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Parts where it was gathered and discover if possible, the stalk 

 and flower ; but now I shall refer it to those who are younger 

 and are better able to undergo the pains and troubles of finding 

 it out, for I understand by the Natives that it is not Common, 

 i. e. everywhere to be found, no more than the embroidered 

 pirola., which is also a most elegant plant and which I did en- 

 deavor to bring over, but it perished at Sea. 



Clowne's Allheal of New England, is another wound herb 

 not inferior to ours, but rather beyond it ; some of the English 

 practitioners taky it for Vervain and use it for the same, 

 wherein they are grossly mistaken. > 



Notwithstanding the judgment of our author against some 

 English practitioners, I am inclined to suppose the plant in 

 question is no other than Vervain or Verbena hastata. See 

 his minute description on p. 70 of his work. 



Next we have a singular little figure of our Skunk Cabbage, 

 Sijnijjlocarpus fcBtidus, accompanied by the barren stem of 

 the horsetail rush Equisetum sylvaiicii'm, also its root and leaf, 

 but which J, Josselyn, Gent., makes out to be another of "New 

 England's Rarities Discovered"' by himself, and for which he 

 is entitled to all the credit of such an exploit. He accordingly 

 says : 3. 



This plant is one of the first that springs up after the ivhiie 

 Hellebore, in the like wet and black grounds commonly by 

 Hellebore, with a sheath or hood like Dragons ; but the pestle 

 is of another shape, that is, having a round purple Ball on the 

 top of it, beset as it were with Burrs ; the hood shoots forth 

 immediately from the Root before any Leaf appears, having a 

 green sprig growing fast by it, like a small Horsetail ; about 

 the latter end of April, the hood and sprig wither away, and 

 then in the Room comes forth a bud, like the Bud of the wal- 

 nut tree but bigger : the Top of it is of a pale green colour, 

 covered with a brown skin like an onion, white underneath the 

 Leaves, which sprout in time out of the Bud, grow from the 

 Root with a stalk a foot long and as big as great Bur Dock 

 Leaves and of the same colour ; the Roots are many and of the 

 bigness of the stem of a Tobacco Pipe and very white ; the 

 whole Plant scents as strong as a Fox ; it continues till August. 



