. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country . 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 fattened clofe together and fhore up the tip ofthe upper chap, the crooked pointels are very ftiff andhard, from the bottom of the husks, wherein the Flowerftands, from the top of the Seed Veffel fhoots out awhite thread which runs in at the bottom of the Fl
. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country . 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 fattened clofe together and fhore up the tip ofthe upper chap, the crooked pointels are very ftiff andhard, from the bottom of the husks, wherein the Flowerftands, from the top of the Seed Veffel fhoots out awhite thread which runs in at the bottom of the Flower,and fo [80] out at the mouth; the whole Flower is milkwhite, the infide of the chaps reddifh, the Root I did 1 Chelone glabra, L. (snake-head). Plukenet quotes this figure under Digi-talis Verbesince foliis, &c. (Amalth., p. 71; Mant., p. 64); which is referred byLinnffius to Gerardia pcdicularis, L. Plukenet has himself figured our plant,and but little better than Josselyn, in Phytogr., t. 34S, fig. 3. The genus is pecul-iar to America. 0rfos<£itfjIatmg Parities. *33. [81] (7-) This Plant I take for a varigated Herb Paris, True Loveor One Berry, or rather One Flower, which is milk white,and made up with four Leaves, with many black threadsin the middle, upon every thread grows a Berry (whenthe Leaves of the Flower are fallen) as big as a whitepeafe, of a light red colour when they are ripe, and clutter-ing together in a round form as big as a Pullets Egg,which at diftance fhews but as one Berry, very pleafantin tafte, and not unwholfome; the Root, Leaf, and J34 fkfo=(£nglanlrs Parities. Flower differ not from our EngliJJi kind, and their time ofblooming and ripening agree, and therefore doubtlefs akind of Herba Paris} [82] The /mall Sun Flo-Mcr, or Marygold of America.
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