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If I had ftaid longer in the Country, I fhould have pur- 
pofely made a Journey into thofe Parts where it was 
gathered, to difcover if poffible, the Stalk and Flower; 
but now I mall refer it to thofe that are younger, and 
better able to undergo the pains and trouble of finding it 
out; for I underftood by the Natives, that it is not com- 
mon, that is, every where to be found, no more then the 
embroydered Pirola, which alfo is a moft elegant Plant, 
and which I did endeavour to bring over, but it perifhed at 
Sea. 
For Wounds. 
Clownes all heal, of New-England, is another Wound 
Herb not Inferiour to [70] ours, but rather beyond it: 
Some of our Engli/Ji practitioners take it for Vervene, and 
ufe it for the fame, wherein they are grofly miftaken. 
The Leaf is like a Nettle Leaf, but narrower and 
longer; the ftalk about the bignefs of a Nettle ftalk, 
Champhered and hollow, and of a dusky red Colour; 
the Flowers are blew, fmall, and many, growing in fpoky 
tufts at the top, and are not hooded, but having only four 
round Leaves, after which followeth an infinite of fmall 
longifh light brown Seed; the Roots are knotty and 
matted together with an infinite number of fmall white 
firings; the whole Plant is commonly two Cubits high, 
bitter in tafte, with a Rofenie favour. 1 
1 "There is a plant, likewise, — called, for want of a name, clowne's wound- 
wort, by the English ; though it be not the same, — that will heal a green wound 
in 24 hours, if a wise man have the ordering of it." — Voyages, p. 60. Verbena 
