Maiden Hair, or Cappcllus veneris verus, which ordina- 
rily is half a Yard in height. The Apothecaries for 
fhame now will fubftitute Wall-Rue no more for Maiden 
Hair, fince it grows in abundance in New-England, from 
whence they may have good ftore. 1 
Pirola, Two kinds. See the Figures, both of them 
excellent Wound Herbs. 2 
Homer's Molley? 
[56] Lyjimachus or Loofe Strife, it grows in dry 
grounds in the open Sun four foot high, Flowers from 
the middle of the Plant to the top, the Flowers purple, 
Handing upon a fmall fheath or cod, which when it is 
ripe breaks and puts forth a white filken doun, the ftalk 
is red, and as big as ones Finger. 4 
Marygold of Peru, of which there are two kinds, one 
bearing black feeds, the other black and white fhreak'd, 
this beareth the faireft flowers, commonly but one upon 
the very top of the ftalk. 5 
1 Adiantum pedatum, L. — The European A. Capillus veneris, L., long used 
as a peroral (the sirop de capillaire of French shops being made of it), is, ac- 
cording to Messrs. Wood and Bache (Dispens., p. 1290), "feebler" than our 
species, which Josseljn recommends. 
2 See pp. 67. 68. 
3 Johnson's Gerard, p. 183 : which is perhaps Allium magicum, L. ; for which 
our A. tricoccum, Ait., may have been mistaken. — See also p. 54 of this ; note. 
4 Epilobiii7n angustifolium, L. (rosebay willow-herbe of Gerard by Johnson) ; 
which last figures it at p. 477: common to Europe and America; but some 
botanists have, like Josselyn, reckoned the American plant "proper to the 
country." 
Heliant/ius, L. (Gerard, p. 751), a genus peculiar to America; called 
"American marygold" in the Voyages (p. 59), where it is set down among the 
more striking of our New-England flowers. At p. 82 of this book, the author 
gives a cut of the " marygold of America," which he describes. It is probably 
