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XIV. The Yricafoe. The firll Kind, or both 
the forts, being Fried with Eggs, as you Fry Clary 
Leaves, and fo eaten, it is faid to be a fingular 
Medicine to cure the Weaknefs of the Back. 
XV. The Cataplnfm. Being mJde of either of 
the Green Herbs, and applyed to places a fleeted 
with the Gout, it cools, eafes the Pain, flops the 
afflux of Humors to the Part ; and in fome reafo- 
nable time cures the Patient. 
CHAP. DXXVII. 
Of ONE BERRY; 
O R, 
HERB TRUE LOVE. 
I. np H E Names. It knows no Greek Name : 
Jl But the Latinos call it Herba Parity and fo 
it is generally called by all Herbarifls *, and in Eng- 
lijh , One Berry , Herb True Love , and Herb Paris. 
Some have thought it to be a kind of Aconitum. , but 
were deceived, and therefore Fuchjius called it Aconi- 
tum Pardaliancbes,2.x\& Cordus leems to be of the fame 
Opinion, and therefore calls it Aconitum Pardali- 
anebes monococon , they accounting it to be dange- 
rous and deadly : but Mattbiolus contradi&s all 
this, for that it has been found by Experience, not 
to be hurtful but Salutiferous, for which reafon 
Taber neemont anus called it Aconitum Salutiferum , 
which yet I think to be an improper Name alfo, 
for that it is no Species of the Aconites. Some 
have thought it to be a kind of Af/er, or Starwort , 
and therefore Tragus called it After fed non Attic us, 
but it is no Species of the Starworts : he alfo called 
it Uva Lupin a , and Uva Canina. Others have 
thought it to be a Kind of Solanum or Night-Jhade , 
but it is no more a Species of that Plant than it is 
of the two former ^ but upon thisfuppolitionP^ 
and Lobe/, in their Adverfaria call it Solanum Te- 
traphyllon ( from the form of the Leaves and Ber- 
ry : ) and Baubinus , as leaning to the fame Opini- 
on , So/anum quadrifolium Bacciferum both of 
which fo call it very improperly : and I think the 
firft Name Herba Paris , is the fitted we can bellow 
upon it. 
II. Tf?e Kinds. There are three Species of this 
Plant very well known , viz. 1 . Herba Paris vul- 
garis 3 Herba Paris Tetrapbyllos •, Our Common 
Herb True Love or One Berry. 1. Herba Paris 
Floridenfit , Herba Paris Floridiana , vel Brafiliana, 
Herba Paris Triphyllos Brafiliana , Solanum Try- 
pbyllium Brafilianum Baubini , Herb True Love, or 
One Berry of Florida, or of Brajil. 3. Herba Paris 
Canadenjis radice rotunda , Herba Paris Floridenfis 
radice tuberofa : folanum Tripbylium Canadcnfe 
Cortufi j Herb True Love of Canada. 
The Defcriptions. 
III. The fir]}, or Our Common Herb True Love, 
or One Berry. Has a Root which is long and tender, 
final/ and creeping under the Earth, difperfing it 
felf hither and thither ■, its Tafte is Styptick or 
AJir ingem, and very unp leaf ant, and by its Branch- 
es and Fibres fpreads it felf under the upper Cruji 
of the Ground, fomething like a Couch-Grafs Root , 
but not fo white, and not much leffer than the Root 
of the White Wild Anemony, or Wind-Flower, 
and altnoft of ns dark a color, being much like there- 
to in its creeping. This Root Jhoots forth Staks with 
One Berry : or, Herb True Love. 
Leaves , fome of which bear no Berries , and fome 
do, every Stalk being fmooth , without Joints, and 
af a blackijh green color, fifing to about fox Inches 
high, if it bears its Berry ; but foliom fo high , if 
it bears none. This Stalk bears at the Top four 
Leaves, fot direttly one again]} another, in manner 
of a Croft , or a Crofs-Knot , commonly called a True 
Loves Knot: which are each of them a-part, fome- 
thing like to a Night-fhade Leave, but a little 
broader ; and in fome places, twice as broad at in 
others , for they oftentimes vary much, and tho ’ the 
flint ci number of the Leaves is generally four: 
yet fometimes there are but three , and fometimes 
five , and fometimes fix, which are fometimes [mailer 
and fometimes larger , and that by a quarter or haljf 
part , and fometimes they are (as is before /aid) 
twice as large. This Plant has been foen fometime 
to alter or degenerate , and that the four Leaves 
have not only been twice as large , as the ordinary , 
but they have alfo been dented in, both on the edges', 
and at the points, whichhave been parted, or forked, 
and have born larger Berries , than commonly this 
Plant is ujed to bear : all which are of a frefh green 
color , not dented about the edges. In the middle of 
tbefo four Leaves, there rifos up a fmall Jlender 
Stalk , about an Inch high, bearing at the top there- 
of, one Llower, fpread open like a Star confifi- 
ing of four Jmall and narrow long pointed Leaves, 
of a yellow fo green color and four other lying be- 
tween them, leffer than they. In the middle where- 
