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showy native doubtless attracted the eye of our author 

 because so similar to the Veratrum album of Europe. 

 It is known to our flora as Veratrum viride. With the Indians, 

 it seems to have entered largely into their medicines, the 

 pounded roots being laid upon their wounds, and employed for 

 aches, and even for that most tormenting of all, the toothache ; 

 likewise for a cutaneous disease described as Herpes milliarius. 



Arsmart, both kinds ; by which I understand Polygonum 

 hydropiper and P. persicaria, noticed also in Rev. Dr. Cutler's 

 paper by the identical, but not very fastidiously chosen appel- 

 ative. 



Spurge Time, it grows upon dry sandy Sea Banks and is 

 very like to Rupterwort ; it is full of milk. In this may be 

 recognized Euphorbia poly gonifolia. 



Rupterwort, with the white Flower, is probably Eiiphorhia 

 maculaia, the true rupturewort of England or Herniaria 

 glabra not being indigenous. 



Jagged Rose pennywort, Hydrocotyle Americaiia. 



Soda bariglia or massacote, the ashes of soda of which they 

 make Glasses. Bariglia Italian for barilla ; the plant is Salsola 

 Kali, still common on the sandy sea shores. 



Glasswort, here called Berrelia, it grows abundantly on the 

 salt marshes. This is Salicornla kerbacea and mucronata. 

 The same is now called Samphire. The brilliant deep crimson hue 

 of the salt marshes is owing to the presence of the latter plant. 



Saint John's wort. Hypericum perforatum : a very com_ 

 mon weed in some soils. 



St. Peter's wort. Hypericum^ elliptlcum,? 



Speedwell Chickweed. Veronica serpylUfolia 7 



Male fluellin or Speedwell. Linaria canadensis. An au- 

 tumnal weed in gravelly spots. 



Upright Peniroyal, wild mint, cat mint. The first two 

 would seem to be our pasture species of Pycnanthemum; the 

 last Nepeia cataria, concerning which the old herballists 

 gravely affirm that it "is the ordinary Garden sort of some, 

 and the Mentha felina, because cats delight both to smell and 

 eate thereof and gladly rub themselves against it." 

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