Popular Names of Plants. 373 
: Artemisia abrotanum, boy’s love ;! lad’s love.! Various parts of New 
| England. 
old man.! Ohio; IIL 
| Leamington. Ipswich, Mass. 
Artemisia sp., old woman.! N. Ohio. 
Xeranthemum 
Helichrysum, 
Cnicus pumilus, bull-thistle. New England. 
'(nicus (any species), stickers. St. John, N. B. 
ichorium Intybus, blue dandelion. N. H. 
blue sailors. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Leontodon autumnalis, arnica. E. Mass. 
lactuea (any species), milkweed. N. B. 
: paper-flowers. N. Ohio. 
LOBELIACE/. 
libelia cardinalis, slink-weed. Princeton, Mass. 
ERICACE#. 
| Saylussacia (all species), black hurts.” Newfoundland. 
_ 'cimium (many species), whortleberry ; bilberry. Newfoundland. 
any low blueberry ; ground-hurts. New- 
oe foundland. 
acinium (any species under sub-genus Cyanococcus), bluets. N. B, 
oe French Canadians. 
“enum Oxycoccus, marsh cranberry. N. B. 
ne marshberry. Newfoundland. 
“tim macrocarpon, marsh cranberry. N. B. 
bearberry; bankberry. Fortune Bay, New- 
‘‘Vecein: = foundland. 
py. um Vitis-Tdea, rock cranberry. N. B. 
_ MSenes serpyllifolia, ivory plums. Washington Co., Me. 
— capillaire; maiden-hair ;* teaberry- New 
é Brunswick. - ; 
E Antostaphy los uva-urst, crowberry. Barnstable, Mass. ; Kinnikinnik, 
“ Newfoundland. | 
| Yigen rockberry. Fortune Bay, Newfoundland. 
repens, shad-flower. Conn. 
apparently given from supposed aphrodisiac qualities, or because 
ations. 
: rte 19s 
: This is an abbreviation for “ whortleberry.” 
* ame, attached to a description of the plant, 
»_ Protest by a botanist in England at the idea of the 
_*PoSed to flower and fruit in New Brunswick ! 
was the occasion of an 
maidenhair (fern) 
