108 Jkfos(3JitjjIaitiraJ Parities. 



Treacle- Berries. See before Salomons Seal. 

 Oak of Hieriifalcm. See before. 

 Oak of Cappadocea. See before. 



Farth-Ntits, differing much from thofe in England, one 

 fort of them bears a moll beautiful Flower. 1 



For the Scurvy and Dropjie. 



Sea-Tears, they grow upon the Sea banks in abun- 

 dance, they are good for the Scurvy and Dropfie, boiled 

 and eaten as a Sallade, and the broth drunk with it. 2 



Indian Beans, better for Phyjick tife than other Beans. 



Indian Beans, falfly called French beans, are better for 

 Phyfick and Chyrurgery [57] than our Garden Beans. 

 Probatum ejl: 3 



the second one above mentioned, and perhaps H. strumosus, L., Gray. The 

 other kind, with "black seeds," was probably H. divaricatus, L. 



1 See p. 47. The earth-nuts of Gerard (p. 1064) are species of Bulbocastanum 

 of authors. 



2 Not clear to me. But, taking the alleged virtues and the station into ac- 

 count, our author may mean here the rather striking American sea-rocket ( Caii/e 

 Americana, Nutt.) ; which, it is likely, occurred to him. Spurge-time (p. 43) 

 also grows on " sea-banks." 



3 "French beans; or, rather, American beans. The herbalists call them 

 kidney-beans, from their shape and effects ; for they strengthen the kidneys. 

 They are variegated much, — some being bigger, a great deal, than others ; some 

 white, black, red, yellow, blue, spotted : besides your Bonivis, and Calavances, 

 and the kidney-bean that is proper to Ronoake. But these are brought into the 

 country: the other are natural to the climate." — yosselyn's Voyages, p. 73-4. R. 

 Williams (Key, /. c, p. 20S) gives manusquussedask as the Indian word for beans. 

 Cornuti (whose book, indeed, is not confined to Canadian plants ; though, on 

 the other hand, he was sometimes ill informed of the true locality of his speci- 

 mens; as in the case of Asclefias Cornuti, Decsne, which he published as A. 

 Syriaca) figures and describes, at pp. 1S4-5, Phaseolus multiflorus, L. ; and this 



