Chap. 40 q. HflgUJb Herbs. 
and lying clofe and round ; before the Stalk rifes 
out from the middle of tliefe Leaves there does ap- 
pear a deep hollow place, like a hole, to be feen a 
good while, which at length is filled up with the 
Stalk, riling up to a Foot or more in height, bear- 
ing many Star like Flowers at top, of a perfect blew 
color, near unto a Violet, and fometimes of a paler 
or bleak blew color, having as it were a fmall Cup 
in the middle, divided into fix pieces, without any 
Threads therein -, the Seed is black and round, but 
not fhining. 
IV. T he fecond, or White Flowered Lilly Leaved, 
Starry Jacinth. T bit Plant in its Root , Leaves , 
Stalk, plotaer, Seed, and manner of growing , is whol- 
ly like the former , (fo that all the aforefaid deferip. 
1 ton may here be avoided) that we may not fay the 
fame thing over again; but there is fomething in 
which it varies, and that is in the color of the Flow- 
ers, which in this is white, whereas the former is! 
blew, and that is all the difference. 
V. The third, or Blulh Colored Lilly Leaved 
Starry Jacinth. This Plant is like alfo to the jirft 
and fecond before deferibed in all the parts of the 
fame, and in the magnitude and manner of its grow-- 
tng, varying only in the color of the Flowers, for 
whereas they are blew in the firlt and white in the 
l'econd, thefe are of a blulh color, which is the 
whole of the obferved difference. 
VI. The Places. Thefe Jacinths have been found 
Natives of the Pyrenean Hills, in that part of 
prance called Aquitam , and in feveral other places 
I have found them to grow plentifully in many 
Plantations in Carolina , and other parts of the Weft 
Indies ; but that with the white Flower is molt ulu- 
al or common. 
VII. The Times. They Flower in April, and 
fometimes later, I have found them Flowering in 
Carolina in March, and in April, as alfo in May, 
and fometimes later if the Weather prove hard or 
cold. 
VIII. The Virtues. Authors have affigned to 
them no Medical Virtues, but account them rather 
as Poyfons, for that by Experience it has been found, 
that Cattel who have eaten of the Leaves hereof 
have prefently fwelled and fo died ; this I know, 
that in Carolina if their Calves, young Bullocks, 
or Cows eat thereof they are piefently taken with 
a l'wimming, and in a Ihort time turn round with a 
Vertigo, and then in a little time after it die, and all 
this without Remedy, this I have feen; nor could I 
find that they had any Cure for it, their Death be- 
ing fo fudden: An Ointment orBalfam made of the 
Roots is an excellent thing againft fcrophulous Sores 
and Ulcers, and being duly applied cures them to a 
Wonder. 
J A M E S W 0 R T, See Ragwort. 
CHAP. CCCCIV. 
O/JEWSEARS. 
I.'Tp H E Names. This Plant is called in Greek 
X Mwew 'AxT«f, xj fLVKtts tLvnv&t in Latine Fungus 
Sambuci , and fungus Sambucinus , Gummi Sambuct , 
and of fome Auricula Jud&, in Englifh Jewsears , 
alfo Mufhrcom of the Elder Tree. 
II. The Kinds. It may well be accounted of the 
Stock of Mufhrooms , as is alfo Agarick , but this 
growing upon the Alder Tree is a Angular Species. 
571 
III. The Deferip cion. It Is an Excrefcence . , which 
is foft, blackifh , covered with a Skin , or otherwife 
like a thick Skin , fomewhat like now and than to a 
Mans Ear , which being plucked o ff and dried /brink,* 
together and becomes hard. 
IV. The Places. It is found growing only upon 
Elder Trees, and generally fuch as are old, in molt 
places of this Kingdom. 
V. The Times. They ought to be gathered when 
they are come to their largenefs, or perfection, in 
the fore part cf the day, in a fair and dry Seafon, 
and in the Months of Auguft or September , when 
they have participated of the full afeending Virtues 
and Juices of the Tree. 
VI. The Qualities. They are temperate in refpeCt 
of heat or cold, and dry in the begining of the fe- 
cond degree, they are Anodyn, Aftringent, and Dif- 
cuflive, a little Repercuflive, and Vulnerary. 
VII. The Specification , They are peculiar for cu- 
ring the Quinfie, and other Tumors of the ‘Throat, 
Almonds, and Jaws. 
VIII. The Preparations. You may have there- 
from 1. A Decoction in Wine or Water. 2. A Com- 
pound Decottion. %. A Cataplafm . 
The Virtues. 
IX. The Decottion in Wine or Water. It is ufed 
as a Gargle to heal all Tumors or Swellings, and 
Sores or Ulcers in the Mouth, Gums, Throat, Al- 
monds, Pfc. thofe parts being wafhed or gargled 
therewith three, four, five, or fix times a day as hot 
as can be endured, by this means exquifite Quinfies 
have been cured therewith, but in cafe of a Quinfie 
the DecoCtion will be belt to be made in Vinegar, 
adding thereto after it is boiled a fitting proportion 
of Wine. 
X. The Compound Decottion in Wine or Water. 
Take Wine or Water three Pints , Jewsears , Elm 
Bark bruifed , of each fix Drams , Columbine Leaves 
half an Ounce , Madder three Drams , Cremor Tart a- 
ri in pouder five Drams , Black Pepper in pouder 
D d d d 2 half 
