Jkfo=<£nglan&s 2ftaritics. 93 



Dew-Berry. 



Rafp-Berry, here called Mid-berry. 



Goofe-Berries, of a deep red Colour. 1 



Haw-thorn, the Haws being as big as Services, and 

 very good to eat, and not fo aftringent as the Haws in 

 England? 



Toad flax? 



calyceque aculeato-hispidissimis, Enum. PI. Agri Cantab, 1S43, Ms.) ; upon which 

 see Gray (Man., p. 121 ; and Statistics, &c, /. c, p. 81). R. triflorus, Richards., is 

 also very near to, and was once considered the same as, the European R. saxatilis, 

 L. The rest of our New-England raspberries and blackberries appear to be spe- 

 cifically distinct from those of Europe. The cloud-berry, mentioned at p. 60, is 

 there set down among plants proper to the country ; and may therefore not be the 

 true cloud-berry (Gerard, p. 1273), or Rubus chamcemorus, L., which is common 

 to both continents. 



1 The New-England gooseberries are peculiar to this country. The author no 

 doubt intends Ribes hirtellum, Michx. (Gray, Man., p. 137) ; as see further his 

 Voyages, p. 72. 



s Cratcegus, L. But the species are peculiar to this country, as Josselyn im- 

 plies with respect to the haws which he notices. These, no doubt, included C. 

 tomentosa, L., Gray; and perhaps, also, C. coccinea, L. Wood says, "The white 

 thorn affords hawes as big as an English cherry; which is esteemed above a 

 cherry for his goodness and pleasantness to the taste." — Ne-w-England's Prosper, 

 chap. v. At page 72 of his Voyages, the author mentions " a small shrub, which 

 is very common ; growing sometimes to the height of elder ; bearing a berry like 

 in shape to the fruit of the white thorn ; of a pale, yellow colour at first, then red 

 (when it is ripe, of a deep purple) ; of a delicate, aromatical tast, but somewhat 

 stiptick, — which may be Pyrus arbutifolia, L. Higginson (New-England's 

 Plantation, /. c, p. 119) speaks of our haws almost as highly as Wood. 



3 Great toad-flax (Gerard, em., p. 550) ; Linaria vulgaris, Moench. Compare 

 De Candolle (Geog. Bot., vol. ii. p. 716) for a sketch of the American history of 

 this now familiar plant, which the learned author cannot trace before Bigelow's 

 date (FI. Bost., edit. 1) of 1S14. But it is certainly Cutler's "snapdragon; . . . 

 blossoms yellow, with a mixture of scarlet; common by roadsides in Lynn and 

 Cambridge " (/. c, 1785) : though he strangely prefixes the Linnsean phrase for 

 Antirrhinum Canadense, L. ; and there seems no reason to doubt that Josselyn 

 may very well have seen it in 1671. 



