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 ...

The Lesser Celandine, or Pile-wort, in Latin Che∣lidonium minus.

'Tis a lit∣tle Plant, about an Hand's breadth, which has yearly a new Root, Leaf and Flower. The Root is in∣spid, and partly round, as an Onion, and partly con∣sisting of many white Fi∣bres; from whence arises a small Stalk, near the Earth white, above of a light Purple; and at the bottom is a Joint, from whence a∣rise two Leaves, opposite one to another, with long Stalks, that have a broad Beginning, and are of a fleshy Colour, and end nar∣row and green: They are

somewhat like Ivy-leaves, but softer, less and round∣er; they shine, and are nervous, and have some∣times white Spots; as also those two that arise from the Root. The Leaves up∣on the Stalks are much in∣dented, like the Leaves of Creeping-Ivy; and they are commonly plac'd alter∣nately, and hang upon short, green Foot-stalks. At the top of the Branches is plac'd one Flower, resem∣bling that of Crowfoot, consisting of eight or nine small Leaves, of a Golden shining Colour. The Cup consists of three little, short Leaves, and has in the mid∣dle many yellow Threads. A little Head, cover'd with Pricks, succeeds the Flow∣er, of a yellowish green Colour, compos'd of the Seeds. It flowers at the Latter End of March, or the Beginning of April; in May the Leaves and Flow∣ers vanish; the Roots shoot forth the next Spring. It grows in Meadows, near Ditches, and chiefly in wet Grounds.

It cools and moistens, and is chiefly us'd for the Jaundice, Scurvy, and Bleeding of the Hemor∣rhoids. Outwardly ap∣plied, 'tis a Specifick for Excrescencies in the Fun∣dament; and is much com∣mended for Cleansing the Teeth, and for preserving them from Putrefaction.