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Popular Names of Plants. 379 
GRAMINE#, 
finchrus tribuloides, sand-burr. Ill. and westward. 
La mays, a species of pop-corn, with variegated ears; guinea-corn.? 
ansfield, O. 
idlow kernels, striped with red; calico corn. Ill. 
long, indented kernels; dent corn. General. 
horse-tooth corn. Central Ill. 
FILICES. 
Pieris aquilina, hog-brake. N. H. 
Osmunda regalis, buck-horn. Worcester Co., Mass. 
Osmunda cinnamomea, fiddle-heads.2 Central Me. 
| Omuinda sp., fiddle-heads. Petit Codiac, N. B. 
LYCOPODIACES. 
Ljoopodium clavatum, coral evergreen. saps N. H. 
. creeping Jenny. B. 
Lycopodium dendroideum, bunch evergreen, Stratham, N. H. 
crowfoot. Chestertown, Md. 
| Lycopodium complanatum, creeping Jenny. Bedford, Mass. 
liberty. Chestertown, Md. 
ground-cedar. N. B. 
MUSCINEZ. 
| Pilytrichum commune, oad bread. Dennysville, Me. 
S m-suckers.? Stratham, N. H. 
Brum Sp., eeawheas.. Mansfield, O. 
: i FUNGI. 
x imenomycetes (any umbrella-shaped species), devil's 
| pjitimore, Md. 
5 allus sp., death-baby.* Salem, Mass 
Stik apes (the smut of Indian corn), Devil’s snuff-box. Ches- 
umbrellas. — 
oS = a bellidiftor (a common lichen), red-cup moss. General in 
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ty, peckled like a guinea-fowl. 
—. this name the unrolling fronds considerably sought - re 
os 
So call i 
‘Pores, from the supposed spirituous taste of the pasty mass - unripe 
— from t death in the family near whose 
ne he fancy that they foretell dea waking ont ta Serr 
ss spring up. I have known of intelligent people 
“ vk < eorued of these as soon as they ap ppeared i in the 
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