CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



He left "Oct. toth," — and in the following year published his "New England's Rarities." He 

 afterwards wrote a Supplementary account, and continued his Chronological record to " 1674." 



The following plants distinguished by Josselyn as North American: "stichwort" {Stellaria 

 longifolia), "commonly taken here, by ignorant people, for eye-bright," rar. p. 41 ; "blew flower-de- 

 luce" {Iris versicolor) ; "yellow-bastard daffodil," the "green leaves are spotted with black spots" 

 (Erythronium Americaimm) ; " dogstones, a kind of satyrion, whereof there are several kinds grow- 

 eth in our salt-marshes " (Platanlhera laccra and P. flava) ; " red lillies grow all over the country 

 innumerably amongst the small bushes" (Li/ii/m Philadelphicum) p. 42 ; 'Tilly convallie, with the 

 yellow flowers, grows upon rocky banks by the sea" (Uvularia sessilifolia?) ; " autumn bell-flower " 

 (Gentiana linearis) p. 43 ; " arsmart, both kinds " (perhaps Polygonum a, re and P. mite, see below) ; 

 "spurge-time," growing "upon dry, sandy sea-banks," is " very like to rupter-wort," and "is full of 

 milk" (Euphorbia polygonifolia) ; "rupter-wort, with the white flower" (Euphorbia maculata) ; 

 "jagged rose-penny wort" (Hydrocotyle Americana ?) : " St. John's wort" (Hypericum corymbosum, 

 see below) p. 44; "St. Peter's wort" (Elodea Virginica) ; "speedwell chick-weed" (Stellaria borea- 

 lisf); "male fluellin, or speedwell" (Helianthemum Canadian-); "wild mint" (Mentha borealis) ; 

 "the white violet, which is sweet, but not so strong as our blew violets" (Viola blanda) ; "blew 

 violets, without sent " (/' ovata) ; and " a reddish violet, without sent " (I', cueullata) ; "Salomon's 

 seal," the "first" kind (Polygonatum pubescens); "woodbine, good for hot swellings of the legs " 

 (Ampelopsis hederacea) p. 45; " dove's-foot " (Geranium Carolinianum) ; "raven's claw," which 

 "is admirable for agues " (Geranium maculatum) ; "cink-foil" (Potcntilla Canadensis), and " tor- 

 mentile " (Potentilla simplex) ; "avens, with the leaf of mountane-avens, the flower and root of 

 English avens" (Geum Virginicum) ; "oak of Cappadocia " (Ambrosia artemisiozfolia) p. 46; 

 "line-tree" (Tilia Americana), "the other kind I could never find," voyag. p. 69; "blackberry" 

 (Rubus villosus) rar. p. 48 ; " dewberry " (/?. Canadensis) ; " mouse-ear minor " (h'rigia I 'irginica .?) ; 

 " spurge-lawrel, called here poyson-berry " (k'almia an^ustifolia) p. 49; "elder" (Sambucus Cana- 

 densis) ; the "filberd" with " hairy husks upon the nuts" (Cory his rostrata) p. 50; "quick-beam, or 

 wild ash" (Sorbus Americana) p. 5c; "a solar plant, as some will have it" (Sisyriuchium Bermudi- 

 anuni) p. 55; " Homer's molley" (Allium Canadense?) : "lysimachus, or loose-strife," the "flowers 

 purple, standing upon a small sheath, or cod, which, when it is ripe, breaks, and puts forth a white 

 silken down " (Chamanerimu Americanuiu) p. 56 ; " marygold of Peru," a kind "bearing black 

 seeds " (Helianthtcs divarieatus) ;' " the other black and white streak'd," or " the small sunflower " (H. 

 decapetalus ?) pi. 82 and 83 ; " sea-tears," growing " upon the sea-banks," and " good for the scurvy 

 and dropsie, boiled and eaten as a sallade, and the broth drunk with it " (Cakile maritima) p. 56 ; 

 "New England daysie, or primrose," it "flowers in May, and grows amongst moss upon hilly grounds 

 and rocks that are shady " (Erigeron bellidifolium) p. 58; "sweet fern" (Comptonia asplenifolid); 

 plant " with a sheath, or hood, like dragons, but the pestle is of another shape " (Symplocarpus fceti- 

 dus) pi. 71 ; and an herb "between twelve and thirteen foot" high, "the top of the stalk runs out 



Carolina ; by myself, from 47 to 44 ; by Oakes, to 42° 30' along the Atlantic ; by Chapman, " moun- 

 tains of North Carolina, and northward ; " and according to Hooker, grows throughout Canada to the 

 Saskatchewan and Rocky mountains, and as far as the mouth of the Columbia. Transported to 

 Europe, is termed " s. racemosa rubra" by Tournefort inst. 606; was observed by Forskal in gardens 

 at Constantinople, called " kouphoxulia," and "aqua" and "acetum" prepared from its berries; by 

 Sibthorp, on mountains in Arcadia, and called "anthruanos ; " by Jacquin rar. i. pi. 59, on wooded 

 mountains as far as middle Europe (Pers.). 



Ch clone glabra of Northeast America. The snake-head was observed by Josselyn rar. pi. 78 

 " about three or four foot in height," growing "in wet ground" and flowering "in August;" — by 

 myself, on the marshy border of streams from 44° to 41° along the Atlantic ; by Croom, as far as New- 

 bern ; by Pursh, from New England to Carolina; by Schweinilz at 36° in Upper Carolina; by 

 Chapman, "Florida and northward, rare in the lower districts;" by Short, near Lexington in 

 Kentucky; by Nuttall, on the Arkansas; and was received from Canada by Linnaeus (Pers.). 



Verbena lia\tata of Northeast America. The blue vervain, termed by Josselyn rar. 69 " clowne's 

 all-heal of New England," the "flowers are blew, small, and many, growing in spoky tufts at the top, 

 and are not hooded, but having only four round leaves," — is known to grow throughout Canada to 

 the Saskatchewan (Hook.); was observed by myself from 46° to 41°, chiefly along roadsides; by 

 Pursh, from Canada to Carolina; by Elliot, in the middle district of Carolina and Georgia; by 

 Baldwin, as far as 30° 30' near St. Mary's ; by Chapman, "in the upper districts, Mississippi, and 

 northward;" by Michaux, in Upper Carolina and in Illinois ; by Beck, on the Mississippi near St. 

 Louis ; and by Nuttall, on the Arkansas. Transported to Europe, is described by Hermann parad. 

 pi. 242, and Linnaeus. 



