Popular Names of Plants. 375 
7 ASCLEPIADACES. 
) Astlepias tuberosa, white root ; yellow milk-weed. W. Mass. 
GENTIANACEA. 
Gentiana Andrewsit, blind gentian. Haverhill, Mass. 
| POLEMONIACEE. 
| Phlox pilosa, sweetwilliam. Fort Worth, Tex. 
Phlox subulata, flowering moss. No. Ohio. 
- Phlo, cult. sp., Lady Washington. Mansfield, O. 
Polemonium reptans, bluebell. Mansfield, O. 
: 
BORRAGINACES. 
Cynoglossum officinale, sheep-lice. No. Ohio. 
| Ethinospermum Virginicum, soldiers. E. Mass. 
| CONVOLVULACES. 
D Cnvoloulus sepium, creepers. Mansfield, O. 
¢ Rutland beauty. Temple, N. H. 
uscuta sp., love-vine. Fort Worth, Tex. 
SOLANACE. 
Jimson or Jimpson! weed. W. and S. 
Mansfield, O. 
i Datura Stramonium, 
} Datura Tatula, 
_ sum vulgare, privy ; Jackson vine ; jasmine. 
jessamine. Stratham, N. H. 
. li SCROPHULARIACEE. 
: maria vulgaris, Jacob’s ladder. Parts of N. E. 
bread-and-butter. Ipswich, Mass. 
" Antinrss dead men’s bones. Troy, N. Y. — 
a. tnum majus, lion-mouth. Mansfield, O. — 
¢ glabra, bammany (for balmony >). Belleisle, N. B. 
— ardia quercifolia (?), corn-flower. Hillsborough Co., N. H. 
pe, feculoric (’) sors 
. lela coccinea, paint-brush. Peoria, Ill.; N. H.; Hemmingford, 
Ge: 
Indian paint-brush. Mass. 
Red Indians. Mass. : 
Wickakee.2 Mass. 
election posies. Dudley, Mass. 
ae prairie fire. Wisconsin. 
Evidently a corruption of Jamestown, where the plant is most 
“rupted form of the name is universa 
An Indian name 
abundant. This 
