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the trim "maiden hair which grows in abundance here, from 

 where there may be had good store." 



Pirola, two Kinds, both of them excellent wound Herbs. — 

 One of these kinds was Clmnaphila umhellata^ of which he 

 speaks at length anon ; and the other was probably Pyrola 

 elliptica, now vulgarly known as Shin leaf and Lamb's lettuce. 



Homer's Molley. Allutm vmeale ?■ 



Lysimachus or Loose Strife ; it grows in the dry grounds in 

 the open Sun four foot high. Flowers from the middle of the 

 Plant to the top, the Flowers purple, standing upon a small 

 sheath or cod, which when it is ripe, breaks and puts forth a 

 white silken down, the Stalk is red and big as one's finger. 

 This minute description introduces us to Epiloh'min angus- 

 tifolmm^ a prominent and showy plant on waste places and 

 burnt grounds. 



Mary gold of Peru, of which there are two kinds — one bearing 

 black seeds, the other black and white streaked ; this beareth 

 the fairest flowers, commonly but one upon the very top of the 

 stalk. This seems to be Helianthus aimmis or common sun 

 flower, the seeds of which are sometimes streaked in the way 

 specified. It might have been cultivated by the Indians, it 

 being indigenous to the warmer parts of North America. 



Sea Tears, they grow upon the Sea Banks in abundance, 

 they are good for the Scurvie and Dropsie boyled and eaten 

 as a Sallade and the Broth drunk with it. Quere, Sea Tares'? 

 ( LatJtyrvs mar'Uim us. ) 



Indian Beans, falsely called French Beans ^ are better for 

 Physick and Chyrugery than are Garden Beans. Probatuni est. 



These Indian beans are Phaseohis vulgaris or Haricot 

 of the French. They are also called Kidney beans, and well 

 known to us now-a-days as bush beans. The ' ' garden 

 beans" are Faba vulgaris or flat Winsor beans, still in 

 repute in England as a table esculent, but despised by us. Our 

 bush beans were well known by the early indian tribes and 

 used by them in preparing succatash.^ showing that America is 

 their native country — though probably from the tropics. 

 The same is true of the next in the List of plants proper to the 

 country, viz : 



