part are temperate in heate and drinesse. V. the conserve of the fl: of the clove-gilliflower is very cordiall and exhilerating, it h. hot pestilentiall feavers, and expelleth the poyson, & fury of the disease. The wilde. K. as the single purple pinkes, single red, white jagged, large white jagged, purple jagged, white wilde jagged, wilde purple jagged, Clusius's moun­taine, and dwarfe, leafelesse, white mountaine, Deptford, Maiden, small mountaine broad lea­fed, white mountaine, wilde sea, broad leafed wilde, and white campion pinke. T. are of the temper of Carnations. V. they are not used in physick. Fuch: The root preventeth the plague, it's juyce h. the stone, and falling-sicknesse. Park: K. as the great old, Camber­sine, Gredeline, Primelo, Bradshawes dainty La­dy, Oxford, granpere, tawny, and Tuggies gillifl. double and matted Pinke. T. V. as the rest.

Carrot. Pastinaca.

  • P. In a loose well manured soile.
  • T. They are to be sowen in Ap: and fl: the next yeare.
  • N. [...]. Daucus, the wilde.

Carrots. Ger: J: K. as the yellow, and red. T. the root of the yellow is temperately hot, and something moist, of little nourishment, and that not very good, it's not so windie as the turnep, nor passeth so soon through the bel­ly. The red is of like faculty: the seed of both is hot and dry. V. the seed breaketh and con­sumeth windinesse, and provoketh urine, as that of the wild carrot. The root is usually boyled with fat flesh and eaten. The wild carrot, or bee's-nest. T. the seed and root is hot and dry 2°, and opening. V. the root boi­led and eaten, or boiled in wine, and the de­coction d. provoketh urine, expells the birth, and c. venery. The seed d. provoketh the termes, and urine: h. the winde, dropsie, col­lick, and stone, d. in wine. It h. the mother, and conception, and bitings of venimous beasts. Candy carrots. T. the seed is hot and dry 3°. V. the seed d. h. the strangury, and dysurie, gravell, and stone, and provoketh urine: it h. gripings of the belly, winde, col­lick, and old coughs. d. in wine it expelleth poyson: the root d. in wine stopps lasks, and h. poyson. Stinking carrots. K. as the stink­ing, small leafed stinking, and deadly: Thapsia. T. V. the root c. gripings, cramps, and con­vulsions. The wilde. Park: K. as the moun­taine [Page 81]of Hungary, mountaine fine leafed, the true of Candy, low mountaine parsely, and co­riander leafed &c. V. the root h. coughs.

Catch-fly. Muscipula.

  • P. In the west parts of England among the corne.
  • T. Fl: most part of the Summer.
  • N. [...] Thal: Viscaria Dod: Silene Theophrasti.

Catch-fly. Ger: J: K. as the lime-wort, common, and narrow leafed. T. V. They are referred to the wilde pinkes, and gilliflowers in nature and vertue. Park: K. as the French, Clusius's of Candy, great Candy of Alpinus, lesser Spanish, and the red German Catchfly. T. V. are not discovered, but may be referred to those of the other wilde campions, to which most like.

Catmint. Mentha cattaria.

  • P. Borders of fields, moist and watery places,
  • T. Fl: in July and Aug: the seed is ripe in Sep.
  • N. Mentha felina, Herba catti, Nepeta Eystet.

Cat-mint. Ger: J: K. as the common or nep, great, and small. T. it's hot and dry, and hath [Page 82]the faculty of the cala-mints. V. it h. cold pains of the head, stomack, and matrice, disea­ses of flegme, raw humors, and winde, burst­ings, and bruises, the juyce d. with wine or meade. It's bath brings down the termes, and maketh fruitfull: and operates as the ordinarie mints. Park: strange neppe is to be referred to the rest. V. cat-mint h. cramps and cold aches, dissolveth cold and winde: it h. coughs, and shortnesse of breath: ap: it h. the piles, decoct it h. scabbs. Col: d. it h. vertigoes.

Cats-taile. Typha.

  • P. Pooles, ditches, and marshie grounds.
  • T. Fl: in July and August.
  • N. [...]. Cestrum Morionis, Juncus asper Dod.

Cats-taile. Ger: T. is cold and dry. V. the downe stamped with swines grease h. burnes and scalds: so Turn: the downe beaten with the leaves of betony, the roots of gladiole, and leaves of hyppoglosson into pouder, and m: with the yelkes of eggs hard sodden, and so eaten, h. the enterocele in children, taken fasting for 40 dayes, with ligature. The downe ap: h. kibed heeles. Park: K. as the greater and lesser. T. clense and dry: and ap: stop bloud.

Cedar-tree. Cedrus.*

  • P. In Syria, as upon mount Libanus.
  • T. It's alwaies greene.
  • N. [...]. Cedria the rosin, it's also called Cedrina.

Cedar-tree. Ger: as the great of Libanus. T. is hot and dry, with an excellent tenuity of parts. The rosin is of a clammy substance. V. the gum of cedar is good to be put into colly­ries for the eyes: ap: it h. the haw and stripes. Cedar infused in vineger, and put into the eares killeth the wormes therein, and with the de­coction of hysope h. the noyse thereof: infused in vineger and ap. it h. the tooth-ache, put in­to the hollow of the teeth it breaketh them, and easeth their paine, used as a gargarisme, it h. angina's, and the inflammation of the tonsills: it killeth nitts &c. ap. with salt, it h. the biting of cerastes. d. with sweet wine, it h. the poyson of the sea hare, & h. lepers: as a suppositorie it killeth wormes, and used as a pessarie, it draweth forth the birth. The prickly cedar, Oxycedrus. K. as the crimson, rough Lycian, 1, & 2. V. Gal: is hot and drie fere 3°, the substance is sweet, and used in per­fumes, with the leaves. V. the berries of the low cedar may be eaten, yet if taken too plen­tifully, they c. head-ache, and gnawing in the stomacke, the berries of the crimson one are not so hot and dry as the rest, the other are biting, hotter and drier than those of juniper, & eaten c. head-ache: yet they h. the strangury, and provoke urine. Park: the rosin is hot 4°, and preserveth dead bodies from putrefaction, [Page 84]and d. h. the ulcers of the lungs. The prickly Cedar. K. as the Cyprus like. V. the berries with hony h. the cough, and the mother d. in wine, stopps fluxes, h. cramps, and is little in­feriour to the first.

Celandine. Chelidonium.

  • P. In untilled places, among brambles in the shade.
  • T. Fl: from Aprill, to a good part of Summer.
  • N. [...]. Hirundinaria, Scrophularia, Ficaria.

Celandine. Ger: J: K. as the great, and great with more cut leaves. T. the great is manifestly hot, and dry 3°, and clensing. V. the juyce of the herbe doth sharpen the sight, e­specially if boyled with hony. The root h. the yellow jaundise without agues, opening the liver and gall. The root chewed h. the tooth­ache, boyled with anise-feed in white wine, it openeth the stoppings of the liver, and h. the jaundise. Cut in pieces and given to hawkes it cureth their wormes. Clus: the juyce of the great Celandine dropped into small green wounds, presently cureth them. Small Celandine. T. is hot and dry, more bi­ting than the greater, nigh to the crow-foot. V. it blistereth the skin, and drawes off cor­rupt nailes: the juyce of the roots m. with ho­ny ap. As an errhine, it purgeth the head of filthy humors. The root and graines h. the piles, the juyce with wine bathed. Park: the greater h. the dropsie, itch [...], and sores in the [Page 85]leggs d. and the plague. ap: it h. creeping sores: with oile of Cammomill, the pains, of the belly. ap: it h. spotts: the lesser h. the Kings evill and wennes.

Centorie. Centaurium.

  • P. A fat soile, and sunny bankes, pastures and fields.
  • T. Fl: in summer, the roots are to be gathered in Autumne.
  • N. [...]. The lesser is called Fel terrae, Multi-radix.

Centorie. Ger: J: K. as the common great, and whole leafed. T. is hot and dry 3°, of a mixt taste. V. drach: 2. of the root taken h. burstings, spitting of bloud, cramps, shrinking of sinews, dyspnoea's, and gripings of the belly. The herbe mightily gleweth wounds. Diosc: The root, in the fore mentioned cases, if no fever, is to be given with wine; else with wa­ter. Gal: the juyce of the leaves operates as the root, and is used in stead of Lycium. Small centorie. K. as the common, and yellow. T. is hot and dry 2°, and bitter: the yellow is hot and dry 3°. V. decoct in water and d. it openeth the liver, gall, and spleen: it h. the yellow jaundise, and long agues: it killeth wormes, clenseth, scoureth, and attenuateth; it purgeth choller and thick humors, and h. the Sciatica. Stamped green & ap: it h. wounds & old ulcers. The juyce in collyries h. the eyes, & [Page 86]m. with hony clenseth them. d. it h. the in­firmities of the sinews. drach: 1. of the pouder of the leaves of the yellow centorie d. once in 3 daies with auniseed, or carraway seeds in wine, h. the dropsie, and green sicknesse. The juyce of the red floured is bitter, purgeth choller, and h. the liver. Park: K. as the Pyrenean great, great of Portugal, and great yellow. V. d. it h. the dropsie, sc. the root, and pleurisies, coughs and strangury: and eyes ap: the lesser d. h. the green sicknesse, and collick; provokes the courses and birth.

Charlocke. Rapistrum.

  • P. Follow fields, ditch bankes, & among corne.
  • T. Fl: from March, till summer.
  • N. [...]. Lampsana Matth: Chadlock.

Charlocke. Ger: J: K. as the wild, chadlock, and water chadl. T. the seed of these wilde turneps, and water chadlock, are hot and drie as mustard-seed. Gal: these being eaten c. e­vill bloud. Diosc: they warme the stomack, and nourish somewhat. Park: K as the white wilde, one grained, and Spanish one grained. V. not used. Gal: the seed is abstersive, and some­what digesting.

Chaste-tree. Agnus castus.

  • P. It groweth naturally in Italy, and hot regions.
  • T. It putteth forth leaves in May, fl: in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Salix marina. Vitex.

Chaste-tree. Ger: J: K. as the common, and that with cut leaves. T. the leaves and fruit are hot and dry 3°, of thin parts, and wasting winde. V. it c. chastity, by exiccation of the sperme, used any way. The seed d. h. windi­nesse of the stomack, openeth the liver and spleen. drach: 1. d. in wine h. dropsies: the leaves stamped with butter ap: dissolve the swellings of the genitors. The decoction of the herbe & seed h. the pain & inflammation of the matrice used as a bath. The seed d. with penniroyall bringeth down the menses, so also in a pessarie, or sume. In a pultis it h. the head-ache, phrensie, and lethargie with oile and vineger, being bathed. The sume thereof chaseth away serpents, and ap: h. their bi­tings. The seed ap: with water h. the rifts of the fundament; with the leaves, it h. luxations, and wounds. Park: the seed d. h. the bitings of venimous beasts, causeth milke in womens breasts, and provoketh urine. Made into a pultise with vine leaves and oile, ap: it h. a­gues and wearinesse: the seed with barley meale mollifieth, & with hony h. sore mouthes.

Cherry-tree. Cerasus.

  • P. Gardens, old broken walls, shadowie places, and fields.
  • T. Bloomes in Aprill: the winter ch: Fl: in Aug: and hath fruit.
  • N. [...]. That of the winter is called Sola­num halicacabum.

Cherry-tree. Ger: K. as the common Eng­lish, Spanish, late ripe, cluster, double fl. bear­ing fruit, double fl. barren, birds, red grape, common black, and dwarfe ch. T. those that are somewhat sowre are the best, the wild little sweet ones the worst: they soon putrifie, and are of evill juyce, and c. wormes, agues, and feavers: they are all cold and moist. V. the Spanish cherries are like to these in faculty, yet putrifie not so soone. The Flanders or Kentish, when ripe are better, yet watery, cold and moist, and quench thirst, h. hot sto­macks, and agues, loosen the body, and nou­rish nothing at all. The late ripe, or morell [...]h: are drie, being dryed, and binding; they h. the stomack, and stop the belly. All are cold and moist, and eaten before meat, loosen the belly, hurt rheumatick bodies, and cold sto­macks. The black strengthen the stomack, are better than the red; and dried, stop the laske. The distilled water of cherries h. hot sto­macks, and the falling sicknesse d. with wine. The gumme of the cherry-tree d. in wine and water, h. the stone, lubrifying the passages, and h. the sharpnesse of humors: also it h. old coughs, the sight, and appetite, and causeth a good colour. Winter cherries. K. as the red and black. T. the 1. is cold, drie, and of sub­tile [Page 89]parts, the leaves are of the temperature of garden night-shade. V. the fruit bruised, and infused in white wine 2 or three houres, then boiled and strained, and d. with sugar and cin­namon, h. the stopping of the urine, stone, and gravell, dysury, and sharpnesse of water, &c. & h. the yellow jaundise. If old, d. a greater q. Cherry bay. T. V. the fruit is good to be eaten, the rest not used. Recch: the barke of the sweet cherry tree of India, d. h. the dy­sentery, the powder h. the inflammations of the eyes, the fr: is hot, dry, and a little binding. Park: K. as the creeping dwarfe, new sound land, strange long cluster, that of Austria, mountaine dwarse, and Indian. V. the sweet are more lubrick: the tart h. heat: the water of the black ch: h. the stone: the oile of the kernells d. in meade, h. faintings, collick, and wormes: the leaves of the winter ch: h. stingings.

Chervill. Cerefolium.

  • P. The 1 in gardens moist and dunged: the last in Spaine.
  • T. Fl: in May, the seed is ripe in July.
  • N. [...]. Chaerephyllum, Enthusicum Theoph. as 'tis thought.

Chervill. Ger: J: K. as the common, hedge, great, and small sweet. T. is moderately hot and dry, but not so much as parseley, and is pleasant to the stomack. V. decoct in wine & d. it provoketh urine, so also ap: hot to the share: 'tis windie & causeth lust: the leaves of the sweet ch: are pleasant in sallads. Gal: the root is hot 2°, of thin parts. Diosc: d. in wine [Page 90]it h. the bitings of the phalangia, & provoketh the menses, and secundine: boyled and d. it h. the ptysick, and consumption of the lungs. The seed eaten in sallads with oile, vineger, and pepper h. cold and feeble stomacks: so the roots, and exhilerate, and c. lust. Tooth-pick chervill. Gingidium. K. as the broad and Spa­nish. T. Gal: it's wholsome for the stomack, bitter and binding, moderately hot, and dry fine 2di. V. it provoketh urine decoct with wine and d. it scoureth the bladder, and ex­pelleth the stone. The quills serve for tooth­picks: as for the wild chervill, see Shepheards­needle. Park: V. garden chervill dissolveth congealed bloud, and h. bruises d. and ap: it expells the stone, and h. the pleurisie and pricking in the sides. The wilde dissolves tumors in any part. ap: it h. scarres. Strange Chervill. K. as the common, and broad lea­sed of Syria Gingidiū. T. are in a mean between heat and cold▪ bitter, clensing and drying a moist stomack: and d. in wine, provoke u­rine.

Chestnut-tree. Castanea.

  • P. The 1 groweth in shadowi [...] places, the 2d in the East countries.
  • T. They bloom in Aprill: the nutts are ripe in Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Lopima, the fruit Heracleotica nux, glandes Sardianae.

Chestnut-tree. Ger: J: K. as the common and horse ch. T. common chest-nutts are very [Page 91]dry, and binding, in a mean between heat and cold, and windy. V. they are of good nourish­ment, yet dyspepticke, stop the belly &c. thick bloud eaten raw: roasted they more ea­sily descend, and are lesse windie, yet astrin­gent. Made into bread they h. laskes, and the bloudy flixe. Their meale made into an ele­ctuarie with hony h. the cough, and spitting of bloud. The barke of the tree boiled in wine and d. stopps laskes, bloudy flixe, and also all other issues of bloud. Water-chestnut, see in Caltrops: Earth-chestnutts, in Earth-nut. Park: K. as the chestnut of Peru, and the dwarfe. V. the white skin of the common, d. h. any flux: the last purgeth choller: that of Peru, tasteth like the almond: the Indian is a little astrin­gent.

Chick-weed. Alsine.

  • P. Shadowie, among bushes, old walls, and corne­fields.
  • T. They are green in winter: fl: & seed in spring.
  • N. [...]. Hippia, Hippago Plin. the wilde, Morsus Gallinae, Hen-bit.

Chick-weed. Ger: J: K. as the great, middle, fine, sea, right, stone, speed-well, fountaine, river, marsh, water, berry-bearing, and cree­ping water ch: T. it is cold moist and waterish, cooling without astriction. V. the leaves boy­led soft in water, adding hoggs grease, the pouder of fenugreeke, and line-seed, and a few roots of marsh mallowes stamped to the [Page 92]sorme of a pultis, h. swellings, suppurating hot apostumes, and dissolving them: it h. shrunke members, wounds in the sinews, and defends virulent ulcers from inflammation: or it com­forteth, digesteth, defendeth, and strongly suppurateth. The leaves boiled in vineger and salt, bathed, h. manginesse of the hands and leggs. The lesser ch: refresheth birds in cages. The bastard chick-weed. K. as the German­der, horned, ivy, and great. T. are thought to be cold and moist, and like the first in ver­tue and operation. Park: K. as the greatest, great spreading, and smaller. V. the leaves ap: with vineger h. stingings with serpents, and d. with meade h. paines of the back: ap. h. head­ache and wenns: and all heate d. and ap: The mountaine. K. as the ivy and rocky. V. as the 1. so the sea chick: which doth attenuate and purge.

China. China radix offic.*

  • P. In China, Malabar, Cranganor, &c.
  • T. It's thought to be green all the yeare: the root will keep many years.
  • N. The Chinois call it Lampatan. The Arabians and Persians Chophchina.

China. Johns: K. as the true, and bastard. T. is thought to be moderately hot and dry. V. Garcias, it cureth the French disease, yet most judge it lesse effectuall than Guajacum, or Sar­saparilla: it's diaphoreticke, attenuates, dries, and resists putrefaction, it strengthneth the [Page 93]liver, h. dropsies, maligne ulcers, scabbs, lepry, and consumptions. The decoction of the root, also h. the palsie, goute, sciatica, schirrous, and oedematous tumors, & the Kings evill, the in­veterate head-ache, weaknesse of the stomack, stone, and exulceration of the bladder. Park: it h. agues quotidian, intermittent, pestilenti­all and hectick: it drieth up rheumes, h. the jaundise and ruptures, all diseases of the joynts, nodes, and ulcers of the privities, and c. lust, it is to be sliced and boyled: the dose of the decoction is unc: sem: or unc: 1.

Cicely. Myrrhis.

  • P. In gardens, and the fields of Germany.
  • T. Fl: in May: the seed is ripe in July.
  • N. [...]. Smyrrhiza, Smirnium, Conilaus.

Cicely. Ger. T. is temperate in heate, and moderate in drinesse. V. the leaves are plea­sant in sallads. Park: K. as the greater and lesser sweet Cicely. T. is hot 2°, with tenuity of parts. V. the leaves, seed, and roots, give a good rellish to other herbs: the root eaten with oile, butter and vineger, warmeth a cold and windie stomack, and h. consumptions: d. it h. poysons, and the courses: the juyce h. ul­cers: Vntz. it h. the plague, so Joub: Fum: Du­rand: Poter: Moresc.

Ciches. Cicer.*

  • P. They are sowne in the fields.
  • T. They are sown in Aprill, being 1 steeped in water.
  • N. [...]. Erebinthus. The black are called Arietina.

Cich. Ger: as that of the garden. T. Gal: is windie like the beane, yet of stronger nou­rishment, provoking lust, and generating sperme. V. it scoureth, the decoction wasteth the stone. Diosc: the Ram ciches provoke u­rine, the decoction thereof being made with rosemary, and given to those that are hydro­picall, or have the yellow jaundise. H. they hurt the bladder, and exulcerated kidnies. Wilde ciches. K. as the common, and broad leased. T. Gal: is hotter and drier than the first, more biting, and bitter. V. Theoph: they operate as the first. Park: the decoction there­of, looseneth the belly, provoketh the termes, and c. milke. Against the dropsie and jaun­dise, take of cicers unc: 1. of French barley unc: 2. and a small handfull of marsh mallow rootes, wash, cut, and boyle them in the broth of a chicken: of which take fasting in the morning unc: 4. and fast two houres after: so the white, and h. barrennesse in those that are too hot. The wilde K. as the three leafed V. are stronger then the first, and cut, open, and digest.

Cinque-soile. Pentaphyllon.

  • P. Low and moist meadowes, upon bankes, &c.
  • T. Fl: from the beginning of May, to Aug.
  • N. [...]. Quinque-folium. Five finger grasse, Cincke-field.

Cinke-foile. Ger. J. K. as the common, great upright, purple, marsh, stone, silverweed, wall, hoarie, small hoary creeping, wood with white fl: small white floured wood, small golden floured, and straw-berry Cinke-foile. T. the roots especially of the first, are drie 3°. without apparent heate or sharpnesse. V. the decoction of the roots d. h. all sluxes. The juyce of the young roots d. h. diseases of the liver, lungs, all poyson: and d. with meade or wine and pepper: it h. tertian and quartan a­gues and fevers, and the falling sicknesse d. 30 daies together. The leaves with appro­priate herbes h. ruptures and burstings, their juyce d. h. the jaundise, and comforteth the sromack and liver: the decoction of the root held in the mouth h. the tooth-ache, stayeth putrefaction, and ulcers of the mouth, h. in­flammation of the almonds of the throat, and stayeth laskes. The root boyled in vineger h. shingles, fretting sores, and cankerous ulcers. The leaves boiled in water with lignum vitae, h. the falling sicknesse, with sweating. The extraction of the roots h. bloudy flixe. Park: K. as the great yellow, and white, codded, and low with wild tansie leaves. V. the wilde creeping upright and white are the best, and operate as Tormentill: it cooleth d. and ap: it h. the quinsy, coughs, all nodes, and paines.

Cinnamon-tree. Canella. *

  • P. In Zealand, and Malabar. &c.
  • T. It is green all the yeare.
  • N. [...]. Cinnamomum, Cassia.

Cinnamon-tree. Ger: T. Diosc: it is warming, and of thin parts, dry and astringent, it's diu­retick, oxydorkicke, and persumeth the breath. V. the decoction bringeth downe the menses, h. bitings of venimons beasts, the in­flammations of the intestines and reines. The distilled water comforteth the weake and cold stomack, h. paine of the intestines c. by cold: it h. the colour of the face; used in meats, they become more wholsome for all bodies: the chymicall oyle h. paines of the breast, com­forteth the stomack, breaketh winde, h. dige­stion, and m. with hony h. spotts in the face. Garcias, the distilled water of the fl: operates as the barke. The oile of the berries, h. cold­nesse of the sinews, paines of the joynts, sto­mack, and breast: the cassia lignea in a greater q. serveth in stead of Cinnamon, Johns. Park: T. Cinnamon is hot and dry 2°, aromaticall, and very cordiall. V. the distilled water h. the wind-collick, the stopping of the urine and the courses, it sweetneth the breath, and resisteth poyson, and stopps laskes. Col: the distilled water hastneth the birth, stoppeth vomiting, h. the sainting of the spirits, and trembling of the heart: it strengthneth the re­tentive faculty of the parts: and h. cold and moist bodies. Cassia lignea, opens, dissolves, and dries.

Citrulls. Citrullus.

  • P. In hot regions, as in Syria, &c.
  • T. The seeds are to be sowen as those of Cucum­bers.
  • N. [...]. Anguria. Citrulus.

Citrulls. Ger: K. as the common, and small. T. the pulpe is of little and cold nourishment, the seeds are of like faculty with those of Cu­cumbers. V. it engendreth a waterish bloud, h. the heat of the inward parts, and temper­eth the sharpnesse of choler: being raw and held in the mouth, it h. roughnesse of the tongue in agues, and quencheth thirst. Wilde citrull, Colocynthis. T. Coloquintida is bitter in all its parts, hot and dry fine 2di. so it pur­geth, clenseth, openeth, and operates as most bitter things doe, but chiefely by the stoole. V. it violently purgeth flegme and choller, therefore it is carefully to be used, being mixed with mastick or gum tragacanth, that it fret not the intestines, or with gum arabick and bdel­lium, its good to be used in the scotoma, verti­go, megrim, continuall head-ache, apoplexie, epilepsie, stuffing of the lungs, gripings of the intralls, and other dangerous diseases. Com­mon oile wherein it is boyled h. singing in the eares, and deafenesse ap: also it killeth wormes, and looseth the belly, the navill being annoin­red therewith. Mes: decoct in vineger, and the teeth being washed therewith it h. the too th­ache: the seed with myrrhe and aloes preser­veth dead bodies. scr: 1. of the pulpe taken, mightily openeth the belly, and purgeth grosse flegme and choller: so also the infusion, and h. [Page 98]the diseases aforesaid, and collick, loosenesse of the sinews, luxations, and all diseases of cold. So also used in clysters: boyled in oyle and ap: with wooll, it h. paine of the hemorrhoides. The decoction used as a somentation, provo­keth the termes. Park: K. as the Turkie. V. the seed h. the heat, and sharpnesse of urine, and macilent bodies grown feeble by chroni­call diseases: all its parts are used for the same diseases that gourds are. Coloquintida h. the jaundise and putrid fevers: ap: it killeth the foetus, and clenseth the skin: the oile of sweet almonds stops its working.

Clarie. Horminum.

  • P. In moist Gardens: the wild, in barren places.
  • T. They Fl. in June, July, and August.
  • N. [...]. Gallitricum. Sclarea. Geminalis. Centrum galli.

Clarie. Ger. J. K. as the common, small, Fuchsius his wild, and Jupiters Distaffe; T. is hot and dry 3°. V. the seed powdered, and m. with hony, taken, cleareth the sight. Its mucilage ap. draweth out what is fixed in the body, and scattereth swellings, especially in the joynts. The seed powdered and d. with wine c. lust. The leaves taken h. the weak­nesse of the back caused by too much flowing of the whites: but more effectually, fryed with egges like a tansie. Wild Clarie, K. as the common, with purple leaves, broad leafed [Page 99]wild, white floured wild, and red fl. wild. T. in temperature and faculties are referred to the garden Claries. Aeginet. it is hot, mo­derately drie, and clensing. The feed d. with wine c. lust, with hony clenseth the eyes, so also put whole into the eyes, and h. waterish humors, rednesse, inflammations, &c. And ea­seth paine. The leaves in pottage scatter con­gealed blood, warme the stomack, and helpe dimnesse of the eyes. Park. K. as the garden, low Germane, Italian wild, spike floured, sage leafed, and plaine Aethiopian. V. This d. h. coughs, the plurisie, and sciatica. The yellow h. ulcers, the pouder of the first, h. barennesse, and c. sneezing.

Claver. Medica.

  • P. The first in Italy, the rest in France, Spaine, and fields.
  • T. Its sown in Aprill: Fl. in June and July, the fruit is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...], Trifolium cochleatum.

Claver. Ger. J. K. as the medick fodder, prickly snaile, and medicke f. of the sea. T. it is cold. V. applyed green, it h. inflammations and infirmities which need cooling. Park. K. as of Burgundy, wooddy, Lugd. his creeping round prickly hart of Arabia, and moone cl. V. The oile of the seed h. tremblings of the heart, and stone, sc. of that of Burgundy: the rest are not used. The horned, as the medow trefoile.

Cliver. Aparine.

  • P. Neere the borders of fields, by hedges &c.
  • T. Fl. in June & July: the seed is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Phylanthropos. Asperugo. Philate­rion.

Clivers. Ger. K. as the common, and great goose-grasse. T. Gal. it is moderately hot and dry, and somewhat of thin parts. V. The juice pressed out of the seeds, stalkes, and leaves, h. the bitings of the Phalangia and Vipers d. with Wine. The herbe stamped with swines grease wasteth the kernells of the throat. The leaves ap. stay blood issuing out of wounds, and sod in pottage with oatemeale c. lanknesse. Park. V. the juice dropped into the eares h. the paine of them. Matth. The juice and powder h. old uleers. Trag. The distilled water d. twice a day h. the jaundise; so the decoction, and h. lasks.

Cloud-berrie. Vaccinia nubis.

  • P. In the tops of Mountaines and heathy places.
  • T. Fl. in May, the fruit is ripe in July.
  • N. Chamaemorus Cambro-Britanica: the second Norwegica.

Cloud-berry. Ger. T. the fruit is cold, dry, and very astringent. V. The fruit quencheth thirst, cooleth the stomach, and h. inflammati­ons, [Page 101]being eaten as worts are, or the de cocti­on drunk. Park. The Norway Knot-berry, li. the scurvy, and other crude, putrid and melan­cholly diseases wherewith those northerly people are afflicted. Bauh. Hoier. the people of Norway make an electuary, thus, they boile the berries to an indifferent consistence, with­out adding any liquor threreunto, the berries being full of juice, which they keep in conve­nient vessels for the uses aforesaid.

Clove-tree. Caryophyllus. *

  • P. In the Malucca Ilands, Zeilan &c.
  • T. The Cloves are gathered from the 15. of Sept. to Feb.
  • N. [...]. Clavus. Garyophyllum.

Clove-tree. Ger. T. Cloves are hot & dry 3°. V. they strengthen the stomack, liver, & heart, helpe digestion, and provoke urine. Garc. The liquor distilled from them when green, is a most excellent cordiall. C. Acosta, Cloves stop the belly: the oile or water dropped into the eyes sharpens the sight, and clenseth away the web. drach. 4. of the powder of Cloves taken in milk h. to generation. The Indians use the oile or butter thereof as a balsam for wounds, and hurts. The powder serveth also for per­fumes. Clove-berry tree, Amomum quorundam. T hath a fruit not much differing from the amomum of Diosc. having a heating, astrictive, and drying saculty. V. and is thought to be effectuall for the same purposes. Park. The oile of Cloves chymically drawn is much used for [Page 102]the toothach, and to stop hollow aking teeth, and serveth to put into perfumes. The pouder ap. to the fore-head h. the head-ach coming of cold. Being eaten they sweeten the breath. Garc. Cloves taken with Nutmegs, Mace, long Pepper and black, procure sweating to those that have the French disease. Bauh. Aegin. T. Cloves are aromaticall, sharp, a little bitter ho [...] and dry about the 3d degree. Aet. 2°. Avic. 3°. V. They stop vomiting and help all cold diseases of the head.

Cockle. Pseudomelanthium.

  • P. In corne fields, very frequently.
  • T. Fl. in the summer moneths.
  • N. Nigellastrum. Lolium Fuch. Githago Trag.

Cockle. Ger. T. the seed is hot and drie fine 2di. V. the seed made into a Pessarie, and put up with hony, c. the termes to flow. The seeds parched and powdered d. helpe the yel­low jaundise. Park. d. and ap. it stoppeth blee­dings, the herb decoct expelleth the stone. drach. 2. of the seed d. in wine purge choller. It h. stingings of venemous beasts and the plague. It cleanseth and healeth old sores, ul­cers, and itch, and dryeth the moisture.

Cockes-head. Onobrycbis.

  • P. The two first only, grow in England.
  • T. Fl. in July, the seed is ripe soon after.
  • N. [...]. Glaux Gesneri. Red Fitchling, and medick fitch.

Cockes-head Ger. K. as the common, purple, [Page 103]blew, pale coloured, and mountaine. T. they rarifie, attenuate, and wast. V. the green leaves ap. h. hard swellings, or waxen kernells, ap. in manner of a salve, and wast them. Dryed and d. in wine it h. the strangury. ap. with oile it c. sweate: Which also Diosc. affirmeth. Park. K. as the spiked with purple fl. and the least. V. given to cattell, they cause much milke, and are a singular food for them. Bauh. it stops the belly, draweth forth urine and the Menses. The drie leaves d. in wine, strangle: and ap. discusse swellings being green.

Coffee. Cophy. *

  • P. It groweth in Turkey.
  • T. The time is not observed.
  • N. As for the variety of names Authors have as yet writ little.

Coffee. T. is of an exsiccant quality. V. It dryeth up the crudities of the stomack, com­forteth the braine: it h. consumptions, le­thargies, rickets and swounings of women, it fortifyeth the sight with its steeme, and pre­vents dropsies, gouts, and the scurvie, together with the spleen, and hypocondriacall windes: all which it doth without any distemper. Hereof may be made an clectuary, thus. Take of butter and sallet oile p. aeq. m. and melt them with thrice so much hony, and pouder of Turkish Coffee q. s. Rums. the q. of a nutmeg taken, opens the body, & h. the stone and gout.

Colewort. Brassica.

  • P. Gardens, a fat soile; the wild, in new ditches.
  • T. They are sown in spring: The Collyflower in horsedung.
  • N. [...]. Caulis. Crambe. Raphanus Theoph.

Coleworts. Ger. J. K. as the garden, cur­led garden, red, white, and red Cabbage, o­pen Cabbage, Cole-florie, swollen, Savoy, curled Savoy, parsley, English sea, and wild Coleworts. T. are all drying and binding with a nitrous quality, therefore the juice and broth doth mightily clense, the whole substance is drying. The juice and first broth looseneth d. The rest is of melancholick juice. The white Cabbage is best next unto the Coleflorey. V. Colewort ea­ten h. dim eyes, and the palsie; and with vi­neger it h. the spleen. Eaten raw it preserveth from drunkennesse. The leaves stamped with barley meale and salt, ap. helpe all inflammati­ons, and breake carbuncles. The juice taken with floure-de-lys and nitre loosens the body: d. with wine it h. the bitings of venemous beasts. Ap. with the powder of senugreek it h. gouts and old ulcers. As an errhine it purg­eth the head, as a pessarie with barley meale it bringeth down the flowers. The juice with wine dropped into the eares h. deafenesse. The seed killeth wormes and h. freckles and sun­burning. The broth bathed h. the sinews and joynts and cankers in the eyes. Rape-cole. Caulorapum. K. as the round. T. V. is meate [Page 105]not medicine. Park. K. as the fine-cur, and thorny. V. made into an electuarie, h. pursi­nesse & almost all diseases. Turn. The summer Cole is the sharper: taken after meat it h. the evill of surfeiting. The juice h. the voice. It's hot and drye 1°.

Coltsfoot. Bechium.

  • P. It groweth neere springs, and in moist places.
  • T. Fl. in March and Aprill: and the flowers quickly fade.
  • N. [...]. Farfara. Ʋngula caballina. Popu­lago. Farrugium. Tussilago.

Coltsfoot. Ger. J. K. as the common and mountaine. T. the leaves green are something cold, and drying, and h. ulcers and inflamma­tions; dryed, are hot and dry, and somewhat biting. V. A decoction of the green leaves and roots, or a syrrup of them h. coughs of a thin rheume. The green leaves stamped with hony h. all inflammations. The fume of the dryed leaves taken through a sunnel h. shortnesse of breath; and the impostumes of the brest; so also taken as tobacco. Park. The distilled wa­ter with Elder fl. and Nightshade d. the q. of unc. 2. h. agues, and applyed h. all heate, burnings, and pushes. The wooll of the root boiled with Niter makes tinder. The root of the hoary and American d. h. coughs and le­nifies ap. The mountaine Coltsfoot is uselesse.

Columbine. Aquilegia.

  • P. Gardens, being planted there.
  • T. They fl. in May, June, and July.
  • N. Aquileia. Aquilina. Leo herba Dod. Pothos Theoph.

Columbine. Ger. J. K. as the blew, red, double, variegated, with the inverted red fl. inverted with the white fl. rose, and degene­rate Col. T. they are thought to be temperate between heate and moisture. V. Trag. drach. 1. of the seed with scr. sem. of Saffron d. in Wine opens the liver, and h. the yellow ja [...]ndise with sweating. The leaves boiled in milke h. sore throats and the uvula fallen. The flowers open the liver. Clus. the powder of the seed d. in wine doth facilitate womens labour. Park. K. as the single and white Spanish. V. the root eaten h. the stone: d. it h. swounings. The tufted, h. ulcers and plague: and swounings with amber greise.

Consound. Solidago Saracenica.

  • P. In Gardens, and by wood sides.
  • T. It flowreth in July, the seed is ripe in Aug.
  • N. Consolida aurea Tab. Consolida Saracen. Herbafortis.

Consound. Ger. K. as the Saracens. T. is drie 3°. with manifest heat. V. d. and ap. it's [Page 107]not inferiour to any traumatick herbe. It h. the wounds of the lungs. The leaves boiled in water and d. stay the wasting of the liver, and h. the oppilation of the same, also it cureth the yellow jaundise, and chronicall agues, and fea­vers. The decoction of the leaves made in wa­ter, h. the sorenesse of the throat, being used as a gargarisme; it increaseth also the virtue of lotions appropriate for privy maimes, sore mouths: and m. therewith. Park. K. as the Germane small codded. V. as the rest, helpe the dropsie and all inward ulcers, wounds and bruises. The distilled water h. all paine in the body and all wounds. Trag. the water h. the fretting of the genitors, & ulcers of the mouth.

Corall-worts, Dentaria.

  • P. On shadowie and darke hills.
  • T. Fl. in Aprill and May, the seed is ripe in Aug.
  • N. Dentillaria. Viola dentaria. Coralloides.

Corall-worts. Ger. J. K. as the [...]oothed violet, corall toothed, seven leased, and first and second five leased. T [...]is vulnerary. V. Matth. the decoction of the r [...]ot h. the enterocele, & inward wounds, especially those that have en­tered into the carity of the brest. Park. K. as the bulbed, Cinquesoile and Tresoile, Setfoile, and bulbed narrow leafed, with the least. V. the root is drying, binding, and strenthning; it expells urine and gravell, h. paines of the sides and bowells and inward wounds, drach 1. [Page 108]of the powder of the root d. in red wine for a certaine time: and d. with horsetaile water h. ruptures and cold fluxes: and ap. the deco­ction h. green wounds.

Coriander. Coriandrum.

  • P. In fertile fields and Gardens.
  • T. They fl. in June and July, and seed in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Corianon. Coriannum. Coliandrum.

Coriander. Ger. K. as the common and ba­stard. T. the green and stinking leaves are cold, dry, and very hurtfull to the body. The seed dry, is warme and usefull. V. comfits of the seed prepared taken after meate, close the mouth of the stomack, stay vomiting, & h. dige­stion. The seed dryed in an oven and d. with wine, killeth wormes and stoppeth all fluxes. The seeds are prepared by drying, then steep them 24. houres in Wine and Vineger, and dry them againe for use. The green leaves boiled with the crums of bread or barley meale h. all hot swellings and inflammations: and with beane meale dissolve the Kings evill, wens and hard lumpes. The juice of the leaves m. with ceruse, litharge of silver, Vineger and oile of roses h. S. Anthonies fire, and all inflammations. drach. 4. of the juice of the green leaves taken poyson the body. The seed prepared with sugar taken first and last helps the gout, c. dige­stion, shuts the stomack, represseth fumes, h. noise in the eares, dryeth up rheumes, and h. the quinsey. Park. the dryed seeds d. in wine [Page 109]help urine, and cause coiture, and encrease bloud and sperme. The Indian Coriander like seed, decoct h. agues, husked and boiled like Rice, taking it and abstaining from other food: it's called Mungo. Bauh. Gal. Coriander hath contrary faculties, having much of a bitter essence which consisteth of thin and terrene parts, with an aqueous tepid humidity and a little astriction. Mac. The antidote is swallow­wort.

Corne. Far.

  • P. It groweth in fat and fertile moist grounds.
  • T. It's sown in Sept. or October: and is ripe in July.
  • N. [...] the first. Zea. Spelta. Zea Diecccos Matth.

Corne. Ger. K. as the spelt corne, zea, or spelta. T. Diosc. It nourisheth more then bar­ly. Gal. It's in a mean between wheat & barley, and may be referred to them. V. The meale boyled in water with the powder of Saunders, and a little oile of Roses and Lillies, unto the forme of a pultis, and applyed hot, h. swelling of the leggs, gotten by cold and long standing. Starch-corne, Triticum amylcum. T. Is somewhat like to Wheat or Barley. V. it serveth to feed Cattle, and to make starch of. S. Peters corne, Briza monococcos: with the Haver grasse, Festuca Italica. T. are somewhat sharp and digesting. V. the juice of the last m. with barley meale dryed, and when used, moystned with rose [Page 110]water, and ap. plaisterwise, h. the Aegilops, or fistula in the corner of the eye: it mollifieth and disperseth nodes, & aswageth the swellings of the joynts. Burnt Corne, ustilago. K. as of Barley, Oats, and Rie. T. V. are not used in physicke. They cause bread to look black, and to be of an evill taste. Lonic. the bran of spelt is used in clysters, it is a little drying, decoct in wine and vineger it h. the eyes. So Trag. Bauh. the bread thereof is black and unpleasant.

Cornell-tree. Cornus.

  • P. In Gardens: the second in hedges, almost eve­ry where.
  • T. Fl. in Aprill: the berries are ripe in August.
  • N. [...]. the female is called virga sanguinea.

Cornell tree. Ger. T. the fruit of the male Cornell-tree is very harsh in taste, it cooleth, dryeth and bindeth, and may be eaten. V. it h. laskes and bloudy flix, and hurteth cold sto­macks. The leaves and crops are choaking and drying, and heale green wounds in hard bo­dies: so Trag. The female Cornell tree. T. the berries are of unlike parts, some hot, bitter and clensing; many cold, dry, harsh, and bind­ing, yet not used in physick. V. Matth. the ber­ries boiled and pressed yeild an oile for lamps. Park. the conserve of the fruit of the male h. all fluxes, the liquor comming out of the stalks heated h. tetters. Cam. Diosc. the berries h. the whites.

Costive tree. Curo.*

  • P. In China. Japan. Malaca. &c.
  • T. The time is not observed.
  • N. The first is caled Coru arbor, the second Pavate.

Costive tree. Park. K. as the first & second. T. the barke of the root only is in use, which con­taineth a clammy milk, somewhat bitter, drying and cooling: V. the natives use the milke hereof against all fluxes of what cause soever arising. The second is not so strong, but of excellent use in inflammations, and eruptions of chollerick matter in the skinne, and S. Anthonies fire: the root is of chiefest use, yet sometimes the wood is used being steeped in the decoction of rice, which presently groweth soure, with which they wash the inflamed parts: d. it h. hot Livers & Feavers, with the leaves of Tama­rinds it stops defluxions.

Costus. Costus.*

  • P. In the Indies, and other places.
  • T. The time is not observed.
  • N. [...]. Costus Indicus: and Offic. the latter.

Costus. J. K. as the Indian or sweet smelling, and the bitter. T. is hot and attenua­ting. V. It is used in oile to anoint the body a­gainst the cold fits of agues, and the sciatica, [Page 112]and to draw any thing unto the peripherie of the body. Also it provokes urine and the termes: h. straines, cramps, and paines in the sides, and by its bitternesse killeth wormes, it h. the bitings of Vipers, paines of the chest, windinesse of the stomack taken in wormwood wine, and is used to be put into antidotes. Park. Taken with sweet wine it c. venery. ap. with hony and water, it h. the blemishes of the skin, and face. Pem. it's hot and dry 3°. The best is whitish and bitter: the dose is scr. 1 or scr. 1. sem.

Cotton-plant. Xylum.*

  • P. In India. Arabia. Aegypt &c.
  • T. The seed is sown in the spring: it's ripe in harvest.
  • N. [...]. Gossipium. Lanugo. Bombax and Cotum.

Cotton-plant. Ger. T. Serap. The seed is hot, and moist, the wooll is hot and dry. V. the seed h. coughs and shortwindednesse, c. lust and sperme: the oile h. freckles, spots, and blemi­shes of the skin. The ashes of the wooll burned stop the bleeding of wounds: and are used in restrictive remedies, and exceed Bole armo­niacke. The wooll serveth for many known uses. Park. K. as the fine, bush, thorny Indian, and long leafed Cotton-tree of Java. V. the kernells of the seed are used against gnawings of the stomack: and h. agues. Recch. That of Mexico d. resisteth poyson, the stalke is cold, dry and binding.

Cowslip. Primula veris.

  • P. Moist medows, and borders of fields.
  • T. Fl. from Aprill to June.
  • N. Arthritica. Herba paralysis. Dodecatheon.

Cowslips. Ger. J. K. as the field, field Ox­lips, double paigles, two in a hose, field Prim­rose, double white, green, and Mr Heskethe's Primrose. T. Cowslips and Primroses are dry and a little hot. V. Cowslips h. paines of the joints, gout, and palsie: the decoction of the roots d. h. the stone. The juice of the leaves h. luxations and burstings. drach. 1. sem. of the powder of the dryed roots of the field prim­rose d. in Ale c. vomit forcibly of waterish hu­mors, choler and flegme. A conserve of the fl. of Cowslips h. the palsies, convulsions, cramps, and all diseases of the sinews. Cowslips greatly stop the belly, and h. lasks and the bloudy flix decoct and d. warme. An unguent made with the juice of Cowslips and oile of lineseed h. all scaldings, or burnings, with fire or other­wise. Park. V. The juice or water of the flowers of Cowslips clenseth the skin from spots, and h. wrinkles. The decoction of the roots h. paines in the back, and wounds. Dorst. d. it h. the appetite, and heate.

Cow wheat. Crataeogonum.

  • P. The first groweth among Corne, the rest not here.
  • T. They fl. in June and July: the wild to Sept.
  • N. [...]. Triticum Vaccinum: the wild Milium Sylvaticum Tabern.

Cow-wheat. Ger. J. K. as the white, purple, blew, and yellow. T. the seed is hot and dry, and full of fumes. V. taken in meats and drinks it troubleth the braine, and causeth drunkennesse and head-ach. Wild Cow-wheat. K. as the common, and Eyebright. T. the seeds cause giddinesse. V. The powder of the seed d. c. Venery. Park. K. as the party coloured, and black. V. it troubleth the head as Darnell, the seed is sharp and is used as Millet is. Lugd. it being d. thrice a day, 4. dayes before, c. con­ception.

Cox-combe. Crista galli.

  • P. Dry medowes, and Pastures.
  • T. Fl. most part of the Summer.
  • N. Alectorolophos. Pedicularia. Fistularia.

Cox-comb or yellow Rattle. Ger. T. V. its not yet used in physick. Park. V. the herbe boi­led with some hony and beanes d. h. coughs, & dropped into the eies h. dimnesse thereof. The whole seed being put into the eyes doth draw forth any filme or dimnesse T. Some think it to be cold and drying.

Crab-tree. Malus Sylvestris.

  • P. In hedges, almost every where.
  • T. The time answereth the trees of the Garden.
  • N. [...]. Chamaemalus. Wilding tree.

Crab-tree. Ger. T. Crabs are cold and moist. V. the juice of Crabs h. burnings, scaldings and all inflammations, if presently applyed it hin­dereth blistering. The juice is astringent and abstersive, mixed with the yeest of beere ap. it helps S. Anthonies fire, and all inflammations, scabbed legs, burnings and scaldings. Park. Crabs stop the belly, and provoke urine. The juice h. against the heate and fainting of the stomacke d. and h. casting taken alone, or in a posset. Col. the inner bark boyled with allom dyeth yellow.

Cranes-bill. Geranium.

  • P. Desarts, untilled grounds, and mud walls.
  • T. Fl. in May, and the greatest part of summer.
  • N. [...]. Gruinalis. Rostrum Gruinum, Gruis, aut Ciconiae.

Cranes-bill. Ger. J. K. as the Doves-foot. T. is cold and somewhat dry, with some astri­ction and glutinating. V. it h. green wounds and inflammations. Half a spoonfull of the herb or root powdered taken first and last in red wine for the space of 21. days h. ruptures, es­pecially [Page 116]specially with the powder of red snailes with­out shells, and h. wounds decoct in wine & d. Herb Robert. T. is somewhat cold, scouring and somewhat binding. V. it h. ulcers of the duggs and privities, and stoppeth blood. Knot­ted Cransbill. T. the root is somewhat hot. V. drach. 1. d. in wine three times a day h. ptysicks, and the windinesse of the matrix, and corroborates. Musked Cransbill. T. is cold dry and astringent. V. it operates as Dovesfoot: it h. green wounds and hot swellings. Crow­foot Cranes-bill. K. as the common, small, duskie and long rooted. T. are referred to the former. V. they are not in use; Fuch. yet the blew flowred healeth wounds. Candy Crans­bill. K. as the common, and bastard. T. are referred to the Doves-foot. V. it's excellent for wounds. Wild Crans-bills. K. as the spot­ted, bloudy, unsavorie field, and violet. T. V. are not used, but may be referred to the other of their kind. The other Crans-bills K. as Pennies bulbous, knotty & silver leased moun­taine. T. V. are not discovered. Park. K. as the red and purple, T. are drying, binding and a little hot. V. they h. inward and outward wounds: and drank h. bleeding, vomiting, fluxes and the stone. The Mallow leafed and rocky. V. as the rest. The unfavorieh. the mo­ther. The doves cr. h. the chollick.

Cresse. Nasturtium.

  • P. Gardens: the Winter Cr. by pathway sides.
  • T. The 1. fl. in June and July: so the water Cr. the rest in May.
  • N. [...]. Winter Cresse, Barbarea.

Cresses. Ger. K. as the garden, Spanish, and stone. T. The herbe of garden Cresses, is sharp and biting, very hot and dry: the seed fere 4°. V. it h. the scurvy, the seed stam­ped with hony h. hardnesse of the milt, with Vineger and barley meale parched it h. the sciatica, hard swellings and inflammations. With brine it h. tetters, ripens fellons and rais­eth up tough humours of the chest with things appropriate. Diosc. It hurteth the stomack and troubleth the belly. It expells wormes and floures, killeth the foetus in the wombe, and c. lust. d. it h. bruises, and c. sweat. Indian Cresses. T. V. are not discovered, but may be referred to the rest. Sciatica Cresses. T. are hot 4°. and like the garden cr. V. the roots ap. with swines grease h. the sciatica laid to 4. houres, bathing the place after with warme water, & anointing it with oile. Bank cresses. K. as the common and Italian. T. the seed is like that of the garden, fiery and attennuating. the seed h. rheums, taken as alohoch it h. coughs the yellow jaundise, and sciatica with hony. d. it h. poyson: ap. with water and hony it h. cankerous apostumes behind the eares, and inflammations of the paps and testicles. drach. 1. of the seed of the Italian bank cresses d. in a decoction of grasse roots clenseth the reines & expells the stone. Dock-Cresses. T. are hot [Page 118]and somewhat abstersive. V. it h. ulcerated brests, yet is cacochymick. Water Cresses. K. as the common and Italian. T. are hot & dry. V. d. in wine or milke, it h. the Scurvy: eaten three times a day for the space of 30 days, it provoketh Urine, h. the stone and green sick­nesse, and expells termes. Winter Cresses. T. are hot and dry 2°. V. the seed h. the stran­gury. The juice with wax oile and Turpentine as an unguent mundifieth ulcers: Boiled with Scurvy-grasse it h. the Scurvy. Park, The gar­den cr. h. Lethargies sc. the seed. The wild as the rest. Turkey Cresses. T. are hot. V. & ev a­cuate flegme. Recch. K. as the Cresse of Peru. T. is hot and dry fere 4°. and sharpe. V. it h. cold stomacks, and the cough. ap. it h. hot tumors with cold remedies.

Crosse-wort. Cruciata.

  • P. In moist and fertile medows.
  • T. Fl. all the Summer long.
  • N. [...] Diosc. Trag. Crucialis. Cruciata herniaria. Thalii.

Crosse-wort. Ger. T. is dry and binding. V. it healeth and closeth wounds inward or out­ward: the decoction being drank, it h. those that are bursten, d. and ap. as a pultis. Park. it stops the bleeding of wounds. Cam. it h. to expectorate flegme out of the chest, and h. the obstructions thereof, and of the meseraicke veines; and decoct in wine h. the appetite: ap. [Page 119]it h. moist sores, clensing and healing them. So Croll. Lob. it's bitter and abstersive. Trag. The distilled water h. poyson and the plague: so the powder. Cam. It's effectuall for all pur­poses for which the greater Gentian is.

Crow-foot. Ranunculus.

  • P. Pastures, medows, almost every where.
  • T. Fl. in May: so the Candy; and single, and double of Asia.
  • N. [...]. it's called Pes galli, and Coro­nopus by some.

Crow-foot. Ger. J. K. as the common, right, of the followed field, white mountaine, that of Illyria, round rooted, golden-haired, frog, grassie, winter, Portugall, globe, rough white floured mountaine, and rough purple fl. double, double wild, and double white. T. are biting as the other Crowfeet. V. the chiefest vertue is in the root, which stamped with salt h. plague sores ap. to the thigh, at­tracting the malignity of the disease. Stamped with Vinegar ap. it takes black scars out of the skin. Asian Crowfoot. K. as the double red, double Afian scarlet, double buttoned scarlet Asian, of Tripolie, branched red, and white fl. and with yellow striped flowers. T. V. they are referred to the other Crowfeet, whereof they are thought to be kinds. Marsh Crow­foot. K. as the great and lesser, common and jagged. T. as the rest, it is biting exulcerating hot & dry 4°. V. The leaves or roots of all the [Page 120]the Crowfeet stamped & ap. c. blisters and re­move excrescencies. ap. to the Plague sore it extracts it's venome, and draweth it to any part. Stamped with salt and ap. to the finger it h. the tooth-ach. It's used by beggers to de­forme their leggs. That of Illyria taken con­tracteth the sinewes. The other Crowfeet, K. as the broad leafed, candy, plantain leafed, mountaine with the lesser flower and bigger, rue leafed, columbine and small rough leafed. T. V. are to be referred to the former. Water Crowfoot. T. V. is hot, and like to the com­mon Crowfoot. Park. K. The marsh, as the French round leafed, true Sardinian, water, Ivy leafed, and with Alecost leaves. V. as the rest. The wood. K. as the single white and yellow, &c. ap. h. hard tumors. The field V. as the rest. So also the Mountain: the roots ap. to the wrist h. fevers.

Crown-imperiall. Corona imperialis.

  • P. Gardens when Planted: naturally in Persia.
  • T. Fl. in Aprill and March: the seed is ripe in June.
  • N. Lilium Byzantinum, & Persicum.

Crown-imperiall. Ger. K. as the common, and double. T. V. are not yet discovered. Park. the whole plant and every part thereof, as well roots as leaves and floures do smell somewhat strong as it were the savour of a Fox: which yet is not unwholsome, but [Page 121]rather may perswade that it may be usefull.

Cuckow-flower. Cardamine.

  • P. Almost every where, except the Alpish.
  • T. Fl. in Aprill and May.
  • N. Flos cuculi. The double is called Sisymbrium alterum Diosc.

Cuckow-flowers. Ger. J. K. as the common, Ladies smocks, double flowred, three leafed, mountain, impatient, and dwarf daifie leafed Lady-smocks of the Alpes. T. are hot and dry 2°. V. they are referred unto the water cresses. Park. V. the small operates as the rest: and is thought by some to be a good substitute when water-cresses are wanting, and h. the scurvy. Those of the mountaine. K. as the three leafed and small. T. are sharpe, and reduced to the first. Bauh. That which is called Odontis, is commended against poyson.

Cucumber. Cucumis.

  • P. In gardens, in horsedung.
  • T. They are to be set in Aprill.
  • N. [...]. The wild is called Asininus cucumis, and Anguinus.

Cucumbers. Ger. K. as the common, adders, and Spanish. T. are all cold and moist 2°, of little and bad nourishment, & quickly putrifie. The seed is not so cold, clensing and opening. V. the seed openeth the liver and bladder, and [Page 122]helps the chest and lungs inflamed. ap. it smootheth the skin, and maketh it faire. The Cucumber eaten h. hot stomacks. The seed strained with milke or sweet wine and d. loos­eth the belly and h. exulcerations of the blad­der. The fruit sliced and boiled with mutton and oatemeale and eaten thrice a day for three weeks h. sauce flegme, copper faces, and fiery noses, with pimples and rubies: washing the face with the following liquor. Take a pint of strong white wine vineger, of Orrice roots powdered drach. 3. Brimstone finely powder­ed unc. sem. Camphire drach. 2. stamped with 2. blanched Almonds, 4. Oke apples cut, and the juice of 4. Limmons, shake them together and set them in the sunne 10. dayes, use it dai­ly without wiping the face. It also cureth all deformities of the skin. Wild cucumbers. T. the leaves, roots and rinds, are bitter, hot and clen­sing. The juice is hot 2° of thin parts. V. the juice, elaterium purgeth choller, flegme and water by stoole and vomit, the dose is from 5 gr. to 10. of the dryed juice, scr. sem. it h. the dropsie & shortnesse of winde: so the juice of the root, as an errhine it h. red eyes, with milke. Park. It h. cold diseases d. and ap.

Cudweed. Gnaphalium.

  • P. Mountaines, hills, and barren places.
  • T. Fl. from June to September.
  • N. [...]. Centunculus. Tomentitia. Cot­tonaria. Herba impia. Camaexylon.

Cud-weed, Ger. J. K. as the English, com­mon, [Page 123]sea, white and purple mountaine, bright red mountaine, rocke, live for ever, small, wicked, lions, small lions, long leafed, and small broad leafed. T. are astringent and drying. V. boiled in strong lee, it clenseth the haire from nits and lice, in ward-robes it keepeth from moths. Boiled in wine and d. it killeth the wormes, and h. the bitings of Venemous beasts. Dryed and the fume taken by a funnell as tobacco it h. coughs of the lungs, paine of the head, and clenseth the inward parts. Golden Cudweed, Elyochryson. T. Gal. Cutteth and attenuateth. V. Diosc. The tops d. in wine h. the dysury, stingings of serpents, sciatica, and d. in sweet wine dissolve congealed bloud. Laid among cloths it prevents moths. Park. K. as the greater Germane, and small leaning. V. as the rest h. all fluxes dranke in red wine, and bruises: the leaves ap. h. the tenesmus and ulcers. The herb impious d. in wine and milke h. the mumps. So that of the mountaine.

Cullions. Testiculus Odoratus.

  • P. In dry pastures or heaths.
  • T. Fl. from August to September.
  • N. Orchis. Triorchis. Tetrorchis.

Cullions, Ger. The sweet. K. as the com­mon, triple, Frizland, and liege ladie traces. T. are of the nature of dogstones. V. the sappy roots of Lady-traces eaten or boiled with milk and d. cause venery, strengthen the body, h. [Page 124]consumptions and hectick fevers. Park. K. as the greater and lesser, yellow with smooth eaves, and small creeping. V. the roots of these Orchides are effectuall above all other to c. venery. Recch. Lady-traces of Mexico. T. the root is sweet and a little bitter. V. it c. venery, and discusseth hot tumours d. and ap. And h. the heat of the blood. Bauh. the root of the first boyled with wine and hony h. putrid ul­cers of the mouth. So Dod.

Cumfrey. Consolida major.

  • P. Watery ditches, and fruitfull meadows.
  • T. They Fl. in June and July.
  • N. [...]. Solidago. Symphytum. Pecton. Alum. Osteocollon.

Cumfrey. Ger. J. K. as the purple flow­red, with the knobbed root, and borrage flow­red. T. the root is cold and clammy, and infi­pid. V. the roots stamped and the juiced. with wine, h. spitting of bloud, and inward wounds and burstings; so applyed. The roots boiled and d. cleanse the brest from flegme, and h. the lungs with sugar. The slime of the root d. with a posset h. wrenchings of the back, and gonorrhoea's. Four of the rootes stamped with knot-grasse and the leaves of Clar [...]y, of each an handfull strained, adding a quart of muskadell, the yelks of three eggs, and powder of three nutmegs d. first and last h. the gonor­rhoea and all pains and consumptions of the back. The syrrup stops bloud, h. the [Page 125]heat of agues, sharpnesse of humours, ulcers of the lungs, and cough, also ulcers of the kidnies, flux of the matrix, inward hurts, and ruptures: is thus made; take unc. 2. of the roots of great comf. unc. 1. of Lycorise, 2 handfull of Folefoot roots and all, unc. 1. sem. of Pine-apple kernels, 20 jujubes, unc. 2. of Mallow seed, unc. 1. of the heads of poppy: boile all in a s. q. of water to a pint, to the liquor strained adde unc. 6. of white sugar, as much of hony: boyle it to a syrrup. The root stamped and ap. h. inflamma­tions of the sundament, and flowing of hemor­rhoides. Park. unc. 2. of the juice d. h. the lethargy, ap. it represseth the growing of the duggs, h. gangreens, and pains of the joynts. Pem. The distilled water h. outward sores. It hurts those that are bound in the body.

Cumin. Cuminum.

  • P. It groweth in putrified and hot soiles.
  • T. It's to be sown in the midst of spring.
  • N. [...]. Cyminum. Carnabadium Cassi Bassi, Bauhini.

Cumin. Ger. T. Gal. The seed of the gar­den Cumin is hot and dry 3°, and binding. Diosc. V. the seed h. windinesse of the stomack, belly, guts, and matrix, it helpeth frettings of the belly d. used in clysters or applyed with wine and barley meale as a pultis, [Page 126]pultis, so also boiled with wine, it h. blastings, swellings of the genitors, and consumeth windie swellings in the joynts. Taken in broth it h. cold lungs and such as are oppressed with raw humours, it stoppeth bleeding at the nose with vineger being smelt unto. Made in­to a sacculus with bay salt, heated and ap. warme being sprinkled with wine vineger, it h. stitches, and the plurisie. Wild Cumm. K. as the common, codded, and horned. T. V. are to be referred to the first, yet not used in physick. Park. It h. the collick boiled in wine & d. and h. those that are bitten with serpents: the seed taken in broth h. short windednesse, and old coughs, the seed bruised, fried with a hard egge, and ap. to the nap of the neck h. the old headach, and stops rheume. The pow­der ap. warme to the eyes with wax h. the rheume and rednesse of the eyes. ap. it c. pale­nesse. The wild drank in wine sc. the seed h. winde: and ap. clenseth.

Currans. Ribes.

  • P. Gardens: naturally in Savoy and Switzer­land.
  • T. Fl. in Spring: the fruit is ripe at Midsummer.
  • N. Ceanothus levis Gesn. Grossularia ultrama­rina.

Currans. Johns. K. as the red, and white. T. the berries are cold & dry fine 2di, with some astriction and tenuity of parts. V. they h. heat of fevers, choller, and hot bloud, resist putre­faction, quench thirst, h. the appetite, stop vo­miting [Page 127]and dysentery of a hot cause, so the juice boiled, called Rob de Ribes. Park. V. they h. the sainting of the stomack. The black are used in sauces: so also the leaves by many, the scent and taste being very pleasant. Gesn. The white, and red h. coughs. Lob. The Arabian are in taste and vertues like barberries. Schwenck. The leaves of the black are hot: ap. to the nostrils they h. the epilepsie and mother, and d. cause menses and h. the tormina.

Cypresse-tree. Cupressus.

  • P. Hot countries, as Candy, Lycia, and gardens.
  • T. The tame yeilds fruite in Jan. May and Sept.
  • N. [...]. The fruits are called Galbuli. the tree Cyparissus.

Cypresse-tree. Ger. K. as the garden, and wild. T. the fruits and leaves are dry 3° and astringent. V. Diosc. the nuts stamped and d. in wine stop all fluxes of bloud, glew ulcers in hard bodies, and suck up hidden moisture. The leaves and nuts h. ruptures, and the polypus, also carbuncles and phag [...]dens with parched barley meale. The leaves boyled in meade h. the strangury. The smoke of the leaves driveth away gnats. The shavings of the wood preserve from moths, so the rosin also laid among gar­ments. Park. the powder of the leaves with a little myrrhe and wine h. sluxes that sall on the bladder: without mirrhe, those of other parts. The decoction h. coughs, and short win­dednesse. The chips d. cause menses, the leaves h. spots.

D

Daffodill. Narcissus.

  • P. In gardens and meadows, almost every where.
  • T. Fl. from February till May.
  • N. [...]. Of rush Daffodill, Junquilias. Bulbus vomitorius Diosc.

DAffodils. Ger. J. K. as the purple circl­ed, &c. T. the roots are hot & dry 2°. V. Gal. The roots glew the sinews & tendons, clense & attract. Stamped with hony and ap. they h. burnings, wrenches of the ancles, aches and paines of the joynts. With hony and nettle seed they h. sunburnings and morphew. With axun­gia and leaven of rie bread it ripeneth impo­stumes. Stamped with meale of darnell and hony it draweth thornes out of the body. The root stamped, strained and d. h. the cough, collick and ptisicke. The root eaten or d. c. vomit, and being mingled with vineger and nettle seed h. spots in the face. Bastard Daffodils. T. are referred to the kinds of Narcissus. V. the decoction of the roots of the yellow purgeth, flegme & water with anise seed and ginger. The distilled water h. palsies rubbed in by the fire.

Daisy. Bellis.

  • P. Meadows, borders of fields, almost every where.
  • T. Fl: in May and June.
  • N. Herba Margarita. The blew, Globularia.

Daisies. Ger: K. as the great. T. the great daisie is moist fine 2di, cold initio. V. the leaves [Page 129]h. all burning ulcers, and apostumes, inflamed and running eies ap. Made into a salve, with wax, oile, and turpentine, it h. inflamed wounds, especially in the joynts: the juyce, decoction, or distilled water, h. any inward burstings. The herbe is used in vulnerary po­tions: ap. as a pultis with Mallowes and butter boiled it h. pains of the goute. In clysters it h. heat in agues, and torment of the gutts. The little daisies. T. are moist fine 2di, cold initio. V. they h. all paines, especially in the joints, and gout from a hot and dry hu­mour, stamped with fresh butter ap. and ope­rate more effectually with mallows. The leaves boiled in pottage loosen the belly, and in cly­sters h. the burning of feavers, and inflamma­tions of the intestines: the juice of the leaves and roots as an errhine purgeth slimie humors and h. the megrim. The leaves stamped and ap. h. swellings and bruises. The juyce instill­ed h. dim and watering eyes. The decoction of the field daisie d. in water, h. agues, and inward heate. Park. they are all vulnerary & decoct with wallwort and agrimony h. palsies. The small is more binding.

Dandeleon. Dens leonis.

  • P. In meadowes neer ditches, and by high wayes.
  • T. They flower at most times in the yeare.
  • N. [...]. Taraxacon. Ʋ [...]inaria. Rostrum per­ci [...]um. Caput mandchi.

Dandeleon. Ger. J. K. as the common, and knotty rooted. T. is like succory or wild endive: it is cold; but dryeth more, opening, and clen [...]ing being bitter. V. It operates as succory. Boiled, it strengthens [Page 130]the weake stomack, and eaten raw stops the belly and h. the dysentery, with lentills. The juice drank h. gonorrhoeas boiled in vineger, and the difficultie of making water, and h. the jaundise. Park. It h. ulcers of the ureters. The water h. severs and sores, and c. rest.

Dane-wort. Ebulus.

  • P. Ʋntilled ground, borders of fields, and by high wayes.
  • T. The fl. are perfect in summer, the berries in Aut.
  • N. [...]. Humilis Sambucus. Chamaeacte.

Dane-wort. Ger. T. is hot and dry 3°. and wasting, especially the leaves; the root is pur­ging. V. the roots boiled in wine and d. h. the dropsie. The leaves applyed wast hard swell­ings. Diosc. The roots soften and open the matrix, and h. pain of the belly used in a bath. The juice maketh haire black. The tender leafe h. hot inflammations ap. with barley meale, burnings, scaldings, and bitings of mad doggs, and with bulls tallow h. the gout. drach. 1. of the seed d. is a most excellent hydragogon, and h. dropsies. scr. 1. of the seed bruised and taken with syrrup of roses and a little sack h. the dropsie and gout mightily purging watery humours taken once a week. Pem. It h. the Sciatica, agues, stopping of the spleen, stone of the kidnies, S. Anthonies fire and scurvy, and killeth wormes. the leaves boiled in water and d. h. dry coughs and quinsies. Dane-wort berries and seeds powdered and d. in wine [Page 131]fasting operate as the root. In the decoction of ground-pine and a little Cinamon they h. the gout, sciatica and French pox. It operates as the Elder, but more forcibly. For the hip-gout take Dane-wort seed, turbith, hermodactyles, sene, tartar, an. drach. 1. of cinamon drach. 2. make all into fine pouder: the dose is scr. 4. in liquor convenient. The juice as an errhine, purgeth the braine, the juice of the berries with hony put in [...]o the eares h. their paine: an oyntment of the leaves with May butter h. all aches, cramps, and cold affections of the sinews, comforteth, strengthen [...]th, warmeth, and open­eth all the outward parts ill affected. It is to be given with anise seed, car [...] away seed, cina­mon, mace, &c. it hurts the head, hot stomack and liver. Park. ap. to the throat it h. the Kings evill: as a pessary it draweth down the menses: it h. lamenesse by cold: the spleen and collick. Paracels. the decoction c. sweat: decoct in wine and ap. it h. phlegmons of the genitors.

Darnell. Lolium.

  • P. In fields among Wheat and Barley, in moist soi [...]es.
  • T. They flourish with the Corne: the seed is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Zizania. Aera Plin. Thyarus. the red, Phoenix.

Darnell. Ger. K. as the white, and red. T. Is hot 3°. dry 2°. the red dryeth without [Page 132]sharpnesse. V. The seed boiled with pigeons dung, oile olive, & powder of line-seed to the forme of a plaister, wasts wens and excrescen­cies of the body. The bread in which it is eaten hot, c. drunkennesse. d. with red wine it stayeth fluxes. Diosc. The meale stayeth phagedens, gangrens & putrifyed ulcers: boiled with raddish roots, salt, brimstone, and vineger it h. sprea­ding scabs, tetters, & leprous scars. The seed d. in white or Rhenish wine, provoketh the menses. A sume made thereof with parched barley meale, myrrhe, saffron, and frankincense made in forme of a pultis and applyed to the belly h. conception, and facilitateth the birth. Red Darnell d. in red wine stoppeth lasks, fluxes, and pissing of bloud. Note, Darnell hurt­eth the eyes, and maketh them dim. Park. K. as that with oaten tops, small prickly, and double kind with a double top. V. the meale ap. as a pultis draweth out splinters. The smoke c. coughing. Col. The seed of the red applyed stop­eth the courses. The decoction of the first with water and hony ap. h. the sciatica. Being made into a pultis with swines grease, it draweth out splinters, thornes and broken bones, that are in any part. The root boiled in wine and d. after it hath stood certaine dayes killeth the wormes.

Date-tree. Palma.*

  • P. In Africa and Aegypt: the best in Syria.
  • T. It's alwaies green. Fl. in spring: the fruit is ripe in Sept.
  • N. [...]. Palmula. The fruite is called Dacty­lus. the wild Chamaeriphes.

Date-tree. Ger. T. all manner of Dates are dyspeptick and c. headach: the best are sost and sweet with moisture, they c. clammy and grosse bloud, they easily stop the liver and spleen. Those which grow in colder regions, when they cannot come to perfect ripenesse, if eaten plentifully they c. wind, grosse humors, and often times the leprosie. Diose. The dryer sort of dates h. haemoptysis, bad stomacks, and bloudy flix. The best called caryotae h. rouglnesse of the throat and lungs: confecti­ons hereof c. lust, h. consumptions, & strengthen the liver and spleen made into broths; the dry stop the belly, vomiting, and wambling of the stomack in women with child eaten, or ap. as a plaister. The ashes of the stones are emplastick, h. pushes of the eyes, staphyloma­ta, and falling away of the haire of the eye lids, ap. with spikenard. With wine it keeps down excrescencies in wounds: the boughs and leaves do evidently bind, especially the case of the flowers. The leaves and branches h. green wounds, and eaten refresh and coole hot in­flammations, and are astringent. The wild Date-tree K. as the little, and that bearing cones. T. it is cold and moist with a little astriction. V. taken as a meate it engen­dreth wind and raw humours, sc. the braine, [Page 134]therefore it's to be eaten with pepper and salt. The drunken date tree, Faufel: T. is cold and dry 2°. V the fruit of areca before ripe eaten is stupefactive, therefore it is used in great pain and aches, the juyce of the fruit strengthneth the gummes, fastens the teeth, comforts the stomack, stopps vomiting and loosenesse of the belly, and purgeth out congealed bloud. Park: K. as the low, and thorny palmito. V. unripe dates stop laskes, and h. the falling of the sun­dament taken in red wine: the last serve to make broomes of. Pem: dates are hot and dry fere 2°, when ripe hot and moist 2°, as others. Jo: The decoction thereof h. hot agues, they hurt those that have the collick.

Dittander. Piperitis.

  • P. In gardens, and many other places.
  • T. Fl: in June and July: the seed is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. The 2d, Flammula: the 3d. Lepidum Glasti-folium.

Dittander. Ger: K. as the common, and annu­all T. the leaves, but especially the roots, are very hot, burning and bitter. V. it causeth blisters, and by its hot quality it mendeth the skinne in the face, taking away scabbs, scarres, and manginesse, if any thing remain after the healings of ulcers, &c. Park. the French is hot, and [...]ery, sharp as the rest, and works the same effects: it h. goutes, and any paine in the joynts, or other inveterate griefes, the leaves bruised and m. with old axungia ap. as Sciati­ca [Page 135]cresses, and h. discolouring of the skin, and burnings with iron: the juyced. in ale c. speedy delivery in travaile: the leaves held in the hand ease the tooth-ache, it's used for sauce for cold stomacks. Lugd: Gal: it's hot 4°, lesse dry, and h. the joynts. Trag: ap: it h. the spleen.

Dittany. Dictamnum.

  • P. Gardens, being planted there.
  • T. Fl: in summer: the seed is ripe in September, of the wilde, in Aug.
  • N. [...], and Diptamnus albus: the other Creticus, and Pseudodictamnus.

Dittany. Ger: K. as of Candy, and the bastard. T. are hot and dry. V. d. used in a pessary, or fume, it expelleth the dead child, and s [...]cun­dine. The juyce d. with wine h. the stinging of Serpents: eaten by deer it helps their wounds, and expells arrowes: it h. wounds made by invenomed weapons, and draweth out splinters. The bastard Dirtany is of the nature of the first, but not so effectuall. Ba­stard Dittany. T. the root is hot and dry 2°, wasting, attenuating, and opening. V. it ex­pells the birth, menses, & secundine, h. cold di­seases of the matrix, ill stomacks, and short winde, stingings, and bitings of venimous beasts, poysons, and pestilent diseases. Drach: 1. of the seed d. h. the strangury, and breaketh and expelleth the stone: so the leaves and juyce, & ap: draw out splinters: the root taken [Page 136]with rubarb it killeth & expelleth wormes. It's eaten by deer as the former. Pem. It h. dropsies and swollen spleens: The powder taken with hony h. the cough. The decoction h. the jaun­dise. drach. 1. with 5. graines of saffron d. in wine expelleth the dead child. The juice with the powder h. the uvula fallen. The juice with womans milk h. paines of the eares. As an errhine it purgeth the brain, and h. the falling sicknesse with castor and the juice of rue. Note it's not to be given to women with child, or to hot and dry bodyes. Park. The white d. h. the tormina. Ʋntz. The white h. the stone d. in wine, so Plat. and Matth. Pem. Ditany is hot and dry 3°. and biting, especially being green. Weck. It operates as pennyroyall, but more strongly.

Divels-bit. Morsus Diaboli.

  • P. Dry meadows and woods, & about waies sides.
  • T. Fl. in Aug. and is then known from scabious.
  • N. Succisa Fuch. Nigina Plinii. Geum antiquo­rum quorundam.

Divels-bit. Ger. T. is something bitter, hot and dry fine 2di. V. it h. old swellings of the almonds & upper parts of the throat. It clens­eth slimie flegme sticking in the jawes and h. swellings there, gargarized with hony of Roses. It operateth as Scabious: h. stinging of vene­mous beasts, poysons, and pestilent diseases, so Fuch. Morescot. Weinrich. Erast. Gebelk. Ta­bern. and wasteth plague sores ap. The deco­ction [Page 137]d. h. paines of the matrix, and expelleth wind. Park. K. as the common, and red Hun­garian Scabious. V. it is bitter and more effe­ctuall than scabious, d. or ap. It h. fevers, brui­ses, & dissolveth clotted bloud, d. and ap. it ki [...]ls wormes and h. the scurfe and itch.

Docke. Lapathum.

  • P. In meadows, and by river sides.
  • T. Fl. in June and July.
  • N. [...]. Rumex. Oxylapathum. Hippolapa­thum. Lapathion.

Docks. Ger. J. K. as the sharpe pointed, small sharp, and roundish leafed wild. T. are of a mixture betwixt cold and heate, dry al­most 3°. especially the seed which is very a­stringent. V. the powder of any docks d. in wine stoppeth lasks and the bloudy flix, and easeth paines of the stomack. The roots boiled till soft and stamped with axungia ap. h. the itch, soabs, and manginesse. Water dock. K. as the great and small. T. are cold and dry. Park. K. as the English mercury, and strong scented sea dock. V. the seeds of most of them are drying and binding, & h. all lasks & fluxes, subversion of the stomack through choller, and haemoptysis. The sorrell are more cold than the rest, the bloud-wort, more drying. The roots open, coole, and clense, and h. the jaundise, English Mercury. T. the root is dry clensing and softning.

Dodder. Cuscuta.

  • P. It groweth upon sundry kinds of herbs.
  • T. It flourisheth chiefly in July and August.
  • N. [...]. Cassitas Plin. Cassutha.

Dodder. Ger: T. is of the temper of the herbe on which it groweth: it's dry 2°, and hot, it clenseth with a certain astriction, espe­cially that which groweth upon the bramble, it h. the infirmities of the liver and spleen. V. Dodder opens the liver and spleen, purgeth flegme, choller, and superfluous humors out of the veins: it provoketh urine, openeth the kidnies, and h. jaundise: it h. lingring agues, bastard and long tertians, and quartans, pro­perly in children; it also strengthneth the sto­mack. Epithymum, or dodder of time, is hotter and drier than Epilinum, or dodder of flax, sc: 3°. it h. all infirmities of the Milt, ob­structions and hard swellings, old head ache, Epilepsie, madnesse c. of melancholy, and the spleen; it also h. the French disease, contagious ulcers, and scabby evill. It purgeth melancho­ly and flegme: that which groweth upon savo­rie and scabious is more weake. Dodder which groweth upon flaxe, boyled in wine or water and d. openeth the liver, gall, milt, bladder, kidnies and veines, and purgeth chol­ler by siege and urine: that which groweth on brambles h. old agues, and jaundise. Epiurti­ca provoketh urine, and opens obstructions, &c. Park: Dodder sympathizeth with the herbe on which it groweth, and is more effe­ctuall than the herbe it selfe. Pem: that of time h. the cramp, and quartane agues with lapis [Page 139]lazuli. Dodder distilled and the water d. h. the liver and lungs, expells the stone, and termes, and ap: h. the eyes. Croll: The de­coction thereof h. the tartar of the stomack. Senn. It h. diseases arising of flegme and chol­ler. De Dond: the juyce with the acerose sy­rupe h. fevers. Heurn. It's corrected with a­niseed, and d. with wormewood.

Doggs-bane. Apocynum.

  • P. Italy, Syria, and those Easterne countries.
  • T. They bud in May, fl: in September.
  • N. [...]. Cynomoron. Cynocrambe.

Doggs-bane. Ger: J. K. as the climing, and broad leafed. T. they are of the poysonous nature of Thora, which killeth whatsoever creature eateth it, except preserved by the use of Anthora. V. the leaves mixed with bread and given to doggs, presently take away the use of their limbs, and procure sudden death. Park: K. as the greater and lesser American. T. it is not meanely hot. V. ap. it disperseth tumors, and is not inwardly to be used. Aeg. It's hot without drinesse.

Doggs-stones. Cynosorchis.

  • P. In moist and fertile meadows.
  • T. Fl: from Aprill to September.
  • N. [...]. Testiculus canis, & Caninus.

Doggs-stones. Ger: J. K. As the great, white, [Page 140]spotted, marsh, and lesser Austrian. T. are hot and moist, the greater is windie and causeth lust. The second is more hot and dry, and h. venery, so Serapias stones, and are more dry. V. Diosc. The greater eaten c. generation of males, and d. in goates milke c. lust. So the rest which are juycie, which is every other yeare by course. Park. K. as the great purple, greater pale purple fl. and smaller, with the greater, lesser, and Hungarian souldiers Cullious. V. the firme roots cause lust.

Doggs-tooth. Dens Caninus.

  • P. In green and moist grounds, and gardens.
  • T. Fl. in Aprill, or the midst of March.
  • N. Dentali. Satyrium Erythronium quorundam.

Dogs-tooth. Ger. K. as the common and white. T. are very hot and excrementitious. V. the powder thereof taken in pottage killeth wormes: drank with wine it h. the collick, So Clus. it strengthneth and nourisheth the bo­dy, and d. with water h. the epilepsie. Park the root is thought to be more venereous than the fatyrions. Cam. Matth. Some use the roots for all purposes for which the hermo­dactile serveth, which is neither assented to or condemned by the forementioned authors, having had no experience thereof.

Dragons. Dracunculus.

  • P. In gardens, and marsh places.
  • T. The berries are ripe in Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Dracontia. Serpentaria. Colubrina. Bisaria.

Dragons. Ger. J. K. as the great, small, water, [Page 141]and spike dr. T. is more biting and bitter than Aron, hot, and of thin parts with some astri­ction. V. the root doth scoure the entr [...]lles, and attenuate. It h. malignant ulcers, & the black and white morphew, tempered with vineger. The leaves cure ulcers and wounds: the fruit is more strong and h. the polypus: the iuice clenseth spots in the eyes. Gal. The root twice or thrice sodden expels cla [...]r [...]ie humors, out of the chest and lungs. Diosc. The root of the lesser dragon evacuateth humours out of the chest. The juice of that of the garden dropped into the eyes h. scoroina's: the distilled water h. pestilentiall fevers or poyson d. with treacle or mithridate. The smell of the flowers is hurt­full to women newly conceived with child. Bauh. It doth incide, digest, and open. Matth. It h. cold stomacks, c. appetite, dissipateth flatulencies, roborates the members, provoketh urine and the termes, and is an apoflegmatisme.

Dragon tree. Draco arbor.*

  • P. In the Iland Madera, and Insula Portus S.
  • T. It flourisheth all the yeare.
  • N. [...] the gum, and Sanguis draconis.

Dragon tree. Johns. T. the Sanguis draconis, which is thought to proceed from this tree, is astringent It stops the courses, fluxes, dysen­teries, haemoptysis, and fasteneth loose teeth. smiths use it to varnish over their works, to give them a sanguine colour, and keep them from rust. Park. it stops the gonorrhoea, h. the strangury, watering of the eyes and burnings. Col. It's thought to be cold 2° and dry 3°, it fastens loose teeth: so the bark and fruit.

Dropwort. Filipendula.

  • P. Rocks, rough places, pastures, neer rivers.
  • T. Fl. from May to the end of June.
  • N. [...]. Oenanthe. Philipendula Myreps.

Dropwort. Ger. J. K. as the common, moun­taine, narrow leafed, hemlock and water dr. T. are hot and dry 3°. opening and clensing with a little astriction. V. the root of the common Filipendula boiled in wine and d. h. all paines of the bladder, provoketh urine, and expelleth the stone; so the root of Oenanthe. The powder of the first often used in meate preserveth from the falling sicknesse. Park. the root d. expells the secundine, and h. the jaundise. The powder made into an ele­ctuary with hony h. wind and all cold affecti­ons of the lungs. The mountaine. V. as the red rattle. Oenanthe h. the head, womb and blad­der. The water dr. h. the strangury.

Ducks-meate. Lens palustris.

  • P. In ponds, lakes, ditches, and standing waters.
  • T. It's in its freshest beauty in the beginning of the yeare.
  • N. [...]. Lenticula aquatica.

Ducks-meat. Ger. T. Gal. Is cold and moist 2°. V. Diosc. It h. all inflammations, S. Antho­nies fire, and hot agues ap. alone, or with par­ched [Page 143]barley meale, also it knitteth ruptures in children. Mingled with fine wheaten flowre & ap. it h. hot swellings, as phlegmons, the ery­pelas & paines of the joints, as also the funda­ment fallen in young children. Park. K. as the common and crosse leafed. V. Matth. The di­stilled water h. all inward inflammations, and pestilent fevers, the rednesse of the eyes, the swellings of the privities and brests. The herbe ap. h. the head-ach c. by heat, and repells.

Dyers-weed. Luteola.

  • D. In most and barren places, almost every where.
  • T. Fl: in June and July.
  • N. [...]. Herba lutea. Luteum Vitruvii. Pseudo-Struthium-Matth.

Dyers weed. Ger. T. is hot and dry. V. Johns. The root as also the whole herb heats & dryes 3°. It cuts, attenuates, resolveth, opens and digests. It h. punctures and the bitings of venomous creatures d. and ap. and preventeth infection of the plague. Park. K. as the small of Candy, and the great fertile and sterile. T. Matth. it's hot and dry 3°. V. being bruised and ap. it h. wounds. Also it serveth to dye yellow, and green, those cloths that have been first dyed blew with woad. Bauh. The root is sharp and provokes urine and sweat.

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Earth-nut. Glans terrae.

  • P. Pastures, cornefields, almost every where.
  • T. Fl. in June, and July: the seed is ripe soon after.
  • N. [...]. Nucula terrestris. Bulbo­castanum.

EArth-nut. Ger. J. K. as the small, and great. T. the roots are moderately hot & dry, also binding: the seed is hotter and dryer. V. the seed and root provoke urine. The roots eaten h. spitting of bloud: and boi­led, buttered, and eaten comfort the stomack, and yield nourishment good for the bladder & kidnies. Pease earthnuts. T. are dyspeptick, and moderately hot, dry and binding; so the root, and stop all fluxes, and nourish like the parsnep. Park. Earth Chesnuts nourish as the Chesnut. Indian Chesnuts strengthen the sto­mack tosted; and eaten too much c. head-ach.

Eglantine. Cynorrhodon.

  • P. In the borders of fields and woods, &c.
  • T. Fl. and flourisheth with the other rose tree.
  • N. [...]. Rosa sylvestris & Canina. Sentis.

Eglantine. Ger. J. K. as the sweet bryer, [Page 145]and double egl. with the bryer and pimpinel [...] rose. T. these wild roses are referred to the ma­nured rose, but are not used in physick where the other may be had. V. Plin. The root h. bitings of a mad dog. The spungie bryer balls stamped with hony and ashes, h. the alopecia, or the falling of the haire. Fuch. being pow­dered and taken they h. the stone and strangu­ry: they strengthen the kidnies. The fruit when ripe is used for meat. Park. K. as the damaske, the vermilion of Austria, and single dwarf with­out thornes. V. The conserve of hepps gently bindeth the belly, stops defluxions from the head upon the stomack, and dryeth up the moisture thereof, and h. digestion. The pow­der of the dryed pulp h. the whites d. The powder of the balls h. the collick, and of the wormes thereof d. killeth wormes.

Egyptian thorne. Acacia.*

  • P. In Egypt, and Palestina: the second in Cap­padocia.
  • T. Fl. in May: the fruit is ripe in the end of August.
  • N. [...]. Aegyptia spina, & Christi.

Egyptian thorne. Ger. J. K. as the common and thorhy trefoile. T. Gal. The juice of acacia is cold and earthy, with a certaine watery essence, and thin hot parts: it's dry 3°, cold 1°, if washed 2°, loosing its biting quality. V. The juice of acacia stops the lask, termes and gonor­rhoea d. with red wine: it h. blasting and in­flammation [Page 146]of the eyes, and maketh the skin smooth. It h. serpigo's, heate of the mouth, and makes the haire black. Diosc. It h. S. An­thonies fire, the shingles, pterygia and white­lowes. The gum doth bind and somewhat coole: it's emplastick, so dulleth the remedies with which it is mixed. Ap. with the white and yelk of an egge, it preventeth blisters in burnings, or scaldings. The juice of the other also bindeth, but is not so effectuall nor good in ophthalmick remedies. Park. K. as the west In­dian & true acacia of Diosc. V. the juice h. kibes and chilblaines, fasteneth loose teeth, h. the flu [...] of humors to the joynts, bindes, cools, & streng­thens d. and ap. h. vomiting, the gum fastens colours.

Elder-tree. Sambucus.

  • P. In gardens, mountaines, almost every where.
  • T. Fl. in Aprill and May: the fruit is ripe in Sept.
  • N. [...]. The fr. Grana actes. Jewes eares, Fungi Sambucini.

Elder-tree. Ger. J. K. as the common, that with white flowers, the jagged, & harts Elder. T. It's drying, glutinating and moderately di­gesting: the barke, leaves, first buds, flowers, & fruits dry, heat and purge; yet with trouble to the stomack. V. It operateth as the Dane­wort. The leaves and tender crops taken in broth, purge slimy flegme and choller; the middle barke more strongly. The dryed seeds h. the dropsie. Drach. 1. taken in the morning for [Page 147]some space causeth leannesse. The leaves boiled till soft with oile of sweet Almonds, or of line­seed, ap. hot to the piles and reiterated, do presently give ease. The green leaves stamped and ap. with bulls tallow h. hot tumors and the paine of the gout. The juice of the inner barke d. with whay h. the dropsie: so the flowers being fryed with eggs. Dryed they at­tenuate, and being steeped in vineger and it d. h. the stomack, and used with meate c. appe­tite. The seed is gentler than the other parts; yet drach. 1. steeped in vineger and taken with aniseeds h. the dropsie. The Jewes eare is binding and drying. The infusion thereof h. inflammations of the mouth, and almonds of the throat, and uvula gargarized. The tender leaves of the tree with parched barley meale h. hot swellings, scaldings, bitings of a mad dog, and glew ulcers. The pith dryed is good to put into issues to keep them open. See Blochwit. Water Elder. K. as the common, and rose. T. V. are not discovered. Park. As the first. Pem. The flowers c. sweat: their water opens the liver, spleen and reines, and h. ter­tian agues, and melancholy unc. 3. taken fa­sting. The Jewes eares with columbine leaves boiled in ale h. sore throats: and steeped in plantaine water ap. h. inflamed eyes. The wa­ter cleareth the skin, and h. the paine of the sides. The oile h. paines of the joynts. Park. K. as the red berryed. V. the decoction of the berries coloureth haires black. The juice of the leaves is an apophlegmatisme: and with hony h. the paine of the eares. The flowers in clysters h. the winde and collick.

Elecampane. Helenium.

  • P. In fruitfull meadowes, and shadowie places.
  • T. Fl. in June, and July: the roots are gathered in Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Inula. Enula Campana. Scabwort.

Elecampane. Ger. T. is hot and dry 3°. when green, it's full of superfluous moisture. V. It h. short breath, old coughs and orthopnoea's given in a lohoc. The root preserved taken af­ter supper h. digestion, and keepeth the belly soluble. The juice boiled killeth wormes, and chewed fasteneth the teeth. The root h. poy­son, bitings of serpents, ruptures, cramps, and convulsions. An ointment of the decoction or powder with hony h. old ulcers. It h. the sci­atica. The decoction d. provoketh urine, h. burstings and luxations. The root taken with hony clenseth the breast, ripeneth tough flegme, c. expectoration, h. coughs and shortnesse of breath, comforteth the stomack, and h. digesti­on: so the roots condited. Boiled soft and mixed with fresh butter and powder of ginger ap. it h. the itch, scabs and manginesse. Pem. the canded roots h. the winde of the stomack and stitches in the sides caused by the spleen, wheesing in the lungs, mother, plague, and pu­trifyed fevers. d. in ale it cleareth the sight. Note it must not be given to hot and dry bo­dyes. The dose of the root powdered is from 20. graines to 30. The decoction ap. h. sores and cankers. Park. The roots condited h. me­lancholy. The decoction of the root killeth all wormes whatsoever. The distilled water cleareth the skin. Fuch. Plin. Eaten fasting it fastens the teeth.

Elme-tree. Ʋlmus.

  • P. Almost every where.
  • T. The seed falleth in Aprill.
  • N. [...]. The seed is called Samarra.

Elme-tree. Ger. J. K. as the common, nar­row leafed witch-hasell, or the broadest lea­fed, and smooth leafed elme. T. The leaves and bark are moderately hot and clensing with clamminesse. V. the leaves h. green wounds, and the barke ap. The leaves stamped with vineger take away scurfe. Ʋnc. 1. of the thicker barke d. in wine or water purgeth flegme. The decoction of the leaves, barke or root h. broken bones bathed. The liquor in the blisters ap. h. pimples, spots, freckles and beautifyeth the face. It healeth green wounds, and cureth ruptures newly made, being laid on with spleen wort, using a trusse. Park. K. as the lesser. V. it operates as the rest, the leaves d. in malmsie with pepper h. old coughs. The decoction of the barke or root h. shrunk sinewes: the scum c. haire. The barke ap­plyed with brine h. the gout.

Endive. Endivia.

  • P. Gardens: the wild in barren grounds.
  • T. It's sown in spring; it seedeth in harvest.
  • N. [...]. Intybus. Scariola. Seriola Lob. Park.

Endive. Ger. J. K. as the garden succory, and [Page 150]endive, with the thornie. T. are cold and dry 2°: somewhat binding, something bitter, clen­sing and opening. Garden endive is colder, and not so dry or clensing. V. the herbs green cool hot livers, h. the stopping of the gall, yellow jaundise, lack of sleep, stopping of urine, & hot burning feavers, so the syrrup: the distilled water is used in potions cooling and purging: and with that of plantain and roses injected with a syringe h. excoriations in the passages of the urine. The herb eaten in sallads, especi­ally the white, comforteth the weake, and cool­eth the hot stomack. The leaves of succory bruised and ap. h. inflamed eyes. Pem. The di­stilled water h. sharpnesse of urine; so the seed, and h. the syncope: it hurteth the palsie & cold stomacks. The dose is drach. 1. Ap. it h. the gout, fretting ulcers, and hot tumours. Wild succory. K. as the common, yellow, and wild endive. T. agree with the garden sorts. V. the leaves boiled in broth h. weake and hot sto­macks, and operate as the first. Gum succorie, chondrilla. K. as the blew, that of Robinus, yellow, Spanish, rushy, sea, swines, male swines, and wart succory. T. are like the common, but dryer. V. the roots with hony and nitre made into trochisks clense the morphew, sun­burnings & spots in the face. The gum smooth­eth the haires of the eye-browes, and is used in stead of mastick. Powdered with myrhre & made into a pessarie it brings down the termes. The leaves of wart succorie powdered and d. to the quantity of a spoonfull take away warts and such excrescencies. Park. K. as the small garden endive, and succory with red fl. &c. V. the last boiled and d. purgeth forth [Page 151]flegme, and choller. The distilled water h. cachexies. ap. it h. inflammations. Gum succory h. laskes. The bulbed h. the Kings evill.

Eye-bright. Eufragia.

  • P. In dry medowes, grassie waies and pastures.
  • T. Fl. in Aug: till Sept. and must then be ga­thered.
  • N. [...]. Ophthalmica. Ocularia. Eufra­sia. Luminella.

Eye-bright. T. is more hot than dry. V. taken alone, or with other things, it preserveth and restoreth the sight, the powder being taken with fennell seed, mace and sugar. Stamped and ap. to the eyes, or the juice with white wine dropped in, or the distilled water cleareth the sight. Three parts of the powder with one of mace m. h. all hurts of the eyes, and com­forte the memory, halfe a spoonefull being taken every morning in whitewine. Pem. To cleare the sight, take rose water and celandine an. unc. 1. of tutty powdered drach. 1. m. and wash the eyes. Park. K. as the great red wood­dy, greater purple broad leafed, and yellow, with the lesser. V. being infused in wine or beere it h. the eyes effectually. Bauh. It h. the inflammation of the eyes, and grief thereof e. by crude humors. Trag. decoct in wine it h. the jaundise.

F

Fellwort. Gentiana.

  • P. In shadowie woods and mountaines.
  • T. Fl. in August: the seed is ripe in Sept.
  • N. [...]. Basilica Serap. Ciminalis. centau­ria radix. Aloe Gall.

FEllwort. Ger. J. K. as the great, great pur­ple, blew flowred, crosse wort, and spotted of Dr Pennie. T. the root is hot and clensing, bitter, attenuating, purging and opening. V. it h. cramps and convulsions, ruptures, bad livers and stomacks, and h. against poison and bro­ken windednesse. Drach. 1. of the root powder­ed with a little pepper and herbe of grace h. against the stingings of venemous beasts, bi­tings of mad doggs or any poison▪ The deco­ction d. h. stoppings of the liver, crudity of the stomack, and digestion: it scattereth con­gealed blood, and h. all cold diseases of the in­ward parts. Park. or outward. English felwort, or hollow. T. V. is not discovered, but may be referred to the first. Bastard Fellwort. K. as the spring large floured, Alpish of the spring time, and the bastard. T. are in tast and forme like the greater gentians. V. they operate as the rest, but lesse effectually. Park. Hollow root ap. clenseth, purgeth, and dryeth. Park. K. as the smaller vernall, autumne, and cento­ry like leafed. V. the roots d. in wine h. lame­nesse. The water h. agues, killeth wormes, and c. courses: the juice h. ulcers and heat of the eies.

Fennell. Foeniculum.

  • P. Gardens, and hot countries.
  • T. Fl. in June and July: the seed is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Marathrum. The gyant, [...].

Fennell. Ger. K. as the common, and sweet. T. the seed is hot and dry 3°. V. the powder of the seed d. for certain daies fasting pre­serveth the sight. The green leaves eaten, or seed d. in a ptisan c. milke in womens breasts, so the roots; and h. the dropsie, boiled in wine and d. The seed d. h. the pain of the sto­mack, desire to vomit, and breaketh wind. The herbe, seed and root, h. the lungs, liver and kid­nies, opening and corroborating. The seed and herbe of the sweet fennell operate as the anise­seed. Pem. The herbe is not so hot as the seed. It provoketh urine, h. the stone and hicket, swelling of the spleen, jaundise, gout, cramps, and shortnesse of breath: it causeth a good co­lour and attenuateth fat bodies. Note, ithurts hot bodies. Hoggs fennell. K. as the common sulphurwort, dwarfe, and great, peucedanum. T. these, especially the yellow sap of the root, is hot 2°. dry initio 3ii. V. the juice of the root ta­ken alone or with bitter almonds, & rue h. shortwindednesse, paines of the belly, winde of the stomacke, wasteth the spleen, and purg­eth flegme and choller: it expelleth urine, the birth and secundine, and h. paines of the kidnies and bladder. Mixed with oile of roses or vineger, ap. it h. the palsie, cramp, sciatica and cold diseases. It helpet [...] [Page 154]ruptures and exomphalos. The decoction of the root operates as the juice, but not so effe­ctually. The powder of it clenseth and healeth old sores and ulcers, and extracts things fixed in the flesh: mixed with oile of roses it causeth sweat, being annointed: therefore it h. the French pox. The congealed liquor with oile of roses ap. h. the lethargy, frensie, dizinesse, falling sicknesse, palsie, cramps, and all infirmi­ties of the sinewes with vineger and oile. Smelt to it reviveth those that are strangled with the mother. Taken in a reare egge ith. coughs, dysp­noe [...]'s, and gripings c. by grosse humors. It wasts the spleen, cutting, digesting, and attenu­ating: it opens the matrix and facilitates the birth. Held in the mouth it h. the mother. Fennell gyant. K. as the common, small, and Aesculapius his alheale. T. these with their gums are hot 3°, and dry 2°. V. the pith Gal. is astringent and h. the haemoptysis, and flix. As an errhine it stops bleeding, d. in wine h. bitings of vipers, and rosted with pepper and salt ea­ten c. lust. The seed is hot and attenuating, and h. agues mixt with oile and the body anointed therewith. Drach. 1. of the juice of ferula bearing sagapenum purgeth grosse flegme and choler, h. old and cold diseases, as the epilep­sie, apoplexy, &c. cramps, palsies, and shrunk sinews, short breath, long cough, and paine of the side & brest. Sagapenum steeped in vineger ap. wasteth & mollifyeth all hard swellings. The juice of ferula g [...]lbanifera, galbanum d. in wine with myrrhe h. all poyson. The q. of a beane taken in wine h. womens travell. The perfume h. risings of the mother, and falling sicknesse. It mollifieth, attracteth splinters, wasts cold [Page 155]humors, and operates as Sagapenum. Park. The seed of the common boiled in wine and d. h. the bitings of serpents and poison. The juice cleareth the eyes: so the distilled water. The juice dropped into the eares killeth the wormes thereof. The wild is stronger, and h. the stone. The decoction of the seed of the round-headed coloureth the haire yellow. Hoggs fennell. K. as the Italian. V. as the rest, the juice in wine ap. h. paine of the eares and tooth-ach. Scorching fennell. K. as the true, Spanish, and carrot leafed. V. scr. 2. of the barke of the root, or scr. sem. of the juice d. with meade strongly purgeth choller up­wards and downwards. It h. asthm [...]'s. Ap. it digesteth and draweth, and h. blemishes of the skin, and paines of the joynts.

Fenugreek. Foenum graecum.

  • P. Gardens: it's sown in fields beyond the sea.
  • T. It may be sown untill Aprill.
  • N. [...]. Carphos Plin. Si liqua Co­lumel. Silicula Varronis.

Fenugreek. Ger. J. K. as the common, and wild. T. it doth manifestly heat, it is hot 2°. dry 1°. The meale mollifyeth and wasteth, V. the juice of the herb boiled and taken with hony purges all corrupt humors in the inte­stines and easeth paine, being slimy and warme, It clenseth and raiseth humours out of the chest with a little hony, with more in old diseases without a fever, boyling it with fatdates, & using it long before meat. It h. inflammations that are lesse hot, by wasting them: the meale boi­led [Page 156]with mead ap. h. all inflammations, and kneaded with niter and vineger, h. hard spleens. The bath of it h. impostumes, ulcers, or stoppings of the matrix: the juice of the decoction clenseth the haire, h. dandriffe and achores; as a pessarie with goose grease it open­eth the mother. The green herb stamped with vineger h. feeble parts without skin and ulcera­ted. The decoction h. ulcers in the low gut, and bloudy flix. The oile scoureth haires, and the scars of the privities. The seed decoct in wine and d. with vineger expells all evill hu­mors. Boiled in wine with dates and hony unto a syrrup, it clenseth, and h. paines of the breast. The meale boiled in mead dissolveth all hard swellings; so also m. with the roots of marsh mallows and line-seed. The decoction used as a bath with wine h. griefs in the lower parts of women, or the fume taken. The de­coction of the seed h. scurfe. Pem. Its mucilage ap. h. paines of the eyes. Park. The seeds buri­ed till they sprout & eaten, c. to grow sat. Aeg. It is hot & loosens the belly taken before meate. Week. The oile with that of myrtles ap. h. the cicatrices of the genitors.

Fenny-stones, Orchis palmata.

  • P. In fenny grounds and moist shadowie woods.
  • T. They flower and flourish about May and June.
  • N. The 1. is Cynosorchis Dracuntias Lob. The three last, Palma Christi.

Fenny-stones. Ger. J. K. as the marsh dragon, marsh handed, handed marsh, creeping & great­est handed satyrion. T. V. are of little use in phy­sick, and are referred to the handed satyrions [Page 157]whereof they are kinds. Dal. The marsh orchis is more strong in procuring lust, than any of the dogs stones. Park. K. as the female handed, small with red fl. sweet, smelling like cloves, frogg-like, gelded, spotted marsh, great moun­tain handed, and spotted white. V. the roots boiled in red wine and d. stop fluxes, the pow­der being taken. The marsh as Serapias stones.

Ferne. Filix.

  • P. In dry and barren ground: in shadowie places.
  • T. Fl. in summer: the seed is ripe at midsummer.
  • N. [...]. Pteris. Of the female Thelypteris & Nymphaeopteris.

Ferne. Ger. K. as the male and female. T. are hot, bitter, dry and something binding. V. unc. sem. of the root of the male ferne kills long flat wormes d. in mede, and more effectually with scr. 2. of scammony first eating garlick. It also expelleth the child in the wombe & h. the spleen. Stamped with axungia it h. the prickings of the reed. The female operates as the male. Diosc. It c. barrennesse, and aborti­on. The powder ap. h. ulcers and gallings. The root of the 1. sodden in wine opens the spleen: in water h. lasks in children, the fume of the decoction taken. Water ferne. T. the root is lesse hot and dry than they of the former ones. V. the heart of the root d. h wounds & bruises, and dissolveth clotted bloud, so the tender sprigs: and are good to be put into unguents appropriate to wounds and punctures. Wall­ferne, or Polypodie. K as of the wall, of the oake & Indian. T. doth dry without biting V. Diosc. it [Page 158]purgeth choller and flegme. Actuar. And me­lancholy, boyled in broth with beets or mal­lows. Mes: It dryeth and attenuateth, h. aches in the joynts, taken in a decoction for some space: with phlebotomy, cathartick and hydro­ticke remedies. It h. luxations. unc: 1. boiled with hony, water, and pepper d. purgeth flegme and choller, or unc: 3. in water and wine. Oake ferne, K. as the true, white, and tree-f. T. is sweet, biting, and bitter, V. it is a psilothron ap. The black operates as maiden­haire. The small fernes, K. as the male foun­taine, male and female dwarfe stone-ferne. T. V. are referred to the black o [...]e-ferne. Park: K. as the great, strange, and diverse leafed mules ferne. V. h. the spleen. The berrie bear­ing of America, sea, and naked stone-ferne. V. are referred to the former. Polypody h. all ill affects of the lungs, sc. the water with sugar­candy.

Feverfew. Febrifuga.

  • P. In hedges, and about rubbish.
  • T. Fl: for the most part all the summer.
  • N. [...]. Matricaria, Amarella. Tagetes.

Feverfew. Ger: J: K. as the common, dou­ble, and mountain. T. is hot 3°, dry 2°. it clenseth, purgeth, openeth, and operates as o­ther bitter things. V. it h. the diseases of the matrix, provokes the termes, and expells the dead child, d. ap. or used in a bath. Diosc: it h. S. Anthonies fire, the leaves and fl. being ap­plied, and all hot swellings. The powder d. [Page 159]with oxymel, syrup of vineger or wine evacu­ates flegme & melancholy, h. pursinesse, & stuf­fings of the lungs, as also the stone: drach: 2. of the powder taken with hony, or sweet wine purge flegme, and melancholy, so h. those that are vertiginous, melancholicke and pen­five. The herbe h. the suffocation of the mo­ther, hardnesse, and stopping of the same be­ing boyled in wine and ap: so the decoction sate over: d. and ap. with bay salt to the wrists, with powder of glasse it h. the ague Park: The double la. those that have taken opium, so the rest, and also all pains in the head c. by cold: d. it h. agues: the distilled water h. freckles, and collick ap.

Figge-tree. Ficus.

  • P. Spain, Italy, gardens, under a hot wall.
  • T. They beare ripe fruit in the spring, August and September.
  • N. [...]. The unripe fruit is called Grossus and Olynthus.

Figge-tree. Ger: J: K. as the common, and dwarfe. T. The dry figgs nourish better than the green, which are somewhat warme and moist. The dry and ripe are hot almost 3°, sharpe and biting: the leaves are somewhat sharpe, opening, but not so strong as the juyce. V. dry figgs are not of very good juyce, they h. the throat and lungs, the cough, and short windednesse. Decoct with hysope and d. they expectorate flegme. Stamped with salt, rue, [Page 160]and nut kernells, they h. poyson, and prevent infection: stamped with wheat meale, powder of fenugreeke, lineseed, and the roots of marsh mallows, ap. warme, they ripen impostumes, and phlegmons, and all hot tumors behind the eares: and the roots of lillies added h. bubo's, boiled in wormewood wine with barley meale: ap. to the belly, they h. dropsies. Drie figgs soften and wast both inwardly and out­wardly: the leaves wast the Kings evill and all tumors, ap. with the roots of marsh mal­lowes. The milke h. rough skinnes, sores, spotts and deformity ap. with barley meale, and h. warts ap. with fat things: it also h. the tooth-ache ap. and openeth the hemorrhoids: with fenugreek and vineger they h. goutes: the milke ap. h. wounds of venemous beasts: green figgs h. the stone, the dry h. all diseases of the chest, paine of the bladder, and child­birth: the juyce of the leaves dissolveth milke clotted in the stomack, & ap. with the yelke of an egge, c. the menses. The prickly Indian fig-tree. T. V. eaten coloureth the bloud red: the juyce h. old ulcers: Cochenele is given in maligne diseases, as in pestilent diseases, &c. The arched Indian figtree. T.V. The fruit is usually eaten, and of good nourishment. Pem: Figgs h. the falling sicknesse, quinsie, and in­firmities of the womb: they also expell ve­nemous matter to the skinne: toasted they fa­cilitate the birth: ap. with leaven and salt, they breake plague sores, and with copporas h. running ulcers: with salt ap: they h. kibes: and tosted, paine of the teeth. They are best for phlegmatick persons. Col: 2 or 3 eaten in the morning steeped in aquavitae h. pursinesse. [Page 161] Park: The Indian figgs, loosen the belly, re­fresh the spirits, h. coughs, & hot urine, and c. lust: The juyce of the leaves h. burnings: common figgs boiled with hysop and lycorice, h. the chest.

Figge-wort. Scrophularia.

  • P. In shadowie woods, and moist meadowes.
  • T. They floure in June and July.
  • N. [...]. Millemorbia, Castran­gula, Ficaria, Ferraria.

Figge-wott. Ger. J. K. as the great, Indian, and yellow floured. T. Col: it's thought to be hot and dry fine 3tii. V. It h. the Kings evill, piles, and hemorrhoides, the root boiled with butter ap. It h. wenns, and hard knotts, d. and ap. it dissolveth clotted bloud: the roots boiled with oile and wax, h. all scabbs and lepry: so the distilled water d. & ap. and h. the virulency of corroding ulcers, spots, freckles, scurf and deformity of the skin. Park. K. as the great without knobbed roots, great leafed of Candy, strange and elder like. V. The roots with butter set 15 daies in a moist place, then boiled and strained, make an excellent oint­ment for scabbs, &c. so Bauh: Matth: Solenand: and Dod: drach: 1. of the root d. killes wormes.

Filbeard-tree. Avellana.

  • P. In orchards, gardens, and hedges.
  • T. The catkins fall off in March: the fruit is ripe in August.
  • N. Corylus. Nux Prenestina & Heracleotica.

Filbeard-tree. Ger: J: K. as the common, that of Constantinople, with the wild hedge-nut. T. Dod: The filbeard nuts green are drier than wallnuts, when dry they are colder. Ger: the catkins are cold, dry and binding, and h. the fluxe. V: Col: the skins that cover the nut ker­nells taken in wine to the q. of drach: 1. stay womens courses, especially those of the red filbeard: so drach: 2. of the shells d. in red wine; & stop laskes, with the milke of the ker­nells and catkins: an electuary of the parched kernells h. old coughs, and d. with pepper h. catarrh [...]: a decoction of the inner rinde made in small ale, d. first and last 9 dayes h. the strangury: too many eaten cause head-ache, except eaten with raisins. Park: being parched they are lesse hurtfull to the stomack, being lesse oilie, and windie.

Firre-tree. Abies.

  • P. High mountains in Italy, France, &c.
  • T. The time of the Firre-tree agreeth with the Pine.
  • N. [...]. Its rosin is called Lachryma abietis & Terebinthina Veneta.

Firre-tree. Ger: J: K. as the male, and fe­male. [Page 163]T. The barke, fruit, and gum are of the nature of the pitch-tree and his gumms. V. its rosin sc: the turpentine, looseth the belly, ex­pelleth choller, clenseth the kidnies, expelleth urine, and the stone: taken with sugar, and the powder of nutmeggs, it h. the strangury, gonorrhoea, and the whites. It healeth green wounds, being washed in plantaine and rose water, with the yelke of an egge, the powder of olibanum and mastick, with saffron. Park: T. the cleer turpentine is hot and dry 2°, and very clensing. V. It is excellent in salves for green wounds, clensing and sodering them to­gether. Recch: The Firre of Mexico: T. is hot and dry 3°: the rosin is hot 4°, discussing and corroborating.

Flag. Gladiolus.

  • P. In meadows and watery places.
  • T. Fl: from May to July.
  • N. [...]. Ensis. The corne Flag, Segetalis. Victorialis rotundus.

Flag. Ger: J: K. as the French corne-flag, Italian, and water sword fl: T. the root of corne flag doth draw, wast, consume and dry, and is of a subtile digesting quality. V. The root stamped with the powder of frankincense ap: draweth out splinters, stamped with the meale of darnell and meade ap: it h. hard swel­ings. Some affirme that the upper root caus­eth lust, and the lower barrennesse: the upper root d. in water h. the enterocele in children: [Page 164]stamped with hoggs grease and wheaten meale, they h. the scrophula: the seed d. in goats or asses milke h. paines of the collick. Ordinary flagge. T. the roots are hot and dry 2°. V. It bindes, strengthens, and condenses: it h. fluxes, and stops the courses. Park: The di­stilled water of the yellow water-flag, h. wa­tering eyes, being dropped thereinto and ap. h. blemishes in the body: it h. inflammations and cancers, and foule ulcers in the privities. Lonic: T. It's of the same faculty with acorus. Lugd. Ap. it draweth out the menses: the up­per root c. venery. Dorst: The water h. burn­ing fevers: the root d. h. coughs and poy­son.

Flax. Linum.

  • P. In fruitfull and moist soiles: the wild, in gra­velly places.
  • T. Fl: in June and July: the seed ripens in the mean time.
  • N. [...]. Linum sativum: the wilde. Sylve­stre.

Flaxe. Ger. K. as the garden. T. The seed is hot 1°, in a mean between moist and dry: as others, of superfluous moisture, and windie though parched. V. It hurteth the stomack, is of hard digestion, of little nourishment, pro­vokes urine, loosens the belly, and if parched [Page 165]stoppeth it. Diosc: Line-seed operates as fenu­greeke, wasteth and mollifieth hot swellings, d. and ap. Boiled with hony, oyle, and water it h. spots and blemishes, and foule skinnes with salt-peter and figgs; with hony and wa­ter cresses, it brings off ill favoured nailes: with hony it expectorates flegme, and h. coughs. Baked with pepper and hony, it causeth lust: the oile mollifieth hard swellings, ap. exten­deth shrunk sinews, and easeth paine. d. it h. paine in the side and collicke: with aniseed and line-seed boiled in water ap. it h. the an­gina. Line-seed boiled in vineger ap. h. the dysentery, and pains of the belly: stamped with the roots of wild cucumbers, it draweth out things fixed in the body: the bath h. in­flammations of the matrix: poudered with fe­nugreeke, and boiled with mallowes, violet leaves, smallage, and chickweed, untill the herbs be soft, then stamped with axungia to the forme of a pultis ap: h. all paine, soft­neth cold tumors, suppurateth apostumes, and prevents ranklings applied warme evening and morning. Wild flaxe. K. as the wilde white, thin leafed wilde, broad leafed dwarfe, mill­mountaine, the third broad leaved, and yellow floured. T. V. are referred to the garden flaxe, and are seldome used in physicke or surgerie. Toad-flaxe. K. as the great, sweet purple, va­riable, of Valentia, white, purple, creeping yellow, soure-leaved creeping, golden star­fashioned, golden, bushie, sparrowes, sparrow­tongue, and bastard toad-flaxe. T. They are of the temper of the wilde snap-dragons whereof they are kindes. V. the de­coction [Page 166]h. the jaundise and deformity of the skinne, being bathed therewith: d. it openeth the liver, spleen, and h. the jaundise, and the dysurie, & openeth the passages. Col: Park. Line­seed taken with raisins, opens the liver: with water, myrrh, olibanū & wine it h. wateringeyes: the oyle with rose water h. burnings. The wild resolves and lenifieth. Common toad flax. V. h. the dropsie and stone, and d. looseth the belly, h. the jaundise, expells poyson, the menses, and dead child: ap. it h. red eyes, the juyce h. ulcers, and spots of the skin. Park: K. As the broad leased blew, and narrow leased with yellow fl: V. the wild in most things is like that of the garden, and in many things more effectuall, by reason of its bitternesse: the decoction with the fl. resolveth tumors, leni­fyes inflammations, stiffe arteries, and swellings in the groin. The last is used to loosen the bo­dy. Toad-flax. K. as the greater of Hungary, base white mountaine, Spanish, upright, and bastard. V. as the rest. Schenck: pag. 738. The distilled water of the fl: of flax, taken with sugar, expelleth the pox: so Holler: Mac: the oile is emetick.

Flea-bane. Conyza.

  • P. In Spain, Italy, France, Germany, England, &c.
  • T. Fl: in July and August.
  • N. [...]. The blew fl: is called Amellus montanus Columnae. Dentelaringes.

Flea-bane. Ger. J. K. as the great, small, middle, dwarfe, great jagged-leaved, water­snipt, [Page 167] Austrian, hoary, hairy of the Alpes, and blew flowred. T. is hot and dry 3°. V. The leaves and flowers h. the strangury, jaundise, and griping of the belly: taken with vineger they h. the epilepsie: the fume of the decocti­on h. paines of the mother: the herbe burned driveth away flies, gnats, fleas, and venimous things. Park: K. As the great mountaine of Germany, and sweet purple. V. The leaves h. the hurts of all venimous creatures, small swel­lings and wounds: the decoction d. c. the termes, opens the liver, and h. laskes: the last h. the tooth-ache, so that of the sea. Reech. K. As that of Mexico. T. is hot and dry 3°, and sharpe.

Fleawort. Psyllium.

  • P. Gardens: the first in fields neare the sea.
  • T. Fl: in June and July.
  • N. [...]. Pulicaria. Herba Pulicaris.

Fleawort. Ger. K. as the common, and ne­ver dying. T. Gal: Serap: the seed is cold 2°, temperate in moisture and drinesse. V. The de­coction of the seed d. purgeth choller, cooleth hot diseases, and quencheth thirst. Stamped, boiled in water, and ap. with vineger and oile of roses, it h. all swellings in the joynts, S. Anthonies fire, and violent impostumes. Strew­ed in chambers, it expelleth fleas. Pem: its mucilage, with rose, and barley water, the syrrup of violets and roses, h. hoarsnesse, pleurisies, and purgeth choller. With marme­melade [Page 168]of quinces, poppy seeds, and sugar can­dy it h. catarrhes: the seed torrified, and taken with plantaine water h. fluxes and coughs: ap. it h. the sciatica, and with populeon the piles, and tenesmus. It h. rough haire: so Coles. Park: ap. with oile of roses and vineger, it h. sore nipples. Jo. The antidote is Andromachus's treacle, and vomiting with juniper water.

Flix-weed. Sophia Chirurgorum.

  • P. By high wayes, in obscure places almost eve­ry where.
  • T. It floureth and seedeth from June to October.
  • N. Pseudonasturtium Sylvestre, Sophia Para­celsi. Thalictrum.

Flixweed. Ger. T. it drieth without any sharpnesse or heate. V. The seed d. with wine or smithes water stoppeth laskes, and all issues of bloud. The herbe bruised and put into un­guents healeth ulcers, old sores, and wounds. Col: The herb d. consolidateth bones, and killeth wormes: so the water, and syrupe. Park: It's no lesse effectuall than plantaine or comfrey, for the purposes aforesaid.

Floure-gentle. Amaranthus.

  • P. Gardens, the floramore in a bed of horse-dung.
  • T. Fl: in Aug: and flourish till the frosty weather.
  • N. [...]. The golden is called Cona aurea. Chrysocome. Stoechas citrina.

Floure-gentle. Ger. K. As the purple, scar­let, [Page 169]floramore, branched, and velvet. T. are bind­ing, cold and dry. V. they stop all kinds of bleeding, and laskes. Park. K. as the greater, and lesser purple, variable, carnation, golden, and candy. T. the three first are hot and dry: but the other sorts are accounted cold and dry; V. they all h. rheumatick bodies: the first cause urine, and ap. comfort cold parts, and preyent moths. These are called helychrysum and au­relia. Golden flower-gentle. Ger. J. K. as the common, broad leased, round headed, and wild. T. V. d. kill wormes, and nits applyed.

Flower-deluce. Iris.

  • P. In gardens, moist meadowes, by brinks of rivers.
  • T. The dwarf fl. in Aprill: the greater in May: the bulbous in June.
  • N. [...]. Radix marica. Of the water flag. Pseudoacorus.

Flower-deluce. Ger. K. as the common, and water flag. T [...]the green roots of Fl. deluce are hot fere 4°. dryed, hot and dry 3°, and burn­ing the mouth. The root of the bastard Fl. de­luce is cold and dry 3°. and astringent. V. the root of the common Fl. deluce stamped with a little rose water ap. h. bruises. The juice purgeth choller and watery humors. d. in whay it h. the dropsie. The roots dry attenuate thick humors: and in a lohoch h. shortnesse of breath, & old coughs &c. They h. evil spleens, cramps, convulsions, bitings of serpents, & gonor­hoea's d. with vineger: & with wine provoke the [Page 170]courses. The decoction mollifyeth the matrix and openeth it. Boiled and ap. it mollifies the Kings evill and hard swellings. Johns. The roots of ordinary flaggs are hot and dry 2°. they excell acorus, bind, strengthen and con­dense, and h. fluxes and the courses. Floure­de-luce of Florence. K. as the common, white, great of Dalmatia, and small, twice flowring, violet, Austrian, and Germane. T. the roots are hot and dry fine 2di. V. the juice mightily purgeth choller and water: and d. in whay h. dropsies, evill spleens, cramps, convulsions, bitings of serpents, gonorrhoea's d. with vine­ger: and with wine provoke the courses. Vari­able Flowredeluces. K. as the common, Tur­key, sea, wild Bizantine, narrow-leased, grasse, narrow leafed many flowred, white dwarfe, red flowred dwrafe, yellow dwarfe, and variegated dwarfe. T. are referred to the other. V. the oile of the flowers and roots an. q. v. made as oile of roses: strengtheneth the sinewes and joynts, & h. cramps of repletion & peripneumo­nia's. The fl. of French Fl. deluce distilled with diatrion santalon, & cinamon: and the water d. h. dropsies. Bulbed Floure deluce. K. as the broad leased onion, changeable, many branched changeable, yellow, ash-coloured and whitish. T. are referred to the kinds of aspho­dills. V. unc. 6. of the herbe, with goats suet, as much oile of alcanna, lib. 1. stamped mixed and ap. h. the gout. The decoction of the root with meale of lupines h. freckles and the mor­phew in the face. Velvet Fl. deluce. T. V. is not discovered. Park. The root of the greater with the fl. is sternutatorie and emetick. Spanish nut. K. as the common and small. Ger. T. V. is [Page 171]eaten in fallads to c. lust. Park. The bulbous. K. as the great of Clus. and blew English. T. V. are uselesse.

Flower of Constantinople. Lychnis Chalced.

  • P. Almost in all gardens.
  • T. It flourisheth in June and July.
  • N. [...] Theoph. Schwenck. Flos Constantinop. Hierosol. Creticus Aldrovandi.

Flower of Constantinople. Ger. T. V. it ser­veth for ornament, and is not used: so Park. Bauh. Its faculty is not found out, it having no physicall use; but the root which in taste is a little sharp, is thought to be hot 1°. Park. K. as the single and double nonesuch T. V. as the first are not used. Lob. It scoureth wooll, like sopewort. Schwenckf. It's of no savour, and neglected as to use.

Fluellin. Veronica.

  • P. In corne fields, especially amongst Barley.
  • T. Fl. in August and September.
  • N. [...] the 1. The male, Betonica Pauli.

Fluellin. Ger. J. K. as the female, and sharp pointed. T. Col. is bitter, cold and dry. V. it is astringent. It h. the dysentery and hot swell­ings, spreading cankers and corrosive ulcers d. [Page 172]and ap. it h. inflammations of the eyes boiled and applyed as a pultis. The leaves sodd in the broth of a hen stay dysenteries. Paul. The fe­male Fluellin openeth the obstructions of the liver, and spleen, expelleth urine and the stone, and clenseth the kidnies and the bladder. Drach. 1. of the powder of the herbe with so much treacle h. pestilent severs. Male Fluellin. K. as the common, little, smallest, shrubby, tree, upright, and leaning. T. are in a meane between heat and drynesse. V. the decoction d. h. all fresh and old wounds, clenseth the bloud, h. the kidnies, scurvie, spreading tetters, fretting sores, small pox and measels. The wa­ter distilled with wine till red h. old coughs, ulcers, inflammations & drynesse of the lungs. Park. K. as the greater spiked fl. and german­der like. V. the male h. infectious diseases d. in wine, paines of the head, jaundise, stone, & fluxes of bloud. The female h. fluxes & can­kers d. and ap. The juice h. the polypus. Bor. The water h. the dropsie.

Fooles-stones. Orchis morio.

  • P. In pastures, and fields seldome manured.
  • T. Fl. in May and June: the stones are to be ga­thered in Sept.
  • N. The last is called Orchis Anthropophora. Oreades.

Fooles-stones. Ger. J. K. as the male, female, and lesser spotted. T. are hot & moist. V. these are thought to have the vertues of dog-stones, whereunto they are referred. Park. K. as the male Neopolitan. V. this with the rest operates as dog-stones.

Fox-gloves. Digitalis.

  • P. In barren sandy grounds, almost every where.
  • T. They flower and flourish in June and July.
  • N. [...]. Alisma & Damasonium Caesalp. Viola calathiana Plin.

Fox-gloves. Ger. J. K. as the purple, red, white, yellow, and dusky T. Col. Are bitter, hot, dry, and clensing. V. boiled in water and d. they cut thick flegme and naughty humours, open­ing the liver, spleen and inward parts: and d. with meade clense the breast & ripen clammy flegme: they may be used in stead of gentian. Park. The leaves ap. h. green wounds: the juice clenseth and dryeth old sores, and h. the Kings evill, or the herb ap. Two handfulls of the herb taken with unc. 4. of polypody of the oake bruised, and d. in ale effectually h. the epi­lepsie.

Fox-stones. Testiculus Vulpinus.

  • P. In moist meadowes, woods and fertile pastures.
  • T. Fl. from May, to the end of Aug.
  • N. Orchis Serapias. The birds, Ornithophora.

Fox-stones. Ger. J. K. as the butterfly satyri­on, gnat, humble bee, waspe, bee, fly, yellow, small yellow, birds, spotted birds, souldiers, soul­diers cullions, spider, small gnat, & narrow leased satyrion. T. V. are referred unto the dog-stones, yet they are not of any great use in physick, [Page 174] Park. K. as the greater gnat, and purple birds flowered. V. These with the rest are not so effe­ctuall for venery; but serve to discuss swellings, and clense foule ulcers and fistula's, and h. in­flammations of the mouth, phagedens, and lasks.

Fox-taile grasse. Alopecuros.

  • P. In moist furrowes of fertile fields.
  • T. Towards the latter end of summer.
  • N. The first is called, Gramen Phalaroides. The rest Alopecuroides.

Fox-taile-grasse, Ger. J. K. as the great, small, great bastard, and small bastard. T. V. are not yet discovered, or the nature or vertues of the Foxetaile: so Turn. Park. It is not used in medicine, but serveth only to be worne as a toy in the hat.

Frankincense tree. Arbor Thurifera.*

  • P. It groweth in Arabia.
  • T. It is gathered in the dog dayes.
  • N. [...]. Thus, sc. the rosin; and Olibanum.

Frankincense-tree. Ger. T. Gal. Thus is hot 2°. dry 1°. with some small astriction: the white is manifestly astringent, so the rind, and dryeth exceedingly, being of more grosse parts than Frankincense, and not so sharp, so [Page 175]h. the spitting of bloud, swellings in the mouth, collick, flux, arising from the stomack, and bloudy flixes. The fume is dry 3°. it doth also clense and fill up the ulcers of the eyes, like unto myrrhe. Diosc. saith if it be drank by one in health it puts him into a frensie, yet few consent hereunto. Avic. it strengtheneth the wit and understanding, but taken often it c. headach, and if too much be taken with wine it killeth. Park. it h. the gonorrhoea, and me­lancholy. It h. the cough and thin rheumes: and the Pleurisie, taken with the conserve of roses. The sume h. the piles, tenesmus, and cough. With mirrhe and the white of an egge ap. it h. paines of the head: and in salves it in­carnates.

Friers cowle. Arisarum.

  • P. In Italy, and Tuscany.
  • T. They flowre with the Dragons.
  • N. [...]. Aris Plinti. Aron parvum Cor­narii.

Friers cowle. Ger. J. K. as the broad, and narrow leafed. T. it agreeth with wake-Robin, yet is more biting. V. It is not much used in Physick; but it's reported that it stayes pha­gedens, and that being put into collyries, it h. fistula's. Diosc. Being put into the secret part of any creature, it rotteth the same: so Cam. Park. It's milder than arum. It h. hollow ulcers, clensing and healing them. Bauh. It h. burnings. Amat. The Germanes use it against the plague; yet it's not acknowledged by Clus.

Fritillarie. Fritillaria.

  • P. It groweth in gardens and meadowes.
  • T. It flowreth in March and Aprill.
  • N. Lilium variegatum. Flos meleagris Dod.

Fritillarie. Ger. J. K. as the lesser darke yellow, and early white, with the checquered, and changeable checquered daffodill. T. V. serve onely to adorne and beautify the garden, and are not yet used in medicine. Bauh. The smell of the black Fritillarie is unpleasant and stinking, and neere unto that of stinking Glad­don. The white is not yet written of, as to any physicall use: so Clusius, and Bauhinus.

Frog-bit. Morsus Ranae.

  • P. It floateth in ditches and standing waters.
  • T. It flowreth and flourisheth most part of the yeare.
  • N. [...]. Nymphaea parva, & alba minima Park.

Frog-bit. Ger. T. V. It's thought to be a kind of pond-weed (or rather of water Lilly) and to have the same faculties that belong un­to it. Park. As the lesser sorts of water lillies, it cooleth; yet lesse than the greater sorts. Schwenckf. It hath the taste of ducks meate and the same vertues.

Fumitorie. Fumaria.

  • P. In corne fields, vineyards and manured places.
  • T. It flourisheth from May to the end of sum­mer.
  • N. [...]. Fumus Terrae Offic. Capnos Plin-Calchocrum.

Fumitorie. Ger. J. K. as the common, white broad leafed, fine leafed, and yellow. T. is cold and something dry, opening and clen­sing by urine. V. it h. those that have filth growing on the skin, or have the French disease. It opens the liver and spleen, purifieth the bloud and h. quartane agues, either the syrrup, decoction, or distilled water thereof taken. Boiled in whay it h. in the end of the spring, and in summer time those that are scabbed. It provoketh urine opens the liver, strengtheneth the stomack and looseneth the belly. Diosc. The juice with Gum Arabick h. the eies troubled with haires they being first plucked up. The decoction d. expelleth by urine and siege all hot and hurtfull humors, and digesteth the salt and pituitous. Bulbous Fumitorie. K. as the great purple, great white, Bunnikens, and small Bunnikens holwort. T. hallow root is hot 2° and dry 3°, binding, clensing, and somewhat wasting. V. it h. long swellings of the almonds in the throat and haemorroides m. with unguen­tum populeum. drach. 1. d. purgeth forth flegme. [Page 178] Park. K. as the climbing, round rooted, with with green fl. and green fl. hollow root, with the Indian, and knobbed Indian fum. V. Trag. The juice d. with the powder of the root of esula c. vomit, the hollow rooted h. the plague. Pem. The 1. is hot 1°, and dry 2°, as appeares by its bitternesse.

Furze-bush. Genista spinosa.

  • P. In pastures and fields, in most places.
  • T. Fl from May to October.
  • T. [...]. Scorpius Spinosus Theoph.

Furze-bush. Ger. J. K. as the great, small, small round codded, needle, dwarf and scor­pion. T. is hot and dry. V. the seed h. the stone, and laske. Park. The two first open the obstructions of the liver & spleen. The flowers thereof in a decoction h. the jaundise, as also provokes urine, and cleanses the kidnies of gravell. The others no doubt are participant of the same qualities.

G

Galingale. Cyperus.

  • P. In fenny grounds naturally, & gardens.
  • T. They flower in August.
  • N. [...]. Juncus quadratus & angulosus. Aspalathum.

GAlingale. Ger. J. K. as the English com­mon, and round. T. the roots are hot and dry 2°. V. d. it expells gravell and h. the dropsie. Boiled in wine & d. it provoketh urine and menses, and expells the stone. It also h. stingings and bitings of scrpents. Fernel. The root used in baths h. coldnesse and stopping of the matrix, and provoketh termes. It caus­eth blood and digestion, and exhilerates: caus­eth a good colour, and sweet breath. The powder dryeth up all moist ulcers even in the mouth and privities, stayeth the humors, and healeth them though maligne and virulent. Spanish Galingale or Italian Trasi. T. the roots are windie. V. the milke pressed out of the roots d. h. the breast and lungs and mundifyeth them, it h. coughs and c. venery, the roots must be beaten and macerated in broth, then pressed: the same milk or creame d. h. hor and sharpe urine, adding seed of pompions, gourds, and cucumbers. The true galingale. K. as the greater and the lesse. T. are hot and dry 3°. and the lesser the hotter. V. they h. all cold di­seases as collick & flatulencies, & paines of the [Page 180]stomack c. by cold. The smell comforts the too cold braine. The substance chewed sweetens the breath, and h. the beating of the heart. They h. flatulency of the womb, c. venery, and heat the too cold reines. Park. K. as the lesser Assyrian round rooted sweet, and rush nut. V. as the rest, the roots boiled with bay-berries and d. h. the dropsie, so ap. with the urine of a boy. Alpin. The decoction of the roots is used by the Egyptians to warm the sto­mack.

Gall-tree. Gallae arbor.*

  • P. In Italy, Spaine, and most of the hot re­gions.
  • T. The gall appeareth when the sun entreth Cancer, and that in one night.
  • N. [...]. Quercus. Robur. Plaecida Gazae.

Gall-tree. Ger. J. K. as the first and second, greater, and lesser gall-tree. T. Gal. The gall called omphacitis, is dry 3°, cold 2°. and a ve­ry harsh medicine. V. it fasteneth together slack parts, it repelleth rheumes and fluxes, and dryeth up the same, especially those of the gums, throat and mouth. The other gall is lesse drying and binding: being boiled and ap. as a plaister, it h. the inflammations of the fundament, and falling downe thereof. It's boiled in water if there be need of little astriction or binding, or otherwise in au­stere [Page 181]wine if more need require. d. in wine, or the powder strewed upon meats, it h. the dy­sentery, and the coeliack passion. They are u­sed in dying, and making of inke. If burnt they stanch bloud, and are of thin parts, and dry­ing: they must be laid upon burning coales till white, and then quenched in vineger and wine. Also they are good in laskes, d. in wine, or water, and ap. and serve in all cases where there is need of drying and binding. Oake ap­ples are much of the same nature, yet of lesser force. Park: The fume of the decoction h. the falling downe of the mother, and inflammati­ons. Dorst: Aeg: Galls are dry 3°, cold 2°. and when unripe repell, contract, and streng­then.

Garlick. Allium.

  • P. It is planted in gardens, sc. the small cloves.
  • T. It is set in Novemb: and Decemb: or Feb: and March.
  • N. [...]. Theriaca rustica. Ʋlpicum Columellae.

Garlick. Ger: T. is sharp, hot and dry 4°, and exulcerateth the skin by raising blisters. V. Being eaten it extreamly heateth the body, attenuateth thick and clammy humors, dige­steth and consumeth them. It also openeth ob­structions, h. cold poysons, and the bitings of venemous beasts. It yeildeth no nourishment, and ingendreth sharp and naughty bloud, therefore hurteth those that are of a hot [Page 182]complexion; but it becometh of good juice boil­ed till it loose its sharpnesse. It h. roughnesse of the throat, and old coughs: it provoketh urine, consumeth wind, and h. the dropsie of a cold cause. It killeth and expelleth wormes, sodden in milke & taken by young children. It h. cold stomacks, and preserveth from contagious aire. The fume of the decoction taken brings down the flowers and secundine &c. It h. the morphew, ring wormes, scabbed heads in children, dandraf and scurfe mixt with hony and ap. With figleaves and cummin ap. it h. the bitings of the shrew mouse. The wild Gar­lick. K. as the crow, and beares gar. T. are re­ferred to those of the garden. V. the wild is stronger than the garden garlick. The leaves of Ramsons stamped are good sauce to eat with fish, and with butter in Aprill and May; be­ing eaten by labouring men. The distilled wa­ter d. expelleth the stone and urine. The mountain Garlick K. as the great, Clusius his great, the lesser leek leafed, the vipers, and broad leafed. T. are in a meane between leeks and garlick. V. Scorodoprassum attenuates and h. expectoration. The last operates as garlick. Park. K. as the Turkey, great Turkey with narrow, and bulbed leaves. V. Garlick dicusseth the inconveniences c. by minerall vapoures. It h. the jaundise, cramps, piles and cold diseases.

Gaule tree. Myrtus Brabantica.

  • P. In fenny countries, and many other places.
  • T. Fl: in May and June: the seed is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Eleagnus Cordi. Rhus sylv. Plinit.

Gaule-tree. Ger: T. the leaves are hot and dry, the seed 3°. V. the fruit is troublesome to the brain; being put into beere whilest it is boiling it maketh it heady. The shrub with the fruit laid among clothes, keepeth them from moths and wormes. Park. It's bitter and harsh, drying and discussing, and is very effectuall to kill the wormes in the belly and stomack.

Germander. Chamaedrys.

  • P. In rocky rough grounds, almost every where.
  • T. Fl. and flourish from June to August.
  • N. [...]. Trixago. Quercula minor. Trissago. Teucrium.

Germander. Ger. K. as the great broad leaf­ed, small, and wild. T. that of the garden is hot and dry fere 30. of thin parts and cutting. The wild also is hot and dry, opening and cleansing the liver and spleen. V. boiled in water and d. it delivereth the body from all obstructions, and cutteth clammy humors: it h. coughs, and shortnesse of breath, the strangury and dropsie. [Page 184]The leaves stamped with hony, and strained, and a drop at a time put into the eyes, h. the web, and any dimnesse thereof. It mightily provoketh the termes d. in wine, the privities being fomented with the same. Tree-German­der. K. as that with broad leaves, the Hun­garian, great Austrian, dwarfe rocke, Spanish, and rough headed. T. V. are referred to the garden ger: yet they are weaker and lesse used. Water germander. T. is hot and dry, bitter, harsh, and sharpe. V. It clenseth the intrals and old ulcers m. with hony. It provoketh u­rine and menses, purgeth rotten matter out of the chest, h. old coughs, paine in the sides of cold, and inward ruptures. Decoct in wine and d. it h. bitings of serpents, and poyson. Stamped and ap. with vineger and water it h. the gout. Scordium laid among raw flesh pre­serveth it a long time from corruption d. with wine, it openeth the stoppings of the liver, milt, kidnies, bladder and matrix, provoketh urine, h. the strangury, and exhilerateth. drach: 2. of the pouder taken in meade, stop the blou­dy flixe, and comfort the stomack. Hereof is made diascordium, serving for the purposes a­foresaid, as also against the pocks, measles, pur­ples, or any pestilent sicknesse, before it hath universally possessed the whole body. Park: K. as the jagged leafed, thorny of Candy, moun­taine, rock, greater and smaller bastard: V. d. it h. poyson, all diseases of the braine, goute, and kills wormes. That of the mountain stops fluxes. Tree germ: is hot 2°, dry 3°, of thin parts. Recch: The sweet of Mexico. T. is hot 4°, and dry. V. and h. the spleen.

Gessemine. Jasminum.

  • P. It's fostered in gardens.
  • T. Fl: in July and August.
  • N. [...]. Jeseminum. Gesseminum.

Gessemine. Ger. K. as the white, great white, yellow, and blew. T. The herbe, espe­cially the flowers are hot initio 2di. V. the oile made of the flowers, wasteth away raw humors, and h. cold rheumes, but in those of a hot constitution it causeth head-ache, and the smell causeth the nose to bleed. It is usefull after baths to supple and warme the body. The leaves boiled in wine untill soft, and ap. as a pultis h. cold swellings, wens and excrescen­cies. Park: K. as the single Spanish, and sweet yellow Indian. V. The leaves clense the skin, and h. tetters: the oile h. stitches. Turn: It h. moistnesse, and salt phlegme, and old men of a cold complexion: it h. aches c. by cold hu­mors. ap. it h. cold superfluities and spots: so the Arabian.

Gilloflowers. Leucoium.

  • P. They grow in moist gardens.
  • T. Fl: from spring to the end of summer.
  • N. [...]. Viola alba. Wall flower, Viola lutea.

Gilloflowers. Ger: J: K. as the violet coloured, double stock, and thorny. T. V. they agree with [Page 186]the wall-flowers though inferiour and not used in physick; yet some use them to c. lust. Ca­merar, a conserve of the fl. of stock gilloflowers given with the distilled water thereof h. the apoplexie and palsie. The sea stock gillo­flowers. K. as the white, purple, broad leafed, yellow and small yellow. T. V. are not used in physick. Wall-flowers. K. as the common, double and wild. T. the whole shrub is of a clensing facultie, and of thin parts. V. the yellow is most used in physick. The juice mix­ed with some unctuous thing to the forme of a liniment h. rifts of the fundament. The herb boiled with white wine, hony, & a little allom h. hot ulcers and cankers of the mouth. The leaves stamped with a little bay salt ap. to the wrists h. the shaking fits of agues. A decoction of the flowers with the leaves mollisieth schirrous tumours. The oile h. the palsie and gout. Also a strong decoction of the flowers d. moveth the courses, and expells the dead child. Sea Gillo-flower, or Thrift. T. V. Is not used in physick. Park. Wall-flowers. V. the conserve of the fl. h. the apoplexie and palsie. The oile h. straines. Schwenckf. The fl. of the bulbous leucoium, d. in wine h. stitches in the side.

Ginger. Zingiber.*

  • P. In Spaine, Barbary, and the Canarie Ilands.
  • T. Fl. in heate of summer, and looseth the leaves in winter.
  • N. [...]. Zinziber. Gingiber.

Ginger. Ger. T. is hot and dry 3°. V. Diosc. [Page 187]It's exceeding good in conditures. It healeth, digesteth, and looseth the belly, corroborateth the stomack, and h. scotoma's, and answereth the effects of pepper. Being canded it's hot and moist, and c. venery: and being dried it's hot and dry as aforesaid. Park: K. As the brasill with a black root, and the orientall. V. it h. digestion, and dissolveth winde, and being dry it bindeth the belly. Col: Being ground on a whetstone and m. with salt in white wine, and the eyes annointed therewith after residence, it h. the web: it h. all cold griefes: as also the cough and toothache. Parac. The distilled oile h. ulcers.

Gladdon stinking. Spatula faetida.

  • P. Gardens, woods, and shadowy places.
  • T. Fl: in August: the seed is ripe in September.
  • N. [...]. Xyris. Spurgewort.

Gladdon stinking. Ger. T. is hot and dry 3°. V. The roots, as of the other Irides, are hot and extenuating: h. the cough, digest and con­sume grosse humors, purge choller, and tough flegme, c. sleepe, and h. gripings in the belly. The root hereof h. the Kings evill, and buboes. d. in wine it provoketh the termes: so used in a bath. As a pessary it hasteneth the birth: in plaisters it covereth bare bones with flesh boi­led soft and ap. The roots ap. h. hard tumors, and the Kings evill: with hony it draweth our broken bones. The meale h. rifts of the funda­ment, and openeth the haemorrhoides, the juyce as an errhine causeth sneezing, and at­tracteth [Page 188]filthy excrements. It h. all evill affe­ctions of the breast and lungs, taken in sweet wine with spikenard; or in whay with a little mastick. The root of gladdon h. wounds, and fractures of the head, and attracteth splinters. The seed mightily provoketh urine. d. in wine it h. convulsions, ruptures, the sciatica, stran­gury, and flux of the belly, removing the cause. Park: It h. the poyson of Serpents. The juyce of the leaves & roots h. the itch, so Trag. And blemishes of the skin. Boiled with vineger and ap. it h. the tumors of the spleene, and stops the gonorrhoea. Dorsten: The juyce ap. h. the le­pry.

Glasse-wort. Kali.

  • P. In salt marshes almost every where.
  • T. It flowreth, and flourisheth in the summer.
  • N. Kali. Salicornia. and Salsicornia. The ashes Soda. The salt Sal Alkali.

Glasse-wort. Ger. J. K. as the common, snaile, and small. T. Is hot and dry: so the ashes, yet more hot and dry sc. 40, and caustick. V. A little quantity of the herbe taken inward­ly, mightily provoketh urine, and expelleth the dead child: it purgeth forth watery hu­mors, and h. the dropsie: a greater q. is dead­ly. The sume hereof driveth away serpents. The ashes are mixed with those medicines that h. scabbs, and filth of the skinne. Serap: It [Page 189]consumeth excrescencies in ulcers. Axungia vitri, the flower of crystall or sendever, doth won­derfully dry: and h. scabbs, and manginesse, the foule parts being bathed with the water in which it is boiled. Park: K. as the great, small white and joynted. T. All clense without manifest heat. V. The juyce opens the liver and spleen, and h. the hardnesse thereof. The sope hereof ap. to the feet, h. those that are speechlesse. The powder of the rest. K. As the prickly, Columna's, Neapolitan, Egyptian, and Arabian. V. Alpin: Purgeth choller.

Goats-beard. Tragopogon.

  • P. The 1 in gardens, the other in fertile pastures.
  • T. They fl: and flourish from May to Septemb.
  • N. [...]. Barba hirci. Coma.

Goats-beard. Ger. K. as the purple, and yellow. T. Are temperate between heat and moisture. V. The roots boiled in wine and d. h. pains and pricking stitches of the sides. Boiled in water till tender, buttered and ea­ten they h. the appetite, warme the stomack, h. consumptions, and strengthen those that have been sick of chronicall diseases. Park: The distilled water of the 1. and blew, h. old sores and wounds ap. The root is more bitter and binding, than that of the yellow. The o­ther K. as the summer, and the greater with jagged leaves. V. Trag. The distilled water h. impostumes, plurisies, griefes of the sto­mack and liver: and h. the stone.

Goats-rue. Galega.

  • P. In Italy, and gardens planted.
  • T. Fl: in July and August.
  • N. Ruta capraria. Herba Gallic a Fracastorii.

Goats-rue. Ger. T. it is in a meane between hot and cold. V. It h. poyson d. and killeth wormes: so ap. fried with lineseed oile and ap. to the navill. A spoonefull d. in the morning with milke h. the epilepsie. Boiled in vineger and d. with treacle, it prevents the plague: ea­ten in sallads with oile, vineger, and pepper, it preventeth venemous infirmities, and c. sweat. Ap. it h. the bitings or stingings of ve­nemous beasts. unc: sem: of the juyce d. h. cramps, convulsions, and the diseases aforesaid. The seeds feed fowle exceedingly. The leaves boiled and ap. h. the stinging of waspes and bees. Park: The juyce taken with treacle, the powder of the roots of tormentill with carduus b. water, and bole Arm: prevents infection: it's cordiall: ap. it h. the collick, and gan­grenes.

Goats-stones. Tragorchis.

  • P. In fat clay ground.
  • T. They flower in May and June.
  • N. [...]. Testiculus hircinus.

Goats-stones. Ger: J: K. as the greatest, the male, female, and small goats-stones of Holland. [Page 191]T. V. They are referred to the Fooles stones; yet they are seldome or never used in Physick. Park: K. as the ordinary, and lesser truer. V. Lugd: Dod: The roots of these with the rest, are better than the other orchies, for the pur­poses aforesaid.

Goats-thorne. Tragacantha.*

  • P. In Candy, Arcadia, Achaia, &c.
  • T. It flowreth and flourisheth in the summer.
  • N. [...]. Spina hirci. The last, Poterion.

Goats-thorne. Ger: J: K. as the common, small, and the burnet g. T: The plant is dry without biting, it conglutinateth the sinews, especially the roots being boiled in wine and d. The gum dragagant, is emplastick, some what dry, and allayeth the sharpnesse of humors. V. The gum in a lohoch h. the cough, roughnesse of the throat, hoarsenesse, and all sharp and thin rheumes, and distillations: being laid under the tongue, it h. the roughnesse thereof. d. with cute or the decoction of licorice it h. the heat of urine: it is also used in medicines for the eyes. The gum steeped in rose water untill it be soft, m. with other things, serveth to make the usuall artificiall beades. Diosc: The best gum is that which is diaphanous, thin, smooth, unmixt, and sweet of smell and taste. Park: The gum dissolved in sweet wine and d. h. the gnawings of the bowells, and frettings of the urine, especially with burnt harts-horne. m. with milke, it h. spots in the eyes, and itch­ing [Page 192]and scabbs of the eye lidds. It stops the flux used in clysters; so the thorny Burnet.

Goldilocks. Adiantum aureum.

  • P. In moist places, in rotten trees and crannies.
  • T. They flourish especially in the summer time.
  • N. Muscus capillaris. Polytrichum aureum.

Goldilocks. Ger. T. are temperate in heat and cold. Park: Yet they dry, rarifie, and di­gest. V. Golden maiden-haire h. to expecto­rate tough flegme from the chest and lungs, like the rest, being boiled and d. It also pro­voketh urine, and h. to expell the stone: it's profitable for those that are splenetick, and e­pileptick. The lye thereof bathed, h. the haire &c. as the rest.

Gold of pleasure. Myagrum.

  • P. In sundry places of England.
  • T. Fl: in May and June: the seed is ripe in Sep­tember.
  • N. [...]. Pseudomyagrum Matth. Sesamum Tragi.

Gold of pleasure. Ger. T. is hot and dry 3°. V. Diosc. The oilie fatnesse of the seed poli­sheth the skinne, and maketh it smooth. Ruell: The juyce h. ulcers of the mouth. Park: K. as the wilde, round podded like, and the greater [Page 193]one grained. T. Gal. The seed is emplasticke. V. The oile is hot and c. thirst d. It serveth in Germany for poor mens tables, and rich mens lamps, and with the lye of ashes to make sope. The wild is like the first.

Golden-rod. Virga aurea.

  • P. In Woods frequently.
  • T. They flower and flourish in the end of Aug.
  • N. It's thought to be Leucographis Plinii.

Golden-rod. Ger. K. as the common, and Arnold's T. is hot and dry 2° and clenseth with a certaine astriction. V. it provoketh urine, wasteth the stone (so Fum.) in the kidnies and expells them: and purgeth raw humors out of the ureters. It's vulnerary and operates as Saracens consound. The distilled water d. for some dayes together worketh the same effect. It excells for stopping of bloud in sanguinolent ulcers and wounds. Park. K. as that with dented leaves. V. Golden rod decoct and d. h. inward bruises, so ap. it stops bleedings, fluxes, and the courses, and h. ruptures, and fastens the teeth, also it's used in lotions for ulcers in the mouth, or privi­ties.

Gondell of Italy. Cymbalaria Italica.

  • P. In gardens and other shadowie places: on thatch &c.
  • T. Fl. in the beginning of summer.
  • N. Ʋmbilicus Veneris offic. Lonic. Linaria hed, fol. Columnae.

Gondeli of Italy. Johns. T. is cold and moist, repelling, scouring, and wasting. Park. V. it's thought to be a fit substitute for umbilicus Ve­neris, and hath some astriction. Matth. It stops the whites being eaten often in sallads, after the manner of the Italians. A conserve of the leaves, or a syrrup of the juice may serve in­stead thereof: also it cureth wounds, and stops bloud the juice being ap. and also ripens apo­stumes.

Goose berry bush. Grossularia.

  • P. In gardens and diverse places.
  • T. The leaves appeare in Aprill: the fruit is ripe in June and July.
  • N. [...] Theoph. Ʋva crispa. Spina. Spinella.

Goose-berry bush. Ger. T. the berries be­fore they be ripe, are cold and dry fine 2di. and also binding. V. the fruit is used in stead of sauce, and in broths in stead of varjuice, in hot burning agues. They c. raw and cold bloud, nourish little, stay the belly and stop bleeding, and menses; except taken into a cold stomack, then they clog and trouble the same by some manner of flux. The ripe berries as they are [Page 195]sweeter, so lesse binding and something hot, of more nourishment and not so crude. The juice of green goose-berries h. all inflammations, the erysipelas or S. Anthonies fire: so Fuche They c. appetite, and h. hot stomacks & livers, The young leaves eaten raw in a sallad, pro­voke urine and expell the stone. Park. K. as the great red, and prickly. Dod. The berries used any way are of dry, cold, and crude nu­triment. Col. Too much eaten they c. crudity and wormes.

Goose-foot. Pes anserinus.

  • P. In fat moist places, on dung-hills, by high wayes.
  • T. It flourisheth with the Crach, of which it is a kind.
  • N. Chenopodium. Atriplex Sylvestris latifolia.

Goose-foot, Ger: J. K. as the first and se­cond. T. is cold, and moist, and that no lesse than Orach, but more cold. V. it is reported, that it killeth swine eating of it: it is not used in physick, so Lob. nor sallad. Park. It's held to be deadly taken inwardly. Lugd. Fuch. It's cold 2°. Dod. fere 3°. ap. it operates as garden night-shade.

Gourds. Cucurbita.

  • P. In the gardens of these cold Regions: as Cu­cumbers.
  • T. Fl. in June and July; the fruit is ripe in August.
  • N. [...]. Colocynthis.

Gourds. Ger. K. as the snake's, and bottle gourds T. The pulp is cold and moist 2°. V. The juice being dropped into the eares with oile of roses, h. the paine thereof c. by heat. The pulp ap. as a pultis h. all hot swellings, the head-ach, and inflammations of the eyes. The same author affirmeth that a long Gourd being laid in the cradle by the young infant whilest it is a sleep & sick of an ague, it shall be quickly cured. The pulp is eaten sod, but being of a waterish and thin juice, it's oligotrophick or of small nourishment, and the same cold and moist, and therefore looseneth the belly: if baked or fried it becomes lesse laxative. The seed provoketh urine & h. the sharpnesse there­of. The wild Gourd. K. as the bottle, and Mushrom. T. is hot and dry 2°. V. it's extreme bitter so it openeth and scours as the wild mel­lons, so also doth the wine contained all night in this Gourd, and mightily evacuateth chol­lerick and phlegmatick humors. Park. K. as the long, simnell, Indian ovall, and peare sashion'd. [Page 197]V. they h. choller, and inflammations of the liver and stomack. The distilled water of the unripe h. thirst in agnes: and ap. h. all in­flammations and lust: the ashes h. all uleers. the seed h. heate and the stone. The chestnut Gourd c. venery eaten. The soure Aeth [...]opian h. heat and fluxes. Ser. 2. of the bitter so. of the pulpe purge choller and tough hu­mors.

Goute-wort. Herba Gerardi.

  • P. It groweth of it selfe in gardens.
  • T. Fl. from May to Aug.
  • N. Podagraria Germanica. Pycnomos Brunfelsii.

Goute-wort. Ger. T. Is anodyne. V. The herb with the roots stamped & ap. h. members that are troubled with the gout, aswageth the paine and h. the swellings and inflammations thereof. It cureth also the haemorrhoids, the fundament being bathed with the decoction of the leaves & roots, & the tender sodden herbs ap. very hot. Park. Upon good experience it's found good to h. the cold gout and sciatica: joynt aches, and other cold griefs. Lob. It's ap. for the same diseases, that Dane wort is.

Graines of Paradise. Cardamomum.*

  • P. Grains grow in Ginny, and Cardamoms in the East Indies.
  • T. The seed being sown springs in May: the fruit is ripe in September.
  • N. [...]. Grana Paradisi.

Graines of Paradise. Ger. K. as the greater, and lesser. T. Avic. Are hot and dry 3°. with astriction. V. the graines chewed in the mouth draw forth aqueous & pituitous humors of the head, & stomack: they also comfort & warme the feeble breast, h. the ague, and rid the shaking fitts being drank with sack, Park. They break the stone, provoke urine, and resist poyson. The perfume killeth the foetus. They h. the epilep­sie, and cough, expell the wind and wormes, they h. paines in the bowels, ease bruises, h. weake sinewes and the sciatica: with vineger they h. scabs, and are used in antidotes. Pem. H. they hurt hot and dry bodies: the dose of the powder is scr. 1. or 2.

Grasse. Gramen.

  • P. The common almost every where: the small in dry places.
  • T. All the yeare, seed in June and July.
  • N. [...] Theoph. Herba.

Grasse. Ger. J. K. as that of the meadow, and small meadow gr. T. The roots & seeds open obstructions, and provoke urine, and are more used than the herbe. V. The decoction of the [Page 199]herbe with the roots of parsley d. h. the drop­sie and provokes urine. The roots Gal. conso­lidate wounds. The juice of grasse mixt with hony and the powder of southernwood d. kill­eth wormes: or the juice ap. to the belly, with oxe gall. Fernel. Grasse openeth the liver, and reines, and h. their inflammations. Hay sodden till tender in water and ap. hot, h. beasts that be chap-fallen. Dwarfe-grasse. K. as the red and white, small hard, and rush grasse. T. V. are thought to agree with that of the meadow, but are not yet used in physick. Corne-grasse. K. as the common and bent. T. V. are thought to agree with the first, but are not used in physick. Millet-grasse. K. as the common, and great water gr. T. V. as the rest. Darnell grasse. K. as the common, with the wild reed, and lesser reed grasse. T. V. are not discovered. The feather top, ferne, and greater wood gr. T. V. are not known. Great foxtaile grasse. K. as the great, small, great and small bastard. T. V. are not used. Great Cats-taile grasse. T. V. is not discovered. Cypresse grasse, and rushy water. T. V. are uselesse. Water grasse. K. as the common and spiked, T. V. are referred to the dogs grasse. Flote-grasse. K. as the com­mon, and spiked. T. V. are not discovered. Kneed grasse. K. as the common, & water gr. T. V. are not known. Panike. K. as the bearded, small & single eared. T. V. are not discovered. Hedge-hog grasse, with the hairy and round headed s. T. V. Caesalp. The head of the silver grasse ap. h. green wounds and stops bleeding. Hairy wood grasse, with the Cyprus. T. V. are as unknown as the former. The other grasses, K. as the sea spike, salt marsh, sea rush, marsh [Page 200]rush, great, and small Cypresse grasse, wa­ter, and spike-cypresse, and wood rushy grasse. T. V. are not discovered. Dogs­grasse. K. as the common, and knotty Dogs-gr. T. The roots agree with those of the com­mon grasse, opening the liver and reines without manifest heate, but more effectu­ally. V. Couch-grasse helpeth green wounds. The decoction h. the reines and bladder, and expelleth urine and gravell. Gal. The root stamped and ap. speedily h. wounds. The decoction h. the tormina and dysury. The knots d. h. the strangury. Sea dogs-grasse, and sea couch grasse. T. V. operate as the Dogs-grasse: so the upright Dogs-grasse, and Lady-lace. Dew grasse, cocks-foot com­mon, and with creeping roots. T. are astrin­gent & drying, in taste like the Dogs-grasse. V. Apul. A plaister made hereof with hogs grease and the leaven of houshold bread h. the bitings of madde doggs. The eare being ap. diverteth the defluxions or flow­ing of humors. Manna-grasse or rice-grasse. V. In pultises it discusseth the hard tnmors or swellings in womens breasts. Cocks-foot doggs-grasse operates as the other doggs-grasses. The other Cyperus grasses. K. as the great narrow leafed, bastard, long bastard, round bastard, and millet cyperus. T. In taste seem to be cold and astringent. V. as yet they are not used in physick. Mountaine haver, and capon-taile grasse. T. V. are not discovered. Cotton-grasse. T. V. d. sodden in wine h. the tormina of childing women. Water gladiol. T. V. is not used. Park. K. as the corne grasses, sc. the close eared, rush leafed white [Page 201]wheate grasse &c. the darnell, field oaten, wood and Mountaine oaten, millet, quakers, Fox-taile, bastard-fox taile, cats-taile, cyperus, kneed, reed, smooth wood, hairywood, prickly headed, and rush grasses, are not of any known use in physick. Pem. Couch-grasse h. the haemoptysis or spitting of blood. Medow grasse. V. the seed thereof ap. dis­cusseth flatulent swellings, and obdurate tumors in the body. The panick grasse hurteth sheep. The curled panick grasse is said to operate as quich-grasse. Crested and spiked grasse come neer the temper of the other field grasses. The variable spiked causeth milke in beasts. The Canary grasse. T. is drying and repressing. V. it stops the fluxibility of humors. The seed makes bread of little nourishment. The juice h. diseases of the bladder, and is the substiture for millet in so­mentations and plaisters. The bastard doth not much differ from the true. The knob­bed couch-grasse. V. is better than the common. It h. inflammations: the seed h. laskes, and vomitings. The root is cold and dry with a little mordacity, and tenuity of parts: the seed is colder and dryer and somewhat harsh. The herbe is cold 1°, moderate in moisture, and in drynesse. The distilled water d. killeth wormes. Cocks-foot grasse. V. bruised and ap. it stayes bleeding: the spike being put into the nose causeth it. Aegyptian cocks-foot grasse. V. ap. h. wounds. The root and seeds d. pro­voke urine, expell the pox &c. h. fevers and cause sweate. Haver grasse. V. it [Page 202]dryeth without sharpnesse. V. it h. the aegilops. The seeds d. inebriate. The ashes of the stalkes h. the gout. Decoct and ap. it h. nodes & joynt swellings. The herb boiled in wine with dryed roses h. a stinking breath: in water with the root of wild oats, hony, & aloes h. the polypus. The cyperus grasses, with the rush-like grasses, of the marshes, waters &c. and the marsh reed grasses. T. V. are not of any known use. Common cotton grasse. V. Cord. decoct in wine and taken warme h. the griping paines of the belly. Their woolly heads serve for the stuffing of beds. The water grasses. V. serve only for the food of beasts. The roots of the sea quich grasse operate as the ordinary sort. All the sorts of unsavory Cyperus. T. are defective in heat and drynesse. V. and not used for any purpose in physicke: so also water gladioll. The fresh water excrescencies, or wa­ter weeds. Plin. Bound to the body, and kept moist h. the bruises, ruptures, and contusions thereof. Silkegrasse. Smith. V. The Virginians use the roots thereof being bruised and ap. to cure wounds. Lob. The root of grasse is sweet and subacerbe, of a meane, slender, and some­what inciding substance, which without heat openeth the intralls, expells impurities, and detergeth. Apul. The root conglutinateth ulcers.

Gromell. Lithospermum.

  • P. The two first grow in untilled places: the rest on sands.
  • T. Fl. from the 12. day of June untill Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Gorgonium. Aegonychon. Leon­tion. Diosporon.

Gromell. Ger. J. K. as the great, and small, purple flowred, and bastard. T. the seed is hot and dry 2°. V. The seed concused and d. in white wine, breaketh the stone and ex­pelleth urine. Park. K. as the greater creeping, small wild, small with tufted tops, small corne and Germane grom. T. the two first are hot and dry 2°. V. these are most used: the rest are lesse effectuall. They h. the strangury. The seeds boiled in barley water with the foure greater cold seeds, and d. in the morning h. the stone. Matth. drach. 1. sem. of the greater and lesser. drach. sem. of spleen wort. drach. 2. of white amber powdered and d. for diverse dayes together in the juice of plantaine pur­slain and lettuce h. the gonorrhoea. drach. 2. of the seed d. h. the delivery of women.

Ground-pine. Chamaepitys.

  • P. They grow in Kent very plentifully: and in gardens.
  • T. They flower in June, and often in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Ibiga. Ajuga. Iva arthritica & Moschata.

Ground-pine. Ger. J. K. as the male, and [Page 204]small, French, bastard, & Austrian. T. are hot 2° dry 3°. V. The leaves tunned up in ale, infu­sed in wine, or sodden in hony and d. for 8. or 1°. dayes h. the jaundise, sciatica, stoppings of the liver, and difficulty of making water; it opens the spleen and expells the menses. Stamped green with hony it h. wounds and malignant ulcers, dissolveth the hardnesse of womens breasts, and h. poison and bitings of venemous beasts. The decoction d. dissolveth congealed bloud, and with vineger expelleth the dead child: it clenseth the intralls, h. the infirmities of the liver and kidnies and yellow jaundise. d. in wine it provoketh the menses and urine: boiled in meade and d. it h. the sciatica in 40. dayes. It is an antidote against Wolfes-bane. The powder taken in pills with a fig mollifyeth the belly, wasteth the tumors of the paps, h wounds and putrified ulcers ap. with hony; sc. the 1. the other two ope­rate not so effectually. The Austrian is thought to be much better. Many flowred Ground-pine and stinking, Anthyllis l. with the sea pimper­nell. T. are in a meane between hot and cold. V. halfe an ounce of the dryed leaves d. h. hot urine, & the strangury, and purgeth the reines. Taken with oxymel it h. the falling sicknessed, first and last. Park. The first clense impure bloud, and open the belly, and h. all diseases of the mother. d. and ap. it h. all diseases of the joynts: and cold griefes of the braine, so the pills thereof: and h. the dropsie. The stinking d. and ap. stops desluxions.

Ground-sell. Senecio.

  • P. It groweth almost every where.
  • T. Fl: almost every month in the yeare.
  • N. [...]. Erigerum. Herbutum.

Ground-sell. Ger. J. K. as the common, and 1, and 2d. Cotton gr: T. It hath mixt facul­ties, it cooleth, and withall digesteth. V. The leaves boiled in wine or water and d. h. the pain of the stomack of choller. The leaves and fl: stamped with hoggs grease, h. the burning heat of the privities and fundament: a little saffron or salt being added, it h. struma's or the kings evill. The leaves stamped, strained into milke and d. h. the red gums, and frets in children. Diosc. with the fine powder of frankincense, it h. wounds in the sinewes: so the downe m. with vineger. Boiled in ale with a little hony and vineger it c. vomit, e­specially a few roots of assarabacca being added. Park. K. as Miconus's Spanish, and the stinking. T. Trag. It's cold and moist. V. Plin: d. in wine, it h. the jaundise and epilepsie, and pain of the bladder and stone drach: 1. d. in oxy­mel, also it h. the sciatica, and collick. Eaten with vineger in a fallet, it h. the sadnesse of the heart, and defects of the live [...] it provoketh the courses: ap. it h. hot swellings, and pains of womens breasts: so the distilled water, and h. defluxions to the eyes.

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Hares-cares. Bupleurum.*

  • P. Among Oken woods in stony grounds.
  • T. Fl. and bring forth seed in July and Aug.
  • N. [...]. Auricula leporis.

HAres eares. Ger. K. as the narrow and broad leafed. T. are temperate in heat & drynesse. V. It serveth in meats for sallads: it is vulnerary also. The leaves stamped with salt and wine ap. consume & drive away the Kings evill, and are used against the stone in the blad­der. Park. Plin. The seed or root powdered and decoct in wine and d. so the leaves also h. the bitings and stingings of venemous beasts: applyed it provoketh urine and the courses. It h. wounds inward or outward, cancers and old sores, of evill disposition, and bad curation. Bauh. The yellow tufted is somewhat sharp, and a little bitter, and an apophlegmatisme. Dod. The seed is hot and dry 2°.

Hares-foot. Lagopus.

  • P. The first groweth in gardens, the small among corne &c.
  • T. They flower and flourish in June, July and Aug.
  • N. [...]. The first is called Lagopodium. Cytisus Trag. The other Pes leporis.

Hares-foot. Ger. J. K. as the great, great large headed & narrow leased little. T. the small hares­foot [Page 207]doth bind and dry. V. It stoppeth the lask d. with red wine, and with water by those that are severish. The temper and faculty of the rest are referred to the other trefoiles wherof they are kinds, Park. K. as the bright red, and common. T. all the parts thereof, as also of the rest, but specially the spiked heads do dry and bind. V. Lob. The first especially d. in wine h. fluxes, and ap. to the share h. the inflammati­ons thereof. Matth. also it h. belchings of choller and paine of the belly, the seeds being d. in red wine. It h. hot urine, haemoptysis and gonorrhoea's, and cures ruptures.

Harts-ease. Viola tricolor.

  • P. In gardens, and fields, in many places.
  • T. Fl. all summer, till autumne.
  • N. [...]. Herba trinitatis, & Clavellata. Viola flamme a.

Harts-ease. Ger. K. as the common, upright, wild, and stony. T. is obseurely cold, evident­ly moist, slimy like the Mallow, it moisteneth and suppleth, yet not so much as the Mallow. V. It h. agues, convulsions, and the falling sick­nesse. It h. inflammations of the lungs and chest, lcabs, itchings and ulcers. The distilled water of the herbes or flowers d. for 10. dayes unc. 8. in the morning, and so at night h. the French pox. Park. K. as the greater, lesser and double flowred. T: they are hotter and dryer than Violets. Lugd: those of Egypt use it for the cpilepsie.

Harts-tongue. Phyllitis.

  • P. By the way sides, in shadowie, moist stony val­lies.
  • T. It is green all the yeare long; yet lesse in win­ter.
  • N. [...]. Radiolus Apuleil, Lingua Cervi­na. Foliosa.

Harts-tongue. Ger. J. K. as the common & finger, moone-ferne, small, and handed moon­ferne, Hemionitis. T. It is of a binding and drying faculty. V. The common harts-tongue h. fluxes; and d. in wine, the bitings of Ser­pents, so Turn. It openeth the liver and spleen, & h. all griefes proceeding of oppilations. Park. It h. the heat of the liver and stomack, it stops the laske, and bloudy flixe. The distilled wa­ter thereof h. the passions of the heart, and stayeth the hicket, also it h. the falling of the pallate, and stoppeth the bleeding of the gums, the mouth being gargled therewith. Lugd: Gal: It's acerbe, therefore it h. the diarrhoea, &c. Col: It h. spitting of bloud, and other fluxes. The posset drinke thereof with white­wine h. the stone. It h. the jaundise, and Kings evill &c.

Hart-wort. Seseli Aethiopicum.

  • P. In gardens planted: the last in stony places.
  • T. They flower and flourish in September.
  • N. [...]. Sile: those of Candy are cal'd, Tordy lia.

Hart-wort. Ger. J. K. as the small of Candy, [Page 209]and the great: the mountaine, and that of Marseilles. T. It is concocting and diureticall. V. It h. the strangury, provoketh urine, and expelleth the secundine and dead child. It h. coughs, and shortnesse of breath, the suffocati­on of the mother, and falling sicknesse. The seed d. with wine, concocteth raw humors, and h. torments of the belly and agues. The juyce of the leaves given to beasts, causeth speedy delivery of their young. Hart-wort of Aethiopia. T. V. Is thought to agree with that of Marseilles. Park: K. as the true of Diosc. the meadow of Mompelier, English green Saxisr. Milky marsh, mountain hemlock-like, & that of Pelopon. V. the English h. the collick, and the frets of Children. The best is the Aethiopian.

Hasell-tree. Avellana Sylvestris:

  • P. In woods, and moist untilled places.
  • T. The catkins fall away in March: the nuts are ripe in August.
  • N. [...]. Corylus. Nux Pontica, Tenuis, Heracleotica.

Hasell-tree. Ger. K. as the filberd, wilde hedge, and filberd of Constant. T. The nutts newly gathered are superfluously moist, and windie; so the dry also: dyspeptick, of an ear­thy and terrene essence, and hard substance flowly passing through the belly; so clogge the stomack, and cause head-ache much eaten. V. The kernells made into milke like [Page 210]almonds, mightily bind the belly, h. laskes, and bloudy flix, and coole agues, and burning fea­vers. The catkins are cold and dry, and stop laskes. Johns. The kernells of nutts rather cause than cure the laske. Park: The milke drawn from the nutts with meade h. old coughs: parched and d. with pepper they h. rheume. drach: 2. of the huskes and shells d. in red wine, stop laskes and the courses.

Hawke-weed. Hieracium.

  • P. In untilled places, the borders of fields, &c.
  • T. Fl: all summer long.
  • N. [...]. Accipitrina. Lampuca. Porcellia Gazae.

Hawke-weed. Ger. J. K. as the great, small hares, black, succorie, endive, long roo­ted, sharpe, crooked 1 & 2d, broad leafed mountaine, and the lesser broad leafed moun­taine. T. Are cold, dry, and somewhat bind­ing. V. They are in operation like sowthistle: the juyce of the yellow dropped into the eyes h. the sight. It h. a hot stomack, and inflam­mations ap. the herbe and root being stamped and ap. h. those that are stung with scor­pions: which the lesser performe as well as the greater. The other hawke-weeds. K. as the 1, 5, 6, 7, of Clusius, the small of Candy, and Dandelion. T. V. are not known. Park: K. as the rough and bulbed dandeleon like. T. V. as the rest. The juyce d. in wine h. crudities in the stomack, dysury and poyson: d. with vi­neger it h. the dropsie: decoct with hony it h. flegme, and the cough with hysope. With wild [Page 211]succory it h. the collick, reines, and bladder: the water h. freckles: the rough h. plurisies: so the 1 of Clusius, and h. the collick. The rest K. as the long rooted &c. as the first.

Hawthorne-tree. Oxyacantha.

  • P. In woods and hedges, almost every where.
  • T. Fl: in May: the fruit is ripe in September.
  • N. [...] Gal. Amyrberis Serapionis.

Hawthorne. Ger. K. as the common, and that of Cumberland. T. The fruit is very astringent. V. The hawes stop the laske and menses, and all other fluxes of bloud. The stones beaten to powder and d. h. the stone. Park: The pow­der of the stones d. in wine h. the dropsie. the distilled water of the fl: steeped 3 daies in wine, and d. h. the plurisie, and inward tor­menting paines, and stops laskes: it is cooling and drawing: and ap. attracteth things fixed in the flesh. Schwenck. The kernells powde­red and d. break the stone: the root ap. is mag­neticall.

Herbe Christopher. Aconitum bacciferum.

  • P. In the North parts of England.
  • T. Fl: in May and June: the fr: is ripe before Autumne.
  • N. Herba Christophoriana. Napellus Racemosus Lugd.

Herbe Christopher. Ger. T. It's of the na­ture [Page 212]of the Aconites. V. It's thought to be of a venimous and deadly quality, so uselesse. Park: K. As the common, and that of America. V. By the taste they seem not pernicious. Clus. acetab: 1. taken h. the aquose diseases of wo­men.

Herbe Frankincense. Libanotis.*

  • P. In the desarts and mountains of Germany.
  • T. Fl: in July and August.
  • N. [...]. Cervina alba, & Cervicaria.

Herbe Frankincense. Ger. K. as the great, small, black, and rose-mary. T. These herbs with their seeds and roots, are hot and dry 2°, and digest, dissolve, and mundify. V. The leaves pounded stop the flux of the piles, and supple the swellings, and inflammations of the fundament: swellings of the throat, and ripen botches hardly brought to suppuration. The juyce of the leaves and roots m. with hony ap. quickneth the sight. The seed m. with hony clenseth rotten ulcers, and consumeth cold and hard swellings. The leaves and roots boiled till soft, and m. with darnell meale and vine­ger ap, h. the goute. Taken in wine and pep­per it h. the jaundise, c. sweat, and with oyle ap: h. ruptures. It h. the white spots of the skinne, and rists in the hands or feet. Park: K. as the white. V. It increaseth milke in nurses breasts, the root being taken in wine. Also [Page 213]it easeth the paines of the stomack and belly, and the bitings of venimous beasts. It provo­keth urine, and the termes: it h. cramps: the juyce ap. to the forehead h. the eyes, and stopps rheume.

Herbe Terrible. Alypum Monspeliensium.*

  • P. In mountains and gravelly ground in France.
  • T. Fl: in February and March.
  • N. [...]. Alypum montis ceti. Herba terri­bilis Narbon.

Herbe terrible. Ger: With gut-wort, Tar­ton-raire Gallo-provinciae. T. Johns. Are ca­tharticke like the Tithymal's, the latter comes neer to the quality of Mezereon, and therefore is carefully to be used, being apt to cause the dysentery, and immoderate fluxes. Park: Diosc: It purgeth-melancholy taken in the q. of epitbymum, with a little salt and vi­neger. Plin: The dose is from drach: 2. to 6. Gutwort purgeth choller, phlegme, and wa­ter, and that with violence.

Herbe True love. Herba Paris.

  • P. In woods frequently in England.
  • T. Fl: in Aprill: the berry is ripe in May.
  • N. The 2d Herba Paris triphyllos: Solanum Te­traphyl: Lob.

Herbe True love. Ger. T. is exceeding cold, so h. the force of poyson. V. The berries gi­ven by the space of 20 daies h. against poyson, or halse a spoonefull d. in the morning fasting, and also h. those that are without understan­ding. Camerar. The leaves ap. h. green wounds, and the powder of the roots d. h. gripings, and pains of the collick. Hereof is made an antidote, as followeth: take of the domestick and field angelica, of swallow-wort, garden valerian, polipody of the oake, of the roots of marsh mallows and nettles, an: drach: 4. of the barke of the mezereon tree drach. 2. graines of herbe true love no 24. and leaves of the same no 36. the roots being macerated in vineger and dryed, make all into a powder for use. Park: K. as that of Canada with a round root. V. The berries are thought to be hypno­ticke d. at night. The leaves clense and heale old ulcers, discusse tumors, and allay inflam­mations, and tumors of the privities: the juyce h. the eyes, and felons.

Herbe Two pence. Nummularia.

  • P. It groweth neer unto ditches and water.
  • T. Fl: from May, till summer be well spent.
  • N. Centummorbia. Serpentaria. Hirundinaria quorundam Bauh.

Herbe Two-pence. Ger: J: K. as the com­mon, and purple fl: money-wort. T. Is dry, moderately cold and binding. V. The flowers and leaves stamped and ap. h. ulcers and wounds: more effectually if boiled in oile o­live, with some rosin, wax, and turpentine. The juyce d. in wine h. the bloudy flixe, and all other issues of bloud, laskes, vomiting of bloud, and whites in women. Boyled with wine and hony it h. wounds of the inward parts, and ulcers of the lungs, and is a most ex­cellent traumatick herbe. The herbe boiled in wine, with a little hony or mead, h. the cough in children, called the chine-cough. Recch: K. as the Indian mony fl: T. The root is glutinous, a little bitter, yet cold. V. d. it h. severs, flux­es, and urine stopt. Park: K. as the small. T. V. as the rest, with chalybeat water h. ulcers.

Heath. Erica.

  • P. Dry, hungry, and barren mountains, &c.
  • T. Fl: all the summer, to the end of September.
  • N. [...]. Tetralix veterum. Sisera Varronis. That of Jerico is called Rosa Maria.

Heath. Ger: J. K. as the common, rough [Page 216]leaved, the great with white flowers, great with purple flowers, crossed, steeple, small leafed, chalice, bearing berries, small leafed with berries, Dodonaeus his dwarfe, that with three branches at a joynt, Lobel's strange, cree­ping Dutch, and small Austrian heath. T. Gal. Doth consume by vapours, and digest: the flowers and leaves, are to be used. V. The ten­der tops and flowers ap: h. the stingings and bitings of venimous beasts. The barke and leaves may be used for Tamariske. Heath of Jeri­co. T. V. Is not as yet found out. Park: K. as the great with purplish green fl: brush, small upright without branches, white, and black berried. T. Are somewhat drying, and a little bitter, except the last. V. The fl: de­coct h. paines in the body, stone, sight and goute. The white berries h. agues and thirst.

Hellebor. Helleborus.

  • P. On mountains, where Gentian growes.
  • T. Fl: in May and June: the black, sooner.
  • N. [...]. Veratrum album. Sanguis Her­culeus.

Hellebor. Ger. K. as the white, and timely white. T. the root is hot and dry 3°. V. the root of the white c. vomit and expelleth su­perfluous humors, h. the epilepsie, phrensies, sciatica, dropsies, poyson, and all cold diseases of hard curation, and is to be used only in hard and strong bodies. The root cut small and put into [...]istula's doth mundisie them, and re­move [Page 217]callous matter hindering curation, that so it may be healed by sarcotick remedies sc. the black. The powder c. sneezing and purgeth slimie humors. The root d. in the weight of two pence h. agues. It killeth mice and rats made up with hony & wheat flower. Plin. It h. the lowsie evill. The wild Hellebore. K. as the white, and narrow leafed wild. T. are thought to be hot and dry. V. Their faculties are referred to the first, whereof they are kinds. The decoction d. opens the liver, and h. the imperfections thereof. The black helle­bore of Diosc. T. V. is referred to the black which is of greater force. Black hellebore. K. as the true, wild, great oxe-heele, and setterwort. T. is hot and dry 3°. & hotter than the white. V. It purgeth phlegme, choller, and melancholly: it helpeth those that are furious, pensive, leprous, melan­chollick, epileptick, or are sick of a quar­tan ague. The dose is s [...]r. 3. it is given with wine of raisins or oxymel, with aromaticall seeds, and is made stronger by adding gr. 1. or 2. of scammonie. The first of these kinds is best, then the second. The rest are of lesse efficacy. The roots h. the morphew, spots, tetters, [...]ing-wormes, leprofie, and scabs. The roots sodden in pottage with flesh open, and h. the dropsie. The root of the ba­stard hellebore, or beares-foot d. in wine oper­ates as the true black hellebore and killeth wormes, powdered and drach. 1. d. in wine. Boiled in water with rue and agrimonie it h. the jaundise, and purgeth forth yellow superfluities. The leaves of bastard hellebore dryed, and the powder taken in a figge [Page 218]or raisin, or strewed upon bread spread with hony and eaten, killeth wormes. Hart. The essence of black hellebor h. the goute. Park: K. as the fennell leafed bastard, that of Matth: and sanicle-like black Hel. V. It h. the liver, old pains of the head, consumptions, aches, and paines of the teeth: and deasnesse & ulcers ap. it's corrected by quinces, sc. the white. The black put into the eares of beasts h. their poy­sonous diseases.

Helmet-flower. Napellus.

  • P. In gardens, the wild almost every where.
  • T. Fl. from May to September.
  • N. [...]. Toxicum. Napellus verus.

Helmet-flower. Ger. J. K. as the blew vio­let ooloured, purple of Newburg, large flou­red, and that with a nodding head. T. are all hot and dry 4°, and most venimous V. they are deadly both to man and beast: being eaten, the [...] and tongue presently swell, the eyes hang out, the thighs are stiffe and witts depart. The autidote is the flye that feedeth on the leaves, or take of torra lemnia unc. 2. bay berries and mith idate an. unc. 2. of the flies that feed on the herbe 24. of hony and oile q. s. m. The juyce of it poysoneth arrowes. Park. The wholsom Helmet fl. Anthora is an antidote, kills wormes, h. the collick, and plague, and is cordiall. Hugo S [...]ler. The quan­tity of a beane of the root is a hydragogon.

Hemlock. Cicuta.

  • P. About walls, in shadowie places, and fat soiles.
  • T. They flourish and seed in September.
  • N. [...]. The last of Ger. is thought to be Phellandrion Plinii.

Hemlock. Ger. J. K. as the common, broad leafed stinking, and gyant. T. Gal. is cold 4°. V. It is not to be used inwardly or outwardly. Ap. it causeth the parts to pine away. The wild and water hemlocks. K. as the thin leafed wild, and wild water common hemlock. T. V. They are like the common hemlock and not used in physick. Lonic. The dryed juice is used in collyries to [...]ase paine. Ap. it h. pha­gedens and S. Anthonies fire, as also all inflam­mations, and h. venery. Park. K. as the foolish. V. ap. it represseth the swellings in womens breasts, and repells milke, the rosted root ap. h. the gout. Trag. The antidote is vineger d.

Hempe. Cannabis.

  • P. In fat, dunged, plaine, and moist soiles deeply digged: the wild in barren hils.
  • T. Sown in March and Aprill. The first is ripe in August: the second in July.
  • N. [...]. Water hemp is called Eupatorium Cannabinum.

Hempe. Ger. J. K. as the male, and female. T. the seed is dyspeptick, and of ill juice, hurt­full to the stomack and head. V. It consumeth [Page 220]wind, & if much eaten it dryeth up the sperm. The juyce of the herbe dropped into the ears h. their paine proceeding of obstruction. The pulp of the seed pressed into liquor and d. h. the yellow jaundise without an ague, open­ing the gall, and concocting choller through the whole body. Matth. The seed given to hens causeth them to lay eggs more plentifully. Wild hemp. K. as the common, bastard, and small bastard. T. V. are referred to the ma­nured hemp; yet not used in physick where the other may be had. Water hemp. K. as the common, and common Dutch. T. The leaves and roots are bitter, hot, and dry 2°. scouring, opening and attenuating. They expell grosse humors by urine, and purifie the bloud. V. The decoction of them (especially the last) d. h. scabbed and filthy skins, and opens the liver, spleen and gall, and h. the jaundise. The herb boiled in wine or water h. tertian fevers. The leaves ap. and the decoction d. h. all wounds both inward and outward. The se­cond h. poyson. Gesn. A pugill of the fibers of the root boiled in wine and d. purgeth and c. vomit. It workes like white hellebore, but more gently and safely. Park. T. The manured is thought to be cold and dry: so Trag. & Lonic. others count it hot and dry, as Gal. Matth. Ruel. Fuch. and Lugd. V. The emulsion of the feed h. lasks, and the collick. The juice d. kills wormes, and ap. h. the gout & burnings. Lob. The wild h. nodes.

Henbane. Hyoscyamus.

  • P. The black almost every where: the white in gardens.
  • T. They spring in May, st. in Aug. the seed is ripe in October.
  • N. [...]. Apollinaris. Faba suilla, & Jovis. The last, Nicotiana. Petum.

Henbane. Ger. J. K. as the black, and white, lesser white, white of Candy, and that with a reddish flower. T. are cold 4°. V. They cause sleep, and are anodyne, h. sharpe and hot distillations, stop bleeding: and ap. h: all in­flammations. The leaves stamped with the ointment of populeon & ap. h. the paine of the gout, swellings of the privities, and the tumors of womens breasts. To bathe the feet in the de­coction c. sleep; so given in clysters, or the flowers smelled to. The leaves, seed and juice d. c. troublesome sleep and deadly. The seed of white henbane taken in the weight of 10 gr. with meade h. coughs, defluxions of humors to the eyes or breast, and all issues of bloud. The root boiled in vineger and held hot in the mouth h. the toothach. The fume taken c. wormes to come out of the teeth. Yellow henbane or English Tobacco. T. is cold and moist, Lobel. but rather hot, biting and gum­mie. V. it is used by some instead of tobacco: it c. spitting, stupifieth the senses, and c. gid­dinesse; but to little profit. The herbe h. all impostumes, tumors, inveterate ulcers, botches, burnings, green wounds, and all hurts in the head, made into an oinment, thus, take of the green leaves thereof lib. 3. sem. and stampe them very small in a stone morter, [Page 222]of oile olive q. s. boile them upon a gentle fire, continually stirring it 'till the herbs seem black, and will not bubble any more: then strain the green oile from the faeces, and put it to the fire againe, adding thereto, of wax lib. sem. of rosin unc. 4. of good turpentine unc. 2. melt them together and keep it in pots for the use a­foresaid. Croll. The decoction of the root of Henbane in vineger with arsmart h. the tooth­ach being used warme. Park. K. as that of Egypt V. The black and yellow are more dan­gerous than the white, which is cold 3°. and h. all paines of a hot cause ap. The antidote is Garlick. English tobacco d. purgeth slegme, kills wormes, h. the stone: and ap, kills lice.

Holly-tree. Agrifolium.

  • P. Almost every where: in woods and hedges.
  • T. It's green both winter and summer, the berries are ripe in September.
  • N. [...] Theoph. Aquifolium Gazae. Paliu­rus secundus Diosc. Lacunae.

Holly-tree. Ger. T. the berries are hot and dry, of thin parts and waste away winde. V. They h. the collick. 10. or 12. taken in­wardly purge away thick and phlegmatick hu­mors. The birdlime made of the barke gleweth up the intrailes, and is lethall. Holly powdered and d. h. all fluxes of the belly, as dysente­ries &c. Birdlime is thus made: take off the bark and put it in a ditch in boggy ground, covering it with boughs of trees, and there let [Page 223]it remaine till it be putrifyed, which will be done in 12, dayes, then beat it in mo [...]ters to the thicknesse of lime, after which wash it ve­ry often, and putting to it a little oile of nuts, keep it in earthen vessels for use. Sea Holly. K. as the common, and Levant, Eryngium. T. The roots of both of them are moderately hot, and a little dry with a thinnesse of substance. V. The roots boiled in wine and d. h. the collik, breake the stone, expell gravell, and h. all infirmities of the kidnies, provoking u­rine and opening the passages being d. 15. days together; so the roots eaten, and h. those that are liver sick, and bitten with venimous beasts; they h. cramps, convulsions, and the epilepsie, and provoke the termes. The roots condited h. those that are withered with old age, and want naturall moisture, and c. venery. Drach. 1. d. with carrot seeds h. very many infirmities. The juice d. pressed forth with wine h. the gonorrhoea. The bastard Sea-holly. K. as the blew, common, dwarf, mountaine, and small smooth. T. Are hot. V. They are not used in meate or medicine. Park. K. as the smooth leased and prickly. V. Matth. The decoction of the root, or bark thereof fomented on the places that have been put out of joynt, mollify­eth and discusseth the tumors, and consoli­dateth broken bones. Sea-holly K. as the up­land, and small bastard sea holly of Spaine, with the French thistle of Lobel and Pena, and trefoile thistle, Eryngium trifolium. T. The first is of the temper of the sea-holly, and used in stead thereof, being not much inferiour. V. The decoction of the root in wine, d. openeth the liver and spleen, h. the jaundice, dropsie, and [Page 224]paines in the loynes, and French disease. The roots ap. h. the Kings evill: so d. & ap. h. the bitings of serpents: with axungia it's magneticall & sarcotick. The juice of the leaves dropped into the eares h. impostumes. The distilled water h. melancholy, quotidian & quartan agues, & wry necks. The rest are weaker. Ʋntz. The seed of the 1. h. the stone: so Lon: Moresc. Fernel. Col: a handfull of the berries of common holly boiled in a pint of ale to the one half, which being strained and a little butter put thereto, is a good remedy for the stone and stoppage of urine, 5, or 6, spoonfulls thereof being taken at once. The powder of the leaves dryed in an oven, and the pricks taken off, being d. in ale is commended against the stitches and pricking pains of the side. The juice that droppeth out of the wood when laid on the fire, being dropped into the eares h. deasnesse. The birdlime thereof being applyed with the yelk of an egge draweth out thornes and splinters &c. The tender shoots of the Sea holly eaten, are aphrodisiastick, or c. lust.

Holly-rose. Cistus.

  • P. The hotter provinces of Europe, and gardens.
  • T. They fl. from May to September.
  • N. [...]. Rosa sylvatica & canina. The excrescence or juice, Hypocistis.

Holly-rose. Ger. J. K. as the male, the male with his excrescence, toothed thin leased, the female, Cistus with leaves like sea purslain, lavender leased, thin leased, low with broad leaves, and narrrow, low of Austria, low [Page 225]with leaves like wild tyme, Lobel's strange, Dr Penny his cistus, that lasting one yeare, long leafed yearly, spotted annuall, and mar­joram leafed. T. It dryeth fere 2°. and is of temperate heate: the leaves and first buds being beaten, dry, bind and glutinate ulcers, and green wounds. V. The flowers are of most force. d. in wine they h. the bloudy flix, weake stomacks, sluxes and the over­flowing of moist humors. ap. as a pultis they h. putrified ulcers and phagedens; and also h. burnings, scaldings, and old ulcers. Hypocistis is more binding, h. all infirmities coming of fluxes, as the whites, laskes, bloudy flix, and strengtheneth parts debilitated with superfluous moisture. It's excellent to be mixed with somentations, for the sto­mack, and liver: it's put into treacle to comfort weake bodies. Dwarfe cistus. K. as the English yellow or white, the yellow dwarf of Germany, and white, that of Savoy, narrow leafed, time-leafed, & Frisian dwarfe cistus. T. V. are referred to the kindes of cistus, for they heale wounds, stop bloud, and all issues thereof, as the bloudy flix, and hamop­tysis, and boiled in wine h. ulcers in the mouth, and secret parts ap. for it joyneth and strengtheneth. Cistus Ledon. K. as the first bringing Ladanum, the second gum, leafed like poplar, the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Cistus ledon of Clusius, the 8th with his excrescence, the 9th, leafed like myrtle, the Polonian, leafed like r [...]semary, that of Matthiolus's description, the mountain, and rosemary leafed Cistus ledon. T. Gal. Ladanum is hot fine primi, having a little astriction: it's of thin parts and therefore [Page 226]softneth, also it digesteth and concocteth. V. Ladanum h. the infirmities of the mother, and keepeth haires from falling, wasting away putrifyed humors. Diosc. It doth bind, heale, souple, and open. m. with wine, myrrhe, and oile of myrtles ap. it keepeth haires from fall­ing; or laid on mixed with wine: also it makes the scarres of wounds well coloured. m. with meade or oile of roses it h. the paines of the cares being dropped in. A fume thereof draweth forth the after birth, and h. the hardnesse of the matrix: it's good to be mixed with mollifying and anodyne plasters. d. with wine it stoppeth the laske and provoketh urine. It's very good also put into pomanders &c. Note, the best is sweet, somewhat green, fat, easily waxeth soft, is full of gum, not easily broken, and without sand. Park. K. As the sweet, & mountaine. V. as the rest, the juice of the dwarse d. and ap. h. poison: the distilled water is cosmeticke. The narrow and broad leafed male. V. as the first: so the female K. as the annuall &c. Gum cistus. K. as that of Lob. &c. V. h. coughs, and is stopping.

Hone-wort. Selinum Sii foliis.

  • P. It groweth in clay ground among corne.
  • T. It begins to flower in July: the seed is ripe in August.
  • N. Sium terrestre Goodteri. Selinum segetale Park. Corne Parsley.

Hone-wort. Ger. T. V. It h. the Hone, be­ing aswelling so called: take one handfull of the green leaves, and stamp them, put to them a­bout [Page 227]halfe a pint of beer, straine it and drink it, & so continue to drink the like quantity every morning fasting, till the swelling do abate, which will be in a week or two. Park. T. the seed is like parsley in forme and as hot in taste. V. It's neer of the same property, with Parsley.

Hony-wort. Cerinthe.

  • P. They grow not wild in England.
  • T. Fl. from May to August: and perish at winter.
  • N. [...] Theoph. Maru herba Dod. Cerinthe Plinii.

Hony-wort. Ger. J. K. as the great, small, and rough. T. are cold. V. and not experi­mented. Park. K. as the greater yellow and red, greater yellow or purple, and lesser yel­low or white. T. are all of a temperate quali­ty between cold and hot; but rather inclining to cold, and somewhat astringent. V. It stops bleeding at the mouth or nose, immoderate fluxes of women, and fluxes of the belly, the herbe being boiled and d. The juice of the herb with a little saffron dissolved therein, h. bleared & watering eyes, & is used in soule ulcers after they are clensed, to h. to incarnate them, espe­cially such as are in the tender parts of the body: some do use it in steed of borage and bu­glosse as a remedy. Plin. Virg. Bees are much delighted with the flowers; being very sweet.

Hops. Lupulus.

  • P. In fat and fruitfull ground, the wild among thornes.
  • T. The flowers are gathered in Aug. and Sept.
  • N. [...]. Lupus salictarius, & repti­tius. Vitis Septent. Lob.

Hops. Ger. T. the flowers are hot and dry 2°. They stuffe the head and hurt it with their strong smell; so likewise the leaves, which also open and clense. V. The buds in spring are used to be eaten in sallads; and are of small nourishment; yet are good for the intralls, procuring urine, and keeping the body soluble. The leaves, tender stalkes, and flowers open the liver and spleen, clense the bloud, and h. long agues. Boiled and d. in whay, they h. scabs and filth of the skin. The juice is strong­er, purgeth flegme and choller, and dropped in­to the eares h. the corruption thereof. The flowers season beere, and too many are ill for the head. The decoction of the flowers makes bread light. The decoction of hops d. openeth the liver, spleen and kidnies, and purgeth the bloud by urine; so the juice, & purgeth the belly of choller. Thus appeareth the wholsomenesse of beere above ale. Park. the tops & roots h. the French disease, and breakings out in the body, terters, ring-wormes, and spreading sores; the ague, itch, and morphew. The decoction of the flowers & tops, d. expells poyson. drach. sem. of the seed d. in powder killeth wormes and bringeth down the courses. The flowers [Page 229]and heads used in baths h. the swellings of the mother and strangury. The juice dropped into the eares h. sores and the stench thereof. The syrrup h. the jaundise and head-ach c. by heat of the intralls, and agues. The decocti­on h. alopecia's. The wild are best. Fernel. It's hot 1°, dry 2°, and operates as Fumitory. Riol. The syrrup h. the diseases of melancholy Freitag. and choller.

Hore-hound. Marrubium.

  • P. In untilled places, neer old walls, paths &c.
  • T. Fl. in July and Aug. in the second yeare.
  • N. [...]. Prasium. The wild is called Stachys.

Hore-hound. Ger. K. as the white, snow white, Spanish, and Candy. T. Gal. is hot 2°. dry 3°. and bitter. V. common horehound boiled in water and d. openeth the liver and spleen, clenseth the breast and lungs, h. old coughs, paines of the side, spitting of bloud, ptysicks, and ulcerations of the lungs. Boiled in wine and d. it provoketh the termes, expelleth the secundine and dead child, and h. hard la­bour. A syrrup made of the green leaves and sugar h. old coughs & wheezings of the lungs, and h. their consumption, also it h. against poyson & the bitings of serpents: the leaves ap. with hony clense filthy ulcers, & stop the pearle in the eyes; so the juice hardned in the sun m. with wine & hony: dropped into the eyes it cleareth them. Drawn into the nostrils it clens­eth [Page 230]the yellownesse of the eyes, and stops the watering of them. Wild horehound. K. as the common, wild, stinking, thorny, Portugall, Germander, and hyssop leafed Ironwort. T. are biting and bitter, hot 3°. The stinking Stachys Fuchsii and Sideritides are hot and dry 1°. Johns. V. The decoction of the leaves d. draweth down the menses & secundine. It keeps wounds from inflammation and speedily heal­eth them; also it stops fluxes and defluxions, being dry & moderately binding, sc. the stink­ing hore-hound. It h. the bitings of mad dogs. Water hore-hound. T. Is cold and very astrin­gent, yet little used. Black or stinking hore-hound. K. as the common, and long leafed. T. is hot and dry, of a sharp & cleansing faculty. V. being stamped with salt and ap. it cureth the biting of a mad dog. The leaves rosted in hot embers waste hard knots in or about the fundament: it also clenseth foule filthy ul­cers. Borel. Cent. 4. Obs. 14. The tops of white hore-hound infused in white wine all night and d. for 3. dayes, provoke the menses, h. ca­chexies, ill colours, the stomack, and c. appetite. Park. K. as the black French. V. Matth. They h. bad livers, the itch and jaundise, and kill wormes. Marsh hore. V. Is traumatick and d. h. agues.

Horne-beam tree. Carpinus.

  • P. In North-hampton shire, and Kent.
  • T. It springs in Aprill: the seed is ripe in Sept.
  • N. [...] Theoph. Ostrya Theoph. Zugia. [...].

Horn-beame tree. Ger. T. V. Is not of any [Page 231]physicall use: so Cam. Matth. but serveth only for the use of husbandry. Park. It serveth for mills and other smaller workes, &c. being hard, strong, and durable: so Trag. &c.

Horse-foot. Cacalia.

  • P. In the Austrian and Syrian Alpes, &c.
  • T. Fl. about the same time that coltsfoot doth.
  • N. [...] Diosc. cacanum Gal.

Horse-foot. Johns. K. as the hoarie, and smooth leafed. T. The root moderately dryeth without biting, it's of a grosse and emplastick substance. V. Being steeped in wine and taken it h. the cough, and roughnesse of the arterie or hoarsenesse, like gum dragagant, being chewed and the juice swallowed: it operates as liquorice. Park. Diosc. The peare-like graines beaten and m. with a cerote, make the skin smooth: Plin. And stay the falling of the haire: so Col.

Horse-taile. Equisetum.

  • P. The finest leafed groweth in wet grounds &c.
  • T. They flower from Aprill to the end of summer.
  • N. [...]. Cauda equina, & Salix. Asprella Ephedra.

Horse-taile. Ger: K. as the great, naked, corne, water, wood, female, and Italian [Page 232]rushy. T. Gal. is bitter, yet binding and mightily dryeth without biting. V. Diosc. Stamped and ap. it doth perfectly cure wounds, even of the sinewes cut in sunder. It cureth wounds of the bladder and bowels, and h. ruptures and burstings: the herb d. with water or wine, h. the bleeding at the nose, and other fluxes of bloud, it stoppeth the courses and bloudy flix &c. so the juice, and more effectually. The herb with the roots boiled in wine, h. ulcers of the kidnies & bladder, the cough and difficulty of breathing. Park. K. as the barren, finest leafed, stinking, greater meadow, and mountain horsetaile of Candy. V. The smoother is better than the rough, and the leafed than the bare: decoct in wine and d. it h. the strangury and stone. The distilled water d. two or three times in a day h. the paines of the entralls, and h. the cough c. by distillation. The juice ap. h. inflammations and eruptions in the skin. Lugd. It doth inspissate the body. Schw. The naked h. the scurvy.

Horse-tongue. Hippoglossum.

  • P. On the Alps of Liguria, and on the Mountains of Austria.
  • T. Fl. in May: the fruit is ripe in Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Bonifacia. Ʋvularia. Bi­slingua.

Horse-tongue. Ger. K. as the male, female, and Italian. T. is hot 2°. dry 1°. V. the roots of double tongue, or horse-tongue boiled in wine and d. h. the stangury, provoke urine, h. hard travell of women, and expell the secun­dine &c. So also drach. 6. of the powder of the [Page 233]root d. in wine, and bring down the termes. Plin. unc. sem. of the powder of the root d. in wine c. speedy delivery. Bapt. Sard. It h. diseases of the mother, a little spoonfull of the powder of the herb, fruit, or root being taken, &d. in flesh broth for certain dayes h. ruptures. Park. T. it's thought to be hot and dry 2°. It h. sores of the mouth, and dryeth filthy ulcers ap.

Hounds tongue. Cynoglossum.

  • P. In untild grounds, by high wayes, almost every where.
  • T. They flower in June and July.
  • N. [...]. Lingua canis. Limonium Aetii.

Hounds-tongue. Ger. J. K. as the common, first and second Candy, and small green leafed. T. the herbe, but especially the root, is cold & dry. V. The roots rosted in the embers & ap. h. haemorroides, and wild fire. The juice boiled with hony of roses & turpentine to the forme of an unguent h. wounds and deep ulcers. Diosc. The leaves boiled in wine and d. mollify the belly: and stamped with old swines grease h. falling away of the haires c. by hot humors: also they h. scaldings and bitings of mad dogs. Vigon. The juice with syrrup of roses and ox­ymel of squils h. the French pox. Hieron. Brun­fels. It mundifyeth ulcers. Park, K. as the greater mountain, party coloured fl. and blew. V. The root h. rheumes.

House-leeke. Sedum.

  • P. On walls, and tops of houses, and about rubbish.
  • T. Fl: in June or August, the smaller in June or July.
  • N. [...]. Herba Jovis. Semperflorium Apul. Aithales.

House-leeke. Ger: K. as the great, tree, and great narrow leaved. T. The great house-leeks are cold 3°, and a little dry. V. They h. S. An­thonies fire, shingles, creeping ulcers, and in­flammations c. by rheumes and fluxes: they h. inflamed eyes ap. as also burnings, and scald­ings: ap: with barley meale dryed it h. paines of the goute. It h. hot laskes d. with wine, and kills wormes. The juyce with a pessary stopps fluxes in women c. by heat. The leaves held in the mouth quench the thirst in burning fe­vers. The juyce m. with barley meale and vi­neger h. S. Anthonies fire, all hot burning and fretting ulcers, scaldings, burnings, hot inflam­mations, and the goute of a hot cause. The juyce with garden night-shade, and the budds of poplar boiled in hoggs grease, maketh a most excellent populeon. The juyce h. cornes ap. the skinne of the herbe being emplastred eve­ry day and night. The decoction or juyce d. h. the bloudy flixe, and cooleth the inflamma­tion of the eyes being dropped in, and the herbe bruised ap. The lesser house-leekes. K. as the common, white floured, small summer, small large floured, small prick-madam, scorpi­on, Port-land; and small rock sengreene. T. are all cooling like the greater, and serve for the same use. Prick-madam is used in sallads, and [Page 235]h heart-burnings. The other small sengreenes or house-leekes. K. As the small water, 1. small of the Alpes, and 4th: white of the Alpes, and long leaved rocke s. T. V. The 3. first are cold, and operate as the other of the smaller sort. The two last are rather hot, and attenua­ting, but none of them are commonly known, or used in physicke. Sea h. See in Aloes. Water house-leeke. T. Is cold. V. It stopps bloud coming from the kidnies, keepeth green wounds from inflammation, and h. S. Antho­nies fire and hot swellings ap: and operates as the first. Recch: K. That of Mistica. T. Is sharpe. V. It h. all paines. The juyce c. vo­mit. Croll: The juyce of the lesser house-leeke h. the scurvy and stomacace. Park: K. as the great English sea, and woolly. V. h. all inflam­mations, the juyce d. in a posset h. agues: ap. it h. the headache, and stingings. The small stone-crop, &c. as the first. Wall pepper, ex­ulcerates. The mountainous, as the 1. so the Water housleeke of Egypt.

Hyacinth. Hyacinthus.

  • P. In gardens, being planted: some neer rivers.
  • T. The 3 first fl: in the midst of Jan: and the rest in spring.
  • N. [...]. Vacinium, Lilium purpureum. D. G.

Hyacinth. Ger: J: K. as the starry, sc. the common, white floured, two leaved, lilly lea­ved, that of Constantinople, Somers, greater star­ry summer and lesser, and that of Peru. T. V. [Page 236]are unknown. Clus. The lilly leafed eaten by cattle c. their heads to swell and then kill them, being of a maligne and poysonsom quality. Autumne Jacinth K. as the small and great. T. V. are not written of. English Jacinth. K. as the hare-bells, white, blew orientall, & many flowred 1. and second, reddish purple, and white orientall, winter, orientall with leaves on the stalke, double flowred orientall, the greater dusky flowred Spanish, and lesser, with the tuberous rooted Indian Jacinth. T. doe lightly clense and bind. The seeds are dry 3°. the roots 1°, and cold 2°. V. the root boiled in wine, and d. stoppeth the belly, provoketh urine, and h. the venemous biting of the field spider; so the seed, and more effectually stoppeth the laske, and bloudy flix. d. in wine it h. the falling sicknesse. Diosc. The roots stamped and ap. with white wine, hinder the growth of haires. The seed d. with southernwood in wine h. the jaundise. Faire haired jacinth. K. as the common, and white, that of Constantinople, faire curled haired branched, blew, and great grape-flower. T. V. Vhe faire haired operates as the English. Musked Grape flower K. as the yellow, & ash­coloured. T. V. They may be referred to the Jacinths, whereof they are kinds; but as yet are not of any known use. The two feigned plants, K. as the false bumbast Jacinth, and flower of Tigris T. V. are not yet discovered, or are rather adulterine and supposititious. The woolly bulbus. T. V. is of no use. Park: K. as the Barbary, early blew starry, Turkey, and ash-coloured. T. V. The roots and leaves [Page 237]are cold and dry. Weck: The seed d. in wine h. the Kings evill. Col: The tuberous root d. h. the jaundise.

Hyssope. Hyssopus.

  • P. In gardens, the hedge hyssope in moist places.
  • T. Fl: from June to the end of August.
  • N. [...]. Hyssopum. Hedge Hyssope, Gra­tiola.

Hyssope. Ger. J. K. as that with blew flow­ers, and reddish, white flowred, thinne leafed, and dwarfe narrow leafed. T. is hot and dry, Park: 30. V. A decoction made with figgs, and gargled in the mouth and throat, ripeneth and breaketh the tumors, and impostumes of the mouth and throat, and h. the difficulty of swallowing c. by cold rheumes: the same made with figges, water, hony, and rue, and d. h. the inflammation of the lungs, old coughs, shortnesse of breath, and the obstructions of the breast. The syrupe or juyce taken with the syrupe of vineger, purgeth by stoole clammy flegme, and driveth forth wormes if eaten with figgs. The distilled water d. o­perates as the rest, but not so speedily. Hedge hyssope. K. As the common, broad leaved, and grasse Poley. T. Are hot and dry, and the 1. only is used in medicine V. scrup: 1. taken [Page 239]mightily purgeth waterish, grosse, and slimie humors, and chollerick: so eaten in a sallad, or the decoction d. Boiled in wine and d. it h. all fevers and dropsies, and such like diseases proceeding of cold and watery causes. The extraction given with the powder of cinamon, and a little of the juyce of calamint h. tertian and quotidian fevers. Park: Common hyssop in ptysan's, expectorates flegme: ap. with sugar it h. green wounds: and with hony, salt, and cummin-seed, it h. the bitings of adders: decoct with oile and ap: it h. the itching of the head: the oile h. numnesse: it h. wind and agues. K. As the tufted, &c. The hedge hys. kills wormes, h. ulcers, prevents putrefaction, and opens ob­structions.

I.

Jacke by the hedge. Alliaria.

  • P. It groweth by garden hedges, by walls, &c.
  • T. Fl: chiefely in June and July: it's used as sauce in Aprill.
  • N. Rima Maria. Pes asininus. Alliastrum Gesn.

JAcke by the hedge. Ger. T. is hot and dry fine 2di, much lesse than garlick. V. The leaves stamped, serve for sauce with salt fish. The leaves also are boiled in clysters a­gainst the paine of the collick and stone, they easing paine, and wasting the wind. Bor: Cent: 1. Obs; 22. Also, it's effectuall against the plague. [Page 238] Park: It warmeth the stomack, and c. digesti­on: the juyce thereof boiled with hony is thought to be as good as Erysimum hedge mu­stard, for the cough, to expectorate flegme. d. and ap. it h. the mother: the leaves h. ulcers of the leggs. Mac. It h. gangreens, and the sphacelus. Trag. It h. the sciatica or hip-gout in clysters, as an errhine it h. the lethargy.

S. James's-wort. Jacobaea.

  • P. Every where in untilled places somewhat moist.
  • T. Fl: In July and August, and are then carried away.
  • N. [...] Diosc. quorundam. Herba S. Ja­cobi, & Flos. Cineraria. Argentea.

S. James his wort. Ger: J. K. as the com­mon, narrow leafed, broad leafed, and sea rag­wort. T. Is hot and dry 2°, bitter and clen­sing. V. It h. green wounds, and filthy tetters, it clenseth and healeth them, the juyce being tempered with hony and may butter, and boi­led to a salve. Boiled in hoggs grease to an oint­ment it h. old aches and paines in the armes, hipps, and leggs. The decoction gargarized, wasteth and healeth inflammations and swell­ings of the throat: the leaves stamped small, and boiled with some hoggs grease unto the con­sumption of the juyce, adding some mastick and olibanum, then strained, and ap. h. the sciatica. Prosper Alpin: The Aegyptians use its decoction against the stone, and to helpe old obstructions, especially those of the wombe, [Page 240]also coldnesse, strangulation, barrennesse, and inflation thereof, & brings down the courses: the bath of the leaves and flowers, h. those that are troubled with the mother. Park: K. as the Hungarian, round leafed hoary, lesser sea, and broad leafed sea rag-wort. V. It stops catarrhes, and rheumes falling on the eyes, nose, or lungs. The juyce h. fistula's. Col: It h. the squinancy, and Kings evill, and the staggers in horses. Bauh: It operates as Groundsell. It h. wounds, inflammations, and fistula's.

Jewes-thorne. Paliurus.*

  • P. It groweth in Lybia, &c.
  • T. It budds in the spring, & continues not green.
  • N. Rhamnus tertius Diosc: Christ's thorne, where with he was crowned.

Jewes-thorne. Ger. T. the leaves and root doe evidently binde and cutt. V. The seed h. the stone, and removeth tough and slimie hu­mors out of the chest and lungs. Diosc. The de­coction of the leaves and roots stops the belly, provokes urine, and h. the poyson and bitings of serpents. The root stamped and ap. consu­meth the phymata, and oedemata. The seed is a remedy for the cough. Park: T. V. It's like the Bucks-thorne. Aet: The fruit h. the ex­cretion of the breast and lungs. Gal: The leaves h. fluxes, the fruit incideth; so Bauhinus, Pla­terus, &c.

Indian hop-like purger. Carlo sancto.*

  • P. It groweth in Mexico.
  • T. The time is not observed.
  • N. It hath not any Synonymous names.

Indian purger. Park: T. is hot and dry ini­tio 2di. V. The barke of the root being a little chewed, is an apophlegmatisme, by which ca­tarrhes and distillations are voided, and paines of the head much eased, in some also it c. vo­mit, and bringeth out choller and flegme, a purgation being first taken. The barke being chewed h. loose gummes, putrid teeth, and maketh the breath sweet. The powder taken in white wine, or the decoction with maiden haire and a little cinamon, h. the obstruction of the mother, and consumeth winde with ung. dialth: ap. also it h. the passion of the heart, the French disease, epilepsie, and ruptures, & h. digestion: pomecitron barke being added to the decoction.

Indian leafe. Folium Indum.*

  • P. In Arabia and Cambaya.
  • T. It's supposed to be green all the yeare.
  • N. Tamalapatra. Folium Indicum. Malaba­thrum.

Indian leafe. Ger: T. Is hot and dry 2° a­greeing with nardus, or as others report with mace. V. it's diureticke, warmeth and com­forteth the stomack, and h. digestion. It h. the [Page 242]web in the eyes, inflammations, &c. Being laid among clothes, it keeps them from mothes and vermine, and gives unto them a sweet smell. Park: It c. a sweet breath, resisteth poysons, and is therefore put into antidotes, that are cordiall or stomachicall.

Jobs teares. Lachrymae Job.

  • P. In Italy, and the countries adjoyning.
  • T. It's to be sowen early in the spring.
  • N. Lachrymae Jobi. Diospyros.

Jobs teares. Ger. T. V. It's not for the use of Physick: so Park: in his Paradise; yet in his Theater of Plants, he yeelds it to be of some use. Pen: Lob: It's commended by some, either in powder, or the decoction thereof, against the stone, or gravell in the kidnies and bladder: but beyond sea, they chiefly use the seeds, which being perforated, they string them, and so use them for prayer beads. Croll. It's an ex­cellent lithontriptick: so Col.

S. Johns-wort. Hypericum.

  • P. In pastures very plentifully.
  • T. They flower and flourish in July and Aug.
  • N. [...]. Perforata. Fugadaemonum. Sol terrest. Paracelsi.

S. Johns-wort. Ger. J. K. as the common, rue, Lobel's woolly, woolly of Clusius, and [Page 243]small creeping. T. Gal: It's hot and dry, and of thin parts. V. Boyled with the flowers and seed, d. it provoketh urine, h. the stone, and stopps laskes. The leaves stamped and ap: h. burnings, scaldings, and all wounds and ul­cers. The leaves, flowers, and feeds stamped, and put in a glasse with oile olive, and set in the Sunne, then strained, and new added, till the oile become of the colour of bloud, make an excellent remedy for green and deepe wounds that are through the body, for prickt sinews or wounds made with a venomed wea­pon: or take white wine 2 pints, oile olive lib. 4. oile of turpentine lib. 2. the leaves, flow­ers, and seeds of S. Johns wort. an. M. 2. gent­ly bruised, put all into a great double glasse, and set it in the sunne 8 or 10 dayes, then boile them in the glasse per B. M. after strain the liquor, putting in new herbes &c. so have you a remedy equall to the naturall balsame. Diosc. The seed d. 40 dayes together h. the sciatica, and all aches in the hipps. Taken in wine, it h. tertian and quartan agues. Square S. Johns grasse, Ascyron, or square S. Johns-wort. T. Is hot and dry. V. It hath the same faculty that S. Johns-wort hath. Diosc: the seed d. in unc: 4. sem: of meade doth strongly purge cholerick excrements. S. Johns bread, Ceratonia, Carabe. T. Is dry and astringent; so the fruit. V. The fruit of the Carob tree eaten greene, looseneth the belly; being dry it stoppeth it, and provoketh urine. It is good for the stomack, and nourisheth well. Bastard S. Johns-wort. K. As that of Matth: and the French, Coris. T. seem to be hot 2°. Diosc. The seed d. provokes urine, and the [Page 244]courses, h. the sciatica, and d. in wine h. the opisthotonos, and cold fitts of agues, and a­gainst the phalangium. The oile ap: h. convulsions. Park: K. as the Indian with white flowers. V. The common openeth and dissolveth, and d. h. the haemoptysis or spit­ting of bloud.

Ironwort. Sideritis.

  • P. In corne fields, meadows, and mountains.
  • T. Fl: in June and July: the seed is ripe soon after.
  • N. [...]. Militaris. Stratiotes.

Iron-wort. Johns. K. as the common, nar­row-leaved, creeping branched, not branched creeping, and smooth broad leaved. T. Are dry with little or no heat, and astringent. V. They h. green wounds stamped and ap. or put into unguents and plaisters. They prevent inflammations, stop fluxes, h. the bitings of a mad dog; as the germander and hyssope lea­ved. Clus: The 1 and 2d are used in Styria in fomentations to bathe the head in aches there­of, as also they h. against wearinesse of the limbs. The decoction h. inflammations, and ul­cerations of the leggs. Park: K. as the Jewes, small Jewes, Germanes, small of mount-pelier, mountaine, small Germ: and al [...]hoofe leafed, with the clownes woundwort. V. They h. rheumes and ruptures.

Judas-tree. Arbor Judae.

  • P. In Spaine, and Italy, in the hedges there.
  • T. Fl: in spring, the fruit is ripe in summer.
  • N. Siliqua Sylvestris Clus: & Fatua. Fabago.

Judas-tree. Ger. T. V. is unknown, so Park: yet those of Virginia account the flowers to be an excellent sallad ingredient. Dod. It's not as yet experimented.

Jujube-tree. Zizypha.*

  • P. In Italy, Africa, Egypt, Arabia, & Syria.
  • T. Fl: in Aprill, & then are the seeds to be sowen.
  • N. [...]. Jujuba. Jujube Arab. Ziziphus Dod.

Jujube-tree. Ger. T. jujubes are temperate in heat and moisture. V. The fruit of the ju­jube-tree eaten, is dyspepticke and oligotro­phicke: taken in syrupes, &c. it h. the rough­nesse of the throat, the breast and lungs: it h. the cough, reines, and bladder. The great jujube tree, Oenoplia non spinosa. T. The fruit is cold and dry. V. The unripe fruit streng­thens the stomack, and stopps laskes, the juyce being taken, or injected by clysters. The in­fusion of the dried fruit h. relaxations, and ex­ulceration of the gutts, and all pestilent fevers, resisting putrefaction, and strengthening the heart. The juyce purgeth choller out of the stomack and reines. The infusion h. putrid feavers. Park: The first purge choller, clense the bloud, and h. agues, and vomitings. Pem: The syrrup h. the shortnesse of breath.

Juniper-tree. Juniperus.

  • P. In very many places of England, as the South, &c.
  • T. Fl: in May, the fruit is ripe in September.
  • N. [...]. The berries are called Grana Juniperi. the gum, Vernix.

Juniper-tree. Ger: K. as the common, and great, with the small of the Alps. T. Is hot and dry 3°, the berries are hot, but not so dry: the gum is hot and dry 1°. V. The fruit doth clense the liver and kidnies, and extenuates grosse humors, it's used in alexipharmic ke remedies. Largely taken it c. gnawings in the stomack, and heateth the head, it provoketh urine, so Ʋntz: Gebelc: Mont: Neand: Tabern: d. it h. the infirmities of the chest, coughs, win­dinesse, gripings and poysons, cramps, ruptures, and the mother. The decoction of the berries h. old coughs, and the chin-coughs, poysons, and pestilent severs: in Bohemia, the infusion is used for a common drinke. The smoak of the leaves and wood drives away serpents, and all infection of the aire: The juyce of the leaves d. and ap: with wine h. the bitings of the vi­per: the ashes of the burned barke ap: with water, h. the scurse and filth of the skinne: the pouder of the wood taken inwardly is deadly, as some affirme; yet is it contradicted by others: the fume of the gum stopps flegma­tick distillations of the head, and rheume, and raw humors in the intralls. It killeth wormes, stopps the menses, haemorrhoides, and hae­moptysis, [Page 247]it doth exiccate hollow ulcers, and is sarcotick. ap. m. with oile of roses, it h. chapps in the hands or seet. m. with oile of line-seed, it makes vernix, which serveth to beautify pictures, and iron. Park: K. as the great Sclavonian. V. The fruit h. the bitings of vipers, the strangury, and dropsie, so the lye d. Matth: and h. the mother: the ber­ries h. all diseases by cold d. in wine: so the oile: the salt h. the scurvy. Grul. The oile of the berries d. from 5 to 10 dropps is diu­retick.

Ivy. Hedera.

  • P. About walls and trees: untilled and darke places.
  • T. It flourisheth in Autumne, the berries in win­ter.
  • N. [...]. Ground Ivy is called Corona terrae. Chamaecissus.

Ivy. Ger. K. as the climbing or berried, and barren or creeping. T. Gal: It hath contrary faculties, sc: an earthy, binding, and cold sub­stance, and a substance somewhat biring; and when green, a warme watery substance also. V. The green leaves of Ivy boiled in wine h. old ulcers, and virulent; as also burnings, and scaldings: boiled in vineger ir h. bad spleenes: the fl: and fruit more effectually, and h. burnings. The juyce used as an errhine [Page 248]purgeth the head, stopps the running of the eares and healeth their ulcers; as also those of the nostrills: if too sharpe, adde oile of roses, or sallad oile. The gum of the old stocke killeth lice, and is a psilothron, being hot and burn­ing. Diosc. 5 of the berries stamped and made hot in a pomegranat rinde with oile of roses, and dropped into the contrary eare, h. the toothache. The berries make the haire black. The leaves are good to be applied to issues, at­tracting the humors: and preventing inflamma­tions, being green. The berries d. are diure­ticke, and lithontriptick. The leaves steeped in water 24 houres, h. sore, smarting, and waterish eyes if bathed with the infusion. ground Ivy. K. as the common, and rocke ale­hoofe. T. Is hot and dry, bitter, scouring, and opening the obstructions of the intralls. V. put into the eares it h. the ringing, and deafenesse of the same. Matth: The juyce m. with verdigrease h. fistula's and hollow ul­cers. Diosc: drach: sem: of the leaves d. in unc: 4. sem: of faire water for 40 or 50 daies h. the sciatica: and in 6 or 7 dayes, the yellow jaundise. Gal. attributeth all the vertues to the flowers. Ground-Ivy stamped with ce­landine and daisies an. and strained, adding a little sugar and rose water dropped into the eyes h. all inflammations, spotts, web, itch, smarting, and any griefe what ever: it h. though almost blind. The herbs m. with a little ale and hony, strained, and injected in­to the eyes with a syringe h. the web in the eyes of beasts. It also h. the griefes aforesaid tunned up in ale, and h. rheumes. The deco­ction stopps the termes. Boiled in mutton [Page 249]broth it h. weake and aking backs. Put into ointments, it h. burnings and scaldings. Park: K. The Virginian ivy. T. V. Is only for rarity. Hieron: unc: 2. of the decoction of the 1. h. the swellings in the bodies of women. Park. K. as that of Lob: and yellow berried. Diosc: A pugill of the fl. d. in red wine twice a day stopps laskes. Plin: The berries h. the jaun­dise, and kill wormes. sc: the white berries thereof. Cam. The juice h. old paines of the head. Matth. a cap made of the fresh leaves h. the sore heads of infants. The lesser is lesse effectuall. Ground Ivy is vulnerary. The oile of the leaves h. the paines of the intralls.

K.

Kings-speare. Asphodelus Luteus.

  • P. In moist and marish places.
  • T. Fl: in May and June, the leaves are green in winter.
  • N. Hastula Regia, Femina Dionysii Ded.

KIngs-speare. Ger. J. K. as the common, Lancashire, and true Lancashire. T. V. is not used in meat, or medicine: so Dod. Fum: The roots d. provoke urine. Bauh: The English of Lobel, is used by virgins to co­lour their haire yellow, sc. the lye of the flowers.

Knap-weed. Jacea.

  • P. The 2 first grow in fertile pastures, the rest in gardens.
  • T. Fl: in June and July: the last in August.
  • N. Materfillon. The filver Knap. w. Aphyllan­thes Dod.

Knap-weed. Ger. J. K. as the black, great, yellow, mountaine, white floured, knobbed, and rough headed. T. are of the nature of scabious, whereof they are kindes; yet they are not so proper for the use of physick. V. They h. swellings of the uvula, as divells bit; but not so effectually Silver-knapweed. K. As the great, little, narrow leafed, and thorny. T. V. Are not used for meat or medicine, yet the Stoebe of Diosc: is usefull. T. The seed and leaves are astringent. V. The decoction in­jected h. dysenteries, and purulent eares. The leaves ap. as a pultis h. bruises of the eyes and blacknesse, and stop the flowing of bloud. Park: That of the sea is not used, sc: the Spa­nish. The common is astringent and drying: it h. fluxes and distillations: it h. ruptures d. and ap. fistula's and running sores, and wounds. The rest, as those with divided leaves, &c. operate as scabious.

Knot-grasse. Polygonum.

  • P. In barren and stony ground, almost every where.
  • T. They are in flower and seed all the summer long.
  • N. [...]. Seminalis. Sanguinaria. Cen­tumnodia. Corrigiola.

Knot-grasse. Ger. T. Gal: is cold 2°, and binding. V. The juyce h. the haemoptysis, and all issues of bloud; as the pissing & vomiting of bloud, &c. It h. the gonorrhoea and weak­nesse of the back, being fried with eggs like a tansie and eaten. So also the decoction d. or the powder taken in a reare egge. The herbe boiled in wine and hony, h. ulcers and inflam­mations in the secret parts of both sexes; add­ing a little allom: and the parts bathed there­with. Diosc: It provoketh urine, and h. the stillicidium, when the urine is hot and sharpe. It is with good successe given to swine, when they will not eat their meat. The other knot­grasses. K. As the mountaine, that of Valentia, the small round leafed, parsly-piert, with the chick-weed breake-stone, and small water sa­xifrage. T. Are cold 2°, dry 3°, astringent, & incrassating. The three last are hot 2°, and of subtill parts, but parsly-piert is lesse hot than the other two. V. The leaves hereof, with mouse eare an. unc: 1. dried, bay herries, tur­merick, cloves, the seeds of the great burre, the seeds in the berries of heppes, or brier-tree, fenugreeke, an. unc: 1. the stone in the [...] [Page 252]gall drach: sem: powdered & d. in warme white wine: drach: sem: or scrup: 2. break the stone: so the two last. Park. K. as the greatest. V. as the other, h. fluxes, and all paines c. by heat and inflammations, agues, and defluxions. The berry bearing &c. as the first.

L.

Lacca-tree. Lacca.*

  • P. In Zealand, Malavar, and other parts of the East Indies.
  • T. Lacca is generated after much raine.
  • N Loc. Lacca Sumetri the best: the other Lac­ca Comberti.

LAcca-tree. Ger: Lacca is hot 2°. V. It comforteth the heart and liver, openeth obstructions, expelleth urine, and h. the dropsie. The artificiall Lacca made of the scra­pings of brafill and saffron, is used of painters, and not in physick. Park: The first dissolveth the hardnesse of the liver, h. the yellow jaun­dise, and dropsie, by expelling watery hu­mors: and also h. to breake the stone. Worm, It's hot 1°, dry 3°. It purgeth thick flegme, choller, and melancholy, c. a good colour, kills wormes, and h. severs, De Dond: It ex­tenuates,

Ladies bedstraw. Gallium.

  • P. The first groweth upon sunnie bankes, the second in marshes &c.
  • T. They flower most of the summer moneths.
  • N. [...]: the rest, Species lappaginis.

Ladies bed-straw. Ger. K. as the yellow, that with white flowers, with red flowers, and the great bastard. T. these, especially that with yellow flowers, is dry and binding. V. The flowers of the yellow. Diosc. Are used in ointments against burnings, stop bloud, and are put in the cere-cloth of Roses. With oile olive set in the sun till white and ap. it h. wearied travellers. The root d. in wine c. lust: so the flowers smelled to. The herb is used for rennet to make cheese with, and h. to break the stone. The white are not used in physick or surgerie. Lonic. Applyed in baths it h. the itch in children. Park. d. it stops the bloud and h. inward wounds. Clus. The white flowred h. the joynts, cold, and paines. Fuch. It's somewhat sharp and drying. Col. The herbe, and flowers being bruised, and put into the nostrills stayeth their bleeding, and it doth as much to wounds, ap­plyed thereunto, and h. burnings. The white flowred ap. comfort and strengthen the sinews, arteries and joynts.

Ladies Mantle. Alchimilla.

  • P. In pastures and copses, or low woods.
  • T. It fl. in May and June, flourisheth all the yeare.
  • N. Stellaria. Sanicula major. Pes Leonis. Drosi­on Gordi.

Ladies mantle. Ger. T. It's like little Sanicle, yet more drying and binding. V. It's applyed to wounds as small sanicle is, and operates af­ter the same manner. It stoppeth bleeding and the courses. It keepeth down maidens paps; and when they are too great or flaggy, it ma­keth them lesser or harder. Park. It stops blee­ding, vomiting, and fluxes, and h. bruises, rup­tures, and the whites. The distilled water d. 20 dayes together h. sterility in women c. by humidity: so Schenck. and Matth. so bathed. It h. humid wounds and consolidates. Trag. ap. it h. wounds, paines and inflammations. Myl. It's in a mean between hot and cold.

Ladies slipper. Calceolus Marianus.

  • P. On the mountaines of Germany, Hungary, &c.
  • T. It flowreth about the midst of June.
  • N. Calceolus Mariae, & Sacerdotis.

Ladies-slipper. Ger. J. K. as the first and second. T. V. It's not as yet writ of, or used in physick. Park. also is silent herein: so Dod. &c.

Larch tree. Larix.*

  • P. Ʋpon the Alpes of Italy, in Moravia &c.
  • T. The cones are to be gathered before winter, the rosin in summer.
  • N. [...]. The agarick Agaricum. The rosin Laricea resina.

Larch tree. Ger. T. The leaves, bark, fruit, and kernells, are of the temper of the pine, but not so strong, the rosin is moister than other rosins, without sharpnesse, and vulnera­ry, and operates as the turpentine rosin. Agarick is hot 1°, dry 2°. it cutteth, clenseth, openeth and purgeth. V. It h. the jaundise, and cold shakings, which are caused by thick and cold humors. d. and ap. it h. those that are bit of venemous beasts that hurt with their cold poison. It provoketh urine and bringeth down the menses: it maketh the body well co­loured, expelleth wormes, h. agues, especially quotidians and wandering fevers, and others that are chronicall, which it doth by purging away grosse, cold, and flegmatick humors. The dose in substance is drach. 1. or drach. 1. sem. in infusion or decoction from drach. 2. to 5. but it purgeth slowly, and doth somewhat trouble the stomack, therefore it is mixt with ginger, wild carrot or Lovage seed or sal gem. or it may be given with oxymell. Agarick being taken with the syrrup of vineger, h. paines and swimmings of the head, or the epi­lepsie. It h. the asthma, cough of the lungs, ptysick, consumption, and haemoptysis: it com­forteth the weak stomack, c. good digestion, and kills wormes. Park. The coales of the [Page 256]wood are of most force to melt the iron oare. The Venice turpentine clenseth the reines and bladder, expels urine & the stone, & with white amber it h. the gonorrhoea. In an electu­arie it h. flegme and consumptions.

Lark-spur. Consolida regalis.

  • P. In gardens sown: the last in corne fields.
  • T. Fl. all summer long.
  • N. Flos regius. Bucinum. Delphinium. Calcaris Flos.

Lark-spur. Ger. J. K. as the garden, white or red, double, great double and wild. T. are temperate and warme of nature. V. some af­firme that the seed d. h. the stingings of scor­pions. Park. They are not used in physick. Croll. Three or more of the flowers eaten h. the stitch of the side. Brunfels. The flowers h. the rednesse of the eyes, heate of the body, coughs, strangury and sciatica &c.

Laserwort. Laserpitium.*

  • P. The best groweth upon the mountaines of Cy­rene.
  • T. It flowereth in Montpelier about midsummer.
  • N. [...]. The gum is called Laser. That of Syria Asa foetida.

Laserwort. Ger. T. The herb, especially the root, is hot and dry 3°. Laser exceedeth much the heat of the leaves and stalkes. V. The root stamped with oile scattereth clotted bloud, h. spots c. by bruises, dissolveth the [Page 257]Kings evill, and all hard swellings ap. as a plai­ster, and with the oile of ireos and wax it h. the sciatica. Being held in the mouth and chewed it h. the toothach, drawing the hu­mors from the brain. The gum, especially the Laser of Cyrene dissolved in water and d. h. hoarsenesse, and taken with a reer egge h. the cough, and with broth the old plurisie: it cureth the jaundise and dropsie, taken with dryed figgs. Scr. 1. with a little pepper and myrrhe h. the shrinking of the sinewes, and members out of joynt. Taken with hony and vineger it h. the epilepsie. It's good against the flux of the belly c. by debility of the stomack, taken with raisins of the sun. It driveth away the shiverings of agues, d. with wine, pepper and white frankincense. The electuary hereof h. quartan fevers. d. and ap. it h. all venemous bitings, and shots, it bringeth to maturation all pestilentiall impostumes and carbuncles, ap. with rue, salt peter, and hony; and h. cornes being first scarified. ap. with copperas and verdigrease it h. excrescencies, the polypus, and manginesse. ap. with vineger, pepper and wine it h. scurfe and the falling of the haire. Asa foetida is good for all the purposes afore­said, yet not so good as the Lacer of Cyrene: it's good also to be smelled to, and to be ap­plyed to the navells of women troubled with the rising of the mother. Park. K. as the French, & that of Alpinus. V. That of Diosc. boiled with vineger in the rind of a pomegranate h. against poison. Gargled it h. the quinsey, and draweth out horse-leeches with vineger. d. in lye it h. cramps, and c. the courses with myrrhe and pepper.

Lavender. Lavendula.

  • P. In gardens in these cold countries.
  • T. They flower and flourish in June and July.
  • N. [...]. Nardus Italica. Pseudonar­dus. Lavandula.

Lavender Ger. K. as the common, white flowred, and spike. T. Is hot and dry 3°. of thin substance consisting of many airie and spi­rituall parts, so h. cold diseases of the head that are sine materia. V. The distilled water smelt unto, or the temples and forehead ba­thed therewith h. those that have the eata­lepsy, a light migram, the epilepsie, and syn­cope in a body that is not plethorick or fever­ish. The flowers picked from the knops, m. with cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves, powder­ed and d. in the distilled water thereof, h. panting and passions of the heart, the vertigo, swimming of the brain, and members subject to the palsie. A conserve of the flowers also h. the diseases aforesaid, the quantity of a beane being taken first in a morning. Bathing with the distilled water of the flowers h. those that are paralytick; so also the oile of the flowers, and oile olive, made as oile of roses being a­nointed. French lavender or stic kadove. K. as the common, jagged, toothed, and naked. Staechas. T. hath a little cold earthy substance, so binding: it also opens obstructions, extenu­ateth, scoureth, and strengtheneth the intrals, and whole body. V. Diosc. The decoction h. the difeases of the chest, and is used in anti­dotes. The flowers h. paines of the head, and diseases thereof c. by cold, as the apoplexie and [Page 259]epilepsie &c. The decoction of the heads and fl. d. opens the liver, lungs, milt, mother, bladder, and all the inward parts, driving forth corrupt humors, and procuring urine. Sea la­vender. K. as the common, rock, that with the indented lease, & hollow leased. T. The seed is very astringent. V. The seed powdered and d. in wine h. the collick, strangury, & dysentery, the overmuch flowing of womens termes, and all other fluxes of bloud. Lavender cotton. T. The seed is bitter, hot and dry 3°. V. Plin. The herbe d. in wine h. the poison of all venemous beasts. Given green or dry it killeth wormes; so the seed, and expelleth them, and operates as effectually as worme seed. Park. V. Oile of spike h. cold and benummed parts: and serves for persumes. The dryed flowers comfort and dry the moisture of a cold braine. Stickadove expells melancholly, clenseth and strengt hen­eth the liver and inward parts. Lavender cot­ton, is used in remedies for cold disease. Col. Lavender water d. h. lost speech. The smell h. the sight: it h. gripings c. by cold.

Laurell. Laureola.

  • P. In mountaines, rough, shadowie, and wooddy places.
  • T. Fl. in winter: the fruit is ripe in May and June: it's alwayes green.
  • N. [...]. Chamaedaphne. Peplion.

Laufell. Ger. K. as the Spurge Laurel. T. It agreeth with the Germane spurge olive, [Page 260]throughout the whole substance, being biting & extreame hot. V. Diosc. the dry or green leaves purge flegme. It provoketh vomit and bring­eth down the menses, being chewed it draw­eth water out of the head. It causeth sneezing. Also 15. gr. of the seed d. are a purgation. Lugd. The leaves taken h. the dropsie, but evert the stomack, and inflame the intralls, ex­cept macerated in vineger with a quince &c. Jo. the antidote is milke with butter and bole arm. Park. The berries are given to h. the collick: so the oile ap. It h. the piles and urine stopt.

Lead-wort. Plumbago Plinii.

  • P. In gardens whon planted there.
  • T. Fl. in July and Aug.
  • N. Molybdaena. Dentillaria Rondeletii.

Lead-wort. Ger. T. is caustick. V. It helpeth the tooth-ach, and that (as some say) if it be held in the hand only. Park. It h. the scia­tica, or pain in the joints; or any other in­veterate griefe, the leaves being bruised and ap. with axungia, as Sciatica Cresses. The same also h. markes, scabs, and deformity of the skin. The juice d. in ale c. speedy delivery in travaile.

Leekes. Porrum.

  • P. In a meane earth, fat, well dunged and digged.
  • T. It may be sown in March or Aprill: remooved in September.
  • N [...]. Porrus Palladii. The 1. Capitatum. The 2d Sectivum.

Leeke. Ger. J. K. as the headed, cut or un­set. T. Is hot and dry, and doth attenuate as the onion. V. boiled it is lesse hurtfull and loos­eth it's sharpnesse, yet is cacochymick; but bet­ter taken with cold herbs. Boiled and eaten with ptisana, it concocteth and expectorateth raw humors lying in the breast: in a lohoch it clenseth the lungs. The juice d. with hony h. bitings of venemous beasts; so also the leaves stamped and ap. The same juyce with vineger, frankincense and milk, or oile of roses dropped into the eares h. their pain and noise, drach. 2. of the seed with the like weight of myrtle berries d. stoppe the haemoptysis of long conti­nuance: the same ingredients put into wine, keep it from scouring, and if soure amend the same. It cutteth tough humors. Lobel. The following lohoch h. flegmatick squinancies and other cold catarrhes that suffocate: take blanched almonds unc. 3. 4 figgs, soft bdellium unc. sem. juice of lyquorice unc. 2. of sugar candy dissolved in a s. q. of the juice of leekes and boiled in B. to a syrrup, as much as may serve to make the rest into the forme of an eclegma. H. It heateth the body, c. ill bloud, and terrible dreames, dulleth the sight, is noysome to the stomack, breedeth winde, and offendeth hot and chollerick bodies. Wild leekes. K. as the common, French [Page 262]and cives. T. Cives are hot and dry like the leck. The vine leek is more hot than the rest. V. Cives attenuate, open, and are diuretick, and c. hot and grosse vapors &c. as the leek. The vine leek or Ampeloprason provoketh urine and the flowers, and h. bitings of venemous beasts. Cives are called Schoenoprason. Park. Leeks eaten h. hoarsnesse; and baked in hot embers the surfeit of mushromes. The green blades boiled and applyed warme h. the piles. Fum. The juice d. with parsley extracts the foetus. Park. Theat. Leeks are much about the same property, that onions are, yet not al­together so effectuall.

Lentils. Lens.

  • P. In gardens, and fields sown.
  • T. They flower and wax ripe in July and Aug.
  • N. [...]. Lenticula.

Lentils. Ger. K. as the great and little. T. Gal. They are in a meane between hot and cold; yet dry 2°. Their skin is astringent: the substance of an earthy juice, somewhat harsh. V. The first decoction d. with salt and pickle doth loosen the belly. The second bindeth and h. laskes, especially if boiled with red beets, myrtles, the pills of pomegranats, dryed roses, medlars, service berries, unripe peares, quinces, plantain leaves, galls, or the berries of sumach. The meale of lentils mixt with hony doth mundifie ulcers, and rotten sores: it c. flesh, and is good to put to dige­stives, [Page 263]for green wounds. The skins being ta­ken off they are more nourishing and lesse binding. They are of thick and bad juice, stop the belly, cause melancholly, and if much eaten c. the leprosie. They li. the dropsie. H. They hurt the sight stop the menses, c. sad dreames, hurt the head, sinews and lungs. 30. of them shelled and swallowed h. the overcasting of the stomack. Boiled with parched barley meale and ap. they h. the gout, with hony fill sores, breake aschares, clense ulcers: and boiled in wine wast wens, & hard swellings of the throat. with a quince, melilot and oile of roses, they h. the inflammation of the eyes and fundament, which if great they must be boiled with the rinde of a pomegranate, dry rose leaves and hony. If sea water be added they h. eating sores that are mortifyed, also pushes, shingles, S. Anthonies fire, and kibes ap. and also wo­mens breasts in which the milke is curdled. Sea Lentill. Johns. K. as the narrow and cut. leased. T. V. May be eaten as Sampire. 'Tis thought to be diureticall. Park. They hurt dry constitutions & those that have the courses stopped. The decoction with rose leaves and quinces h. ulcers,

Leopards-bane. Doronicum.

  • P. In gardens: and wild on high mountaines.
  • T. They flower in June, and July.
  • N. [...]. Myophonon. Thora.

Leopards-bane. Ger. J. K. as the small, and great: with the cray-fish, winged, narrow [Page 264]leased, large flowred and the greatest woolfes­bane. T. are cold. V. They are mixed with compound medicines that h. paines of the eyes: and being green h. their inflammation. It kill­eth all fouresooted beasts in the compasse of one day; yet the root h. stingings of scorpions. Gesn. drach. 2. of the powder being taken h. the vertigo and epilepsie, or mixed with gentian, the powder of misle-toe, and astrantia. Schwenck. The root is sweet and temperate. Senn. The antidote is milke and mithridate &c. Park. K. as the fained of Matth. V. Theoph. Plin. It's good against scorpions taken in war­med wine, resisting the poyson.

Lettuce. Lactuca.

  • P. In manured, fat, moist, and dunged ground.
  • T. It's to be sown at the first spring, and that very thin.
  • N. [...] Pythagoreorum. Chas Arab.

Lettuce. Ger. K. as the garden, curled, cab­bage, small curled, Savoy, and Lumbard lettuce. T. Is moderately cold and moist. V. It cooleth the heate of the stomack, h. the heart burning, and choller, quencheth thirst, and c. sleep, and milke in dry bodies, tempering the heat and drynesse, and hindereth in cold bodies. It maketh a pleasant sallad being eaten raw with vineger, oile and a little salt: if boiled it is of easier digestion, and more nourishment. Taken before meat it whetteth the appetite; [Page 265]taken after, it preventeth drunkennesse, staying the vapors. Gal. It neither bindeth nor loos­eth the belly; yet the contrary is sound true by experience. Being ap. outwardly it h. all in­flammations, burnings and scaldings ap. with salt before the blisters appeare. The juyce too much used quencheth the naturall sperme, but procureth sleep. Wild lettuce. K. as the greatest smelling of opium, & the wild with the divided lease. T. are cold fine 3tii. V. Diosc. Some mix the juyce thereof with opium. The juyce d. in oxycrate q. ob. 2. or scr. 1. purg­eth watrie humors, and clenseth the ulcer in the eye, argemon, and h. the darkenesse of sight. Stamped & ap. with womens milk it h. burnes and scalds: it's hypnotick and ano­dyne, moves the courses, and h. the stingings of scorpions, and the bitings of spiders. The seed d. like the garden lettuce h. venery. Lambs lettuce or corne sallad. T. Is cold and something moist like the common, and in stead thereof, in winter and the first spring it servely for a sallad herbe used as the rest. Park. The juice ap. with oile of roses to the fore head, h. the paines of the head: ap. to the testicles it h. the colts-evill, and with camphire it re­straineth lust. H. but it's hurtfull to those that are asthmaticall. Mac. It tempereth adust humors. Pem. The first is cold, and moist 1° or 2°. ap. it h. lust. Park. K. as the sharpe poin­ted garden lettuce. Gal. Serap. It yeildeth good nourishment. The juice with oile of roses, ap. c. sleep and h. the head-ach c. of heat, as also the colts-evill, and heate of urine. The wild. K. as the purple fl. T. V. as the rest.

Lillie. Lilium.

  • P. In gardens planted: naturally in Italy, Persia &c.
  • T. Fl. from May to July.
  • N. [...]. Rosa Junonis.

Lillies. Ger. The white lillies, K. as the com­mon, and that of Constantinople. T. is hot, and partly of a subtile substance. The root is dry 1°, and hot 2°. V. The root of the garden lilly stamped with hony conglutinateth the sinewes cut in sunder, and consumeth achores, and the scurfinesse of the beard and face. Stamped with vineger, the leaves of henbane, or the meale of barley, it h. the tumors of the privities. It c. haire in burned and scalded places m. with oile or grease and ap. Rosted in the embers, and stamped with some leaven of rie bread and hogs grease, it breaketh pestilentiall botches, and ripeneth buboes coming of venery. The flowers steeped in oile olive, and shifted two or three times during summer, and set in the sun h. the sinues and hardnesse of the matrix. Jul. Alex. The distilled water thereof d. c. speedy deliverance, and expelleth the secun­dine. The leaves boiled in red wine and ap. h. old wounds, and ulcers. The root stamped, strained with wine and d. for two or three dayes together, expelleth the pestilence. The juice m. with barley meale, and baked in [...]akes and eaten for a moneth h. the dropsie. Florent. The root being curiously opened, and any colour that is not caustick being put in causeth the flower to be of the same colour. Red lillies. K. as the common, gold red, fiery red, bulbe [Page 267]hearing, that with bulbs growing along the stalkes, and small red. T. Gal. The flower is partly of thin, partly of an earthy essence. The roots and leaves dry and clense, and moderately digest and wast. V. The leaves of the herbe ap. h. the stingings of serpents. The same boiled and mixed with vineger h. burnings, green wounds, and ulcers. The roots rosted in the embers, and stamped with oile of roses h. burnings and hardnesse of the matrix. Stamped with hony it cures the wounded sinews and members out of joynt, and h. the morphew, wrinkles and deformities of the face. Stamped with vineger, the leaves of henbane, and wheat meale, it h. hot swellings of the secret parts. The roots boiled in wine ap. h. cornes. d. with mead they purge out unprofitable bloud. Mountain lillies. K. as the great and small. T. V. are not yet used in physick. The other Lillies. K. as the red of Constantinople, the Byzantine purplish sanguine coloured, the light red and vermilion Byzantine many flow­red. T. V. are of as little use as the former. The narrow leafed reflex lillies. K. as the red, the yellow mountain with the spotted flowers and unspotted. T. V. are thought to agree with the other lillies. The Persian lilly. T. V. serveth for ornament to the garden; but is as yet of no known physicall use. Lilly in the valley. K. as the common, and red, T. are hot & dry. [...]. The flowers distilled with wine, and d. the quantity of a spoonfull, restore speech unto those that have a dumb palsie, h. the apo­plexie and gout; and comfort the heart: strengthen the memory and h. inflammations of the eyes, being dropped thereinto. The [Page 268]flowers being put into a glasse, and set in a hill of ants close stopped for one months space, there shall be a liquor that appeaseth the pain of the gout being applyed. Water lilly. K. as the white, yellow, small white, and dwarfe. T. The roots and seed dry and bite. V. That with yellow fl. stoppeth the laske, bloudy flix and gonorrhoea. That with white flowers is of greater force, and stoppeth the whites d. in red wine: they clense the morphew, h. the alopecia, steeped in tarre; and the morphew in water, sc. the white for the first, and the black root for the other. Theoph. Stamped and ap. they stop bleeding. The flowers of the white h. the in­firmities of the head, c. by heat. The root of the yellow h. hot diseases of the kidnies and bladder, and the gonorrhoea. The root and seed of the great water Lilly d. h. venery; or the powder taken in broth, drying the sperme. The conserve of the flowers operates as the former, and h. burning feavers. The oile of the flowers refrigerateth, causeth sleep, and pre­venteth venereous dreames: the temples of the head, palmes of the hands, the feet and breast being anointed for the one; and the genitors for the other. The green leaves of the great water Lilly ap. to the back h. the gonorrhoea being renewed thrice a day. The yellow Lilly with the day Lilly. T. Is referred to the Aspho­dills. V. Diosc. A pessary of the root with ho­ny brings forth water and bloud. S tamp [...]d with the leaves and ap. it h. hot swellings, inflamma­tions and burnings. Park. K. as the water lilly of Aegypt, &c. T. V. the leaves and flowers are cold and moist.

Limon-tree. Malus Limonia.*

  • P. In the sea coasts of Italy and Spain &c.
  • T. It's alwayes green, and bearing fruit.
  • N. [...]. Limas & Limera Hisp. The first notes the fruit, the second the tree.

Limon tree. Ger. T. The pap is soure, cold and dry with thinnesse of parts. V. The distil­led water of the whole fruit, drawen out by a glasse still h. tetters and blemishes of the skin, and maketh the face faire and smooth. d. it provoketh urine, dissolveth and expelleth the stone. Ʋnc. 2. of the juice mixt with the spirit of wine or aqua vitae d. in the fit of an ague h. the shaking, and h. the ague at thrice using, the patient being covered warme to cause sweat; so unc. 1. sem. of the distilled water taken. The seed killeth wormes, the syrrup h. burning fevers and in­fectious diseases: so Ʋntz. For. Val. de Tar. Joub. Aug. Tab. Pisan. Ficin. It comforteth the heart, cooleth the inward parts, cutteth, and attenuateth. Park. The rind and juice come neer unto the property of the Citron; but it's weaker to resist poyson, venome or in­fection: yet the juyce being sharper cooleth more. The juyce of unripe Limmons d. with malmesy expelleth the stone & killeth wormes. A peece of gold being steeped 24. houres in the juyce thereof, and it d. in wine with the powder of Angelica roots h. those that are infected with the plague. The distilled [Page 270]water killeth lice: the juice used at sea prevent­eth the scurvy, and h. thirst. Riol. The syrrup h. putrefactions and distempers of the bloud. Col. The juyce taken every morning with white wine & sugar strengtheneth the heart, stomack and head: it h. melancholy. The rind h. the stench of the mouth. The juice h. staines in linnen.

Line-tree. Tilia.

  • P. In gardens and woods.
  • T. Fl. in May: the fruit is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Philyra. Teia Hisp. Linden-tree.

Line-tree. Ger. K. as the male, and female. T. The barke and leaves are of a temperate heat, somewhat dry and astringent. V. The leaves boiled in smiths water, with allome and a little hony h. sores in childrens mouths. The leaves boiled till tender, and stamped very small with hogs grease, the powder of fenu­greek & lineseed h. hot swellings and c. matura­tion of impostumes ap. very hot. The flowers h. paines of the head of a cold cause, dizzinesse apoplexie, epilepsie, and not only the flowers but the distilled water also. Theoph. The leaves are sweet, and are fodder for cattle; but the fruit can be eaten of none. Park. The coales make gun-powder, being quenched in vineger they dissolve clotted bloud. The juice of the barke steeped & ap. h. burnings. The distilled water of the barke h. against fretting hu­mors that c. the bloudy flux. The coales h. the haemoptysis.

Lions-leafe. Leontopetalon.*

  • P. Among corne in Italy, Candy &c.
  • T. It flowreth in winter as affirmeth Pet. Bellon.
  • N. [...]. Pes Leoninus. Brumaria.

Lions-leafe. Ger. Gal. It's hot and dry 3°. and digesting. V. Diosc. The root taken in wine h. the bitings of serpents, and easeth the paine. It's used in clisters for them that are troubled with the sciatica: so Trag. Plin. Bauh. Park. The root ap. h. the sciatica, also it cleanseth and healeth old filthy ulcers. Rauwolf. The inhabitants of Aleppo use the powder of the old and greater roots thereof to take spots out of their garments by rubbing them therewith.

Liquorice. Glycyrrhiza.

  • P. In Germany, France, Spain, and in gardens when planted.
  • T. Fl. in July: the seed is ripe in September.
  • N. [...]. Dulcis radix. Liquiritia, Herba Scythica.

Liquorice. Ger. K. as the hedghog, and common. T. The root is sweet, temperate, hot▪ somewhat binding and moist: the bark is somewhat bitter and hot. V. The root h. the hoarsnesse and roughnesse of the throat, and breast; openeth the lungs, ripeneth the cough, and expectorateth flegme; so the Rob, or juice, and the ginger bread made of the juice, with [Page 272]ginger & other spices: & h. all infirmities of the lungs and breast. The juice h. the heat of the stomack, and mouth. d. with wine and rai­sins it h. the infirmities of the liver and chest, sores of the bladder and diseases of the kidnies. Being melted under the tongue it quencheth thirst, h. the stomack and green wounds applyed; so the decoction of the roots being fresh. The powder of the dryed root ap. h. the web in the eye, and ulcers of the mouth. It h. hoarsnesse, difficulty of breathing, inflammations of the lungs, the pleurifie, spitting of bloud, consumption, and rottennesse of the lungs, and all infirmities of the chest: it h. inflammations, tempereth the sharpnesse of humors, concocteth them and c. easy spitting. The decoction h. the kid­nies & bladder exulcerated, the strangury & all infirmities proceeding of sharp, salt, and biting humors. Theoph. With this and mares milke cheese the Scythians were reported to be able to liue 11. or 12 dayes. With hony it h. ulcers. Sala. The essence h. the diseases of all the cavities of the body, c. by sharp and salt humors. In a lohoch with rose water and gum-tragacanth it expectorateth flegme, and h. thin distillations. The English is lesse astringent. Col. Liquorice boiled in fair water, with some Maidenhaire and figgs, makes a good [...]rinke for those that have a dry cough, to di­gest flegme, and to expectorate it: it h. the ptysick, consumption, and all griefes of the breast and lungs. It's also used against colds in cattell.

Liver-wort. Hepatica.

  • P. In shadowie and moist places, on rocks &c.
  • T. It bringeth forth its stars and leaves in June.
  • N. [...]. Lichen. The nouble Herba trinitatis. & Trifolium nobile.

Liver-wort. Ger. K. as the ground, small with starry and round heads, and stone Liv. T. Stone liverwort is cold, dry, & somewhat binding. V. It h. inflammations of the liver, hot and sharpe agues and tertians of choller. Diosc. ap. it stops bleeding, h. inflammations, tetters, and ringwormes. It h. the yellow jaundise, and inflammations of the tongue. Noble Liver-wort. K. as the common, red, and that with double flowers. T. are cold and dry with astriction V. They h. the weakenesse of the liver c. by heat, cooling and strengthening it. Bapt. Sard. A spoonfull of the powder of the root d. certain dayes together with wine or broth h. the enterocele. White Liver-wort. K. as the common and double flowred grasse of Parnassus. T. Is dry and of subtile parts. V. The decoction of the leaves d. doth dry and strengthen the moist stomack, stoppeth the belly, and h. desire to vomit. Boiled in wine or water and d. especially the seed provoketh urine, and breaketh and expelleth the stone. Brunfels. It h. all hot impostumes. Park. The first h. the gonorrhoea and whites, the rest are for pleasure.

Loose-strife. Lysimachia.

  • P. In moist meadowes, and by water sides.
  • T. Fl. in June and July, often untill Aug.
  • N. [...]. Salicaria. Coroneola.

Loose-strife. Ger. J. K. as the yellow, small yellow, yellow with branched flowers, tree primrose, spiked, codded, rose-bay, narrow leafed, blew, hooded, wild, and small purple willow herb. T. The yellow (which is most usefull,) is cold, dry and very astringent. V. Diosc. The juice d. h. the bloudy flix, it h. green wounds and stoppeth bloud; so also as an errhine: so Fuch. The smoke of the burned herb driveth away serpents and killeth gnats. Plin. It dyeth the haire yellow: d. it h. the dysentery. Made into a salve it cooleth and healeth wounds. As a pessary it stoppeth the termes. The others have not been experimen­ted. Park. K. as the round headed yellow. V. as the first, the juice h. sore mouths, and the secret parts. The small purple fl. V. as the first; so the codded, and is hot and dry 2°. The distilled water of the spiked h. hurts of the eyes, scars and the quinsey.

Lovage. Levisticum.

  • P. In gardens, where it groweth very much.
  • T. Fl. in July and August: and then seedeth.
  • N. Ligusticum. Siler m [...]ntanum.

Lovage. Ger. The common. T. Is hot and [Page 275]dry 3°. V. The roots h. all inward diseases, and expell ventosities, especially of the sto­mack: the seed warmeth it and h. digestion. Ant. Musa. The Gennes did formerly use it in their meates, as we doe pepper now. The di­stilled water cleareth the sight, and taketh a­way all spots, lentills, freckles, and rednesse of the face, if they be often washed therewith. Bastard Lovage, with the horse fennell. T. This plant with his seed is hot and dry 3°. V. The seeds of Siler d. with wormwood wine c. the menses, h. suffocation of the matrix and cause it to returne to its naturall place. The root stamped with hony and ap. h. old sores and covereth bare bones with flesh. It's diure­tick, and h. paines of the intralls of crudity. It h. concoction, consumeth winde, and h. the swelling of the stomack: the root is not so ef­fectuall, as not being so hot and dry. Senn. It c. sweat, h. the womb, and c. the termes. Crescent. It's hot and dry 2°. diuretick, exte­nuating and opening, and h. the griefes of the stomack. Park. K. as the Germane. V. The first d. h. agues. The last h. the quinsey, and eyes. Penot. The salt h. the stone.

Lung-wort. Pulmonaria.

  • P. Ʋpon old trees, rocks and shadowie places.
  • T. It flourisheth especially in the summer time.
  • N. Lichen. The golden Corchorus Dalechampii.

Lung-wort. Ger. J. K. as the tree, & sea, with the round leafed oister weed, sea thongs, [Page 276]sea wracks, jagged, grasse, sea girdle, sea ragged staffe, and hairy riverweed. T. Lung-wort is cold and dry. V. The powder d. with water h. inflammations and ulcers of the lungs, blou­dy and green wounds, ulcers in the privities, and stoppeth the reds, and all fluxes of chol­ler upwards or downewards. Fried with eggs as a tansie and eaten, it strengtheneth the weak­nesse of the back. The powder with salt given to cattle h. their cough, and broken-winded­nesse. French Lung-w. K. As the broad-leafed, & narrow leafed, with the golden mouse-eare. T. are temperate, and a little astringent. V. The de­coction or the distilled water of the first d. and ap: mundifies, and h. green wounds: it h. in­flammations and hot distempers of the heart, stomack and liver. The juyce dropped into the eares h. them, if troubled with a pricking paine or noise. Trag: The water operates as that of succory. Pen: The 2d h. whitelowes, and diseases of the lungs. Cam: The 3d. (if the Costa of Camerarius) h. the pthisis, given in conserve, syrupe, or powder, or used in broths. The other Lung-wort, or cow-slipps of Jeru­salem. K. as the spotted, and buglosse Cow­slipps. T. Is of the temperature of great com­frey, yet the root is more drying and binding. V. The leaves are used among pot-herbes. The roots are thought to h. the infirmities of the lungs, and ulcers thereof, and to be of the like force with the great Comfrey. Park: Cowslips of Jer. boiled and d. h. the haemoptysis. Cam: The 1. is binding, abstersive, and glutinating.

Lupine. Lupinus.

  • P. In a sandy and bad soile, hardly in tilled places.
  • T. They are planted in Aprill, and have fruit 2, or 3 times.
  • N. [...]. Aurum comicum Plauti.

Lupine. Ger. J. K. as the garden, yellow, blew, and the great blew. T. They are bitter, and of an earthy substance, not easily digested. V. Being boiled and seasoned with salt, they are eaten with pickle: before they be steeped in water, and have their bitternesse, they clense, wast, and kill wormes, taken with hony, wa­ter and vineger, or ap. also ap. it h. the mor­phew, sore heads, small pox, wilde scabbes, gan­greens, & venemous ulcers, by clensing, consum­ing & drying without biting. Taken with rue & pepper, it scoureth the liver and spleene, it moveth the courses, and expells the dead child ap. with myrrhe and hony. The meale wasteth without biting, h. spotts c. by dry beating, chaeradas and phymata boiled in water and vineger, or oxymel; and operates as the decoction: Boiled in raine water till they yeeld a creame they clense, and beautify the face. The root boiled with water and d. is diureticke. Lupines made sweet, m. with vineger and d. h. the loathsomenesse of the stomack, and c. appe­tite. Boiled in the strong lye which barbers use, with wormewood, centorie, and bay salt, they stop gangreenes, and h. atrophicke mem­bers, and stay the ambulative nature of phage­dens ap. hot with stuphes of cloth. The de­coction with the root of black chameleon thi­stle ap. cureth the scabs that are in sheep. Croll: The decoction thereof expells the pox, &c. [Page 278] Dorst. Aeg. Lupine is hot, dry, abstersive, dissi­pating, and drying without biting. Taken with fennel seed, it h. paines and winde of the intestines, the decoction thereof with solatrum in wine h. the shortnesse of breath, and heat; and mollifyeth the belly. ap. it h. marisca's. Park. K. as the great white. V. as the rest. The juice mixt with the gall of a goat, the juice of limmons and a little alumen saccharinum, h. nodes & impostumes. The burning of the husks drives away gnats. The wild are stronger for all purposes, and more eflectuall.

M

Madder. Rubia.

  • P. In gardens, and clifts of rocks: the second in moist meadowes.
  • T. Fl. from May to September: the roots are ga­thered in Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Erythrodanum. Rubia tincto­rum. [...] Nicandri.

MAdder. Ger. J. K. as the red, wilde, sea, small Candy, and dwarse. T. The root is cold, dry, somewhat binding, and withall having divers thin parts, and a little sweetnesse, with a subsequent harsh tast; yet is it doubted of by some whether it bind or open. V. The decoction of the root h. burstings, bruises & wounds, stoppeth bleeding & h. in­flammations. It is used in vulnerary potions and h. wounds of the chest and intralls. Jo. Spiring. The decoction given with triphera magna stops the reds, haemorroides and bloudy flix; so it apeareth to be astringent: it is also by [Page 279]some used in compositions against untimely birth. Diosc. thought it diuretick and that it would expell the menses and secundine, and cause bloudy urine; but this rather ariseth from the colour of it. Thus it is evident that it doth not vehemently either bind or open. Plin. The stalkes and leaves are used against serpents, the root boiled in meade, and d. openeth the liver, spleen and kidnies, and h. the jaundise, and provoketh urine. It h. the lothsomenesse of the Kings evill, & ulcers of the mouth, there being added to the decoction a little allome, and ho­ny of roses. The Synanchica Dalechampii dryeth without biting, & h. the squinancy d. and ap. Lonic. T. It's hot 2°, dry 3°. V. with vineger it h. the itch. Ern. The distilled oile h. the epilepsie, apoplexie, & losse of speech, 1, or 2, drops being put upon the tongue: d. it h. the swelling of the spleen and quartan agues. Park. K. as the smooth leafed. V. It h. the sciatica. The seed taken with vineger and hony h. hard spleenes. The small K. as the spiked headed, and purple flowred. T. V. are weaker.

Madwort. Alyssum.

  • P. It's often sowen in gardens: the seed comes from Italy.
  • T. Fl: and flourisheth in May, the seed is ripe in August.
  • N. [...]. Lunaria aspera Gesn: Lutea vel Graeca.

Madwort. Ger. K. as that of Gal: and Diosc: T. Gal: It's meanly dry, digesting, and scouring. V. Taken, it h. those that are bitten of a mad dogge, it h. the morphew, and sunburning. &c. [Page 280] Park. K. as that of Columna. V. that of Diosc. d. stoppeth the hicket if there be no ague, so also smelled to. They also h. wounds inward & out­ward, digest clotted bloud, and h. cancers and filthy ulcers.

Mallow. Malva.

  • P. In gardens almost all: the wild in untild places.
  • T. Fl. in July and Aug. the second yeare.
  • N. [...]. That of the garden is called Rosa ultra marina. The marsh Althaea Bismalva.

Mallow. Ger. The hollihocke. K. as the single garden, jagged strange, double purple and double scarlet tree with double flowers. T. is moderately hot and moist, but not so much as the wild: it hath a clammy substance, especially the seed and root. V. The decoction of the flowers, espe­cially those of the red, boiled in red wine stops, the courses. The roots, leaves and seeds operate as the wild, which are more commonly used. Wild Mallowes. K. as the field dwarse, French curled, vervaine, and Spanish. T. are moderately hot and moist, of slimy and glutmating juyce, better than those of the garden, moderately nourishing, causing grosse bloud, and loosening the belly. V. The leaves h. the stinging of scorpions [Page 281]bees, wasps &c. Diosc. being anointed with oile and the leaves stamped, they hurt not at all. The decoction with their roots d. h. a­gainst poyson, it being vomited up again. The leaves boiled soft & ap. mollifie tumors, & hard swellings of the mother hathed, & the fume be­ing taken. The decoction in clisters h. rough­nesse & fretting of the guts, bladder, & funda­ment. The roots of the Vervaine Mal. h. the bloudy flix, & inward burstings, being d. with wine and water. Note, the French Mal. is the wholsomest to be eaten. Marsh Mal. K. as the common, water, tree, shrubby, and hemp leafed. T. is moderately hot, but dryer than the rest: the roots and seeds are more dry, & of thinner parts, digesting and mollifying. V. The leaves digest, h. paines and concoct. Mixed with fomentations and pultises, ap. they h. paines of the sides, of the stone and bladder, and in a bath h. all paines; so the decoction of the leaves d. and expelleth the stone; as also the roots, & seeds. The decoction of the roots h. the blou­dy flix, by mitigating the frettings thereof, and more effectually there being added the roots of bistort, tormentill, the flowers and rinds of pomegranats &c. The mucilage of the roots is mixed with anodyne remedies. Boiled in wine, and the decoction d. it h. the stone, bloudy flix, sciatica, cramps, and convulsions. The roots, with the leaves of the common Mallowes, and of violets boiled in water till soft, then adding a little fennugreek, and line­seed in powder, the root of black bryony, and barows grease, and made to the forme of a pultis, ap. warme mollify hard swellings, and apostumes in the joynts, and sores of [Page 282]the mother: it consumeth all cold tumors, bla­stings, and windinesse: it h. rifts of the sunda­ment; comforteth, & defendeth green wounds from accidents, digesteth them, and c. matura­tion in old ulcers. The powder of the seedes d. stops the laske, bloudy flixe, & all other issues of bloud. Yellow mallow. T. agreeth with the tree-mallow. V. Avic: It h. green wounds, and conglutinateth the same. The seede d. in wine h. the stone. Bern: Paludan: The Turkes drinke the seeds to cause sleepe and rest. Ve­nice mallow, with the thorny, and Aegyptian codded. T. The leaves are clammy, so it's thought to come neere unto the common mal­low. V. It mollifieth, but is not used in phy­sick. Park: They are all viscous, h. paines of the stone, ap: mollifie, and are anodyne. Recch: K. The sharp mallow of Mexico. V. The root is bitter. drach: 2. d. are a gentle purge. Park: So the Jewes mallow. The other h. diseases c. of heat.

Mandrake. Mandragora.

  • P. In hot regions, woods, mountains, and gar­dens.
  • T. They spring in March: Fl: in Aprill: the fruit is ripe in August.
  • N. [...]. Circaea. Anthropomorphos. Morion. Terrae malum.

Mandrake. Ger. K. as the male and female. T. is cold 3°, the root 4°. V. Diosc: the root is flegmatick, the apples are milder, and may [Page 283]be eaten with pepper, and hot spices. Gal: The apples are cold and moist, the barke of the root cold and dry: the juyce is good in all cooling ointments. The dried juyce of the root taken in a small q. purgeth flegme and melan­choly. In collyries it h. paines of the eyes. In a pessarie it draweth forth the dead childe and secundine: the green leaves stamped with ax­ungia and barley meale h. all hot swellings and inflammations, & ap: consume hot ulcers and a­postumes. A suppositorie made of the juyce and put up into the fundament c. sleepe: infu­sed in wine d. it c. sleepe and h. paines: the apples smelled to c. sleepe, or the juyce taken in a small q. Aeginet: Serap: Avic: The seed and fruit d. clense the matrix or mother. Senn: The antidote is wormewood, rue, scordium, castorium, and wine. Mac: also mustard, or­ganie, &c. Jo. and vineger smelled to. Park: The leaves h. knotts in the flesh, and the roots h. S. Anthonies fire, &c. and boiled with ivory mollifie the same.

Maple-tree. Acer.

  • P. The 1 in gardens planted: the 2d in low woods and hedges.
  • T. Fl: about the end of March, the fruit is ripe in September.
  • N. [...]. Sphendamnus. The common Opulus.

Maple-tree. Ger. K. as the great and lesser. T. Plin: The pounded root ap: h. paines of the [Page 284]liver. Seren: Sammon: d. with wine it h. paines of the side, so Dod: Theoph. The wood serveth for the chiefest utensills. Park: K. as the three leased. T. V. as the rest. Gal: drach: 1. of the root powdered and d. in water, h. the liver, but none other of the Greeke writers make a­ny mention thereof, as usefull in any disease. See Cornar.

Marigolds. Calendula.

  • P. The double flowred are set in gardens.
  • T. Fl: from Aprill to winter, and then if warme.
  • N. [...]. Caltha. Chrysanthemum.

Marigolds. Ger: K. as the greatest double, greater double, smaller double, double globe, straw coloured double, single, fruitfull, Jack an Apes a horseback, and mountaine wild. T. The flowers are hot fere 2do, espe­cially when dry, it's cardiacke, alexipharmicke and antifebriticke any way taken. V. d. with wine it bringeth downe the termes, and the sume expelleth the secundine. The leaves of the herbe are hotter, and biting, also moist, so mollify the belly used as pot-herbes. Fuch: The juyce gargled h. the tooth-ache. The fl: & leaves distilled, and the water dropped into red and watery eyes h. the inflammation & eas­eth the paine. The conserve of the fl. and sugar taken fasting in the morning h. trembling of the heart, and prevents the plague, &c. by the corrupt aire. The yellow leaves of the flowers [Page 285]are used by the Dutch to put into broths, and physicall potions for diverse purposes. Ger­mane marigold. K. as the golden with the broad leafe, and lesser. T. Being green it's hot and dry 2°. dry, 3°. V. Johns: The women li­ving about the Alpes use the root a­gainst the suffocation of the mother, the stopping of the courses, and greene-sicknesse, &c. Corne-marigold. K. as the common, that of Valentia, small mountaine, the other Alpine and Candy. T. are thought to be in a meane between heate and moisture. V. Diosc: The stalkes and leaves may be eaten as other herbes. The flowers m. with wax, oile, rosin, and frankincense made up as a seare-cloth, wast cold and hard swellings. The herbe d. after coming out of the bath, h. those that are dis­coloured by the yellow jaundise. French ma­rigold. K. As the great double, single, and small. T. V. are venimous. Marsh marigold. K. As the great, small, and double flowred. T. V. are not written of. Park: Double marsh marig. T. V. The root is sharpe neere crowfoot. Mac: The flowers colour the haire yellow. Ʋntz. The juyce h. the pestilence. So Morescot: Goclen: Agric: Erast: Mind: Palmar: Cam: & Matth: It's heating, opening, digesting, and pro­voketh to expulsion. unc. 1. of the juyce, with drach: 1. of the powder of earth-wormes d. h. the jaundise.

Marjerome. Majorana.

  • P. They grow wilde in Spaine, Italy &c. here in Gardens.
  • T. They are sowen in May, bring forth eares in August.
  • N. [...]. Amaracus. Marum. Sampsycum.

Marjerome. Ger. K. as the great sweete, pot, and gentle. T. are hot and dry 2°: as o­thers, 3°. V. The sweet h. cold diseases of the braine taken. Put into the nostrills it c. sneez­ing, purgeth flegme; chewed it h. the tooth­ache: d. provoketh urine, expelleth waterish humors, and resists poyson: the decoction d. h. the dropsie, dysury, sighing, and paines of the belly. The leaves dried m. with hony, taken dissolve clotted bloud, & ap: h: spotts c. by brui­ses. The leaves are good to be put into things that are odoriferous, and their powder into ce­rots, &c. and h. cold swellings, and luxations. The oile h. the shrinking of the sinews, cramps, convulsions, and all aches c. by cold. Wilde Marjerome. K. As the bastard, white, of Can­dy, and the English, Origanum, or organy. T. All cut, attenuate, dry, and heate 30: and that of Candy is the strongest. V. d. in wine it h. the wounds by venimous beasts. d. with wine and raisins of the sun, it h. those that have d. opium &c. The decoction provoketh urine, and the courses, and h. dropsies: in a lohoch it h. old coughs, and stuffings of the lungs: used in baths it h. scabs, itch, and scurvinesse, and the ill colour c. by the yellow jaundise: Drach: 1. taken with meade, purgeth filthy humors. The juyce m. with milke put into the eares h. [Page 287]the paine thereof: m. with the oile of ireos and used as an errhine it draweth down water and phlegme. The herbe strewed on the ground driveth away serpents. The decoction looseth the belly, and purgeth choller: d. with vineger it h. the infirmities of the spleene, and in wine all mortall poysons, therefore it's put into treacles &c. d. it h. nauseating stomacks, and watery, as also swounings of the heart. Goats marjerome, Tragoriganum. K. As the common, that of Clusius, and the Candy. T. are hot and dry 3°. Gal: and binding. V. It h. wamblings of the stomack, and belchings, and stopps vo­miting: They also operate as the other orga­nies. Weck: The dry leaves ap: with hony h. bruises: and in a pessarie draw down the men­ses, and h. the inflammations of the eyes with barley meale. Park: The common opens the liver, and h. the breast &c. troubled with cold: ap. with flower it h. inflammations. Organy h. the hicket.

Marvell of Peru. Mirabile Peruvianum.

  • P. It groweth naturally in Peru: in gardens plan­ted.
  • T. It's sown in the midst of Aprill. Fl: in Sep­tember.
  • N. Hachal Indi. Solanum odorif: Jasminum Mexicanum. Admirabile Peruvianum Clusii.

Marvell of Peru. Ger. K. as with yellow fl: and with white. T. V. Cortus: drach: 2. of the root taken inwardly purge waterish humors. [Page 288] Recch: K. as that of Mexico. T. Is sharpe, hot, and dry with astriction, and of crasse parts. V. Therefore it h. the diarrhoea, strengthneth the stomack, discusseth and h. cold griefes.

Masterwort. Imperatoria.

  • P. In darke woods, and desarts.
  • T. Fl: from May, to August.
  • N. Astrantia. Ostrutium. Magistrantia Cam.

Masterwort. Ger. T. The herbe, especially the root, is hot and dry 3°. V. d. with wine it h. against all poyson, pestilence, and corrupt aire. The roots and leaves stamped and ap. h. pestilentiall botches, and such like swellings. The root d. in wine h. rigorous cold fitts of agues, the dropsie, and c. sweat, also it corro­borateth the stomack, h. digestion, restoreth appetite, and dissolveth all ventosities. It h. bruises, and dissolveth congealed bloud: the root stamped with the leaves and ap. h. the bitings of all venemous beasts: also it attenu­ateth, digesteth, provoketh sweat and urine, concocteth cold humours, and h. the collick and stone. drach: 1. of the powder d. diverse daies together h. the dropsie, convulsions, cramps, and epilepsie. d. in wine before the fitts, it h. quartan agues, and pestilent diseases. So Ʋntz. Kunr. Crat: Kentman: Kegl: Tabern: &c. Boiled in sharpe wine and gargled very hot, it h. the tooth-ache: chewed it is an apo­phlegmatisme, it h. apoplexies, drousinesse, and other like infirmities. As for black Master­wort. [Page 289]See Hellebor. Begu. The salt of master­wort, taken from the quantity of 4. gr. to 8. in the Rob of elder h. all intermitting feavers. Fum. The herb is sharpe and somewhat bit­ter. Park. K. as the mountaine mast. T. The root is of very subtile parts, and h. all cold diseases. d. in wine it h. cold rheumes, and short-windednesse. It h. in womens disea­ses, and cold poysons. Trag. The root c. lust. Penot. The salt h. the dropsie, asthma, ptifick, and ulcers.

Mastick. Marum.

  • P. It's sown in gardens, and to be kept from cold.
  • T. Fl. about August, and later in cold summers.
  • N. [...]. Helenium odorum Theophr. Clinopodi­um Diosc: Dod.

Masticke. Ger. J. K. as the common, Assyrian, and creeping. T. are hot and dry 3°. V. Diosc. The herbe d. and the decoction h. against the bitings of venemous beasts, cramps, convul­sions, burstings and strangury. The decoction, boiled in wine till the third part be consumed, and d. stoppeth the laske in those that have an ague, and in others in water. Lugd. ap. it h. the nomae, and is used in hot ointments. Ren. It operates as organie: especially Terpsinoe. Park. K. as that of Candy. T. It's more tem­perate in heat than marjoram. V. it h. against poison, and is odoriferous.

Mastieke-tree. Lentiscus.*

  • P. It groweth in Syria, Candy, and Italy &c.
  • T. Fl. in spring, the berries are ripe in Autumne, the rosin is gathered with the grape.
  • N. [...]. The rosin is called Mastiche.

Masticke-tree. Ger. T. The leaves, barke and gum are of a temperate heate, dry 2°, and somewhat astringent. V. The leaves and barke stop the laske, bloudy flix, haemoptysis or spit­ting of bloud, and bloudy urine, and all other fluxes of bloud: it also h. the falling sicknesse, falling down of the mother, and exiture of the fundament. The gum mastick hath the same vertue being relented in wine and d. Chewed in the mouth it h. the stomack, stops vomiting, increaseth appetite, comforteth the brain, stops the defluxion of rheumes and watery humors, and c. a sweet breath. The same infused in rose water, fastneth loose teeth, and comforts the jawes. Being spread upon leather or velvet and ap. plaisterwise to the temples, it stops the rheume from falling to the teeth, and h. their paines: being put into digestives and healing unguents, it h. ulcers and wounds. It draweth flegme out of the head. It's used in waters that clense the face. The decoction filleth hollow ulcers with flesh, ap. it knitteth broken bones, stayeth eating ulcers, and provoketh urine. Park. K. as the Indian. V. The oile of the berries of the first h. the itch, and leprosie. The powder of mastick with amber and tur­pentine h. the gonorrhoea and whites: and with the conserve of red roses it h. rheumes: so the oile, and h. the collick.

Mat-weed. Spartum herba.*

  • P. In Spaine and the Low Countries.
  • T. It beares its heads in summer.
  • N. [...] Theoph. Spartum Latinorum. Juncus Hisp. & Ibericus.

Mat-weed. Ger. J. K. as Plinies, the hea­ded, English, small English, and heath, with the feather grasse. T. are uselesse in physick, and hurtfull to cattell. They serve to make mats with, and frailes, &c. The feather grasse serveth for a feather, and is worne by sundry ladies and gentle women. Park. K. as the Spanish rush, softer Spanish rush, and small French Mat-w. T.V. are as uselesse as the first. The soft serve to stuff beds with. Bauh. The rest serve to make shoes with, as also ropes &c.

Maudlin. Ageratum.

  • P. Every where almost in, gardens.
  • T. They bring forth their tufts of yellow fl. in summer.
  • N. [...]. Eupatorium Mes. Costus horto­rum min.

Maudlin. Ger. J. K. as the common, that with uncut leaves, & white flowred, with costmarie. T. are hot and dry 2°. V. They are very effe­ctuall, (especially Maudlin) d. & ap. to provoke urine; so the fume, and mollifyeth the obdurate matrix. The leaves of Maudlin and Adders­tongue stamped and boiled in oile olive adding [Page 292]a little wax, rosin, and turpentine, make an ex­cellent incarnative salve for a deep ulcer or wound. Costmarie steeped in ale is very good for the diseases aforesaid; a conserve of the leaves with sugar warmeth and dryeth the brain and openeth its obstructions: it stoppeth all catarrhes, rheumes, and distillations taken in the q. os a beane. The leaves boiled in wine and d. h. the tormina, and bloudy flix. It h. those that are troubled with the green sick­nesse or dropsie in the beginning, and h. a weak and cold liver. The seed killeth wormes and expelleth them, as worme-seed doth. Park. K. as the small, purple sweet, and fennell leased. V. It h. inflammations, it purgeth choller and flegme. It h. putrefaction and obstructions, day agues and the cachexy.

Mayden haire. Adiantum.

  • P. Ʋpon wals, in stony, shadowy and moist places.
  • T. They are green winter and summer, without flowers.
  • N. [...]. Polytrichum. Callitrichum. Cri­nita. Capillus Veneris: & terrae. Cincinnalis.

Maiden-haire. Ger. K. as the true, Assyrian, & rue. T. the true doth dry, attenuate, & wast; and is in a mean between heat and coldnesse. Mes It's of unlike parts, some watry, earthy, and binding, others hot and thin: so when green it looseth the belly, else bindeth it, and h. fluxes. V. d. it breaketh the stone and expelleth it. It [Page 293]raiseth up slimie humors out of the chest and lungs, by spitting, in a lohoch. It wasteth the Kings evill, and other hard swellings, and c. haire to grow. Wall rue, Ruta muraria, sive salvia vitae is not much unlike to black mai­den haire: it h. the cough, short windednesse, and stitches or paines in the sides: boiled it concocteth raw humors sticking in the lungs, h. paine of the kidnies and bladder, gently pro­voketh urine and expelleth the stone. It h. ruptures in children, the powder being taken for 40 dayes: so Matth. English, or common maiden-haire, Trichomanes mas. T. V. Gal. hath all the faculties belonging to black mai­den haire. V. decoct in wine and d. it helpeth those that are shortwinded, and the cough, it ripeneth tough flegme, and avoideth it by spit­ting. The lye wherein it hath been sodden, or infused in, is good to wash the head, causing the scurfe and scales to fall off, and haire to grow in bare places. Brunfels. Vigon. It h. the spleen: the juyce with southern­wood, and cresses &c. h. the alopecia. Riol. The syrrup of it h. diseases of obstructi­on. Park. K. as the forreigne. V. It h. the diseases of the spleen, and causeth a good colour. Col. It h. diseases that breed by the obstruction of the liver or spleen. They h. the bitings of venemous creatures. The leaves of wall rue m. with a little salt peter, and the urine of a young child, take away the shriveled wrinklings of womens bellies after their deli­verance, if washed therewith.

May-weed. Cotula.

  • P. In corne fields, neer unto pathwaies &c.
  • T. Fl. in July and August.
  • N. [...]. Parthenium Fuch. & Virginea.

May-weed. Ger. K. as the common, and yellow, with the wild mountaine Cammomil. T. are thought to be hot and dry, and like af­ter a sort to Cammomil, yet not at all agreeing with mans nature. V. It h. the mother, and c. blisters. Hort. San. The leaves stamped and ap. h. the hardnesse of apostumes. d. it c. vomiting. Avic. The smell h. cold windinesse of the head. Col. It's often used with good successe, for the same purposes that Cammomil is, especially the ordinarie sort, and are both put into clisters. Park. K. As that with a strong, and no scent. V. It's used to dissolve wind and tumors, and ease paines and aches in the joynts &c. especially the stinking sort, which is the best.

Mede-sweet. Ʋlmaria.

  • P. It groweth in the brinkes of ditches and mea­dowes.
  • T. Fl. in June, July, and August.
  • N. Barba capri, & hirci. Regina prati. Mede­susium Cordi.

Mede-sweet. Ger. T. is cold and dry with astriction. V. The root boiled or powdered & d. h. the bloudy flix, and all fluxes of bloud: The flowers boiled in wine and d. h. the fits [Page 295]of a quartan ague, and exhilerate; so the smell, and delighteth the senses. The distilled water of the flowers dropped into the eyes h. the burning and itching thereof, and cleareth the sight. Park. K. as the common, and greater. V. They are likely to be of the faculty of Bur­net: yet Trag. they are more hot and dry: it h. the collick, ap. it h. phagedens, and sore mouths. Cam. The seed d. c. the head-ach.

Medlar-tree. Mespilus.

  • P. In orchards and hedges, and are better if grafted.
  • T. The fruit is ripe in the end of October.
  • N. [...]. Si­canion.

Medlar tree. Ger. J. K. as the manured, the other garden, the Neapolitan and dwarfe. T. The medlars are cold, dry and astringent; so the leaves: the dwarf medlar is dry, sharpe and astringent. V. They stop the belly, especially when green. The fruit of the three grained Medlar, is more wholesome for the stomack. Being preserved with sugar or hony, it's grate­full to the taste. They are good for women with child, strengthening the stomack & stop­ping the lothsomnesse thereof. The stones of medlars powdered and d. breake the stone, ex­pell gravell and provoke urine. Senn. They are most fit for bilious stomacks. Park. they operate as services, but more effectually. The decoction h. defluxions in the mouth, the courses and piles, and ap. h. the stomack and wounds.

Melilote. Melilotus.

  • P. In pastures, and among corne.
  • T. Fl. in July and August.
  • N. [...]. Trifolium odoratum, equinum, ursinum. Corona Regia.

Melilote. Ger. K. as the Assyrian, Italian, Kings, and Germane claver. T. Gal. is hot and dry 1°. and astringent, wasting and ripening, & is also diaphoretick. V. Boiled in sweet wine untill it be soft, adding the yelk of a rosted egge, the meale of fenugreek and lineseed, the roots of marsh mallowes and hogs grease stamped together, and used as a pultis, it doth asswage and soften all manner of swellings, especially about the matrix, fundament and genitors. With the juyce hereof, oile, wax, rosin, and turpentine is made a melilote plaister, which is healing and drawing. The herbe boi­led in wine and d. provoketh urine, breaketh the stone and asswageth pains of the kidnies, bladder, and belly, ripeneth flegme, and c. it to be easily evacuated. The juyce dropped into the eyes, cleareth the sight, consumeth, disolveth and h. the web, pearle and spots in the eyes. Melilote with water h. the melicerides, and the running ulcers of the head ap. with chalke, wine, and galls. It h. paines of the cares the juyce being dropped in m. with wine: and head-ach ap. with vineger and oile of roses. Pem. ap. it h. wens, also inflammations and paines in the side. [Page 297] Park. The flowers with Cammomil in clysters expell winde. ap. it h. the apoplexy. The Egyptian h. the mother. The Indian as the first. The Italian is the best.

Melon. Melo.

  • P. It groweth in hot regions.
  • T. It's sown in Aprill: the fr. is ripe in August.
  • N. [...]. Melopepon. Musk Millon.

Melon. Ger. K. as the muske, sugar, peare­fashioned, and Spanish. T. The meat of the musk melon is very cold and moist. V. It's harder of digestion than the cucumbers: if it re­main long in the stomack it putrifyeth and c. pestilent fevers. The Spaniards and Italians eate them to refresh the rage of lust. The seed is of like operation with that of cucumbers. Bor. Cent. 4. Obs. 70. The continuall use here­of h. the consumption.

Mercury. Mercurialis.

  • P. In untilled places, by hedges, in the shadow.
  • T. Fl. in June and July.
  • N. [...], the second. Pes anserinus. Tota bona. Bonus Henricus.

Mercury. Ger. The English. T. is mode­rately hor and dry, clensing and scouring. V. The leaves boiled with other pot-herbes & eaten loosen the body. Bruised and ap. they [Page 298]scour green wounds and old ulcers, mundifie and heale them. French Mercury. K. as the male and female. T. Is hot and dry 2°. Gal. Clensing and digesting. V. It's used in clisters to scour the guts. Taken, it purgeth out flegme, and choller. Diosc. The decoction purgeth forth watery humors. The leaves stamped with butter and ap. to the fundament provoke to the stoole: the bruised herb ap. as a pessarie clenseth the mother and h. conception. Acost. The juice m. with that of hollihocks, and pur­slaine and anointed or bathed on the hands, defendeth them from burning. Wild Mercury. K. as the dogs, and male childrens, with the female. T. are thought to agree with the other. Johns. V. It's reported by the Ancients, that the male phyllon c. generation of boies, and the female of girles. At Salamantica they use their decoction against the bitings of mad dogs. The Moores at Granado use them in womens diseases. Dorst. The common is hot and dry 1°. Aver. It consisteth of contrary substances, &c. stiptick, sharpe, and aqueous: being fresh it gently purgeth, and is therefore used in the beginning of severs, before digestion. The leaves ap. h. the strangury, and warts. The seed d. with wormewood h. the Kings evill. Heurn. The Mercurialate hony purgeth melancholly. Park. K. as the wild, called Quick in hand. V. The common Mercury purgeth choller and water. d. with myrrhe or pepper, it h. the strangury and diseases of the reines, and blad­der: So Hipp. As an errhine it h. catarrhes. Matth. The seed d. h. the jaundise. The last is emeticke.

Mezereon-tree. Chamelaea Germanica.

  • P. In moist and shadowie woods in the East countries.
  • T. Fl. in spring: the fruit is ripe in Aug.
  • N. [...]. It's thought to be Cneoron Theoph.

Mezereon-tree. Ger. T. is in all parts ex­tream hot: the fruit, leaves and rinde, are very sharpe and biting, inflaming the throat. V. The leaves vehemently purge flegme, choller, & wa­terishhumors: it is very dangerous to be taken inwardly, inflaming like the sea Tithymale. It may be used in stead of the spurge olive, & pre­pared like it. One or 2. berries of it being eaten c. abstinence from drinking by reason of the heate. Senn. The leaves macerated in vineger, or the juice of quinces, are given in powder from gr. 5. to 10. with mastick and spike. Mac. The antidote is organie. Jo. Terra Le [...]nia, and milke with butter. Park. It's to be given to strong bodies, and not without correctives.

Milke-wort. Polygala.

  • P. In woods, and fertile pastures.
  • T. Fl. from May, to August.
  • N. [...]. Flos ambarvalis Dod: & Cru­cis Gesneri.

Milke-wort. Ger. K. as the creeping, blow, red, white, & purple. T. Gal. they may serve in [Page 300]stead of Glaux. Johns. V. a handfull hereof steeped all night in wine, and d. in the morning, will effectually purge choler. Black milk-wort, Glaux. T. is dry 2°. V. The seed is like that of the lentils, but not so astringent, it stops fluxes, dryeth the moisture of the sto­mack, and engendreth milk. Schwenckf. The skie coloured ap. h. inflammations, and leni­fieth tumors. That of Matth. is astringent. Park. K. as the greater and lesser. T. V. as the rest. That of the sea. K. as the small and Vene­tian of Alpinus. T. V. is galactogenetick. Bauh. The first is hot and moist.

Millet. Milium.

  • P. In light and loose mould, and moist.
  • T. It's to be sown in Aprill and May.
  • N. [...]. Paspale Hipp. Meline Varronis.

Millet. Ger. T. Gal. is cold 1°. dry 3°. & of thin substance. The meale m. with tarr h. the bitings of all venimous beasts ap. Of this is made Am­brose his syrup against agues which is diapho­reticke, and quencheth thirst, and is thus made: take unhusked mill q. s. boile it untill it be broken, then take unc. 5. of the decoction, to which adde unc. 2. of the best white wine, give it hot to the patient well covered. Millet parched and put into a linnen bagge ap. h. the tormina, or any paine c. by cold. Turky millet Sorghum. T. is like to panick. V. The [Page 301]bread thereof is oligotrophick. Weck The common stops the belly, and provokes urine. Park. Matth. The stalkes of the Indian millet h. kernells under the eares, being burnt and taken.

Milt-wast. Asplenium.

  • P. On old stone walls, and rocks: the rough on heaths.
  • T. It continueth green all the yeare.
  • N. [...]. Scolopendria. Ceterach. Mula herba. Lonchitis.

Milt-wast. Ger. J. K. as the common, rough, great rough, and the bastard. T. Are in a meane and of thin parts. V. Diosc. The leaves boiled in wine and d. for 40 dayes, h. the spleen, strangury, yellow jaundise, and stone, h. the hicket, and hinder conception. Bor. Cent. 2. Obs. 53. a ptisan hereof h. the dropsie. Lonic. T. It's hot 1°, and dry 2°. V. decoct in wine it h. the Kings evill, and the quartan ague. It purgeth melancholy and dissolveth clotted bloud. The distilled water thereof comforts the heart. Aeg. it lessens the reines. Col. it's hot and dry 1°. Park. K. as the small. V. the rough h. wounds, and inflammations. Matth. drach. 1. of the dust of the leaves m. with drach. sem. of amber powdered and ta­ken with the juyce of purslain h. the gonor­rhoea. d. it h. melancholy and the French disease.

Mints. Mentha.

  • P. In gardens, almost every where.
  • T. They flower and flourish in summer.
  • N. [...]. Yerva buena Hisp.

Mints, Ger. J. K. as the red garden, curled, speare, heart, and balsam mint. T. Is hot and dry 3°. somewhat bitter & harsh, & is inferiour to calamint: it exhilerates the mind, and pro­voketh appetite. V. It's very wholsome for the stomack, and staieth the hicket, vomiting, and the chollerick passion, taken with the juice of a soure pomegranate. Gal. With water and vi­neger it h. the vomiting of bloud. Plin. In broth it stayeth the flowers and whites, sc. the first. ap. to the temples it h. the head-ach. It h. watering eyes, breakings out of the head, and infirmities of the fundament. With meade it h. the eares. Taken inwardly it defends from serpents. ap. with salt it h: the bitings of mad dogs. It keepeth milke from curdling d. and hindereth generation, by condensating the sperme. Diosc. ap. it hindereth conception. Garden Mint d. doth calefie the stomack, ex­pell superfluous humors, and c. digestion. Water Mint, or horsemint. K. as the common, water calamint, horse, party coloured, small, mountain and turnep rooted horsemint. T. is hot and dry, as that of the garden, and is of a stronger smell and operation. V. ap. it h. the stinging of waspes &c. The smell exhilerates, yet it is not used in physick where the other is to be had. Park. It's used in baths, with [Page 303]baulme &c. to strengthen the sinewes. Bor. Cent. 1. Obs. 29. Horsemint ap. to the womb h. sterility. Riol. The syrrup of mints h. diseases of phlegme. Park. K. as the white &c. V. The wild h. windinesse, and ap. h. the Kings evill.

Mirobalan-tree. Myrobalanus.*

  • P. In the East Indies: wild, in Goa &c.
  • T. The time is the same with that of other fruits there.
  • N. The first are called Arare: The black Re­zenvale: The third Gotini. The fourth Amu­ale. The fifth Aretea.

Mirobalan-tree. Ger. K. as the yellow, Indicae, Bellericae, Emblicae, and Chebulae. T. Are astringent and sharp like service berries; so cold and dry. V. The Indians use them rather to bind than purge; or if so, it is only the de­coction with sugar, especially the Chebulae. The yellow and Bellericae taken before meate stop the laske, and h. the weake stomack. The yellow and black, or Indicae & Chebulae purge lightly, unc. 2. or 3. being taken, and draw superfluous humors from the head. The yellow purge choller: Chebulae, flegme; Indicae, melan­cholly, and corroborate the intestines: rosted in the embers they dry more than they purge. The best Chebulae are somewhat long like a limmon, with a hard rinde, and black pith: and the Bellericae, which are round, les­ser [Page 304]and tenderer. Lebel. The Emblicae meanly cool, some dry 1°. They purge rotten flegme out of the stomack, comfort the brain, sinews, heart & liver, c. appetite, stay vomit, cool choller, h. the understanding, quench thirst, and h. the heat of the intrals: the greatest and heaviest are the best. They purge best being soked in water, boiled soft, and preserved in hony. The distilled water h. the French disease, &c. The Bellericae are mild, cold 1°. dry 2°. and corroborate. The rest come neere the Emblicae in operation. De Dond. They strengthen the body. Park. The Bellericks, Emblicks, and Citrines h. the piles, fluxes and ulcers.

Misseltoe. Viscum.

  • P. The first groweth upon oakes: the other not here.
  • T. It is alwaies green, the berries are ripe in Autumne.
  • N. [...] Renealmi. Ixia. Viscus. Hale Arabum.

Misseltoe. Ger. K. as the common, Indian, and that of Peru. T. the leaves and berries are hot and dry, and of subtile parts: the bird­lime is hot and biting, & waterish with some quarthly quality. Gal its acrimony overcometh its bitterness. V. ap. it draweth from the deepest parts of the body, dispersing and digesting the humors. It ripeneth swellings in the groin, and scirrhous swellings behind the cares &c. m. [Page 305]with rosin and a little wax with srankincense, it mollifyeth old ulcers and malitious impo­stumes. Boiled with unslaked lime it h. hard spleens. With orpiment it removes ill favoured nailes, and more effectually unslaked lime and wine lees being added. The berries strained in­to oile and d. h. stitches. Ren. It's hot and dry 3°. It purgeth viscid humors, h. spasms, and is hydrotick & antepileptick. Jo. The anti­dote is wormewood wine. Park. It h. the palsey d. Trag. it h. the eares.

Mock-privet. Phillyrea.

  • P. In Syria, France, and other places.
  • T. Fl. in May and June, the fruit is ripe in Sept.
  • N. [...]. Cyprus. Alcanna Arabum.

Mock-privet. Ger. J. K. as the narrow leaf­ed, broader leased, the second toothed of Clus. and the first. T. The leaves are binding. V. Chewed in the mouth they h. the ulcers thereof, as also inflammations and heat. The decoction h. burnings and scaldings. Stamped and steeped in the juice of mullein and ap. they make the haire red. Bellon. So the skin also, and is therefore used among the Turkes. The fl. moistned in vineger and ap. h. the head-ach. The oile hereof is sweet, and doth heate and supple the sinewes. Park. K. as the prickely. V. The leaves operate as those of the wild olive: and d. provoke urine, and the courses.

Moluccas-tree. Panava.*

  • P. In orchards, in the Ilands of the Moluccas.
  • T. As of other trees.
  • N. Lignum Molucense. By the Indians Panava.

Moluccas-tree. Park. Lignum Molucen e. T. The wood is alexipharmicke. V. 10. gr. of the powder of the wood taken in broth or water are a remedy against virulent serpents, even the Viper Regulus, and the Aspis &c. Scr 1. of the wood filed with the sea dogs skin taken h. those that are wounded with poisoned arrowes: so ap. Being taken in the morning fasting it evacuateth all melancholy humors, and h. quotidian and quartan agues, iliack and collick passions, of winde or humors, the dropsie, stone, dysury, cholerick passion, schirrous & scrophulous griefes in the joynts. It killeth worms of all sorts, & h. the appetite. If it worke too strongly it is h. by taking half a small cupfull of the decoction of rice. It work­eth without troubling the stomack, or hinder­ing businesse, it h. also old griefes of the head as the megrim, epilepsie, and apoplexy: those of the belly, and womb, as also the shortnesse of breath, noise in the eares and gout. It may be given in all seasons to all ages, and differing dispositions without danger. Those that are chollerick may take it in the syrrup of vineger, or conserve of roses. The seed hereof is used to catch birds being cast to them with rice, which being devoured doth inebriate them for a time: and if taken too greedily killeth [Page 307]them, if they be not h. by cold water put on their heads. Bauh. It's to be taken early in the morning after which there must be absti­nence from meate and drink, untill it hath purged sufficiently, then take broth &c.

Moly. Moly.

  • P. In gardens when planted there.
  • T. It springs in Feb. and hath fl. fruit and seed in Aug.
  • N. [...]. Molyza. Myle Galeni.

Moly. Ger. J. K. as that of Diosc. the ser­pent's, and Homer's, the Indian, withering, broad leafed with yellow fl. and dwarfe white fl. T. are very hot, coming neere to garlick. Diosc. They mightily bring down the termes, one of them being stamped with oile of Flower­de-luce and used as a pessary. The other mo­lyes. K. as the first narcisse-leafed, 2d, and 3d, the first broad leafed mountain, second, third, fourth and fifth mountain Moly of Clusius. T. V. are not as yet made use of. Park. K. as the bulbed of Hungary, purplish of Naples, the three cornered, the Spanish of Diosc. late pine apple, and sweet smelling of Mompelier. V. Are not so good as garlick, yet hotter than onions or leeks.

Mony-flower. Bulbonach.

  • P. It groweth in woods and gardens.
  • T. Fl: in Aprill, the next year after sowen.
  • N. Lunaria. Viola lunaris & latifolia Dod.

Mony-flower. Ger. K. as the white, and long codded, white sattin flower. T. The seed is hot and dry, of a sharp taste, like treacle mustard. The roots are not so biting, and may be eaten in sallads. V. The leaves stamped with sanicle, adding oile and wax, make a sin­gular unguent for green wounds. The seeds h. the falling sicknesse. Lugd. Lob. The seed is abstersive, moderately hot, and provoketh u­rine.

Moone-wort. Lunaria minor.

  • P. In dry barren mountaines, & heaths.
  • T. It is to be found in May and Aprill.
  • T. Lunaria petraea. Taura Gesn: Ruta lunaria Tab: Small Lunarie.

Moone-wort. Ger: J: K. as the small, and small branched. T. Is cold and dry. V. It h. green wounds, and stayeth the bloudy flix. Park: The blew is vulnerary, and h. the drop­sie. Croll: It h. all cancers of the breasts. Schwenchf. That of Clus: is cold, dry, and a­stringent. d. it h. fractures and dysenteries, and the whites: ap. it h. the enterocele in [Page 309]children. Park: The 1 is more cold and dry than adders tongue, and more availeable for all wounds. d. in red wine it h. the courses and whites, vomitings, and bleeding: as also all fractures, dislocations, and ruptures: but it's chiefly used with balsamick herbes.

Mosse. &c. Muscus. &c.

  • P. On trees, on the ground every where.
  • T. The first continue all the yeare: the rest flou­rish in the summer.
  • N. [...]. Ʋsnea. Phacos. Sphagnum.

Mosse. Ger: J: K. as tree mosse. T. Mosse is somewhat cold and binding, more or lesse according to the barke of the tree on which it groweth, receiving the property thereof: so that which groweth on the oake, doth coole and very much binde. That which groweth on the rosin trees, is binding, digesting, and softning. Serap: The wine in which mosse hath been steeped certain daies, d. c. sleepe, strengtheneth the stomack, and stopps vomi­ting, and the flux. Diosc: The decoction used as a bath, stops the whites: it is m. with oiles to thicken them. It's usefull in perfumes, and compositions, against lassitude. The best is that of the Cedar tree, the next of the poplar, in which kinde the white & sweet is the chie­fest, which in Italy is that of the larch-tree. [Page 310]Ground-mosse. K. as the common, beasome, goldilocks, flowring branched, chalice, ferne, horned, toothed greater, and little, woolfes claw, heath cypresse, small heath, and that which groweth upon a mans skull. T. The mosses of the earth are dry, and astringent, without any heat or cold: Woolfs claw, or club mosse, is temperate in heat and cold V. The Arabian physitians use mosse in their cardiack medicines. It corroborates the stomack, & stops vomit & laskes. Boiled in wine and d. it stoppeth the haemoptysis, the termes and bloudy flix, and h. bloudy urine. The pow­der of mosse stops bleeding in green wounds, and cures the same. Woolfes claw is diuretick, Trag. and lithontriptick. Stamped boiled in wine & ap. it h. the arthritick pain. Floting wine is restored to its former goodnesse, by this hung in the vessell. The powder of chalice mosse d. for certaine dayes, h. the chin-cough: so also Skull mosse, and is a singular remedy against the epilepsie. Sea mosse or coralline. K. as the white, English, the smallest, mountaine, sennell, sea, and bulbous sea fennell, branched, and broad leafed sea mosse, with Clusius his sea firre. T. Coralline. Gal. is of an earthy and waterish essence, so bindeth and cooleth: it hath also a certain saltnesse whereby it mightily dryeth. V. Diosc. It h. the gout which hath need of cooling. Drach. 1. taken killeth wormes. The best is that which cleaveth to the corall, and is of a reddish colour. Corall. K. as the red, black, white, bastard whitish, yellow, and reddish bastard. T. It's binding, and meanly cold, it cleanseth spots in the eyes, h. the issues of bloud, and is diuretick. V. d. in [Page 311]wine or water it h. the spleen, and those that are epileptick: it dryeth & stoppeth all fluxes. Being burned it becomes more dry. d. it h. the tormina, and paines of the stone. d. in wine it c. sleep if without an ague; else it's to be taken in water, the water moistning and that cooling the body; so the heate is restrai­ned, and the vapors repressed that hinder sleep. Spunge. K. as the white, funnell fashio­ned, and the branched. Park. K. as the Vene­tian sea hollow, & corall like. V. They serve for fomentations or bathings: put into wounds they keep them open. The ashes mixt with vineger cleare the eyes when bloud shotten: the stones in them serve against the stone. The Venetian spungy plant decoctin mead clenseth the face. Boiled in vineger and taken, it h. those that have eaten dangerous mushroomes. The powder d. in wine purgeth like Cremor tartari, and cutteth viscous humors. Tree mosses. K. as the common, fennell like, hollow headed, knotted, and horned. V. d. they h. the dropsie, and steeped in oile of roses and ap. h. the head ach c. of heat: also distillations and hot rheumes. Land mosse. V. d. it h. the stone, sc: the beasome and club mosse: boiled and ap: it h. inflammations and paines c. of heate. Mountaine coralline, and the rocky corall-like. T. V. are uselesse. Sea mosse. K. as the soft, that of Naples, that dying red, southernwood-like, the long close of Venice, the silver like and golden sea feather. V. that of Naples h. wa­tering red eyes, the powder being put into them with fennell water: it also stoppeth vo­miting d. with vineger, and corroborateth the stomack, the decoction thereof in wine being [Page 312]injected with a syringe into the bladder h. ulcers thereof. That of Venice h. all ulcers d. and ap. as also the stone. Sea wrack. K. as the common, great sea girdles with many labels, sea thongs, oystergreen, sea curled endive, sea oake, & sea garland. T. Diosc. Gal. They coole and dry, and h. the gout and inflammations. The red fucus h. against the venome of ser­pents. The first serveth as litter for horses. Sea thongs h. the longings of womē with child, and are used to kill wormes. The winged and great sea girdle, with the sea garland, are eaten in sallads. The first is good manure for barren ground. Coralline. K. as the reddish and scaly. V. is thought to be usefull against the stone, fluxes, cramps, the epilepsie, and melancholy. The shrub Corallines. K. as the heath-like wooddy, white, and red crusted, Sclavonian sea feather, the red sea fan, and those of Italy. V. The Sclavonian h. the bitings of venemous beasts, heales wounds and kills wormes. The other sea plants. K. as the cypresse, base wild rocket, stony sea horse-taile, stony lavender cotton, the sea willow and sea navell. V. Lobel. The last is thought to be diuretick and dige­stive, stopping fluxes, and easing paines of the gout &c. Coral. V. d. it h. the paine of the stone. It h. melancholy, and the syncope. It faci­litates the birth, it fasteneth loose teeth, and h. sores of the mouth, & hollow ulcers. Burnt and the ashes ap. in collyries it h. the watering, heat and rednesse of the eyes. It h. ptisicks, run­ning sores, and clenseth impostumes. Amber. T. is moderately hot and dry. V. The fume h. moist distillations of the head to the eyes, &c. and h. the epilepsie, and strangulation of the [Page 313]mother, and provokes the courses. unc. sem. of the powder taken in the morning in a reare egge h. abortion. It stops fluxes. d. in wine it's diureticall. The powder taken in the con­serve of roses h. the cough, consumption, and gout, the oile d. the q. of three drops in muskadine h. the stone &c. ap. it h. all cepha­licall diseases: so amber grise, it's hot and dry 2°.

Motherwort. Cardiaca.

  • P. In stony, barren, and rough places.
  • T. It flourisheth, flowreth and seedeth from June to September.
  • N. [...]. Marrubium mas Brunf. Licopsis Anguil.

Motherwort. Ger. T. is hot and dry 2°. clensing and binding. V. It h. the infirmities of the heart: also convulsions, cramps, and palsies: so Caesalp. It opens the obstructions of the in tralls, and kills all kinds of wormes in the belly. The powder d. in wine provoketh urine, and the courses, and h. in travell with child: also it is traumatick. It is used also for the cough, and murren in Cattle &c. Myl. yet the smell thereof doth not shew it to be car­diack. Park. It h. the risings of the mother. And clenseth the chest of cold flegme: also it warmes and dryes cold humors.

Mouse-eare. Pilosella.

  • P. On sandy bankes, in open untilled places.
  • T. Fl. in May, June and July: and are green all the winter.
  • N. [...]. Auricula Muris. Myosotis.

Mouse-eare. Ger. K. as the great, and cree­ping. T. are hot and dry, and astringent with a certaine hot tenuity. V. The decoction d. h. all wounds inward and outward, hernies, or ruptures. The powder ap. dryeth and h. wounds: so Feruel. The juice c. steel that is often quenched in it to be so hard that it will cut iron or stone, without waxing dull. Used as a gargarisme it h. the loosenesse of the uvula. d. it h. the fluxes of the womb. Avic. As a sternutatory it clenseth the braine, and h. the epilepsie, dysentery, and enterocele; it gleweth wounds, stayeth the swelling of the spleen, and bloudy excrements there­by. The syrup of its juice h. coughs, the con­sumption and ptisick. Fuch. The juice h. the shiverings of agues: Cam. Matth. The milky juyce thereof is bitter, extenuating and ab­stersive: the herbe glutinates, cooles and dryes. It h. vomiting and the haemoptysis. Park. K. as the Assyrian, blew &c. V. d. they h. the jaundise, tormina and dropsie.

Mug-wort. Artemisia.

  • P. The first groweth in the borders of fields &c.
  • T. It flowreth in July and August.
  • N. [...]. Parthenion. Mater herbarum. Zo­na Divi Johannis.

Mugwort. Ger. K. as the common, and that of the sea. T. It is hot and dry 2°, and some­what astringent. Plin. It properly cureth wo­mens diseases. Dios. It bringeth down the birth and after birth; it h. the mother, and paine of the matrix used in a bath, & as a pessa­ry with myrrhe; so also the tender tops being boiled and d. and ap. as a pultis provoke the termes. The herb pounded with oile of sweet almonds and ap. to the stomack h. all griefs of the same. It also cureth the shakings of the joynts inclining to the palsie, and h. convulsi­ons. Parac. The salt thereof h. the itch. Mac. The herb tempereth flegme. Scholtz. Cons. 236. The root used in meate h. the gout. Barth. Ang. The decoction h. the head-ach. Park. K. as the small, fruitfull and fine moun­taine. V. ap. h. nodes, & d. h. against opium.

Mulberry-tree. Morus.

  • P. In hot regions, as in Italy &c.
  • T. Fl. in May: the berries are ripe in August.
  • N. [...]. Morus Celsa.

Mulberry-tree. Ger. K. as the common, and [Page 316]white. T. the fruites before ripe are cold and dry ferè 3°. and doe mightily bind. V. Being dryed they h. lasks & the bloudy flix, bleeding and the reds: They h. all inflammations and hot swellings, in the mouth &c. The ripe ber­ries also are cold and full of juyce, somewhat drying and binding; therefore good against the hot swellings of the mouth, and those parts; so also the diamoron. The berries ta­ken before meat open the belly, quench thirst and c. appetite. They nourish little being ta­ken in the second place, or after meate. The bark of the root is bitter, hot and dry, and of a scouring faculty, the decoction openeth the liver and spleen, purgeth the belly and driveth forth wormes: steeped in vineger it h. the tooth-ach; so the decoction of the leaves and barke, & juice of the root: it also h. the phyma, and purgeth the body. Gal. The first buds have a middle faculty, both to bind & scoure. Park. So the Virginian. Croll. The juice of the fruit in gargarismes h. the quinsie. Senn. They are not fit for stomacks replete with vitious hu­mors. Park. The syrrup h. the uvula, the juice of the leaves h. against the phalangi­um, and aconite: and with vineger h. burnings and bleeding: and depilates with urine.

Mullein. Verbascum.

  • P. In the borders of fields and untilled places.
  • T. Fl. from July to September.
  • N. [...]. Tapsus barbatus. Candela regia. Lanaria.

Mullein. Ger. K. as the common and white [Page 317]flowred. T. is dry, digesting and clensing. V. The leaves boiled in water and ap. h. hard swellings, and inflammations of the eyes, and paines thereof. The root boiled in red wine and d. stops laskes and the bloudy flix. Boiled in water and d. they h. ruptures and old coughs. The lease ap. with treacle h. the piles and haemorrhoides; so also the oyntment made of the leaves with axungia: the leaves worne under the feet provoke the termes. The leafe ap. with the fume of fran­kincense and mastick, h. the piles and diseases of the lower parts, being used twice every day; so also the flowers set in oile in warme dung till consumed. Plin. The leaves pre­serve from putrefaction. Base Mullein. K. as the white, black, candle-wicke, and small candle-wick. T. are dry without any mani­fest heate, yet hotter and dryer than the first. V. the black with his fl. boiled in wine and d. h. the diseases of the breast & lungs & spitting of corrupt matter. The leaves boiled in water, stamped & ap. as apultis, h. oedemata and ulcers, & inflammations of the eyes. The flowers put into lye make the haire yellow. The leaves in cold ointments h. scaldings and burnings. Moth mullein. K. as Plinie's, the purple, green, that with the greenish purple coloured flower, white flowred, that with the great flower, and the yellow. T. V. Johns. The decoction of the first opens the bow­els and meseraick veines. The plan: causeth flies to resort to it. That of Ethiopia is dry without any manifest heat. V. It h. the plurisie or rotten matter in the breast, asperity of the throat and sciatica, the deco­ction [Page 318]being d. The root being decoct with ho­ny h. the diseases of the breast, and lungs; so also the roots condited with sugar. The leaves of the common mullein are by the husband­men of Kent given to their cattle, against the cough. Wooddy Mullein. K. as the French, and lesser French sage, with the Syrian sage leafed mullein. T. are dry and operate as sage. V. Diosc. The leaves stamped and ap. as a pul­tis h. burnings & scaldings. Bor. Cent. 1. Obs. 27. The leaves of mullein bruised and ap. h the stingings of serpents. Park. K. as the black and jagged. V. d. It h. the cramp with sage, marje­rome and cammomile fl. ap. The distilled water of the flowers h. hot gouts, the powder h. the collick.

Mustard. Sinapi.

  • P. It groweth wild in most places.
  • T. It may be sown in the spring: it's ripe in July.
  • N. [...]. Aristoph. Thlaspi Plinii. Sau­rion.

Mustard. Ger J. K. as the garden, field, white, and small wilde. T. Gal. The seed is hot and dry 40. it doth attenuate and attract. V. the seed pounded with vineger is a good sauce with grosse meats, peptick, corrobora­ting the stomack, and provoking appetite. It h. those that are short winded and stuffed in the breast with tough flegme from the [Page 319]braine. Chewed in the mouth it h. the tooth­ach. A gargarisme made with the seed, hony & vineger h. the swellings of the uvula, and almonds of the throat. d. with water and hony it provoketh the termes and urine. The seed used as an errhine is ptarmick and h. women sick of the mother. Ap. with figgs, it h. the epilepsie, and lethargy, also the sciatica, and all paines of a cold cause. It is mixt with drawing plaisters, and consumeth nodes. It h. those that have lost their haire, and taketh away spots c. by bruises. The seed of the white mustard is used in antidotes, as in the Electuary de ovo &c. Treacle mustard. K. as the common, mithridate, knaves, Bowyers, Gre­cians, clownes, buckler, and small buckler. T. The seeds are hot and dry fine tertii. V. The seed eaten purgeth choller, provoketh the termes and breaketh the inward apostumes. In clysters it h. the sciatica, and operates as the other mustard feed. H. too much taken it c. a hypercatharsis, and is hurtfull to women great with child. Candy mustard. K. as the common, and small white flowred. T. The seed is hot and dry fine 2di. Treacle mustard. K. as the round leafed, Hungary, churles, peasants of Narbone, yellow, white, Clusius his small, and small rock. T. Is hot and dry fine 2di. sc. the seed. V. the seeds are sharpe and biting, breake inward impostumes, bring down the flowers, kill the foetus, and h. the sciatica. They purge choller upward & down­ward unc. 2. sem. being taken. They are m. in counterpoysons, as treacle, mithridate &c. Wooddy mustard. K. as the hoary, small, thorny, bushy, and Ivy. T. V. They may be [Page 320]referred to the kindes of thlaspies. Toures mustard. K. as the common, great, gold of pleasure, and treacle wormseed. T. are hot and dry 3°. V. Diosc. The oilie fatnesse of the seed of the third levigates the skin. Ruel. The juice h ulcers of the mouth. The seed of the last stamped and d. killeth and expelleth wormes. Park. The common is antepileptick. Pem. It h. the malignity of mushromes, and venime, agues, palsie, epilepsie, and c. lust and concoction: ap. it h. cold tumors. Park. The distilled water is cosmeticall. The Arabian h. flegme. The rest, as treacle Mustard.

Myrtle-tree. Myrtus.

  • P. It groweth naturally in Italy in fertill places.
  • T. Fl. with the rose, the fruit is ripe in Autumne.
  • N. [...]: The berries, Myrtilli offic.

Myrtle-tree. Ger. J. K. as the common, great Spanish, strange, white berried, little and wild Spanish. T. it consisteth of contrary substances, having a certaine subtile heate with a predominant earthinesse; so dryeth much. The leaves, fruite, buds and juice doe bind both d. and ap. V. they stop the hae­moptysis, and all other issues of bloud. The bath hereof h. the reds, and whites. The fomentation stops the haemorrhoides: they h. laskes, and the bloudy flix. ap. with barley meale, they quench the fiery heat of the eyes. [Page 321]ap. they h. all inflammations in the beginning, and paines by strokes or straines. They are wholesome for watery stomacks. The fruit and leaves dryed provoke urine. The decoction bathed h. luxations, ruptures, and the out­ward parts exulcerated: it h. tetters, scoureth dandriffe, and the sores of the head, it maketh the haires black, and hindreth their falling. d. fasting it prevents drunkennesse, and h. the poyson of any venemous beast; so the dryed juice of the leaves. Lonic. T. the berries are cold and earthy. V. the syrrup thereof h. old coughs, the exulceration of the lungs and strengthens the stomack. Lugd. d. in wine it h. the biting of the scorpion: the decoction of the leaves h. purulent eares being instilled. The leaves stamped and ap. with water h. parts [...]hat are troubled with fluxions. The powder of the dryed leaves sprinkled on the body, re­straineth sweat, & h. the falling down of the matrix, and diseases of the fundament. The oile that is made of the berries by expression is drying and astringent. Mac. The berries colour the haire black. Riol. The oile anointed h. diseases of the rarity of the skin, as immoderate sweating, with the powder of dryed roses. Weck. Wild Myrtle h. the strangury, head ach, and Kings evill. Col. The fr. h. the trembling of the heart, and stinging of serpents. d. it h. a stinking breath; and ulcers, with wine. Aqua­pend. The oile is anodyne, and h. luxations. Park. K. as the greatest open laurell, strange broad leased close, and double fl. V. ap. it h. S. Anthonies fire and d. prevents the danger of mushroomes. The excrescence is strongest and operates as Acacia.

N

Navell-wort. Ʋmbilicus Veneris.

  • P. The first groweth on stone walls: the 2d, 3d, and 4th on the Alpes.
  • T. They flourish in winter, and fl. in the beginning of Spring.
  • N. [...]. Acetabulum. Herba coxendicum.

NAvell-wort. Ger. J. K. as the small, first and second, and the Italian bastard, with the wal, jagged, & water penny­wort. T. is moist, and somewhat cold and binding. V. It cooleth and repelleth, scoureth and consumeth. Water penny-wort is hot and ulcerating, like crowfoot. The bastard Italian partakes with the true in cold and moisture. V. The juice of wall penny wort h. all in­flammations, and hot tumors, as the erysipelas or S. Anthonies fire: it h. kibed heeles, being bathed therewith, and the leaves ap. The leaves and root eaten break the stone, pro­voke urine, and h. the dropsie. The water penny-wort is dangerous and noisome unto sheep and other cattell that feed thereon. That of the sea. K. as the common, and one summers navell-wort. T. is diuretick, not much hot, but exceeding dry. V. It provoketh urine and digesteth the sliminesse in the joynts. Diosc. drach. 2. d. in wine expell much urine out of their bodyes that have the dropsie, [Page 221]& ap. h. the gout. Park. K. as the spotted and small red flowred. T. V. are cold and moist like house-leek. That of the wall h. hot sto­macks and livers. The distilled water h. sore kidnies, paines of the bowels, piles, gout, sci­atica and Kings evill. The least are strongest: that of Matth. is hot, dry 2°, and clensing.

Navew. Bunias.

  • P. In a loose, and yellow mould and fruitfull.
  • T. They are sown, fl. and seed with the turnep.
  • N. [...]. Napus sylvestris, & agrestis, the wild.

Navew. Ger. K. as the gentle and wild. T. It's of the temperature and nature of the turnep; yet it's a little dryer, not so soon con­cocted, nor digested: neither is it so flatulent. V. Johns. The seeds taken in drink or broth, h. against poyson, and are used in antidotes. Lonic. T. it's hot 2° & moist 1°. Caesalp. It's better than the turnep, sweeter, sooner digested, better agreeing with the stomack and more nutrient: so Diphilus. Park. The wild is hot­ter & dryer (especially the seed) than the tame. It provokes urine and the courses, h. crudities of the stomack, and tormina: the seed h. against infection.

Nettle &c. Ʋrtica &c.

  • P. In untilled places, neere hedges &c.
  • T. It flourisheth in summer: the seed is ripe in July.
  • N. [...]. Nettle-tree is called Lo­tus Arbor.

Nettle. Ger. K. as the Romane, common stinging, and small. T. is dry, and a little hot, and of subtile parts. V. being eaten boiled with perewinckles it looseneth the body & clenseth it, it provoketh urine and expelleth the stone: so Ʋntz. Wirsung. Fernel. Plin. Apollin. Being boiled with barley cream it bringeth tough hu­mors out of the chest. The juyce used as an errhine stoppeth the bleeding at the nose, and h. the inflammation of the uvula. The seed of nettle c. lust, d. with cute, it be­ing windie. It concocteth and draweth raw humors out of the chest, it h. the orthopnoea, pleurisie and inflammation of the lungs and chin cough, taken in a lohoch. It h. against hemlock, mushromes, and quick-silver. Apollod. It's an antidote for henbane, serpents and scorpions. Plin. The oile of it h. the stinging that the nettle made. Being grossely powder­ed and d. in wine it's a singular remedy against the stone, it expelleth gravell and urine. The leaves or seeds of any nettle worke the like effect, but not so speedily as the Roman nettle. Nettle-tree. T. Is drying, and of thin parts V. The decoction of the wood beaten small, d. [Page 325]or used clyster-wise, h. the bloudy flix, whites, and reds; it stops the laske, maketh the haire yellow, and preserveth it from falling. Park: The fruit doth coole and binde the body. Brunfels: Serap: The oile of the 1 is laxative, eaten with the yelkes of egges it c. venery, and purgeth flegme. Aemil: Mac: The roots h. the joynts. Parac: The juyce with salt h. running ulcers of the feet. De Dond: It h. the hurt of quick-silver, so Plin: Cam: The seed and leaves are digesting. Grul: The root h. the tooth-ach. Park: K. as the greater, middle, and lesser wilde nettle. T. Are hot and dry 2°. V. An electuary of the juyce with hony h. the plurisie. It h. the diseases of the mother, & kills wormes: it h. winde, and c. venery; the water h. the skin, goute, and gangreens.

Night-shade. Solanum.

  • P. Neere high waies, the borders of fields, &c.
  • T. Fl: in summer, sometimes till Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Solatrum. Morella. Ʋva lupina Cucubalus.

Night-shade. Ger. K. as the garden, and sleepie. T. Is cold 2°, and binding. Diosc: It h. S. Anthonies fire, the shingles, pain of the head, heart burning, or heat of the sto­mack, and other distempers c. by sharpe and biting humours: yet it's to be used [Page 324]with caution, least the humors be repelled to the inward parts. The juyce of the green leaves of garden night-shade m. with barley meale ap: h. S. Anthonies fire, and all hot in­flammations; so also with oile of roses, ceruse, and litharge of gold ap. The leaves are good to be put into the ointment of poplar buds. Johns. drach. 1. of the barke of the root of sleepie night-shade taken is somniferous; yet milder than opium: the fruit is diuretick. Deadly night-shade. T. Is cold 4°. V. It c. sleepe, troubleth the mind, and c. madnesse. Many of the berries taken bring present death: it's to be used as petty morell: the antidote is meade. The leaves ap. with vineger c. sleepe, and h. the headache of a hot cause. Inchanters night­shade. T. V. Doubtlesse it hath the vertue of garden night-shade, and may be its substitute. Tree night-shade. T. V. It is not yet used, yet by some referred to the Ginny pepper. Park: Tree night-sh. is held to be cooling. Recch: Night-shade of Mexico. T. Is cold and dry. V. ap. it h. S. Anthonies fire: and h. heat and fluxes. The root of the pale is bitter, discuti­ent, and diuretick. Park: The 1 ap: h. frenzies, stopps the courses, and h. the gout. The Vir­ginian is cathartick.

Nutmeg-tree. Nux Moschata.*

  • P. In the Indies, in Banda, Molucca, &c.
  • T. The fruit is gathered in September.
  • N. [...]. Nux Muscata, & Myri­stica: & Aromatites.

Nutmeg. Ger. K. as the male and female, or [Page 325]round nutmeg. T. Is hot and dry 2°, and somewhat astringent. V. Chewed in the mouth it causeth a sweet breath. It h. freckles in the face, quickneth the sight, strengthneth the belly, and feeble liver. It h. swellings in the spleene, stopps laskes, breaketh winde, and h. all cold diseases. Bruised and boiled in a­qua vitae to the consumption of the moisture, adding hony of roses, boiling the nutmegs gently, and straining them to the forme of a syrupe, they h. all paines c. of winde and cold, taking 3 spoonefulls fasting for severall dayes together: the same bruised and boiled in strong white wine to the fourth part, with the roots of mother-wort strained, and d. with sugar, h. all gripings in the belly c. by windi­nesse. The best are the heaviest, fattest, and the fullest of liquor, which is known by prick­ing them. Sala, the 1 distilled oile h. cardiack passions, and the collick: it's hystericall and cephalick, abstersive and diuretick. The 2d h. fluxes, the tormina and winde c. by cold. Pa­racels: The distilled oile h. ulcers. Ern: It operates as that of cloves. Park: They h. colds of the head: it c. lust and fat: so the mace.

Nut-trees. Nuces variae.*

  • P. In India, Arabia, and other places.
  • T. Fl: in May, the fruit is ripe in September.
  • N. [...]. The 1 Pistacia. The 2d Nux In­dica. The 3d Vomica.

Nuts. Ger. K. as the fisticke nut. T. The [Page 328]kernells are hot and moist, and may be eaten as those of the Pine-apples, they are not so easily concocted, but much more easily than common nutts, the juyce is good, but some­what thicke, they are polytrophicke, and a­nalepticke. V. They are good for those that have the phthisicke. They concoct, ripen, and clense forth raw humours that cleave un­to the chest. They open the stoppings of the liver, h. the infirmities of the kidnies, expell gravell, ease paine, and h. ulcers. The ker­nells condited & eaten, c. lust, open the lungs, h. the shortnesse of breath, and taken in wine are an excellent prophylactick remedy. The Indian nut, Cocus. T. Is in a mean be­tween hot and cold. V. The branches being cut in the evening send forth water, which is pleasant to drinke, from which is drawn a strong a qua vitae, helping against all manner of sicknesses. The milke in the kernells cooleth and refresheth the spirits. The ker­nell serves for meat, out of which is pressed an oile good for meate and medicine, where­with the Indians anoint their feeble limbs, it helping lassitude, paines, and other infirmi­ties. Of the branches they make their hou­ses, of the trunke their shipps; of the hempe on the outside their cables: and of the finer stuffe, sailes for their shipps. Likewise of the shell they make cupps to drinke in. The vomiting and purging nutts. T. Are poy­sonous, cold 4°, and narcotick, or causing deadly sleepe. V. The vomiting nut is not to be given inwardly, but in other composi­tions. The powder given with flesh unto [Page 329]fowles, doth presently stupisy them, if not kill them. Park. Horse-chesnut. V. Stopps all manner of fluxes and spitting of bloud, be­ing eaten rosted. In Turkey they are given to horses in their provender to h. the cough, and brokenwindednesse. Borell: Cent: 1. Obs: 50. An unguent made of the oile of nuts, with the yelks of egges p. aeq: m. h. burnings ap. twice a day. Recch: The pulpe of the nut cocus, h. against poyson: and being infused in water in cups made of the shells thereof and d. it h. the collick, palsie, epilepsie, and o­ther diseases of the nerves; yet by some it's thought little effectuall. Park: V. Fistick nuts h. against the stingings, and bitings of serpents, and other venemous creatures. The discoloured small Indian nut Faufel. V. h. in all hot diseases, it h. the tooth-ache, and fasteneth loose teeth. The Indians use it to stupifie. Gare: The distilled water h. all hot fluxes of the belly. The white nuts curcus, habacoulcoul Serap: c. sperme and the collick. Bezoar nut Lobus echinatus. T. V. causeth vo­miting. Ginny nuts. T. V. serve to make bread with. The liquor of the leaves serveth for drink.

O.

Oake. Quercus.

  • P. It groweth in a dry and barren ground.
  • T. It casts the leaves about the end of Autumne.
  • N. [...]. Jovis arbor. Robur. The fruit, Glans. The cup, Capula.

OAke. Ger. K. as the common, and dwarfe. T. The leaves, barke, acorne cupps, and acornes, binde and dry 3°, & are also somewhat cold. V. The thin skinne under the barke, and that which is next to the acorne poudered, h. the whites, reds, spitting of bloud, and laskes. The acornes ea­ten are hardly concocted, and of grosse, raw, and cold nourishment, they provoke urine, & h. poyson, and are lesse binding than the leaves, or barke. The apples h. all fluxes of bloud and laskes, boiled in red wine; they also h. excessive moisture, and swellings of the jawes, and almonds of the throat. The deco­ction thereof stopps womens diseases, and the fume taken c. the mother to returne to its place: the same steeped in strong white wine vineger, with the powder of brim-stone, and root of ireos m. and set in the sun 30 dayes, maketh the haire black, wasts proud flesh, and h. sunburning, and all deformities of the face, being washed therewith. Matth. The oake apples before they have a hole in them, con­taine [Page 329]a flie, a spider, or a worme: if a fly, then warre ensueth; if a creeping worme, scarcity of victualls; if a running spider, it prognosticat­eth great sicknesse, or mortality. The oake of Jerusalem, Botrys, and that of Capadocia, Am­brosia. T. Are hot and dry 2°, and of subtile parts. V. The decoction h. the stoppings of the breast, and asthma, cutting and wasting grosse humors; so the conserve of the leaves. It giveth a pleasant tast to flesh, that is sodden with it, and is eaten with the broth. Dried and laid among garments, it c. them to smell sweet, and preserveth them from vermin. The scarlet oake, Ilex coccigera, the grain is called Kermes, and Coccus baphicus, the maggot within is na­med Cutchonele. T. This grain is astringent and somewhat bitter, and dry without sharp­nesse. V. Gal: It h. great wounds, and sinews that be cut ap: with oxymel. It stopps the menses, and is cordiall, and purgeth melancho­ly. The confection hereof, h. the trembling of the heart, and swounings, and exhilerates, the lapis cyaneus being left out: the berries of the cochenele must be taken by themselves, which alone are sufficient to die the juyces, and to impart unto them their vertue. The great scar­let oake, Ilex major glandifera. T. The leaves coole and repell, as those of the mast trees. V. Stamped and ap. they h. soft swellings, and strengthen weak members. The barke of the root boiled in water untill it be dissolved, and ap. all night, maketh the haire black, being first scoured with cimolia. Clus: The acorne is e­steemed of, and usually eaten. The great Holme Oake K. As that with greater & lesser acornes, Cerr [...]s. T. V. are uselesse. The Corke oake. K. [Page 332]as with broad and narrow leaves. Suber. T. The barke doth manifestly drie and binde. V. The powder taken in water stoppeth bloud. Paul: The corkes which are taken out of wine vessells being burnt mightily drie, and are m. with compositions against the bloudy flixe. The corke also is of known use, and serveth to put into the shoes for warmenesse. Park: The ever green oake is lesse binding, it strengthen­eth weak members. The young tops and leaves thereof are used in gargles for the mouth and throat. Croll: The liquor of the apples that grow on oake leaves ap. h. the rupture. Park: K. As the sweet, male and female bitter. V. Acornes h. the virulency of cantharides. Hip. The fume of the leaves h. the mother. Gal: ap. it h. wounds: the water h. all heat and fluxes. The Laurell is binding. The leaves of Botrys ap. h. the mother.

Oates. Avena.

  • P. Almost every where: in cold moist ground.
  • T. They are sowen in spring: and mowen in Au­tumne.
  • N. [...]. Vena Italica. Chartall Arab.

Oates. Ger. K. as the common, and naked. T. Gal: Are dry, and somewhat cold. V. Com­mon oates put into a linnen bag, with a little bay salt, made hot in a frying pan, and ap. very hot, h. the stitch in the side, or collick in the belly. Such parts as are troubled with the [Page 333]serpigo, being first anointed with that uncti­on usually ap. against the French disease, and held over the fume of the decoction of oates, with sweating, will in 5 or 6 times using here­of be perfectly cured. Wild oates. K. As the common and small. T. are drying. V. Being boiled in water with the roots to a third part, then strained, adding hony, and the powder of aloes, and so boiled again to the thicknesse of thin hony, and ap. with a linnen cloth; they h. the ozaena, and the filthy ulcers of the nose. Johns. Being boiled in wine, with dried rose­leaves, they h. a stinking breath. The bearded wilde oates T. V. Are uselesse. Senn: Oates are hot, of meane nourishment, and stop the belly. Trag: They are hot as meate, and cold and dry as medicine. Park. The meale h. fluxes: with sugar it h. the cough; ap. with vineger it h. spotts, and the itch with the oile of bayes.

Oily pulse. Sesamum.*

  • P. It groweth in Egypt, and India.
  • T. It must be sowen against the Ides of October.
  • N. [...]. Sisamum. Sesama. Sempsem Ae­gypt. Alpini.

Oily pulse. Ger. T. Is hot and dry 1°, Gal: The seed is fat, nauseous, and of slow digesti­on, of thick juyce, not easily passing through the veines. It c. thirst, and is emplastick, and softning; so also the oile & decoction. V. Diosc. it [Page 332]c. a stinking breath. It wasteth the grossenesse of the sinewes, h. bruises of the eares, inflam­mations, scaldings, pains of the joynts, and the bitings of Cerastes. Mixt with oile of roses, it h. the head-ache c. by heate; so the herbe boi­led in wine, but especially it h. the heat and paine of the eyes. The oile is good against the sounding and ringing of the eares. Schrod. The oile is moderately hot, mollifying, and matu­rating: it h. the cough, and asperity of the lungs in pleurisies, also it impinguates, and c. sperme. ap: it h. hard tumors, and creeping ulcers. Dorst: It's hot 1°, dry 2°. The oile h. warts: ap. with oile of roses it h. the head­ache c. by heat. Park: Alpin: The Aegyptians use it against the scirrhus of the liver: the de­coction with hony c. the courses, and h. dan­driffe. The oile h. the deformity of the skinne.

Olive-tree. Olea.

  • P. In Italy, France, Spaine, and other places.
  • T. Fl: in June, the fr: is gathered in November or December.
  • N. [...] the wilde, Oleaster, Cotinus.

Olive-tree. Ger. K. as the manured and wilde. T. The ripe olives are hot and moist, and of little nourishment, the unripe are dry and binding. Those that are preserved in pickle, called colymbades, dry up the superflu­ous moisture of the stomack. The branches, leaves, and tender budds, coole, dry and bind, [Page 333]especially of the wild olive. V. The pickled olives c. appetite, yet are of little nourishment. The branches, leaves, and budds, especially of the wilde, h. the eyes, S. Anthonies fire, the shingles, & epinyctides, so For. night-wheales, carbuncles, and eating ulcers: ap. with hony, they h. escharres, clense filthy ulcers, and quench the heat of hot swellings, h. kernels in the flanke, heale wounds in the head, and be­ing chewed, cure ulcers in the mouth; so the decoction, and juyce, which also stopps all bleedings, and the whites. The juyce is to be pressed out with wine, and dried into cakes. The oile which issueth out of the wood whi­lest it is burning h. tetters, scurses, and scabbs ap. that which is pressed out of the unripe o­lives is cold and binding. The old oile is hot­ter and of greater force to digest, or wast away, and that which is made of unripe olives is partly binding, partly digesting. The oile of ripe olives mollifieth, asswageth paine, dissol­veth tumors, h. stifnesse of the joynts, and cramps, especially being mixed with hyperi­con, cammomill, dill, lillies, roses &c. Oile omphacine, or of unripe olives doth stop, and represse tumors in the beginning and coole the heate of burning ulcers and exulcerations. Bor. Cent. 2. Obs. 14. The oile of olives eaten in the morning with a tost looseth the belly. Park. Pickled olives burnt, beaten, and ap. h. ulcers, and fasten loose teeth. The oile h. ex­ulcerating poysons. The dregs h. the scab with lupines: with hony &c. it h. the teeth; so the gum, and is ophthalmick, antipsorick, and expells the foetus. The fl. of the wild per­sume.

One blade. Ʋnifolium.*

  • P. It groweth in Lancashire, and neere Bathe.
  • T. Fl: in May, the fruit is ripe in September.
  • N. [...]. Monophyllon. Cotyledon Syl­vestris Trag.

One blade. Ger. T. It is vulnerary. V. The leaves are of the same force in wounds with Pyrola, especially in wounds among the nerves and sinews: also it resists poyson, and the pestilence: drach. 1. of the root being gi­ven in vineger m. with wine or water, and the sick going to bed, and sweating [...]n it, so Park▪ Lugd. T. It's hot and dry. The leaves prevent inflammations in wounds.

Onion. Cepa.

  • P. In a fat ground, well digged and dunged.
  • T. It's sowen in March and Aprill, or Septemb.
  • N. [...]. Caepa. Caepe.

Onion. Ger. J. K. as the white, longish Spa­nish, and scallions. T. All onions are sharp, and move teares by the smell. Gal: They are hot and dry 4°, yet not so hot as garlick, the juice is of a thin, watery, and airie substance, the rest is of thick parts. V. Onions doe bite, attenuate, and cause drinesse: being boiled they loose their sharpnesse, especially if the water be changed; yet they attenuate, break winde, and provoke urine, and are more soluble boi­led [...]

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