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Water Plantane, here called Water fuck-leaves} 
For Burns and Scalds, and to draw Water out of fweWd 
Legs. 
It is much ufed for Burns and Scalds, and to draw water 
out of fwell'd Legs. Bears feed much upon this Plant, fo 
do the Moofe Deer. 
[43] Sea Plantane, three kinds. 2 
Small-water Archer? 
A utumn Bell Flower? 
White Hellibore, which is the firfl Plant that fprings 
up in this Country, and the firfl that withers; it grows 
in deep black Mould and Wet, in fuch abundance, that 
you may in a fmall compafs gather whole Cart-loads 
of it. 5 
1 Alisma plantago, L., common to Europe and America; "called, in New 
England, water suck-leaves and scurvie-leaves. You must lay them whole to 
the leggs to draw out water between the skin and the flesh." — Jossclyti's Voyages, 
p. 80. As to its medicinal properties, see Gerard, p. 419; and Wood and Bache, 
Dispens., p. 1293. 
2 Plantago maritima, L. (Gerard, p. 423), a native of Europe and America, is 
our only sea-plantain. One of the others was probably Triglochin. 
8 Sagittaria sagittifolia, L. (now called arrowhead), common to Europe and 
America ; though here passing into some varieties which are unknown in the 
European Floras. 
4 Gentiana safonaria, L., peculiar to America, but nearly akin to the Euro- 
pean G. fneumonanthe, L., which our author intended. — Johnson's Gerard, edit. 
at., p. 438. 
5 The plant is green hellebore (Veralrum viride, Ait.); so near, indeed, to 
the white hellebore ( V. album, L.) of Europe, that it was taken for itbyMichaux. 
In his Voyages, the author, after speaking of the use of opium by the Turks, says, 
"The English in New England take white hellebore, which operates as fairly with 
them as with the Indians," &c. (p. 60) ; and see p. 76, further. 
