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Wild Angelica, majoris and minoris} 



Alexanders, which grow upon Rocks by the Sea ihore. 2 



[46] Yarrow, with the white Flower. 3 



Columbines, of a flefh colour, growing upon Rocks. 4 



Oak of Hierufalem? 



Pond in Cambridge. Our more common strawberry was not separated from the 

 European by Linnceus, but is now reckoned a distinct species. "There is like- 

 wise strawberries in abundance," says Wood (New-England's Prospect, /. c), — 

 very large ones ; some being two inches about. One may gather half a bushel in 

 a forenoon." — "This berry," says Roger Williams (Key, in Hist. Coll., vol. iii. 

 p. 221), " is the wonder of all the fruits growing naturally in those parts. It is of 

 itself excellent; so that one of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say, 

 that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry. In some 

 parts, where the natives have planted, I have many times seen as many as would 

 fill a good ship, within few miles' compass. The Indians bruise them in a mortar, 

 and mix them with meal, and make strawberry-bread." Gookin also speaks of 

 Indian-bread. — Alass. Hist. Coll., vol. i. p. 150. 



1 The two plants here intended, and supposed by the author to correspond 

 with the "wild angelica" and "great wilde angelica" of Gerard (pp. 999-1000), 

 may perhaps be taken for the same which Cornuti (Canad. PI. Hist., pp. 196- 

 200), thirty years before, had designated as new, — Josselyn's Angelica sylvestris 

 minor being Angelica lucida Canadensis of Cornuti, which is A. lucida, L. (and 

 probably, as the French botanist describes the fruit as "minus foliacea vulgari- 

 bus," also Archangelica peregrina, Nutt.); and his Angelica sylvestris major 

 being A. atropurpurea Canadensis of Cornuti, or A. atropurpurea, L. 



2 Smyrnium aureum, L. (golden Alexanders), now separated from that genus, 

 was mistaken, it is quite likely, for 5. olusatrum, L. (true Alexanders), to which 

 it bears a considerable resemblance. — Gerard, p. 1019. 



3 Achillea millefolium, L. Oakes has marked this as introduced (Catal. Ver- 

 mont, p. 17) : but it appeared to our author, in 1672, to be indigenous; and Dr. 

 Gray reckons it among plants common to both hemispheres. — Statistics of Amer. 

 Flora, in Am. Jour. Sci., vol. xxiii. p. 70. The author's reference is to common 

 yarrow. — Gerard, p. 1072. 



1 Aquilegia Canadensis, L. As elsewhere, the author probably means here 

 only that the genus is common to both continents. 



5 At p. 56, both of these are set down among the " plants proper to the coun- 

 try." The first, to follow Gerard (p. 1108), is Chenopodium botrys, L., — a native 

 of the south of Europe, and considered as an introduced species here. It has 

 reputation in diseases of the chest. — Wood & Bache, Dispens., p. 213. Josselyn's 



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