. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . l heal, of New-England, is another WoundHerb not Inferiour to [70] ours, but rather beyond it:Some of our EngliJJi practitioners take it for Vervene, andufe it for the fame, wherein they are grofly miftaken. The Leaf is like a Nettle Leaf, but narrower andlonger; the ftalk about the bignefs of a Nettle ftalk,Champhered and hollow, and of a dusky red Colour;the Flowers are blew, fmall, and many, growing in fpokytufts at the top, and are not hooded, but having only fourround Leaves, after which
. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . l heal, of New-England, is another WoundHerb not Inferiour to [70] ours, but rather beyond it:Some of our EngliJJi practitioners take it for Vervene, andufe it for the fame, wherein they are grofly miftaken. The Leaf is like a Nettle Leaf, but narrower andlonger; the ftalk about the bignefs of a Nettle ftalk,Champhered and hollow, and of a dusky red Colour;the Flowers are blew, fmall, and many, growing in fpokytufts at the top, and are not hooded, but having only fourround Leaves, after which followeth an infinite of fmalllongifh light brown Seed; the Roots are knotty andmatted together with an infinite number of fmall whitefirings; the whole Plant is commonly two Cubits high,bitter in tafle, with a Rofenie 1 There is a plant, likewise, — called, for want of a name, clownes wound-wort, by the English ; though it be not the same, — that will heal a green woundin 24 hours, if a wise man have the ordering of it.— Voyages, p. 60. Verbena $efo=<£ttslan&s iHarittes, 5. (3-) This Plant is one of the firft that fprings up after White hastata, (blue vervain), is perhaps, notwithstanding the authors disclaimer,what he had in view. This is certainly different from the common, once officinal,vervain of Europe {V. officinalis, L.),—on the virtues of which, as a wound-herb, see Gerard, p. 718; but yet more so from true clowns all-heal (Gerard, ), which is Stachys palustris, L. As to other medicinal properties of ourvervains, compare Cutler, I. c, p. 405, — where they are said to have been usedby the surgeons of our army in the Revolutionary War, — and Wood and Bache,Dispens., p. 1403. 126 $kfo=(£nglantrg Parities* Hellibore, in the like wet and black grounds, commonly byHellibore, with a fheath or Hood like Dragons, but thepeftle is of another fhape, that is, having a round PurpleBall on the top of it, befet (as it were) with Burs; thehood moots
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