94 fkta^nrjlantfS Parities. 



Pellamount, or Mountain time. 1 

 Motife-ear Minor? 



The making of Oyl of Akrons. To flrengthen weak Mem- 

 bers. For ScalP d-heads. 



There is Oak of three kinds, white, red and black, 

 the white is excellent to make Canoes of, Shallopes, 

 Ships, and other Veflels for the Sea, and for Claw-board, 

 and Pipe-ftaves, the black is good to make Waynfcot 

 of; and out of the white Oak Acorns, (which is the Acorn 

 Bears delight "to feed upon) : The Natives draw an Oyl, 

 taking the rotteneft Maple Wood, which being burnt to 

 allies, they make a ftrong Lye therewith, wherein they 

 boyl their white Oak-Acorns until the Oyl fwim on the 

 top in great quantity; this [49] they fleet off, and put into 

 bladders to annoint their naked Limbs, which corroba- 

 rates them exceedingly; they eat it likewife with their 

 Meat, it is an excellent clear and fweet Oyl: Of the Mofs 

 that grows at the roots of the white Oak the Indeffes make 

 a ftrong deco6tion, with which they help their Papoufes or 

 young Childrens fcall'd Heads. 3 



1 Gerard, p. 653 {Teucrium, L.). The author may have intended to reckon 

 the genus only. Our species is peculiar to this continent. 



2 The designation is uncertain. The old botanists gave the name Auricula 

 muris, or mouse-ear, to species of Myosotis, Draba, Hieracium, and Gnaphalium. 

 Josselyn's plant may most probably be Antennaria plantaginifolia, Hook, (mouse- 

 ear of New England), which is very near to A. dioica of Europe. — Gray, Statis- 

 tics, &c, I. c, p. Si. 



3 Quercus alba, L. ; Q. rubra, L. ; and Q. tincloria, Bartr. Wood's account of 

 the oaks (New-England's Prospeft, chap, v.) is similar. In his Voyages, p. 61, 

 Josselyn gives us " the ordering of red oake for wainscot. When they have cut it 



