82 IkfoCHttglantis Parities. 



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Red Lillies grow all over the Country innumerably 

 amongft the fmall Bufhes, and flower in June? 



Wild Sorrel? 



Adders Tongue comes not up till jfune\ I have found it 

 upon dry hilly grounds, in places where the water hath 

 flood all Winter, in Augujl, and did then make Oyntment 

 of the Herb new gathered; the faireft Leaves grow 

 amongft fhort Hawthorn Bufhes, that are plentifully grow- 

 ing in fuch hollow places. 4 



One Blade? 



Lilly Convallie, with the yellow Flowers grows upon 

 rocky banks by the Sea. 6 



1 Gerard, era. p. 257, — Nasturtium officinale, L. Reckoned also by Cutler, 

 and indeed naturalized in some parts of the country (Gray, Man., p. 30) ; but our 

 author had probably N. falustre, DC. (marsh-cress), if any thing of this genus, 

 and not rather Cardamine kirsuta, L. (hairy lady's smock), in his mind. Both 

 the last are common to us and Europe. — Gray, I. c. 



2 Gerard, p. 192. Lilium bulbiferum (the garden red lily) is meant ; for which 

 our author mistook our own red lily (Z.. Philadelpkicum, L.). 



3 Of the two plants, — either of which may possibly have been in view of the 

 author here, — the sorrell du bois, or white wood-sorrel of Gerard, p. 1101 (Oxalis 

 acetosella, L.) which is truly common to Europe and America, and the sheep's 

 sorrel (Gerard, p. 397, — Rumcx acetosella, L.), which inhabits, indeed, the whole 

 northern hemisphere, but is taken by Dr. Gray to be a naturalized weed here, I 

 incline to think the latter less likely to have escaped Josselyn's attention than the 

 former, and to be what he means to say appeared to him as native, in 1671. For 

 the yellow wood-sorrel, see farther on. 



4 Gerard, em., p. 404, — Ofhioglossum vulgatum, L. ; common to us and 

 Europe. 



5 Gerard, em., p. 409, — Smilacina bifolia (L.), Ker; common to us and 

 Europe. 



6 Gerard, em., p. 410. A mistake of our author's, which can hardly be set 

 right. The station is against the plant's having been Smilacuia trifolia (L.), 

 Desf. But it ma)' be that Clintonia borealis (Ait.) Raf., was intended. 



