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iflaurifheth aH funimcr long fill cold wei- 
thcr comes in, it growes now pkntifully in 
our Ew^/i/& Gardens J it is good for cough 
of the lungs, and tockanfc the breaft taken 
as you do Tobacco i and for pain in the 
head the decodion, or the juice ftrained 
and drunk in Bear, Wine, or Aqua vita^^ 
fcilleth wornns. The Firtiermen when they 
want Tobacco take this hcib being cut and 
dryed. 
Lyfimachm or Loofe-flirife;there ^rc fevcral 
kinds, but the moft jnotcd is the yellow Ly- 
fimacbm oi Virginia^ the root is longifh and 
white, as thick as ones thuniib, the ftalkes 
of an overworn colour, and a little hairie,; 
the naiddle vein of the le^f whitifli, the 
Flower yellow and like Primrofes , and 
therefore called Tree-primrofc, growes up* 
on feedie vellels , &c* The firft year it 
growes not up to a ftalke, but fends up 
many large leaves handfomely lying one 
upon another^Rofe fathion-^ Flowers in Jme^ 
the feed is ripe in A^gufi^ ihk as 1 have faid 
is taken by the Engli(h for Scabious. 
Sr. Johns wort ^ it prefcrvcth Cheefe 
made up in it, at Sea* 
Spurge or Wolfes mikh there are icveral 
forts. 
^z^fc*;i/*,or herb-bcnnct^ you have an account 
of it in NeW'Englmds rarities i but one 
thins:. 
