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Doves-Foot} 
Herb Robert} 
Knobby Cranes Bill} 
For Agues. 
Ravens-Claw, which flowers in May, and is admirable 
for Agues. 1 
Cinkfoil? 
Tormentile? 
Avens, with the leaf of Mountatic- Avens, the flower and 
root of EngliJJi Avens. 3 
Strawberries} 
1 Geranium, L. The first is G. Carolinianum, L., which nearly resembles 
Gerard's dove's-foot (p. 938); the second is G. Robertianum, L., common to us 
and Europe; and the third (Gerard, p. 940) — which cannot be G. disse&um — 
was meant, it is likely to be taken for synonymous with the fourth, or raven's- 
claw, — doubtless our lovely G. macttlatum, L., which belongs to that group of 
species which the old botanists distinguished by the common name Geranium 
batrachioides, or crow-foot geranium, which flowers in May, and is of well-known 
value in medicine; and the "knobby" root, attributed to Josselyn's third kind, 
favors this opinion. 
2 The genus Potentilla, L., in general, is perhaps intended by cinque-foil; 
and although our author probably confounded the common and variable Poten- 
tilla Canadensis, L., with the nearly akin P. reptans and P. verna, L., of Europe, 
yet the larger part of our New-England species are, with little doubt, common to 
both continents. What Josselyn referred to Tormentilla, L., — a genus not now 
separated from Potentilla, — was probably a state of P. Canadensis, which resem- 
bles P. reptans, L., as remarked above (and was, indeed, mistaken for it by Cut- 
ler, — /. c, p. 453), as this does Tormentilla reptans, L. 
3 Geum stridum, Ait., — not found in England, but European (Gray, Man., 
p. 116), — is indicated by the author's phrase; and see the Voyages, p. 78, for his 
opinion of its medicinal virtue. 
4 Fragaria vesca, L. (the common wood-strawberry of Europe), is native 
here, according to Oakes (Catal. Verm., p. 12), " especially on mountains; " and 
I have even gathered it, but possibly naturalized, on the woody banks of Fresh 
