124 Ikfo^nglatrtrg Parities. 



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 If I had ftaid longer in the Country, I fhould have pur- 



pofefy made a Journey into thofe Parts where it was 

 gathered, to difcover if poflible, the Stalk and Flower; 

 but now I fhall refer it to thofe that .are younger, and 

 better able to undergo the pains and trouble of finding it 

 out; for I underftood by the Natives, that it is not com- 

 mon, that is, every where to be found, no more then the 

 embroydered Pirola, which alfo is a moft elegant Plant, 

 and which I did endeavour to bring over, but it perifhed at 

 Sea. 



For Wounds. 



Clownes all heal, of New-England, is another Wound 

 Herb not Inferiour to [70] ours, but rather beyond it: 

 Some of our EnglifJi practitioners take it for Vervene, and 

 ufe it for the fame, wherein they are grofly miftaken. 



The Leaf is like a Nettle Leaf, but narrower and 

 longer; the ftalk about the bignefs of a Nettle ftalk, 

 Champhered and hollow, and of a dusky red Colour; 

 the Flowers are blew, fmall, and many, growing in fpoky 

 tufts at the top, and are not hooded, but having only four 

 round Leaves, after which followeth an infinite of fmall 

 longifh light brown Seed; the Roots are knotty and 

 matted together with an infinite number of fmall white 

 firings; the whole Plant is commonly two Cubits high, 

 bitter in tafte, with a Rofenie favour. 1 



1 "There is a plant, likewise, — called, for want of a name, clowne's wound- 

 wort, by the English ; though it be not the same, — that will heal a green wound 

 in 24 hours, if a wise man have the ordering of it." — Voyages, p. 60. Verbena 



