(77) 
(cutvic-grafs. To kill lice^ boil the roots 6f 
Hellehorem niilk^and anoint the hair of the 
head therewith or other places* 
Mandrake^ is a very rare plant, the Indi* 
^;jiknow it not, it is found in (he woods 
about Tafcataway^ they do in plain terms 
ftink , therefore Kmhens-flov^tts that he 
brought honric were not Mmdrah^sfim.^o. 
14, 15, 16. T^hey are rendered in the Latine 
Amabiles flores, f^e/^me word fay our Di- 
vines is ufed in Canticles, 7. 4* Affiabiles 
iftos flores edentes odorem, & fccundum 
oftia noftra omnes pretiofos fru<3:us, rcccn- 
tes fimulac vcteres , diledtt nni, repono tibi. 
So that the right tranjlMiGH i/,Reuben brought 
home amiable and fwcet fmeHing florpers\ this 
in the Canticles ( fay they ) expounding the 
other. 
Calamus Aromaticus^ or the fwe:t fmcU 
ling reed^ it Flowers in July^ fee Ner^^-* 
Englands iztiiks. 
Sarfaparillaot rou^^hbind-weed fas feme 
dcfcribe iO the leaves and whole bind fee 
with thorns, of this there is ftore growing 
upon the banks of Ponds. See the rarities 
of New-England. The leaves of the Sarfa-^ 
•parilla thctc dcfcribed pounded with Hdgs 
greafe and boiled to an unguent, is excel- 
lent in the curing of wounds. 
Live for ever* it is a kind of Cud^medy 
