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was easily recognized. " Hollow Leaved Lavender is a plant 

 that grows in [Salt] Marshes overgrown with Moss, with one 

 straight stalk about the Bigness of an oat straw, better than a 

 cubit High ; upon the Top standeth one fantastical Flower ; 

 the Leaves grow close from the Root, in shape like a Tankard, 

 hollow, tough and always full of Water ; the Root is made up 

 of many small strings growing only in the Moss and not in the 

 Earth ; the whole Plant comes to its Perfection in August, 

 and then it has Leaves, Stalks and Flowers as red as Blood, 

 excepting the Flower which has some yellow admixt. I 

 wonder where the knowledge of this Flower has slept all this 

 while, i. e. above forty years'?" 



I find in Parkinson page 1235 a very good figure also, and 

 he assures us that "John Tradescant, the younger, found this 

 very plant in Virginia, which he brought home and which 

 groweth with him." 



This the purple Side saddle flower is one of the finest and most 

 ornamental of our native plants, and well known for its singu- 

 lar beauty. Parkinson's Theater of Plants, was published in 

 1640, while John Josselyn, Gent's Treatise was published in 

 1675, so that he seems to have "slept all this while" in igno- 

 rance of the hollow leaved Lavender, rather than as he 

 supposes, others about him had done. The term, Lavender, is 

 probably expressive of the form of the leaf: lavo lavandum, 

 to wash, &c. Quere — hence the derivation of pitcher plant or 

 forefather's pitcher, or Tankard and the like. 



Live Forever, a kind of Cudweed. Antennaria margaritacea. 



Tree Primrose, taken by the ignorant for Scabious. A solar 

 Plant some will have it. Q^nothera biennis. Cutler informs 

 us, that "this plant is very generally known by the name of 

 Scabious, and seems to have been mistaken for the Scabiosa 

 arvensis of Linnaeus." — Account of Indigenous Vegetables 

 p : 438., 6)'c. 



Maiden Hair or Capilhis Veneris varus, which ordinarily 

 is half a yard in length. Adiantum pedatum, instead of Adian- 

 turn Capillus Vefieris, an elegant fern in our shady and rocky 

 woods. It were natural to mistake the New England form for 



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