£rfo=(!Hncjlan&s EarttfeS. 103 



Wild-Leckes, which the Indians ufe much to eat with 

 their fifh. 1 



A Plant like Knavers-Mujlard, , called New-England 

 Muftard. 3 



Mountain-Lillies, bearing many yellow Flowers, turning 

 up their Leaves like the Martigon, or Turks Cap, fpotted 

 with fmall fpots as deep as Safforn, they Flower in July? 



One Berry, or Herb True Love. See the Figure. 4 



Tobacco, there is not much of it Planted in New-Eng- 

 land. The Indians make ufe of a fmall kind with fhort 

 round leaves called Pooke. 5 



1 Allium Canadense, L., probably. — See also p. 55, note 4. 



2 "Knaves'-mustard (for that it is too bad for honest men)." — Gerard, p. 262. 

 The " New-England mustard," which was like it, may be Lepidium Virginicum, 

 L. ; which, having "a taste like common garden-cress, or peppergrass" (Bigel.,, 

 Fl. Bost., in loco), perhaps attracted the first settlers. 



3 The " many flowers," with reflexed sepals, perhaps refer this to our noble 

 American Turk's-cap (Lilium superbum, L.), rather than to the yellow lily (Z.. 

 Canadense, L.). 



4 See p. Si. 



5 " They take their tvuttammauog. — that is, a weak tobacco, ■ — which the men 

 plant themselves, very frequently. Yet I never see any take so excessively as I 

 have seen men in Europe ; and yet excess were more tolerable in them, because 

 they want the refreshing of beer and wine, which God had vouchsafed Europe." — 

 R. Williams, Key, I. c, p. 213. And, in another place, the same writer says that 

 tobacco is "commonly the only plant which men labour in" (he is speaking of 

 the Indians); "the women managing all the rest" (p. 208). Wood, in his list 

 of Indian words (New-Eng. Prospect, ad ult.~), spells the Indian word, above 

 given, oltommaocke, — (perhaps both are comparable with " ■wuttahimneash, 

 strawberries" (Williams, I. c, p. 220), and " -weetimoquat, it smells sweet" 

 (Vocab. of Narraganset Lang., in Hist. Coll., vol. v. p. 82) ; og, ock, and ash, 

 being all plural terminations; between which and "the noun in the singular one 

 or more consonants or vowels are frequently interspersed" {ibid., vol. iii. p. 222, 

 note) ; and oquat. from the context, the verbal ; and the root appearing possibly 

 the same), — and also defines it as tobacco. There is much other testimony that 

 the New-England savages were found using " tobacco " (as Mourt's Relation, /. c, 



