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Negundo aceroid.es, Mcench. 

 Has been found escaped, by seeds, in the vicinity of Boston. (In 

 from Penn., etc.) 



POLYaALACE.a!. 



(MiLKwoBT Family.) 



Polygala sanguinea, L. 



Common in damp places, often varying to white. 

 Polygala cruciata, L. 



In bogs. Not very common. Marblehead (Tracy) ; Lynnfleld (j 



P. Chute) ; Manchester (Oakes) ; Wenham swamp ; Beaver por 



bog, etc. 

 Polygala verticillata, L. 



Frequent in dry places. 

 Polygala polygama, Walt. 



Wood paths and somewhat shady places. Quite common. 

 Polygala paucifolia, Willd. (Fkinged Polygala.) 



Manchester, Essex ; Georgetown (Mrs. Horner) ; Andover (Mr 



Downs), etc. Not very common. 



(Pulse Family.) 



Xiupinus perenniB, X. (Wild Lupine.) 

 In the northern portion of the county from Ipswich to Andover, 

 is quite common. " The flowers vary from white and pink to bli 

 and purple, some striped" (memo. G. D. Phippen). 



Genista tinctoria, L. (Woad Waxen.) 

 "By the first European colonists was carried to Salem in Ne 

 England, ' woad-seed' being enumerated prior to February, 1628, i 

 a memorandum of articles to be sent out with Governor Endicoti 

 forty years later, ' wood-wax wherewith they dye many pretl 

 colours" was found there by Josselyn (Ear. p. 61)." (Dr. Cha, 

 Pickering, Chron. Hist. PL, p. 86). 



"This plant has overrun the hills on the south side of Salem, s 

 as to give them, in the month of July, a uniformly yellow appea 

 ance at a distance" (Bigelow's Fl. Bost. 1814). 

 "In pastures between New-Mills and Salem" 1783 (Dr. Manasse 

 Cutler, Mem. Am. Acad., Vol. I). 



It now (1880) covers hundreds of acres of land on the sterile hil 

 near Salem, Peabody and Danvers, extending somewhat into Middli 

 ton and Topsfield. (Adv. from Eu.) 



