Blagrave's supplement or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English physitian containing a description of the form, names, place, time, coelestial government, and virtues, all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called, The English-physitian, and supplying the additional virtues of such plants wherein he is defective : also the description, kinds, names, place, time, nature, planetary regiment, temperature, and physical virtues of all such trees, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, excrescencies of plants, gums, ceres, and condensate juices, as are found in any part of the world, and brought to be sold in our druggist and apothecaries shops, with their dangers and corrections / by Joseph Blagrave ... ; to which is annexed, a new tract for the cure of wounds made by gun-shot or otherways, and remedies for the help of seamen troubled with the scurvy and other distempers ...

Yucca or Jucca.

Descript.] THis Indian Plant hath a thick tuberous root, sprea∣ding in time into many tuberous heads, from whence shoot forth many long hard and narrow-guttured or hollow leaves, very sharp-pointed, compassing one another at the bottome, of a greyish green co∣lour, abiding continually or seldome falling away, with sundry hard threds running in them, and being withered become pliant withal to bind things: From the midst whereof springeth forth a strong round stalk, divided into sundry branches, whereon stand divers somewhat large white flowers, han∣ging downwards, consisting of six leaves with divers veins, of a weak reddish or blush-colour, spread on the back of three outer leaves, from the middle to the bottom, not reaching to the edge of any leaf, which abide not long, but quickly falling away.

Place and Time.] It groweth in divers places of the West-Indies, as in Virginia and New-England, and flowers about the latter end of July.

Government and Virtues.] There hath no property hereof conduci∣ble to physical uses as yet been heard of, but some of its vices. The Na∣tives

in Virginia use, for bread, the roots hereof. And that the raw juice is dangerous if not deadly. Aldinus relateth that the wound made with the sharp point-end of one of these leaves in his own hand, wrought such intolerable pains, that he was almost beside himself, until by applying some of his own Balsamum unto it, he was thereby miraculously eased of the pain and all trouble thereof; It is very pro∣bable, that the Indians use to poyson the heads of their Darts, with the juice hereof.