92 $cfo=(£nc$lantis iftarittrs. 



Fufs-Balls, very large. 1 



MuJJirooms, fome long and no bigger than ones ringer, 

 others jagged flat, round, none like our great Mufhrooms 

 in England, of thefe fome are of a Scarlet colour, others 

 a deep Yellow, &c} 



[48] Blew flowered Pimpernel? 



Noble Liver-wort, one fort with white flowers, the other 

 with blew. 3 



Black-Berry^ 



country ")• The author refers here, doubtless, to Afios tuberosa, Moench. 

 (ground-nut of New England), which was raised at Paris, from American seeds, 

 by Vespasian Robin, and figured from his specimens by Cornuti (Canad., p. 200) 

 in 1635; but it was celebrated, ten years earlier, in "Nova Anglia," — a curious 

 poem by the Rev. William Morrell, who came over with Capt. Robert Gorges in 

 1623, and spent about a year at Weymouth and Plymouth, publishing his book 

 in 1625 (repr. Hist. Coll., vol. i. p. 125, &c.),- — as follows: — 



" Vimine gramineo nux subterranea suavis 

 Serpit humi, tenui flavo sub cortice, pingui 

 Et placido nucleo nivei candoris ab intra, 

 Melliflua parcos hilarans dulcedine gustus, 

 Donee in a^stivum Phoebus conscenderit axetn. 

 His nucleis laute versutus vescitur Indus : 

 His exempta fames segnis nostratibus omnis 

 Dulcibus his vires revocantur vicftibus alma;." 



1 See p. 52 and Voyages (pp. 70, Si) for other notices of Fungi ; and Voyages, 

 p. 81, for the only mention of Alga. 



2 Female pimpernell (Gerard, em., p. 617), — Anagallis arvensis, y, Sm. ; A. 

 ccerulea, Schreb.,- — but scarcely differing, except in color, from the scarlet pim- 

 pernel, which has long ("in clayey ground," — Cutler, I. c, 1785) been an inhab- 

 itant of the coasts of Massachusetts Bay, though doubtless introduced. 



3 Hepatica triloba, Chaix. {Anemone liepatiea, L.), common to Europe and 

 America ; occurring occasionally with white flowers. — Gerard, em., p. 1203. 



4 Rubus, L. The red raspberry of this country is hardly other than an Amer- 

 ican variety of the European (R. Idceus, var. strigosus, caule petiolis pedunculis 



