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there is another plant which I judge to be a kind of Pirola, 
and proper to this Country, a very beautiful Plant; The 
fhape of the Leaf and the juft bignefs of it you may fee 
in the Figure. 
The Leaf of the Plant judged to be a kind of Pirola. 
The Ground whereof is a Sap Green, embroydered (as 
it were) with many pale yellow Ribs, the whole Plant 
in Ihape is [68] like Semper vivum y but far lefs, being not 
above a handful high, with one flender ftalk, adorned with 
fmall pale yellow Flowers like the other Pirola. It 
groweth not every where, but in fome certain fmall fpots 
overgrown with Mofs, clofe by fwamps and fhady; they 
are green both Summer and Winter. 1 
For Wounds. 
They are excellent Wound Herbs, but this I judge to 
be the better by far. Probatum eji. 
1 Goodyera fubesccns (Willd.), R. Br., is plainly meant by the author; and 
the common name of the plant — rattlesnake plantain — still preserves the mem- 
ory of its supposed virtues as a wound-herb. It seems, by the next page, that 
Josselyn tried to carry living specimens to England ; but they " perished at sea." 
The putting this among the Pyrolce (as if by some confusion of Goodyera with 
Chimophila maculata) was a bad mistake. 
