128 |lcfos<flJnjjIanlrs -Earttirs. 



it were fhadowed, the Stalkes are as hollow as a Kix, and 

 fo are the Roots, which are tranfparent, very tender, and 

 full of a yellowifh juice. 1 



For Bruifes ahd Aches upon Jlroaks. 



The Indians make ufe of it for Aches, being bruifed 

 between two ftones, and laid tocold, but made (after the 

 EngliJIi manner) into an unguent with Hogs Greafe, there 

 is not a more foveraign remedy for bruifes of what kind 

 foever; and for Aches upon Stroaks. 



In Auguft, 1670. in a Swamp amongft Alders, I found a 

 fort of Tree Sow Thijlle, the Stalks of fome two or three 

 Inches, [75] about, as hollow as a Kix and very brittle, 

 the Leaves were fmooth, and in fhape like Sonchus Levis, 

 i.e. Hares Lettice, but longer, fome about a Foot, thefe 

 grow at a diftance one from another,, almoft to the top, 

 where it begins to put forth Flowers between the Leaves 



1 Impatiens fulva, Nutt. (touch-me-not; balsam). Wilson says this plant 

 " is the greatest favorite with the humming-bird of all our other flowers. In some 

 places where these plants abound, you may see at one time ten or twelve hum- 

 ming-birds darting about, and fighting with and pursuing each other." — Amer. 

 Ornithol., by Brewer, p. 120. As to Josselyn's note on its use in medicine by the 

 Indians, compare Wood and Bache, Disp., p. 1345. A kix, or kex, or kexy, — 

 used in the expression, " hollow as a kix," — is a provincialism, in various parts 

 of England, for hemlock ; " the dry, hollow stocks of hemlock " (whence Webster's 

 query, — Fr., cique ; Lat. cicutd) ; and also of cow-parsley, according to Holloway 

 (Didt. of Provincialisms) : that is to say, secondarily, any hollow-stemmed plant 

 like hemlock. Gerard's figure of Impatiens noli ta?igere, L., the European bal- 

 sam, — of which the earlier botanists considered our species to be varieties, — is 

 so poor, and the plant so rare in Britain, that it is perhaps little wonder that our 

 author took the showy American balsam to be quite new. 



