136 $cfo=(£ttglatttis Parities. 



Golden Rod, by others for Sarazens Confound. I judge 

 it to be a kind of fmall Sun Flower, or Marygold of the 

 Wejl Indies', the Root is brown and flender, a foot and 

 half in length, running a flope under the upper face of the 

 Earth, with fome firings here and there, the ftalk as big as 

 the Ileal of a Tobacco pipe, full of pith, commonly brown- 

 ifh, fometimes purple, three or four foot high, the Leaves 

 grow at a diftance one againft another, rough, hard, green 

 above, and gray underneath, flightly fnipt and the ribs 

 appear moil on the back fide of the Leaf, the Flower is of 

 a bright yellow, with little yellow cups in the midft, as in 

 the Marygold of Peru, with black threads in them with 

 yellow pointels, the Flower fpreads it felf abroad out of a 

 cup made up of many green beards, not unlike a Thiftle; 

 Within a handful of the top of the ftalk (when the Flower 

 is fallen, growes an excrenfe or knob as big as a Walnut, 

 which being broken yieldeth a kind of Turpentine or 

 rather Rofen. 1 



What Cutchenele is. 



The ftalk beneath and above the knob, covered with a 

 multitude of fmall Bugs, about the bignefs of a great flea, 

 ■which I prefume will make good Cutchenele, ordered as 

 they fhould be before they come to have Wings: They 

 make a perfect Scarlet Colour to Paint with, and durable. 



1 Heliant7nis, L., sp. (sun-flower) ; a genus peculiar to America. The species 

 is perhaps H. strumosus, L. (Gray, Wan., p. 21S). — See p. [56] of this hook; 

 note. 



