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Fearn} 



Brakes} 



Wood forrel, with the yellow flower. 2 



Elm? 



Line Tree, both kinds. 4 



A way to draw 07it Oyl of Akrons, or the like, &c. 



Maple; of the Alhes of this Tree the Indians make a 

 lye, with which they force out Oyl from Oak Akorns that 

 is highly efteemed by the Indians!' 



Dew-Grafs? 



Eartk-Nut, which are of divers kinds, one bearing 

 very beautiful Flowers. 7 



1 The "Filix mas, or male feme," of Gerard, edit, cit., p. 112S (for, says he, of 

 the " divers sorts of feme . . . there be two sorts, according to the old writers, — 

 the male and the female; and these be properly called feme: the others have 

 their proper names"), is the collective designation of four species of Aspidium ; 

 of which all, according to Pursh, and certainly three, are natives of both conti- 

 nents, — AA. cristatum, Filix mas, Filix faemina, and aculeatum, Willd. "Filix 

 fcemina (female feme, or brakes," of Gerard, /. c.) is Pteris aquilina, L. ; also 

 common to us and Europe. The other Filices mentioned by our author are 

 Opkioglossum vulgatum, L. (p. 42); and Adiantum pedatum, L. (p. 55). 



3 Oxalis corniculata, L. (Gerard, era., p. 1202), common to Europe and 

 America. 



3 Ulmus, L. There are no species common to America and Europe. 



4 See the Voyages, p. 69, where the author has it " the line-tree, with long 

 nuts : the other kind I could never find." The former was Tilia Americana, L., 

 — a species peculiar to America. 



6 See p. 4S ; and Voyages, p. 69. None of our species are found in Europe. 



6 The plant intended is doubtless the same with that spoken of in the Voyages, 

 p. 80. — "Rosa solis, sundew, moor-grass. This plant I have seen more of than 

 ever I saw in my whole life before in England," Sic. Both our common New- 

 England species of Drosera are also natives of Europe. 



7 " Differing much from those in England. One sort of them bears a most 

 beautiful flower" (p. 56, where it is rightly placed among plants "proper to the 



