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£lefo=(!HngIanlis Parities. 



there is another plant which I judge to be a kind of Pirola, 

 and proper to this Country, a very beautiful Plant; The 

 fhape of the Leaf and the jufl bignefs of it you may fee 



in the Figure. 



The Leaf of the Plant judged to be a kind of Pirola. 



The Ground whereof is a Sap Green, embroydered (as 

 it were) with many pale yellow Ribs, the whole Plant 

 in fhape is [68] like Semper vivum, but far lefs, being not 

 above a handful high, with one flender ftalk, adorned with 

 fmall pale yellow Flowers like the other Pirola. It 

 groweth not every where, but in fome certain fmall fpots 

 overgrown with Mofs, clofe by fwamps and fhady; they 

 are green both Summer and Winter. 1 



For Wounds. 



They are excellent Wound Herbs, but this I judge to 

 be the better by far. Probatum eft. 



1 Goodyera fubescens (Willd.), R. Br., is plainly meant by the author; and 

 the common name of the plant — rattlesnake plantain — still preserves the mem- 

 ory of its supposed virtues as a wound-herb. It seems, by the next page, that 

 Josselyn tried to carry living specimens to England; but they "perished at sea." 

 The putting this among the Pyrolre (as if by some confusion of Goodyera with 

 Chimophila maculata) was a bad mistake. 



