42 Rhodora [March 
(Isa. xvii. 10) which reads: “though thou plantest shoots for Naamán, 
etc." These * shoots for Naaman” are the “gardens of Adonis” (bas- 
kets filled with plants), which played so prominent a part in the wor- 
ship of that deity, as a reminder of his tragic death. According to the 
Greek and Latin writers, it was the blood of Adonis from which the 
anemone sprang (see, for example, Ovid, Metamorph. x. 731 ff.), and 
Adonis was a Semitic deity, = Na‘man. Out of this last name the 
Greeks might easily form anemone, assimilating it to their familiar 
word áveuos, somewhat as our popular speech made jerusalem (arti- 
choke) out of girasole. 
ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF WORCESTER COUNTY, 
MASSACHUSETTS. — I. 
RoLanD M. HARPER. 
DurinG the season of 1898 I collected in Worcester County a 
number of plants not enumerated in the latest edition of Joseph Jack- 
son's Flora of Worcester County (1894). ‘The names and stations of 
those which I have definitely identified are as follows, the families 
being arranged in the order of Engler & Prantl's Natürliche Pflanzen- 
familien : — 
Woodwardia Virginica, Smith. Swamp near pumping station, 
Webster, August 14. 
Spirodela polyrrhiza, Schleiden. Cedar-swamp pond, Charlton, 
August 6. 
Glyceria elongata, Trin. Wet places in “Gulf Woods," South- 
bridge, July 16. 
Glyceria pallida, Trin. Cedar-swamp, Charlton, July 16. 
Leersia. Virginica, Willd. Wet ditch under N. Y., N: H: H.R.R., 
Dudley, August 14. 
Panicum proliferum, Lam. Damp sand near ‘brickyard, South- 
bridge, August 27. 
Sporobolus serotinus, Gray. Wet meadows and damp sandy places, 
Southbridge, August 20; Sturbridge, August 28. 
Carex communis, Bailey. Dry woods on the east slope of Hatchet 
Hill, Southbridge, May 15. 
Carex laxiculmis, Schwein. Dry woods, etc., Southbridge, June 
5; Charlton and Sturbridge, November 13. 
