flefo^ttslanbs Parities. 
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Wild Angelica, majoris and minoris} 
Alexanders, which grow upon Rocks by the Sea fhore: 
[46] Yarrow, with the white Flower. 3 
Columbines, of a flefh colour, growing upon Rocks. 4 
Pond in Cambridge. Our more common strawberry was not separated from the 
European by Linnajus, but is now reckoned a distinct species. "There is like- 
wise strawberries in abundance," says Wood (New-England's Prospect, /. c), — 
very large ones ; some being two inches about. One may gather half a bushel in 
a forenoon." — "This berry," says Roger Williams (Key, in Hist. Coll., vol. iii. 
p. 221), " is the wonder of all the fruits growing naturally in those parts. It is of 
itself excellent; so that one of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say, 
that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry. In some 
parts, where the natives have planted, I have many times seen as many as would 
fill a good ship, within few miles' compass. The Indians bruise them in a mortar, 
and mix them with meal, and make strawberry-bread." Gookin also speaks of 
Indian-bread. — Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. i. p. 150. 
1 The two plants here intended, and supposed by the author to correspond 
with the "wild angelica" and "great wilde angelica" of Gerard (pp. 999-1000), 
may perhaps be taken for the same which Cornuti (Canad. PI. Hist., pp. 196- 
200), thirty years before, had designated as new, — Josselyn's Angelica sylvestris 
minor being Angelica lucida Canadensis of Cornuti, which is A. lucida, L. (and 
probably, as the French botanist describes the fruit as "minus foliacea vulgari- 
bus," also Archangclica peregrina, Nutt.) ; and his Angelica sylvestris major 
being A. atropurpurea Canadensis of Cornuti, or A. atropurpurea, L. 
2 Smyrnium aureum, L. (golden Alexanders), now separated from that genus, 
was mistaken, it is quite likely, for S. olusalrum, L. (true Alexanders), to which 
it bears a considerable resemblance. — Gerard, p. 1019. 
8 Achillea millefolium, L. Oakes has marked this as introduced (Catal. Ver- 
mont, p. 17) : but it appeared to our author, in 1672, to be indigenous; and Dr. 
Gray reckons it among plants common to both hemispheres. — Statistics of Amer. 
Flora, in Am. Jour. Sci., vol. xxiii. p. 70. The author's reference is to common 
yarrow. — Gerard, p. 1072. 
4 Aquilegia Canadensis, L. As elsewhere, the author probably means here 
only that the genus is common to both continents. 
5 At p. 56, both of these are set down among the "plants proper to the coun- 
try." The first, to follow Gerard (p. 1108), is Chcnopodium botrys, L., — a native 
of the south of Europe, and considered as an introduced species here. It has 
reputation in diseases of the chest. — Wood & Bache, Dispens., p. 213. Josselyn's 
