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procumbfiiis. Chiogenes hispidida. Arctostapliylos nva 

 wsi. Vacchiium Vitis Idcea^ &c. &c. 



III. Op such Plants as are proper to the Country 



AND have no name. 



1. 



Pirola or Winter green, that kind which grows with us 

 in England, {Pyrolcc sjyp.) is common in New England ; but 

 there is another plant which I judge to be a kind of Pirola 

 and proper to this Country a very beautiful plant. 



Appended to the above description, is a very good figure of a 

 single Leaf, over which is inscribed " TAe Leaf of the Plant 

 judged to he a kind of Pirola." This quaint little figure suggests 

 the Rattlesnake plantain, Goodyera pubescens. It groweth 

 not every where, we are also informed, but in certain small 

 spots overgrown with moss, close by swamps and shady : they 

 are green both in summer and winter. 



The "New England's Rarities" increase in number consider- 

 ably now under our 3d section, and we are next presented with 

 the figure of a singular plant, with four regularly circular 

 leaves, with diametrical lines meeting in the centre, each sup- 

 ported on a stiff straight stalk and rising from the crown or 

 apex of a fleshy looking root, somewhat in shape between a beet 

 and a turnip. I have in vain endeavored to guess what most 

 rare plant our author could have chanced upon. The most 

 probable solution is that of an aquatic, with circular floating 

 leaves. But let us listen to his story as follows : 



2. 

 This Plant was brought me by a neighbor who wander- 

 ing in the woods to find out his strayed Cattle lost himself for 

 two or three days, being as he ghessed eight or ten miles from 

 the seaside. The Root is pretty thick and black, having a 

 number of small black strings growing from it ; the stalk of 

 the Leaves about a handful long : the Leaves were round and 

 about as big'as a Silver Five Shilling piece, of a sap or dark 

 green colour with a line or Ribb as black as jeat round the 

 circumference, from whence came black lines or Ribbs, meeting 

 in a black spot in the centre. If I had staid longer in the 

 country I should_ have made purposely a journey into those 



