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3. Such Plants as are Proper to the country and have 

 no name. 



4. Such Plants as have sprung up since the English 

 planted and kept cattle in New England. 



5. Such Garden Herbs amongst us as do thrive there 

 and such as do not. 



In the first group some of the most familiar are the 

 following: Cat's-tail, Wild Sorrel, Blew Flower dc 

 luce, Yellow bastard Daffadil, it flowereth in May, the 

 green leaves are spotted with black spots. Water-cresses, 

 Red Lillies, One Blade {Smilacina hifolia) Lilly C(m- 

 vallie with the yellow flowers. Small water archer (arrow 

 head ), Autumn Bell Flower (Closed Gentian). Glass- 

 wort grows abundantly in salt marshes. Upright Peni- 

 royal, Catmint, Water Lily with yellow flowers, the 

 Indians eat the roots, the Moose Deer feed upon them, at 

 which time the Indians kill them, when their heads are 

 underwater. Dragons {Arum) — they come up in Juiu^. 

 Violets of three kinds, Solomon's Seal, Doves Foot, and 

 Herb Robert, Yarrow, with the white flower, Columl)iiies 

 of a flesh color, growing upon rocks. Ferns and Biakcs, 

 Dew Grass {Drosera), Lime Tree, both kinds, Maple, 

 Elm, Fuss Balls, very large. Noble Liverwort, Blond 

 Root, Black-Berry, Dew Berry, Rasp Berry, Hawthorn^ 

 Toadflax, there is Oak of three kinds, Juniper, very 

 dwarfish and shrubby, growing for the most part by the 

 seaside. Willow, Spurge Laurel, called the Poyson Beir\ , 

 it kills the English cattle if they chance to feed upon it, 

 especially calves. Gaul or noble mirtle {Myrica gale). 

 Alder, Hazel, Walnut, Chestnuts, very sweet in taste, and 

 may l>e, as they usually are, eaten raw; the Indians sell 

 them to the English for twelve pence the bushel. Wild 

 Purcelane, it is eaten as a pot-herb and esteemed by some 



