£rfo=(£ttglantis Parities. 141 



The great Clot Bur. 1 



Muffin, with the white Flower. 2 



Q. What became of the influence of thofe Planets that 

 produce and govern thefe Plants before this time ! 



I have now done with fuch Plants as grow wild in the 

 Country in great plenty, (although I have not mentioned 

 all) I fhall now in the Fifth place give you to under [87] 

 ftand what EnglifJi Herbs we have growing in our Gardens 

 that profper there as well as in their proper Soil, and of 

 fuch as do not, and alfo of fuch as will not grow there at 

 all. 



5. Of fuch Garden Herbs {amongjl us) as do thrive there, 

 and of fuh as do not? 



c 



Abbidge sTOwes there exceeding well. 

 Lettice. 



1 "Great burre-docke, or clott-burre '* (Gerard, p. 809), — Lappa major, Gaertn. 

 "About barns," — Cutler (1785), I. c. 



- "White-floured mullein" (Gerard, p. 773)> — perhaps Verbascum Lychnitis, 

 L. ; which is adventive in some parts of the United States (Gray, Man., p. 2S3), 

 but is not otherwise known to have made its appearance in New England. Great 

 mullein ( V. Thapsus, L.) was "common" in Cutler's time. The moth-mullein 

 (V. Blattaria, L.) he only knew "by roadsides in Lynn" (/. c, p. 419). Other 

 plants referable to this list of naturalized weeds are " wild sorrel," p. 42 ; Polygo- 

 num Persicaria, p. 43 ; St. John's wort, speedwell, chickweed, male fluellin, cat- 

 mint, and clot-bur, p. 44; yarrow, and oak of Jerusalem, p. 46; pimpernel, and 

 toadflax, p. 48; and wild purslain, and woad-waxen, p. 51. See also spearmint, 

 and ground-ivy, p. 89; and elecampane, celandine, and tansy, p. 90. 



3 The earliest, almost the only account that we have of the gardens of our 

 fathers, after they had settled themselves in their New England, and had tamed 



