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Hellibore, in the like wet and black grounds, commonly by 

 Hellibore, with a fheath or Hood like Dragons, but the 

 peftle is of another fhape, that is, having a round Purple 

 Ball on the top of it, befet (as it were) with Burs ; the 

 hood moots forth immediately from the Root, before any 

 Leaf appears, having a Green [72] fprig growing fair, by 

 it, like the fmaller Horfe Toy I, about the latter end of 

 April the Hood and Sprig wither away, and there comes 

 forth in the room a Bud, like the Bud of the Walnut Tree, 

 but bigger; the top of it is of a pale Green Colour, 

 covered with brown skins like an Onion, white under- 

 neath the Leaves, which fpread in time out of the Bud, 

 grow from the root with a ftalk a Foot long, and are as 

 big as the great Bur Dock Leaves, and of the colour; the 

 Roots are many, and of the bignefs of the fteel of a 

 Tobacco Pipe, and very white; the whole Plant fents as 

 ftrong as a Fox; it continues till Augujl} 



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This Plant the Humming Bird feedeth upon, it groweth 

 likewife in wet grounds, and is not at its full growth till 



1 Symflocarfius fcetidus (L.) Salisb. (skunk-cabbage). Our author's appears 

 to be the first figure and account of this curious plant, which he rightly places 

 among such " as are proper to the country, and have no name." Cutler's de- 

 scription, in 1785 (Account of Indig. Veg., /. c, pp. 407-9), — which is followed 

 by the remark, that " the fructification so essentially differs from all the genera 

 of this order, it must undoubtedly be considered as a new genus," — was the next 

 contribution of importance, and so continued till Dr. Bigelow's elaborate history; 

 — Amer. Med. Bot., vol. ii. p. 41, pi. xxiv. Josselyn's "sprig" of a horse-tail 

 might perhaps be added to his Filices, at p. 47, note 2, 3. 



