9 2 
$efo=(£ttjjlanti!3 Parities 
Fufs-Balls, very large. 1 
MuJJirooms, fome long and no bigger than ones finger, 
others jagged flat, round, none like our great Mufhrooms 
in England, of thefe fome are of a Scarlet colour, others 
a deep Yellow, &c} 
[48] Blew flowered Pimpernel?" 
Noble Liver-wort, one fort with white flowers, the other 
with blew. 3 
Black-Berry^ 
country "). The author refers here, doubtless, to Apios tuberosa, Moench. 
(ground-nut of New England), which was raised at Paris, from American seeds, 
by Vespasian Robin, and figured from his specimens by Cornuti (Canad., p. 200) 
in 1635; but it was celebrated, ten years earlier, in "Nova Anglia," — a curious 
poem by the Rev. William Morrell, who came over with Capt. Robert Gorges in 
1623, and spent about a year at Weymouth and Plymouth, publishing his book 
in 1625 (repr. Hist. Coll., vol. i. p. 125, &c), — as follows: — 
" Vimine gramineo nux subterranea suavis 
Serpit humi, tenui flavo sub cortice, pingui 
Et placido nucleo nivei candoris ab intra, 
Melliflua parcos hilarans dulcedine gustus, 
Donee in aestivum Phcebus conscenderit axem. 
His nucleis laute versutus vescitur Indus : 
His exempta fames segnis nostratibus omnis 
Dulcibus his vires revocantur vidtibus alma?." 
1 See p. 52 and Voyages (pp. 70, 81) for other notices of Fungi; and Voyages, 
p. 81, for the only mention of Algce. 
2 Female pimpernell (Gerard, em., p. 617), — Anagallis arvensis, y, Sm. ; A. 
c&rulea, Schreb., — but scarcely differing, except in color, from the scarlet pim- 
pernel, which has long (" in clayey ground," — Cutler, I. c, 1785) been an inhab- 
itant of the coasts of Massachusetts Bay, though doubtless introduced. 
3 Hepatica triloba, Chaix. {Anemone hepatica, L.), common to Europe and 
America; occurring occasionally with white flowers. — Gerard, em., p. 1203. 
4 Rubus, L. The red raspberry of this -country is hardly other than an Amer- 
ican variety of the European (i?. Idceus, var. strigosus, caule petiolis pedunculis 
