Ikfco^nijlatttis Parities. 
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4. Of fuck Plci7its as have fprung up fince the Englifh 
Planted and kept Cattle in New-England. 1 
Dandelion? 
Groundfel? 
Sow T /rifle? 
1 The importance of this list has been already spoken of. Its value depends 
on its having been drawn up by a person of familiarity with some of the botanical 
writers of his day, as part of a botanical treatise ; and the (in this case) not unfair 
presumption that the names cited are mca?it to be accurate. Mr. A. De Candolle 
(Geogr. Botanique, vol. ii. p. 746) appears to be unacquainted with any authority 
for the naturalized plants of the Northern States earlier than the first edition of 
the Florida of Dr. Bigelow, in 1814. The treatise of Cutler extends this limit to 
1785 ; and that of Josselyn, so far as it goes, to 1672. 
2 Doubtful. Gerard's couch-grass, p. 23, appears to be Holcus mollis, L., — 
" the true couch-grass of sandy soils " in England ; and English agricultural 
writers reckon yet other grasses of this name, beside the well-known Triticum 
repens, L. 
3 Gerard, p. 276, — Capsella Bursa Pastoris (L.), Moench. "Cornfields, and 
about barns," — Culler (1785), I. c. Naturalized. 
4 Gerard, p. 290, — Taraxacum Detis Leonis, Desf. ; looked, to our author, 
like a new-comer. Dr. Gray (Man., p. 239; and comp. Torr. and Gray, Fl., vol. 
ii. p. 494) regards it as "probably indigenous in the north," but only naturalized 
in other regions. " Grass land," — Cutler (1785), /. c. 
5 Gerard, p. 278, — Senecio vulgaris., L. ; one of the adventive naturalized 
plants, as defined by Mr. De Candolle (/. c, vol. ii. p. 688; and Gray, Man. Bot, 
pref., p. viii.), according to the evidence of Dr. Darlington (Fl. Cestr., p. 152), 
and Gray, /. c. It has long been a common weed in eastern New England. 
0 Sonchus, L. iS. oleraceus, L., as understood by Linna;us, was no doubt 
intended: but this is now taken to include two species, both recognized in this 
country (Gray, /. c, p. 241); between which there is no evidence to authorize a 
decision. 
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