fkto=(£itglantis Earitfrs. 83 



Water Plantane, here called Water fuck-leaves} 



For Burns and Scalds, and to draw Water out of fweWd 



Legs. 



It is much ufed for Burns and Scalds, and to draw water 

 out of fwell'd Legs. Bears feed much upon this Plant, fo 

 do the Moofe Deer. 



[43] Sea Plajitane, three kinds. 2 



Small-water Archer? 



Autumn Bell Flower^ 



White Hellibore, which is the firft Plant that fprings 

 up in this Country, and the firft that withers; it grows 

 in deep black Mould and Wet, in fuch abundance, that 

 you may in a fmall compafs gather whole Cart-loads 

 of it. 5 



1 Alisma flantago, L., common to Europe and America; "called, in New 

 England, -water suck-leaves and scurvie-leaves. You must lay them whole to 

 the leggs to draw out water between the skin and the flesh." — Josselyn's Voyages, 

 p. So. As to its medicinal properties, see Gerard, p. 419 ; and Wood and Bache, 

 Dispens., p. 1293. 



- Plantago maritima, L. (Gerard, p. 423), a native of Europe and America, is 

 our only sea-plantain. One of the others was probably Triglockin. 



3 Sagittaria sagittifolia, L. (now called arrowhead), common to Europe and 

 America; though here passing into some varieties which are unknown in the 

 European Floras. 



1 Gentiana safonaria, L., peculiar to America, but nearly akin to the Euro- 

 pean G. fneumonanthe, L., which our author intended. — Johnson's Gerard, edit. 

 cit., p. 438. 



5 The plant is green hellebore (Veratrum viride, Ait); so near, indeed, to 

 the white hellebore ( V. album, L.) of Europe, that it was taken for it by Michaux. 

 In his Voyages, the author, after speaking of the use of opium by the Turks, says, 

 " The English in New England take white hellebore, which operates as fairly with 

 them as with the Indians," &c. (p. 60) ; and see p. 76, further. 



