88 |kfos<EngIairtrs Parities. 



♦ Doves-Foot} 

 Herb Robert} 

 Knobby Cranes Bill} 



For Agues. 



Ravens-Claw, which flowers in May, and is admirable 

 for Agues. 1 



Cinkfoil? 



Tormentile? 



Avens, with the leaf of Mountane-Avens, the flower and 

 root of EngliJJi Avens? 



Strawberries} 



1 Geranium, L. The first is G. Carolinianum, L., which nearly resembles 

 Gerard's dove's-foot (p. 938); the second is G. Robertianum, L., common to us 

 and Europe; and the third (Gerard, p. 940) — which cannot be G. disseflum — 

 was meant, it is likely to be taken for synonymous with the fourth, or raven's- 

 claw, — doubtless our lovely G. maculatum, L., which belongs to that group of 

 species which the old botanists distinguished by the common name Geranium 

 batrachioides, or crow-foot geranium, which flowers in May, and is of well-known 

 value in medicine; and the "knobby" root, attributed to Josselyn's third kind, 

 favors this opinion. 



2 The genus Potentilla, L., in general, is perhaps intended by cinque-foil ; 

 and although our author probably confounded the common and variable Poten- 

 tilla Canadensis, L., with the nearly akin P. reptans and P. verna, L., of Europe, 

 yet the larger part of our New-England species are, with little doubt, common to 

 both continents. What Josselyn referred to Tormentilla, L., — a genus not now 

 separated from Potentilla, — was probably a state of P. Canadensis, which resem- 

 bles P. reptans, L., as remarked above (and was, indeed, mistaken for it by Cut- 

 ler, — I. c, p. 453), as this does Tormentilla reptans, L. 



8 Geum striatum, Ait., — not found in England, but European (Gray, Man., 

 p. 116), — is indicated by the author's phrase; and see the Voyages, p. 7S, for his 

 opinion of its medicinal virtue. 



4 Fragaria -vesca, L. (the common wood-strawberry of Europe), is native 

 here, according to Oakes (Catal. Verm., p. 12), " especially on mountains; " and 

 I have even gathered it, but possibly naturalized, on the woody banks of Fresh 



