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Watercrejfes? 
Red Lillies grow all over the Country innumerably 
amongft the fmall Bufhes, and flower in June? 
Wild Sorrel? 
Adders Tongue comes not up till June; I have found it 
upon dry hilly grounds, in places where the water hath 
flood all Winter, in Auguft, and did then make Oyntment 
of the Herb new gathered; the faireft Leaves grow 
amongft fhort Hawthorn Bufhes, that are plentifully grow- 
ing in fuch hollow places. 4 
One Blade? 
Lilly Convallie, with the yellow Flowers grows upon 
rocky banks by the Sea. 6 
1 Gerard, cm. p. 257, — Nasturtium officinale, L. Reckoned also by Cutler, 
and indeed naturalized in some parts of the country (Gray, Man., p. 30) ; but our 
author had probably JV. palustre, DC. (marsh-cress), if any thing of this genus, 
and not rather Cardamine hirsuta, L. (hairy lady's smock), in his mind. Both 
the last are common to us and Europe. — Gray, I. c. 
2 Gerard, p. 192. Lilium bulbiferum (the garden red lily) is meant; for which 
our author mistook our own red lily (L. Philadelphicum, L.). 
3 Of the two plants, — either of which may possibly have been in view of the 
author here, — the sorrell du bois, or white wood-sorrel of Gerard, p. 1101 (Oxalis 
acetosella, L.) which is truly common to Europe and America, and the sheep's 
sorrel (Gerard, p. 397, — Rumen acetosella, L.), which inhabits, indeed, the whole 
northern hemisphere, but is taken by Dr. Gray to be a naturalized weed here, I 
incline to think the latter less likely to have escaped Josselyn's attention than the 
former, and to be what he means to say appeared to him as native, in 1671. For 
the yellow wood-sorrel, see farther on. 
4 Gerard, em., p. 404, — Ofihioglossum vulgatum, L. ; common to us and 
Europe. 
6 Gerard, em., p. 409, — Smilacina bifolia (L-), Ker; common to us and 
Europe. 
6 Gerard, em., p. 410. A mistake of our author's, which can hardly be set 
right. The station is against the plant's having been Smilacina trifolia (L.), 
Desf. But it may be that Clintonia borealis (Ait.) Raf., was intended. 
