go CULPEPER’ ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
‘Prace. Itis frequent in all paftures. 
Time: It flowereth not until the latter end of Auguft. 
GovirNMENT AND Virtues. It is under the influence of Venus. An oint- 
ment of it cures wounds, and is moft fit for fach as have inflammations. © It {tops the 
bloody flux; the ointment of it is not only good for green wounds, but alfo for 
ulcers and fiftulas, efpecially fuch as abound with moifture. It ftayeth the fhedding 
of hair, . the head being bathed with the decoétion of it. Inwardly taken, it helps 
the retentive faculty of the ftomach, and fuch as cannot hold their water. The 
leaves, chewed, eafe the tooth-ach ; and thefe virtues put together fhew the. herb to 
; bediving and binding. 
fff’ veces or JUCCA. Lill 
_* Description. -T HIS Indian plant hath a thick tuberous root, fovesdilid i in 
time into many tuberous heads, whence fhoot forth many long, hard, and hollow, 
leaves, very fharp pointed, compaffing one another at the bottom, of a greyifh green. 
colour, abiding continually, or feldom falling away, with fundry hard threads run- 
ning in them, and, being withered, become pliant to bind things. From the midft 
thereof {pringeth forth a ftrong round ftalk, divided into fundry branches, where- 
on ftand divers fomewhat large white flowers, hanging downwards, confifting of fix 
Jeaves with divers veins, of a weak reddifh or bluifh colour, fpread on the back of 
three outer leaves, from the middle to the bottom, not reaching to the sa, oh: any 
leaf; which abide not long, but quickly fall away. 1-bie 
_ PLaczanp Time. It groweth in divers places of the Wet Indies, as in Vie f ni 
iad New England, and flowers about the latter end of July. 03 gh eae 
‘or ron VARA AS, There hath no property hereof conducible to phyfical ssies as s yet been 
. _ sheard.of, but fome of its vices. The natives in Virginia ufe, for bread, the roots here- 
Of... The raw juice is dangerous, if not deadly. - It is very probable that the Indians 
Se seetwis — the heads of their darts with this Bcose: which sre a wef oe 
