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 ...

Goat's-beard, in Latin Tragopogon.

Any part of this Plant being cut, yields a white Milk, which soon turns yellow, and clammy. The Root is streight, about the bigness of a Finger. The Stalks are empty, and branchy; larger and strong∣er-than those of Scorzone∣ra. It has many Leaves, that are like the Leaves of Leeks, which are some∣times very broad, some∣times long, narrow, and sharp. The Flowers are placed on the top of the Stalks and Branches, and consist of eight, nine, or ten green Leaves; they are long and sharp, above three Inches long, of a deep pur∣ple or Sky-colour, and at last turn into a soft Down, to which the Seed adheres; 'tis two Inches long, round, streak'd and rough, and black when ripe.

The Root boyl'd is rec∣kon'd delicate Food; 'tis also used raw in Sallets. It nourishes much, and there∣fore good for Consumptive People. 'Tis used in Dis∣eases of the Breast, and for a Cough, and Difficulty of Breathing. 'Tis supposed to expel the Stone, and to force Urine. The Juice of the Root, and the di∣still'd Water of it, do the same.