Hollow Leaved Lavender, is a Plant that grows in salt Marshes overgrown with Moss, with one straight stalk about the bigness of an Oat straw, better than a Cubit high; upon the top standeth one {55} fantastical Flower, the Leaves grow close from the root, in shape like a Tankard, hollow, tough, and alwayes full of Water, the Root is made up of many small strings, growing only in the Moss, and not in the Earth, the whole Plant comes to its perfection in August, and then it has Leaves, Stalks, and Flowers as red as blood, excepting the Flower which hath some yellow admixt. I wonder where the knowledge of this Plant hath slept all this while, i.e. above Forty Years.[197]
For all manner of Fluxes.
It is excellent for all manner of Fluxes.
Live for ever, a kind of Cud-weed.[198]
Tree Primerose, taken by the Ignorant for Scabious.[199]
A Solar Plant, as some will have it.
Maiden Hair, or Cappellus veneris verus, which ordinarily is half a Yard in height. The Apothecaries for shame now will substitute Wall-Rue no more for Maiden Hair, since it grows in abundance in New-England, from whence they may have good store.[200]
Pirola, Two kinds. [See the Figures], both of them excellent Wound Herbs.[201]
Homer’s Molley.[202]