(3?8) , 
and that by its vertue the bleeding is ftanched, and the wound 
healed. I did take a quantity of it , and reduced it to a falve, 
•wirh Wax and Butter, J tsefFeft was that it healed too fuddenly, 
fothat I durft not adventure to ufe it in any deep wound ; Euc 
for fuperficial fears it hath a very fudden operation. At that time 
I did not know this Herb by any name ; but now I find it to 
be Afphodelm LdigcaJlrU verus of Johnjlon ^ or the La/icajhirf 
Jfphodil. 
I cannot omit to add here, that 'tis very ordinary to find Mi?- 
Jhcco Beans on the fti'oar of the Lews or other our Weftern 
Jfles, They are found faft to the ftalks, which the Common-Peo- 
ple fuppofed to be Sea-tangles, and laughed at me, when f faid 
they were Land- beans ; Which made me to write to the Earl of 
^eafort^ whilft he lived in the Levpes^ that I fuppofed, thefe ap- 
parent tangles were the ham of the Beans , which by long lying 
in the Sea might acquire that likenefs. His Lordfliip examined 
the matter, and found it fo. And he likewife fent tome apiece 
of a Cabbage-tree y t\\dii was found on that fhoar. It is obferva- 
ble, that the kernel of thefe Nuts will be frefli and found, and 
the people make boxes for Snuff of the Bean-husk, Now, con- 
fidering thefcituationof thofe Ifles with refpeft to any place 
where Molucco-beans gtow^ let the Obfervers of Tydes confider, 
what reciprocations muft be imagined to adjufl theEaftcrnand 
Weftern conftant Currents of the Main with the wafting of 
thefe Beans on places that lie fo far out of the road of any of 
thedireft Tydes: And if they grow only about the ^lclucc^ 
Ifies, or iu no place on this fide the Equator , it would feeni more 
probable, that they cameby the Northern paflTagejthan any other 
way. And their freflhncfs in the Kernel feems rather to have 
been kept in the Cold coiifervatory, than in the Warm Baths of 
the other progrefs. 
tarbutty July 9. 1675- 
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