370 VIRGINIAN PLANTS 



A white Poplar tree with greate leaves broade pointed. 



Sassafras trees young & the berryes. 



The Cassado roote or Jocka, Hiucca ?. Sarsaparilla, all the sortes. 



The Maracoc Apples. 



The Maye Apples or seedes. 



The Snake-roote freshe plantes & seede. 



Virginia Lentills. 



Divers sortes of Lillias. 



Maidenhaire. 



Penni marva is Silke grasse. 



Musquaspen a small roote of a fingers bignes as red as blood wherew^ti 



they dye their mattes. 

 Poconas is a small roote in the mountaines which they use for swellinges 



and so painte their faces. 

 A small lowe tree whose white flower is like a small hedge Honysuckle. 

 Puchuming are plumes sweete like dates. 

 Red flat cods of a tree whose red flowers they use for salletts. 

 Arbor Judae. 



The Locus tree the cods wth seede. 

 Checinquamins are small Chesnuttes. 

 A plante that beares a Scarlet flower. 

 Flower de luces. Lillyes. Colombines. 

 Or any other herbe or seede growing there allthough you thinck we have 



the same in England for we finde most thinges to diffarr. 

 [Lentills of that countrye.] 



[MS. f. 20. 



List of Seeds imported from Virginia^ 1636. 

 Virginia seeds rec^ from Mr. Morrice' 18 March 1636. 



1. A scarlet flower requiring a moist ground. Cardinalis forte. 



2. A yellow wood called Locust long flat blackish browne pods, black 



round flatt seede kidney like. 

 {Robiuia pseudacacia.'] 



3. A poisonous berrye black rugged round berry with blackish seede 



straked like a tick. 



4. Arbor Judae forte thin flat browne cods with somewhat flat round 



shining browne seede. Sent for a tree whose gredeline (?) flower 

 is an excellent sallat. 

 [^Cercis canadensis.'] 



5. A black round rugged berry like large peper cornes with 3 square 



black shining seeds sent for a running vine y* bears no flowers. 



^ Who Mr. Morrice may have been, we do not know. A Richard Morrice 

 was Master of the Barber Surgeons Company in 1634. But there was also 

 a lohannes Mauritius or John Morris, a friend of Parkinson, who extolled the 

 excellencies of the The(iiru7>t Boiaiiicum, and the worth of its author, in three 

 pages oi floges, in two languages. Two of his lines lend colour to our suggestion 

 that he was interested in Virginian plants. Morris addresses Parkinson with 

 the words 



. . . neither dost thou spare 

 T' insert whatsoere the other world doth beare. 

 A remark which would come naturally from a poetaster who had also given 

 Parkinson seeds of plants from the New World. 



