io6 |kbj=(JHnglantis Bartttcs. 
knowledge of this Plant hath flept all this while, i.e. 
Tree Primerofe, taken by the Ignorant for Scabious? 
A Solar Plant, as fome will have it. 
1 The figure sufficiently exhibits Sarracenia purpurea, L. 
2 " Live-for-ever. It is a kind of cud-weed. . . . It growes now plentifully in 
our English gardens. . . . The fishermen, when they want" (that is, lack) "to- 
bacco, take this herb; being cut and dryed." — Voyages, p. 78; where the author 
adds the peculiar medicinal virtues of the plant, which are the same as those 
assigned by Gerard (p. 644) to the genus. Compare, as to this, Wood and 
Bache, Dispens., p. 1334. The species intended by Josselyn is our everlasting 
(Antennaria margaritacca (L.) Br.), described by Gerard, and figured by John- 
son in his edition of the former (p. 641), and first published by Clusius (Gnapha- 
lium Americanum, Rar. PI. Hist., vol. i. p. 327) in 1601. Clusius had it from 
England, says Johnson. The dried herb, used by the fishermen instead of to- 
bacco, and no doubt called by them poke, may have been mistaken by Wood for 
colt's-foot, the leaves of which were " smoked by the ancients in pulmonary com- 
plaints; . . . and, in some parts of Germany, are at the present time said to be 
substituted for tobacco." — Wood and Bache, Dispens., p. 1401. Cornus sericea, 
L., — "called by the natives squaw-bush" (Williamson's Hist. Maine, vol. i. p. 
125), and by the western Indians kinnikinnik (Gray, Man., p. 161); furnished, in 
its inner bark (on the medicinal properties of which, see especially Rees's Cycl., 
Amer. ed., in loco), a substitute for Nicotiana, — very widely approved among 
the native Americans. The name, Indian tobacco, given to Lobelia inflata, L. 
(the emetic-weed of Cutler, /. c, p. 484; who "first attracted to it the attention 
of the profession "), by the whites, is in some connections confusing, and might 
well be displaced by wild tobacco, which is also in popular use. 
8 Oenothera biennis, L. (Johnson's Gerard, p. 475), — known to Europeans, 
according to Linnseus (Sp. PI., p. 493), as early as 1614; but first described and 
figured by Prosper Alpinus, in his posthumous Dc PI. Exoticis, p. 325, t. 324, cit. 
L. Johnson says that Parkinson gave it the English name of tree-primrose, 
which it still keeps. It is "vulgarly known by the name of scabish (a corruption, 
probably of scabious) " in the country. — Bigel. Fl. Bost., in loco. Josselyn de- 
scribes the plant in his Voyages, p. 78. 
above 
For all manner of Fhixes. 
It is excellent for all manner of Fluxes. 
