Salmon j 
Leaves unlnipt or iinooth on the edges: 2. Virga I 
a urea joins J err at is Camerariia , Golden-Rod with 1 
dented' Leaves. 3. Virga aurea Americana,Go\den- 
Rod of America, which is not very much unlike to 
the fecond kind. 
Common Golden-Rod. 
IIT. The Defcriptions. The firfl , or Common 
Golden- Rod, has a Root confiJYing of a Bunch of ve- 
ry fmall fibres, which run not deep into the Ground, 
but abide all the Tear therein. From this Root firing 
up fever al fmal, round, brozenijh Stalks, half aTard 
or 1 wo Feet high, ( but higher, if it grows in a fat 
Soil, or in a Garden well manured ) having upun 
them many narrow and long dark green Leaves, ve- 
ry leldoin with any dents about the edges, and as 
feldom with any Strakes or white Spots upon them ; 
and yet lbmetimes, and in Lome places, they are fo 
to be found, divided at the tops into lome fmall 
Branches, with feveral fmall yellow Flowers on e- 
very one of them, which are turned one way, and 
not looking fundry ways at once-, which being ripe, 
do turn into Down, and are carried away with the 
Wind : the old Stalks die away and perifh every 
Year, and new ones fpring up every Spring fol- 
lowing. 
IV. The fecond, or Golden-Rod with dented 
Leaves, h.u a Root like the otper, fmall , and com- 
pared of many Strings or Threads from which rife 
up Stalks, .n m the other , not fo high cut the former, 
but full as great. The Leaves are fmall and thin, 
but broader and l'horter than thofe of the aforegoing, 
fmooth, (harp-pointed, and dented about the edges, 
like a Saw, of a hot and harlh Tafte in the Throat, 
being chewed in the Mouth } which Leaves grow 
upon a lair reddifh Foot-ftalk. The Branches bear 
fuch like flowers as the firft, facing one fide of their 
Stalks, as the former does. Thele growing at the 
tops, are of a Gold-yellow color, from whence the 
Piunt took its Name. The Flowers being palled a- 
way, the Heads turn into Down, and are carried a- 
wav with the Wind, as the other are. 
V. The third, or American Golden-Rod, has a 
Root not much unlike to the former, compofed of a 
'Herbal Lib. 1. 
Bunch of Fibres or Strings, which abide under Ground 
a! I Winter in the fame manner, looftng all its old 
Stalks. From this Root fpring up Leaves as large 
as thofe of the laft, before it runs up to Stalk, be- 
ing long, but not very broad, yet broadeft in the 
middle, and very fharp-pointed at the ends, and a 
little dented about the edges, yet not fo much as 
the fecond -, they grow upon Foot-ftalks, and are of 
a dark green colof. The Stalk or Stalks are a little 
hairy, rifing higher than the laft, not above a Foot 
and half high at moft, bearing on their various tops 
yellow Flowers, of a Gold-yellow color, facing all 
on one fide, as the others do j which being palled 
away, turn into Downy Heads, and are carried away 
with the Wind, as all the others are. This Plant 
is fo like to the fecond, that the Figure of that may 
very well ferve for this , without afiy confiderable 
Error. 
Golden-Rod with dented Leaves, 
VI. The Places. The firft grows plentifully e- 
nough in feveral places of England, in open places 
of Woods and Copfes, both in moift and dry 
Grounds. It grows plentifully in Hampfled-Wood, 
near unto the Gate which leads out of the Wood to 
Kentijh-Town , not far from London ■, in a Wood by 
Rayleigh in EfJ'ex, near to a Houfe formerly Mr. Le- 
onard's, dwelling upon Daws-Heath -, alfo in South- 
fleet, and in Swainf comb-Wood near to Gravefend. 
The fecond alfo grows in many places of this Land, 
but not fo plentifully as the former : it is to be 
found in fome places in Hampfted-Wood, but more 
fparingly than the former. The laft has been 
brought to us from America, but from what parts 
of the Continent, is not known. It grows with us 
in Gardens. 
VII. The Times. The firft flowers later than the 
fecond, but they both flower and flourifh in July 
and Auguft. The American kind flowers indeed 
very late in the Year. 
VIII. The Qualities. Golden-Rod is hot and dry 
in the fecond Degree j Aperitive, Abfterfive, Aftrin- 
gent, Diuretick and Traumatick or Vulnerary, 
Neurotick, 
