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Golden Rod, by others for Sarazens Confound. I judge 
it to be a kind of fmall Sun Flower, or Marygold of the 
Weft Indies', the Root is brown and flender, a foot and 
half in length, running a flope under the upper face of the 
Earth, with fome ftrings here and there, the ftalk as big as 
the fteal of a Tobacco pipe, full of pith, commonly brown- 
ifh, fometimes purple, three or four foot high, the Leaves 
grow at a diftance one againft another, rough, hard, green 
above, and gray underneath, flightly fnipt and the ribs 
appear moft on the back lide of the Leaf, the Flower is of 
a bright yellow, with little yellow cups in the midft, as in 
the Marygold of Peru, with black threads in them with 
yellow pointels, the Flower fpreads it felf abroad out of a 
cup made up of many green beards, not unlike a Thiftle; 
Within a handful of the top of the ftalk (when the Flower 
is fallen, growes an excrenfe or knob as big as a Walnut, 
which being broken yieldeth a kind of Turpentine or 
rather Rofen} 
What Cutchenele is. 
The ftalk beneath and above the knob, covered with a 
multitude of fmall Bugs, about the bignefs of a great flea, 
which I prefume will make good Cutclmiele, ordered as 
they mould be before they come to have Wings: They 
make a perfect Scarlet Colour to Paint with, and durable. 
1 Hclianthus, L., sp. (sun-flower) ; a genus peculiar to America. The species 
is perhaps H. strumosus, L. (Gray, Man., p. 21S). — See p. [56] of this book; 
note. 
