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Violets of three kinds, the White Violet which is 
fweet, but not fo ftrong as our Blew Violets; Blew Violets 
without fent, and a Reddifh Violet without fent; they 
do not blow till fane. 1 
Wood-bine, good for hot fwellings of the Legs, foment- 
ing with the deco6lion, and applying the Feces in the form 
of a Cataplafme? 
Salomons-Seal, of which there is three kinds; the firft 
common in England, the fecond, Virginia Salomons-Seal, 
and the third, differing from both, is called Treacle Berries, 
having the perfe6t taft of Treacle when they are ripe; 
and will keep good along while; certainly a very whol- 
fome Berry, and medicinable. 3 
1 None of the species, presumably here meant, are common to America and 
Europe. Our author's white violet is Viola blanda, Willd. 
2 All our true honeysuckles ("woodbinde, or honisuckles," — Gerard, p. 891; 
Cafrifolium, Juss.) are distincl from those of Europe ; but what the author meant 
here is uncertain. 
3 Convallaria, L. ; Polygonatum, Tourn. ; 5 in ila c ina, Desf. Many botanists 
have referred our smaller Solomon's seal to the nearly akin C. multijiora of Eu- 
rope; but Dr. Gray (Manual, p. 466) pronounces the former a distinct American 
species. The second of Josselyn's species is the " Polvgonatuni Virginianum, or 
Virginian's Salomon's seale"of Johnson's Gerard (p. 905), and also of Morison 
(Hist., cit. -£.), and earliest described and figured by Cornuti as P. Canadcnse, 
<£c, which is Smilacina stcllata, (L.) Desf.; peculiar to America. The third is 
set down by our author, at p. 56, among the "plants proper to the country; " and 
Wood {New-Eng. Prospeft, chap, v.) mentions it among eatable wild fruits, by 
the same name. It is probably Smilacina racemosa, (L.) Desf, — a suggestion 
which I owe to my friend Rev. J. L. Russell's notes upon Josselyn's plants, in 
Hovey's Magazine (March, April, and May, 185S) ; papers which were published 
after the manuscript of this edition had passed from the hands of the editor, — 
and is also confined to this continent. 
