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a mouth and hollow throughout, containing four crooked pojn- 

 tals. The whole Flower is milk white, the inside of the chaps 

 reddish, the Roots I did not observe. 



7. 



We have a figure of Coriivs Canadensis, already described 

 on page 104, which the author takes for a variegated Herb 

 Paris, True Love or One Berry or rather One Flower. 



The Herb Paris of England and Europe is however quite an- 

 other plant viz : Paris qiiadrifolia. Compare Eng. Bot. Plate 

 7, to see that it has no relation to the " New England Rarity.'" 



A famously executed figure next introduces us to " The 

 small Sun flower or Marygold of America,'' which I suppose 

 to be intended for Heliauthris divarlcatus of our thickets 

 and about neglected fields. A long and minute description 

 follows this figure, which does not serve much to elucidate 

 the point, the cut being fixr preferable. 



IV. Of such Plants as have Sprung up since the 

 English planted and kept Cattle in New England. 



Couch grass. Triticum repens. 



Shepherd's purse. Cajjsella Bursa-pasioris. 



Dandelion. Taraxacum dens-leotus. 



Groundsel. ISenecio vtdgaris. 



Sow Thistle. ISoncJms oleracetis. 



Wild Arrach. Airiplex hasiata. 



Night Shade with the white Flower. Solanum nigrum. 



Nettles stinging, which was the first plant taken notice of. 

 Urtica urens. This sort used to be planted in gardens, and 

 even forced, as a vegetable, and is ' ' the first plant taken notice 

 of," in Parkinson, p. 441. 



Mallowes. Malva roiimdifolia. 



Plantain, which the Indians call English Man! s Foot, as 

 though produced by their treading. Planiago major. 



Black Henbane, Hyoscyamiis niger. 



Wormwood, Artemisia absinthiuTii. 



Sharp pointed Dock. I am unable to distinguish this plant 



ESSEX INST, proceed. VOL. ii. 15. 



