. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . open Champain grounds, but yet fomewhat fcarce: TheRoot is about the bignefs of a Fre?ich Walnut, the Barkthereof is brown, and rugged, within of a yellowifhColour, from whence arifeth a flender ftalk, no biggerthan an Oat ftraw, about two Cubits in height, fome-what better than a handful above the Root fhooteth outone Leaf of a Grafs Green colour, and an Inch or twoabove that, another Leaf, and fo four or five at a greaterdiftance one from another, till they come within a handfulof the top, w
. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . open Champain grounds, but yet fomewhat fcarce: TheRoot is about the bignefs of a Fre?ich Walnut, the Barkthereof is brown, and rugged, within of a yellowifhColour, from whence arifeth a flender ftalk, no biggerthan an Oat ftraw, about two Cubits in height, fome-what better than a handful above the Root fhooteth outone Leaf of a Grafs Green colour, and an Inch or twoabove that, another Leaf, and fo four or five at a greaterdiftance one from another, till they come within a handfulof the top, where upon flender foot ftalks grow the Flow- |kfo=€nglantJ0 Parities* 131 ers four or five, more or fewer, cluttering together in palelong green husks milk white, confifting of ten fmallLeaves, fnipt a little on the edges with purple hair threadsin the midft; the whole Plant is of a brakifh tail: When itis at its full growth the ftalks are as red as [78]. 1 Nabalus alius (L.) Hook. (Snake-weed) : the genus peculiar to America. 132 |kto=<£nglantis Parities. [79] (6.) This Plant Flowers in Aug7i/l, and grows in wetGround; it is about three or four foot in height, havinga fquare flender ftalk, chamfered, hollow and tuff, theLeaves grow at certain diftances one againft another, ofthe colour of Egrimony Leaves fharpe pointed, broaden:in the midft about an Inch and half, and three or fourInches in length, fnipt about the edges like a Nettle Leaf,at the top of the Stalk for four or five Inches thick, fetwith pale green husks, out of which the Flowers grow,confifling of one Leaf, fhaped like the head of a Serpent,opening at the top like a mouth, and hollow throughout,containing four crooked pointels, and on the top of everypointel a fmall, gliftering, green button, covered with alittle white woolly matter, by which they are with thepointels faftened clofe together and more up the tip ofthe upper chap, the crooked pointels are very fliff an
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