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Bloodwort} 



And I fufpedt Adders Tongue} 



Knot Grafs? 



Cheek weed?" 



Compherie, with the white Flower. 5 



May weed, excellent for the Mother; fome of our EngliJJi 

 Houfwives call it Iron Wort, and make a good Un- 

 guent for old Sores. 6 



herbs of repute: and, at p. 90, our author brings them in again as such; telling 

 us that bloodwort grows " but sorrily," but patience " very pleasantly." This 

 may very likely have crept out of some garden : but the great water-dock (i?. 

 Hydrolapathum, Huds.) is, says Gerard, "not unlike to the garden patience" 

 (p. 390) ; and Dr. Gray says the same of the American variety of the former. — 

 Man., p. 377. 



1 Gerard, p. 390, — Rumex sanguineus, L., "sown for a pot-herb in most gar- 

 dens " (Gerard) ; and so our author, p. 90. Linnceus took it to be originally 

 American : but it is common in Europe ; and Di. Gray marks the American plant 

 as naturalized. Dr. Torrey indicated the species as occurring about New York 

 in 1819 (Catal. PL, N.Y.) ; but New-England botanists do not appear to have 

 recognized it. Josselyn's plant was perhaps the offcast of some garden. 



2 Gerard, p. 404. — Compare p. 42 of this; where our author more correctly 

 reckons it among plants truly common to Europe and America. 



3 " Common knot-grasse " (Gerard, p. 565), — Polygonum aviculare, L. Com- 

 mon to all the great divisions of the earth, and reckoned indigenous in America. 

 — De Cand. Geogr. Bot., vol. i. p. 577; Gray, Man., p. 373. 



4 There are many chickweeds in Gerard; but that most likely to have been in 

 the author's view here is the universally known common chickweed, — the middle 

 or small chickweed of Gerard, p. 611. This was "common in gardens and rich 

 cultivated ground" in 1785. — Cutler, I. c. Few plants have spread so widely 

 over the earth as Stellaria media. 



8 Great comfrey (Gerard, p. 806), — Symphytum officinale, L. : also in the list 

 of garden herbs at p. 90. "Sometimes found growing wild," — Cutler (17S5), 

 /. c. Not admitted by Dr. Bigelow (Fl. Bost), but included by Dr. Gray as an 

 adventive. — Man., p. 320. 



6 Gerard, p. 757, — Maruta cotula (L.), DC; a naturalized member of our 

 Flora, now become a very common ornament of roadsides; where Cutler notices 

 it, also, in 17S5. 



