Hkfosffinglatflis Parities. 107 



Maiden Hair, or Cappellus veneris verus, which ordina- 

 rily is half a Yard in height. The Apothecaries for 

 fhame now will fubftitute Wall-Rue no more for Maiden 

 Hair, fince it grows in abundance in New-England, from 

 whence they may have good flore. 1 



Pirola, Two kinds. See the Figures, both of them 

 excellent Wound Herbs. 2 



Homer's Molley? 



[56] Lyjimachus or Loofe Strife, it grows in dry 

 grounds in the open Sun four foot high, Flowers from 

 the middle of the Plant to the top, the Flowers purple, 

 ftanding upon a fmall flieath or cod, which when it is 

 ripe breaks and puts forth a 'white filken doun, the ftalk 

 is red, and as big as ones Finger. 4 



Marygold of Peril, of which there are two kinds, one 

 bearing black feeds, the other black and white ftreak'd, 

 this beareth the faireft flowers, commonly but one upon 

 the very top of the ftalk. 5 



1 Adiantum fedatum, L. — The European A. Capillus veneris, L., long used 

 as a pectoral (the sirof de capillaire of French shops being made of it), is, ac- 

 cording to Messrs. Wood and Bache (Dispens., p. 1290), "feebler" than our 

 species, •which Josselvn recommends. 



2 See pp. 67, 68. 



3 Johnson's Gerard, p. 183 : which is perhaps Allium magicum, L. ; for which 

 our A. tricoccum, Ait., may have been mistaken. — See also p. 54 of this ; note. 



4 Efilobium angustifolium, L. (rosebay willow-herbe of Gerard by Johnson) ; 

 which last figures it at p. 477 : common to Europe and America ; but some 

 botanists have, like Josselyn, reckoned the American plant " proper to the 

 country." 



Helianthus, L. (Gerard, p. 751), a genus peculiar to America; called 

 "American marygold" in the Voyages (p. 59), where it is set down among the 

 more striking of our New-England flowers. At p. 82 of this book, the author 

 gives a cut of the " marygold of America," which he describes. It is probably 



