The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...

Round-rooted, or Bulbous Crow-foot, in Latin Ra∣nunculus bulbosus.

The Leaves and Flowers are like the former: It differs from it in these six Things; 1. The Root is bulbous. 2. The Stalks are upright, and do not creep at all. 3. The Leaves upon the upper Stalks are cut into smaller and longer Jags. 4. The Leaves of the Cup, when the Flower opens, are turn'd back to the Foot-stalk. 5. It flowers earlier. Lastly, The Heads of the Seeds are a little longer, and each Seed not prickly at the top, as is every Seed of the Creeping Crow-foot. There are o∣ther Differences, but these may suffice for the Distin∣ction of them. This grows every where in Pastures, and is too frequent there.

This is called Devil's Crow-foot by Tragus. Beg∣gars make Soars upon their Flesh with this Plant, to move Compassion. The Water of the Root, or the Infusion made in Spirit of Wine, is praised in the Plague. The Root of it burns violently, and there∣fore must be used only ex∣ternally. 'Tis of excellent Use for eating down, and drying up hard Tumours. It takes off long Warts, and the like. Camerarius says, That if the Root be kept dry a Month, it becomes sweet. Nicholas Chesneaw commends the Juice of Crowfoot (I suppose he means the Bulbous) in Head-aches, which (says he) wonderfully moves the Pain, when it possesses a little Space. Chuse that Sort whose Leaves are like the Leaves of Anemony, and bites the Tongue when chewed; beat the Leaves of it in a Marble Mortar; and having applied a Pla∣ster with an Hole in it, as is made use of in the Ap∣plication of a Caustick, put it on the pain'd Part, and apply the Leaves, beaten, with the Juice in them, in the Hole of the Plaster; and then put another Pla∣ster over, to keep them in;

and in the spaee of two Hours it will open the Skin, especially if the Herb be gather'd in a Place where the Sun shines. Note, The Hair must be shaved, and you must take care not to apply it near the Eyes. He mentions many Observations of the Cure of the Head-ach by this Medicine. He used it in the Gout, with the same Success. A Priest, says he, that had kept his Bed three Years with the Gout, and was not able to walk, was cured by applying Crowfoot to the Part most pained, after the Manner above-mention'd. One that was seized with the Plague, and was in great danger, was cured by two Issues made in the Groin with the Leaves of Crow-foot, he having a Bubo there.