the South-Sea. 77 



Aromatick Herbs are there no lefs common ; fmall ^t& Armttyk 

 large Balm, Tanfey, Camomile, Mint, and a Sort of Pi- PUms - 

 lofella, or Moufe-Ear, which has a Scent fomething like 

 that of Wormwood, cover the Fields. The Alkaken* 

 gi y the Fruic whereof is more odoriferous than in 

 France; a Sort of fmall Sage, which grows up to a Bufh, 

 the Leaf whereof, in Shape, fomewhat refembles Rofe- 

 mary ; and having a Scent like the Queen of Hungarfs 

 Water, the Indian$-c\\\ it Palghi: It is, perhaps, a Sort of 

 Conizi Africand Salvia Odore, and muft contain many vo- 

 latile Principles, if we may judge by the Scent and Tafte. 

 Roles grow naturally on the Hills, without having been 

 planted ; and the moft common Sort that grows there, is 

 either, lefs prickly than in France, or has no Prickles at all. 

 There is alfo in the Fields, a Flower like that Flower de 

 Z,yr, which in Bretagne they cMGuemeziaifes, and Father 

 FeUillee, Hemorocalis ftoribus purpurafcentibus flriafis ; the/#- 

 Name of it is tJuto i andnotZi##, as he fays. There 

 are of them of feveral Colours ; and, of the fix Leaves which 

 compofeit; there are always two Copple-crown'd. Of 

 the Root of this Flower dried in an Oven, they make a very 

 white Meal, and Pafte for Confe&ionary. 



In the Gardens, they cultivate a Tree bearing a white Floripondio 

 Flower, fhaped like a little Bell, calPd Floripondio. Father Fhwr. 

 Feuillee calls it, Stramonoides arboreum oblongo & integro folio 

 frutfu levi ; the Scent of it is extraordinary fweet 3 efpe- 

 cially in the Night : It is eight or ten Inches long, and 

 four Diameter at the Bottom ; the Leaf is downy, and a 

 little more pointed than that of the Walnut-tree : It is an 

 admirable Difpeller of certain Tumors, or Swellings; for 

 which Ufe they have alfo a Sort of Hedera Terreftris, or 

 Ground-Ivy, call'd by the Spaniards, Terba de los compan- 

 nones. 



When any Man happens to have a violent Fall, which Quinchama- 

 occafions him to bleed at the Nofe, they have an infallible ]i Herl >> 

 Remedy for it ; which is, to drink the Deco&ion of a Pl * t(! 

 Herb call'd £uinchamali y being a Sort of Santolina, or 



Dwarf 



