Part 17

Jagged Rose-penny-wort.

{44} Soda bariglia, or massacote, the Ashes of Soda, of which they make Glasses.

Glass-wort, here called Berrelia, it grows abundantly in Salt Marshes.

St. John’s-Wort.

St. Peter’s-Wort.

Speed-well Chick-weed.

Male fluellin, or Speed-well.

Upright Peniroyal.

Wild-Mint.

Cat-Mint.

Egrimony.

The lesser Clot-Bur.

Water Lilly, with yellow Flowers, the Indians Eat the Roots, which are long a boiling, they tast like the Liver of a Sheep, the Moose Deer feed much upon them, at which time the Indians kill them, when their heads are under water.

Dragons, their leaves differ from all the kinds with us, they come up in June.

Violets of three kinds, the White Violet which is sweet, but not so strong as our Blew Violets; Blew Violets without sent, and a Reddish Violet without sent; they do not blow till June.

{45} For swell’d Legs.

Wood-bine, good for hot swellings of the Legs, fomenting with the decoction, and applying the Feces in the form of a Cataplasme.

Salomons-Seal, of which there is three kinds; the first common in England, the second, Virginia Salomons-Seal, and the third, differing from both, is called Treacle Berries, having the perfect tast of Treacle when they are ripe; and will keep good along while; certainly a very wholsome Berry, and medicinable.

Doves-Foot.

Herb Robert.

Knobby Cranes Bill.

For Agues.

Ravens-Claw, which flowers in May, and is admirable for Agues.

Cinkfoil.

Tormentile.

Avens, with the leaf of Mountane-Avens, the flower and root of English Avens.

Strawberries.

Wild Angelica, majoris and minoris.