£riu=<!Ftt3latt&s Harttirs. 147 



Celandine, by the Weft Country men called Kenning 

 Wort, grows but flowly. 1 



Mufchata, as well as in England. 



Dittander, or Pepper Wort, flourifheth notably, and fo 

 doth. • 



Tanjie? 



Mujk Mellons are better than our EngliJJi, and. 



[91] Cucumbers. 



Pompions, there be of feveral kinds, fome proper to the 

 Country, 3 they are dr}*er then our Engli/Ii Pompions, and 

 better tafted; you may eat them green. 



words in the description thereof: for even children with great delight eat the 

 berries thereof, when they be ripe, — make chaines and other prettie gewgawes 

 of the fruit ; cookes and gentlewomen make tarts, and such like dishes, for pleas- 

 ure thereof," &c. (Gerard, /. c). Rosa canina, L., was once the collective name 

 of what are now understood as many distinct species ; but that which still retains 

 the name of dog-rose is reckoned the finest of native English roses. This familiar 

 plant may well have been reared with tender interest in some New-England gar- 

 dens of Josselyn's day; but it did not make a new home here, like the eglantine. 

 Cutler gives the name of dog-rose to the Carolina rose, — R. Carolina, L., — 

 which it has not kept; and he also makes it equivalent to the officinal R. canina. 

 Our Flora will possibly one day include one or two other garden-roses. A dam- 

 ask rose is well established and spreading rapidly in mowing-land of the writer's, 

 and elsewhere on roadsides of this country ; and that general favorite, the cin- 

 namon-rose, which is now naturalized in England, may yet become wild with us. 



1 Great celandine (Gerard, p. 1069), as the west-country name of kenning- 

 wort — that is, sight-wort — makes manifest; the juice being once thought to be 

 " good to sharpen the sight," — Ckelidonium majus, L. Small celandine (Ranun- 

 culus Ficaria, L.) was quite another thing. The former had got to be " common 

 by fences and amongst rubbish " in 17S5 (Cutler, /. c), and is now naturalized in 

 Eastern New England. 



2 Gerard, p. 650, — Tanacetum vulgare, L. In "pastures" (1785). — Cutler, 

 I. c. Now widely naturalized in New England. 



3 "See p. 57, note. ,: The ancient New-England standing dish " was doubtless 

 far better than Gerard's fried pompions (p. 921), and has more than held its 

 own. 



