Pambotanologia. 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 [brace] introduction to herbarisme, &c. appendix of exoticks. Universall index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England. / By Robert Lovell St. C.C. Ox.

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 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Porrus Palladii. The 1. Capitatum. The 2d Sectivum.

Leeke. Ger. J. K. as the headed, cut or un∣set. T. Is hot and dry, and doth attenuate as the onion. V. boiled it is lesse hurtfull and loos∣eth it's sharpnesse, yet is cacochymick; but bet∣ter 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 conti∣nuance: 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

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 al∣together so effectuall.