in 
For Burns and Scalds. 
It is very good for Burns and Scalds. 
An Achariflon, or Medicine defcrving thanks. 
An Indian whofe Thumb was fweird, and very much 
inflamed, and full of pain, increafing and creeping along to 
the wrifb, with little black fpots under the Thumb againft 
the Nail ; I Cured it with this Umbcllicus veneris Root and 
all, the Yolk of an Egg, and Wheat flower, f. Cata- 
plafme. 
Briony of Peru, (we call it though it grown hear) or 
rather Scammony ; fome take it for Mechoacan : The 
green Juice is abfolutely Poyfon; yet the Root when dry 
may fafely be given to ftrong Bodies. 1 
Red and Black Currence. See before. 
Wild Damask Rofcs, fingle, but very large and fweet, 
but ftiptick. 2 
Sweet Fern? the Roots run one within another like a 
1 Convolvulus sepium, L. (great bind-weed) is exceedingly like to C. Scam- 
monia, L., the inspissated juice of which is the officinal scammon}'; and is com- 
mon to Europe and North America. Gerard's bryony of Peru (p. 872-3), to which 
Josselyn refers, is, whatever it be, not found here. Compare Cutler's remarks on 
C. senium (Account of Veg., &C, /. c, p. 416). Mechoacan, "called . . . Indian 
briony, or briony, or scammony of America," from the Caribbee Islands, &c, is 
described in Hughes, Amer. Physitian (1672), p. 94; and see Wood and Bache, 
Dispens., p. 424, note. 
2 Rosa Carolina,!-.. (Carolina rose), probably. — See Cutler's observations, 
/. c, p. 451. Higginson also notices "single damaske roses, verie sweete." — 
New-Eng. Plantation, I. c, p. 1 19. Our Carolina rose is said to be common in 
English shrubberies. 
3 See also Voyages, p. 72. Our author is the earliest authority that I have 
met with for this name; and his plant, which is placed among those "proper to 
