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The I'pecacuana grows likewise in great Plenty in this 

 Province, which I frequently made Use of during my stay 

 in that Country, with as good Success as any I have ever 

 met with in Europe. This Herb bringeth forth one or more 

 Stalks, which are Quadrangular, about a Foot high, whereon 

 grow Leaves confusedly set at certain distance one from the 

 other, unless at the Top, where they grow one opposite to the 

 other, something like Pur slain, but more sharp, and of a 

 dark green colour, with a red circle about the Edges, and 

 divided with Threads or Sinews in the middle, which perish 

 in Winter. I am not certain whether it beareth Flowers 

 or Seed; the Koot is so well known in every Apothecary's 

 Shop, that it would be needless to trouble the Eeader with 

 a farther Description about it. This and the Scamony grow^ 

 in high Sandy Ground, in many Places in Carolina. Oak 

 of Jerusalem, Indian-purger, Sioallow-wort, Palma-Christi, 

 several sorts of Mint, Red-Doch, Jamestown-Weed, so called 

 from its being so very plenty in Virginia, especially on both 

 sides of James's River: The Seed it bears is exactly like that 

 of an Onion, but it's Leaves are very coarse and large, and 

 indented about the Edges ; it is excellent good in asswaging 

 all manner of Inflammations, and curing Burns, by applying 

 it outwardly, with which the Indians are well acquainted, 

 but if it be taken Inwardly, it immediately occasions a Gid- 

 diness and Madness, so that you shall see those that take it 

 (which most commonly happens to Children) run up and 

 down the Fields in a most distracted manner, during its 

 Operation, but does no further Mischief. 



There is another Weed, vulgarly called the Siuamp-Lillie, 

 which grows in the Marshes and low Grounds, and is some- 

 thing like our Doch in its Leaves, and hath the same Effect, 



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