Chap. 226. 



Tigris 



309 



VI. The fourth^ or Lefler upright narrow-leav'd 

 American Dogs-bane, ha* a thick Root, but it creeps 



minefs on them, which will detain Flies or other 

 lighc things which happen to fall thereon. After 



American Dogs-bane, cal/ed Virginia Silk, hat a 

 Root which is long and white, of the thickne/s of a 

 Man's Thimh, running under Ground very far, and 

 Shooting up again in divers places, the Heads being 

 fetfull off mall white Knobs or Knots, fending forth 



From this Root rifes up one Stalk, and fometimes 

 more, being firong and round, and three or four feet 

 high, on which arefet, at the feveral Joints there- 



mth^ma^ Veins therein, growing clofe to the Stem, 



i^4";;'^y^f||'^^^^ 



by Experience ; yet by their milky Juice, 



almoft be concluded in the fame Claffis I for which 

 Reafon I fhould defire every one to be cautious in 



SSdfH 



ifli of Flowers, o 



me'l^kTalongF 

 s for the molt pai 



St-fblk,°hanging 

 , efpecially thofe 



a Husk of green Leaves, turned to the Stalk^ward, 

 like to the Lyfmachia or Looftrife Flower of V ' 

 nia, and each of them confifting of five fmall Le 

 apiece, of a pale purplifli color on the upper 



fidesV^ach Lraf t^ing fs"n were fS^ tJge 



Sort^Chiv';"' '"" ° """" /"'"the'Fb^r 



fine, fotf,., - .,;ikeunt( 



Cods,Seed. J:ow-wori 



that the Cods are greater, ana more crooked, and 

 harder alfo in the outward Shell. The whole Plant, 

 as well Leaves as Stalks, being broken, will yiel ' 

 a pale kind ofMilk or Juice. 



VIIL The Places. The fitft and third grow : 

 Italy, Apulia and Calabria in the Kmgdom of Afc- 



Countries, as alfo in baly, as Matthiolus reports ; 

 but with us they grow in Gardens. The two '-'^ 

 came ftom our Englijh Plantations in America. 

 laft, Parkinfon fays, came to him ftom Virg, 



Seed which he had ftom thence. 



IX. Jhe Times. The three firft flovyer late in 



end of Auguft, and to the wlddie of September. 



u», Venefick or Poyfo- 

 ley are lb great Poyfons, as to kill Dogs, 

 1 they will do, if the Herb is inixed with 



XL The milky Juice of _ any of tl 

 ants, is very hot and burning, and b< 



s3"Mo"hSv^°Le ?ofy"" IS'to i 

 ft^m Vi\S irthey^be°fteeped"inh. 



s of either of 



XII. A Cataplafm made of the Leaves of 



good for Tumors and Pains proceeding ftom a cold 



Xin. G^Wfcys, that the Cods of the kft, 01 



fluffed full with a moft pure Silk, of a (hining 

 white color : The Cods (fays he) are not only full 

 of Silk, but every Nerve or Smew, wherewith the 

 Leaves are ribbed, are likewife molt pure Silk •, as 

 alfo are the Peelings or Bark ot the Stems or 

 Branches, like as is the Peeling or Bark oiilax or 

 Hemp, Cordage for making Linnen. But the Indi- 

 ans have not the Underftanding in them to make ufe 

 of it, fo as to cover their Nakednefi, notwithltand- 



it was carefully Cherilhed and Manured. 

 XIV. This lalt Plant Farkinfon tells us he raifed 



ftom Virginia':, but he fays there is another Plant 

 growing in F/V^ww, czWed Silk-Grafs, which is ve-- 

 ry much differing ftom this. 



CHAP. CCXXVI. 

 Of DOGS--S TONES; 



l.'-V^HE Names. This Plant is called in Greek 

 1 Kw«cr«fv« : in Arabick, Chafi alkes, 3nd Lhafi 



alchels: in Latin, Cynoforchis,-in&Tcpculus velTe- 



Jiiculi Canis : in Engm, Dogs-Jfones. 



II. The Kinds. This Plant is 6f the kinds of 



Orchis; now, how manifold the chief and principal 



r Light. Orcfe/W^. then are divi, 

 cipal kinds, viz. into, I. Q/no, 



