of burning at all; but contrariwise it preserves a green colour, more or less brown, or blackish, according as the Plant was juycie.
This Vessel doth not only serve towards the distillation of Herbs, but is useful also, to that of their Juyces; provided, they have been depurated in B. M. before they be put in the Still-Body, to avoid that the herbaceous odour, proceeding from the feces of the Plants, may not be communicated to their water: so shall you have a very good water, and the inspissated juyce or Extract improperly called of the Plant. It conduces moreover, to the distillation of fruits, as to make the water of green Walnuts, Apples, Melons, Cowcumbers, and other like Fruits. With it may also be distilled Milk, Sperm of Frogs, and Cow-dung; whereof is made the Water called Mille Florum; finally herein, better then in any other Vessel, may be distilled the Flowers of Nenuphar, red Poppy, Elder, Beans, and Honey-suckle: and to end in a word, it is a Vessel which ought not to be wanting in a Chymical Laboratory, or the shop of an Apothecary curious of distillation.
These Plants distilled in this manner, may easily be calcined, because they are very dry, and then their Salt be extracted, to joyn with the Water of the Plant; and so not only be made more full of vertue and efficacy, but also, fit to be better and longer preserved, without any alteration: which is the Apothecaries ad∣vantage, the satisfaction of the Physitian, and the benefit of the Patient.
We have yet to speak here of odoriferous Plants, which are Mercurial and Sulphureous, and which attain not to the true peri∣od of their vertue; but, when the outward heat of the Sun, and their internal Archeus, hath concocted and digested rheir superflu∣ous moisture, which was a hinderance to their perfection. This kind of Plant nevertheless, is, that which furnishes us with the largest and fairest harvest to provide the Shops of Apothecaries, and bestow their time with more advantage, and greater pleasure. The Plants of this Classis are, Wormwood, Sothernwood, male and female Anise, Dill, Chervile, Coriander, Fennel, Hysop, Marjerom, Feverfew, Balm, Penny-royal, Parsley, Rhue, Sabine, Scordium, or Water-Germander Tansie, and all other odorife ous