or modern Botanists; yet that it is possessed of singular Virtues, is evinced from this, that _Pliny_, in _Lib. 24. Cap. 11._ informs us, that the Herb called _Rhus_, which, according to _Clusius_ and _Dodonæus_, is our _Chamelæagnus_, expels Poison, and cures scalled Heads; a signal Proof, that whether green, or dry, it abounds with a singular volatile Salt and Sulphur; which is also farther confirmed, partly by its acrid, tho' not ungrateful Smell, and partly by the Effects it produces. This is sufficiently confirmed by the Authority of _Dodonæus_, who speaks of its Qualities and Virtues in the following Manner: "Its Seeds, _says he_, are intensely hot and dry, almost in the third Degree: Its Leaves are also hot and dry, though in a much smaller Degree: Its Fruit, which is prejudicial to the Brain, when used in preparing Ale, which is customary with many, renders the Ale highly offensive to the Head, and soon productive of Intoxication or Drunkenness. The whole Shrub, and its Fruit, when dried, and laid among Clothes, preserve them from Moths and Worms." It also banishes Dormice, as I have observed in my _Quadripartit. Botan._ Besides, a certain Person of great Distinction in _Holstein_, and a Man of the strictest Veracity, informs me, that the _Polanders_ use our _Chamelæagnus_ for killing the Lice of their Hogs; for, if this Plant is strewed under them in their Styes, the Lice which infest them will be destroyed in a few Hours; nor will their Nits ever become alive. Besides, Serpents are never found to have their Holes in those Forests, which produce the _Chamelæagnus_, nor are they ever observed to come near it, much less to creep through it, as I have been informed by Forest-Keepers of great Veracity. It is not, therefore, to be denied, but the _Chamelæagnus_ is an Herb of singular and excellent Virtues, since it produces these, and a great many other uncommon Effects. _Dalechampius_, Author of the _Herbarum Lugdunense_, in _Cap. 1._ gives us the following Account of it: "The _Rhus Sylvestris Dodonæi_, and the _Rhus Plinii_ seems to be another Plant, which is by some called the _Myrtus_, by others the _Pseudomyrsine_, and the _Myrtus Brabantica_. It is a low, woody, hard Plant, with many Branches, which bear pretty long Leaves, not unlike those of the _Box-Tree_. Between the Branches rise many Twigs, bearing, as it were, a great Number of Ears, which are, at first, loaded with many small Flowers, and afterwards with a Congeries of many angular Seeds, full of a certain pingueous Humour, of the same bitter Taste with the Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit, but of a pleasant grateful Smell. The Inhabitants of _Roan_ in _Normandy_, whose dark and gloomy Forests produce great Quantities of it, call it _Piment Royale_, as it were _Melyssophyllum Regium_. The Country People in _Summer_ gather the Branches loaded with the Leaves and Seeds, tie them up in small Bundles, for no other Purpose, but to give Clothes an agreeable Scent,