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knowledge of this Plant hath flept all this while, i.e. 

 above Forty Years. 1 



For all manner of Fluxes. 

 It is excellent for all manner of Fluxes. 

 Live for ever, a kind of Cud-weed? 

 Tree Primerofe, taken by the Ignorant for Scabiotis? 

 A Solar Planl, as fome will have it. 



1 The figure sufficiently exhibits Sarracenia purpurea, L. 



2 " Live-for-ever. It is a kind of cud-weed. ... It growes now plentifully in 

 our English gardens. . . . The fishermen, when they want" (that is, lack) "to- 

 bacco, take this herb; being cut and dryed." — Voyages, p. 7S; where the author 

 adds the peculiar medicinal virtues of the plant, which are the same as those 

 assigned by Gerard (p. 644) to the genus. Compare, as to this, Wood and 

 Bache, Dispens., p. 1334. The species intended by Josselyn is our everlasting 

 (Antennaria margaritacea (L.) Br.), described by Gerard, and figured by John- 

 son in his edition of the former (p. 641), and first published by Clusius (Gnapka- 

 lium Americanum, Rar. PI. Hist., vol. i. p. 327) in 1601. Clusius had it from 

 England, says Johnson. The dried herb, used by the fishermen instead of to- 

 bacco, and no doubt called by them poke, may have been mistaken by Wood for 

 colt's-foot, the leaves of which were " smoked by the ancients in pulmonary com- 

 plaints ; . ■ • and, in some parts of Germany, are at the present time said to be 

 substituted for tobacco." — Wood and Bache, Dispens., p. 1401. Cornus sericea, 

 L., — "called by the natives squaw-bush" (Williamson's Hist. Maine, vol. i. p. 

 125), and by the western Indians kinnikinnik (Gray, Man., p. 161) ; furnished, in 

 its inner bark (on the medicinal properties of w-hich, see especially Rees's Cycl., 

 Amer. ed., in loco), a substitute for Nicotiana, — very widely approved among 

 the native Americans. The name, Indian tobacco, given to Lobelia injlata, L. 

 (the emetic-weed of Cutler, /. c, p. 484; who "first attracted to it the attention 

 of the profession"), by the whites, is in some connections confusing, and might 

 well be displaced by wild tobacco, which is also in popular use. 



3 CEnothera biennis, L. (Johnson's Gerard, p. 475), — known to Europeans, 

 according to Linnaeus (Sp. PL, p. 493), as early as 1614; but first described and 

 figured by Prosper Alpinus, in his posthumous De PI. Exoticis, p. 325, t. 324, cit. 

 L. Johnson says that Parkinson gave it the English name of tree-primrose, 

 which it still keeps. It is "vulgarly known by the name of scabish (a corruption, 

 probably of scabious) " in the country. — Bigel. Fl. Bost., in loco. Josselyn de- 

 scribes the plant in his Voyages, p. 78. 



