For Burns and Scalds. 
With a ftrong deco<5tion of Tobacco they Cure Burns 
and Scalds, boiling it in Water from a Quart to a Pint, 
then warn the Sore therewith, and fbrew on the powder of 
dryed Tobacco. 
Hollow Leaved Lavender, is a Plant that grows in fait 
Marfhes overgrown with Mofs, with one ftraight ftalk 
about the bignefs of an Oat ftraw, better than a Cubit 
high; upon the top ftandeth one [55] fantaftical Flower, 
the Leaves grow clofe from the root, in fhape like a Tan- 
kard, hollow, tough, and alwayes full of Water, the 
p. 230; and Winslow's Relation, /. c, p. 253) ; but our author's text, above, ap- 
pears to distinguish the true herb, " not much planted," from " a small kind 
called fiooke" which " the Indians make use of." And again, more clearly, in 
his Voyages, we have to the same effect : " the Indians in New England use a 
small, round-leafed tobacco, called by them or the fishermen poke. It is odious 
to the English. . . . Of marchantable . . . tobacco, . . . there is little of it 
planted in New England; neither have they" (both clauses appear to refer to the 
English) " learned the right way of curing of it." This "marchantable tobacco" 
was no doubt mainly Nicotiana tabacum, L. ; but the other kind, the weak to- 
bacco," — cultivated, as Williams tells us, by the Indians, and recognized as 
tobacco by the English, — was not, as Wood says (N. E. Prospect, /. c), colt's- 
foot, but Nicotiana rustica, L. (the yellow henbane of Gerard's Herbal, p. 356), 
well known to have been long in cultivation among the American savages, and 
now a naturalized relic of that cultivation in various parts of the United States. 
The name, poke, or pookc, — if it be, as is supposable, the same with '■'■fuck, 
smoke," of the Narraganset vocabulary of R. Williams (Hist. Coll., vol. v. p. 84), 
— was perhaps always indefinite, and, since Cutler's day, has been applied in 
New England to the green hellebore ( Veratrum viride, Ait.) ; but this was not, it 
is evident, the poke of the first settlers. The name is also given to Phytolacca 
decandra, L. (the skoke of Cutler), and the hellebore apparently distinguished 
from this as Indian poke; but the application of the name to the former, at least, 
probably had its origin among the whites. 
