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Negundo aceroides, Mench. 
Has been fownd escaped, by seeds, in the vicinity of Boston. (Int. 
from Penn., etc.) 
POLYGALACESA. 
(MILKWORT FAMILY.) 
Polygala sanguinea, L. 
Common in damp places, often varying to white. 
Polygala cruciata, L. 
In bogs. Not very common. Marblehead (Tracy); Lynnfield (A. 
P. Chute); Manchester (Oakes); Wenham swamp; Beaver pond 
bog, etc. 
Polygala verticillata, L. 
Frequent in dry places. 
Polygala polygama, Walt. 
Wood paths and somewhat shady places. Quite common. 
Polygala paucifolia, Willd. (FriInGeD PoLyGALa.) 
Manchester, Essex; Georgetown (Mrs. Horner); Andover (Mrs. 
Downs), etc. Not very common. 
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LEGUMINOSA. 
(PULSE FAMILY.) 
Lupinus perennis, Z. (WILD LUPINE.) 
In the northern portion of the county from Ipswich to Andover, it 
is quite common. ‘‘ The flowers vary from white and pink to blue 
and purple, some striped” (memo. G. D. Phippen). 
Genista tinctoria, ZL. (Woap WAXEN.) 
‘‘By the first European colonists was carried to Salem in New 
England, ‘ woad-seed’ being enumerated prior to February, 1628, in 
a memorandum of articles to be sent out with Governor Endicott; 
forty years later, ‘wood-wax wherewith they dye many pretty 
colours” was found there by Josselyn (Rar. p. 51).” (Dr. Chas. 
Pickering, Chron. Hist. Pl., p. 86). 
‘‘This plant has overrun the hills on the south side of Salem, so 
as to give them, in the month of July, a uniformly yellow appear- 
ance at a distance” (Bigelow’s Fl. Bost. 1814). 
‘‘In pastures between New-Mills and Salem” 1783 (Dr. Manasseh 
Cutler, Mem. Am. Acad., Vol. I). 
It now (1880) covers hundreds of acres of land on the sterile hills 
near Salem, Peabody and Danvers, extending somewhat into Middle- 
ton and Topsfield. (Adv. from Eu.) 

