3] Popular American Plant Names. 427 
luifraga Mertenstana, cocoanuts.! So. Cal. 
Jarella cordifolia, Nancy-over-the-ground. Mass. 
white cool-wort. N. Y. 
Milla diphylla, false sanicle ; fringe cup; fairy cup. N. Y. 
CRASSULACES. 
‘dum Telephium, life of man. Concord, Mass. 
ha pusilla, red moss. Hancock Co., Cal. 
‘iyledon laxa, rock moss. S, Barbara Co., Gat 
HAMAMELIDZ. 
Linidambar styracifiua, alligator-wood. W. Va. 
MELASTOMACE. 
“sia Virginica, handsome Harry. Hanover, Mass. 
LYTHRACES. 
iphea petiolata, tar weed. West Va. 
| ONAGRACEE, 
bi 81a alternifolia, seed-box. West Va. f 
“ipa angustifolium, fire-top; burnt weed. Penobscot River, 
Ba umbermen). 
“a biennis, scurvish, F ranconia, N. H. 
fever-plant ;2 coffee-plant.? Eastern States. 
| king’s cure-all. Southern States.* 
| thera fruticosa, wild beet.5 West Va. 
, Chili cojote; calabazilla. So. Cal 
a. CUCURBITACE. 
he ' perennis L 
4 ennia Californica, man-in-the-ground.® S, Barbara Co., Ca 
hein FICOIDE. a 
c Vanthemum @equilaterale, beach apple. S. Barbara Co., 
t bridge, Mass, 
Aetriny : i Lore.—Evs.] 
d from plates kindly furnished by the Journal of American Folk 
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a of having bulbs commonly dug up and eaten by children. 
"hiasign « 'aPhoretic in fevers 
Used in a €d as a drink in the harvest field. 
Used ag °mestic medicine 
4 pot herb. 
from the enormous roots. 
