ilffosflEnglaifts Parities. 87 



Violets of three kinds, the White Violet which is . 

 fweet, but not fo ftrong> as our Blew Violets ; Blew Violets 

 without fent, and a Reddifh Violet without fent; they 

 do not blow till yune} 



[45] For fwelPd Legs. 



Wood-bine, good for hot fwellings of the Legs, foment- 

 ing with the decoction, and applying the Feces in the form 

 of a Cataplafme? 



Salomons-Seal, of which there is three kinds; the firft 

 common in England, the fecond, Virginia Salomons-Seal, 

 and the third, differing from both, is called Treacle Berries, 

 having the perfect tall of Treacle when they are ripe; 

 and will keep good along while ; certainly a very whol- 

 fome Berry, and medicinable. 3 



1 None of the species, presumably here meant, are common to America and 

 Europe. Our author's white violet is Viola blanda, Willd. 



- All our true honeysuckles (" woodbinde, or honisuckles," — Gerard, p. 891 ; 

 Caprifolium, Juss.) are distinct from those of Europe ; but what the author meant 

 here is uncertain. 



3 Convallaria, L. ; Polygonaium, Tourn. ; Smilacina, Desf. Many botanists 

 have referred our smaller Solomon's seal to the nearly akin C. multiflora of Eu- 

 rope; but Dr. Gray (Manual, p. 466) pronounces the former a distinct American 

 species. The second of Josselyn's species is the " Polygonatum Virginianum, or 

 Virginian's Salomon's seale" of Johnson's Gerard (p. 905), and also of Morison 

 (Hist., cit. Z..), and earliest described and figured by Cornuti as P. Canadense, 

 &c., which is Smilacina stellata, (L.) Desf. ; peculiar to America. The third is 

 set down by our author, at p. 56, among the " plants proper to the country; " and 

 Wood (New-Eng. Prospect, chap, v.) mentions it among eatable wild fruits, by 

 the same name. It is probably Smilacina racemosa, (L.) Desf., — a suggestion 

 which I owe to my friend Rev. J. L. Russell's notes upon Josselyn's plants, in 

 Hovey's Magazine (March, April, and May, 1858) ; papers which were published 

 after the manuscript of this edition had passed from the hands of the editor, — 

 and is also confined to this continent. 



