fkfo^nglantrs Parities. 
Wild-Lee/ces, which the Indians ufe much to eat with 
their filh. 1 
A Plant like Knavers-Mujlard, called New-England 
Milliard. 2 
Mountain-Lillies, bearing many yellow Flowers, turning 
up their Leaves like the Martigon, or Turks Cap, fpotted 
with fmall fpots as deep as Safforn, they Flower in jfuly? 
One Berry, or Herb True Love. See the Figure. 4 
Tobacco, there is not much of it Planted in New-Eng- 
land. The Indians make ufe of a fmall kind with fhort 
round leaves called Pooke? 
1 Allium Canadense, L., probably. — See also p. 55, note 4. 
2 " Knaves'-mustard (for that it is too bad for honest men)." — Gerard, p. 262. 
The "New-England mustard," which was like it, maybe Lcpidium Virginicum, 
L. ; which, having "a taste like common garden-cress, or peppergrass" (Bigel., 
Fl. Bost, in loco), perhaps attracted the first settlers. 
8 The "many flowers," with reflexed sepals, perhaps refer this to our noble 
American Turk's-cap {Lilium supcrbum, L.), rather than to the yellow lily (L. 
Canadense, L.). 
4 See p. 81. 
6 "They take their ivuttammauog, — that is, a weak tobacco, — which the men 
plant themselves, very frequently. Yet I never see any take so excessively as I 
have seen men in Europe ; and yet excess were more tolerable in them, because 
they want the refreshing of beer and wine, which God had vouchsafed Europe." — 
R. Williams, Key, I. c, p. 213. And, in another place, the same writer says that 
tobacco is "commonly the only plant which men labour in" (he is speaking of 
the Indians); "the women managing all the rest " (p. 208). Wood, in his list 
of Indian words (New-Eng. Prospect, ad ult.), spells the Indian word, above 
given, otiomtnaocke, — (perhaps both are comparable with " ivuttahimneash, 
strawberries" (Williams, /. c, p. 220), and " tveetitnoquat, it smells sweet" 
(Vocab. of Narraganset Lang., in Hist. Coll., vol. v. p. 82) ; og, och, and ash, 
being all plural terminations; between which and "the noun in the singular one 
or more consonants or vowels are frequently interspersed" {ibid., vol. iii. p. 222, 
note); and oquat, from the context, the verbal; and the root appearing possibly 
the same), — and also defines it as tobacco. There is much other testimony that 
the New-England savages were found using " tobacco " (as Mourt's Relation, /. c, 
