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 ...

EArth-nut, in Latin Bulbocastanum.

The Root is Tuberous, white, and solid; with small Fi∣bres at the Bottom and Sides: It has a sweetish and pleasant Taste: It grows deep in the Ground. The Leaves are cut more sharp than the Leaves of Parsley. The Stalk is sin∣gle, round, channel'd, with one Leaf growing to it: Most commonly, before it divides it self into Branch∣es, at every Division of the Stalk a Leaf is plac'd, much more cut than those that rise from the Root. The Flowers are white, and ve∣ry small. This is one of the Umbeliferous Plants; so called, because they sus∣tain

their Flowers by long Foot-stalks, in a Circle. The Seeds are small, and somewhat long, of a Ches∣nut-colour. It flowers at the Latter End of May, or Beginning of June; and grows frequently in San∣dy and Gravelly Pastures. When the Seed is ripe, the Superficies withers imme∣diately, the Root remain∣ing in the Ground.

Our Country-people eat the Root raw; but when it is pill'd, and boyl'd in fresh Broth, with a little Peper, it is pleasant Food, and very nourishing, and stimulates Venery. Being mix'd with Medicines, it helps those that spit Blood, and void a Bloody Urine.