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Bloodwort} 
And I fufpecr. Adders Tongtie? 
Knot Grafs? 
Cheek weed?" 
Compherie, with the white Flower. 5 
May weed, excellent for the Mother; fome of our Englijli 
Houfwives call it Iron Wort, and make a good Un- 
guent for old Sores. 6 
herbs of repute : and, at p. 90, our author brings them in again as such; telling 
us that bloodwort grows "but sorrily," but patience "very pleasantly." This 
may very likely have crept out of some garden : but the great water-dock (i?. 
Hydrolafatkum, Huds.) is, says Gerard, "not unlike to the garden patience" 
(p. 390) ; and Dr. Gray says the same of the American variety of the former. — 
Man., p. 377. 
1 Gerard, p. 390, — Rumcx sanguineus, L., "sown for a pot-hei-b in most gar- 
dens " (Gerard) ; and so our author, p. 90. Linnseus took it to be originally 
American : but it is common in Europe ; and Dr. Gray marks the American plant 
as naturalized. Dr. Torrey indicated the species as occurring about New York 
in 1819 (Catal. PI., N.Y.) ; but New-England botanists do not appear to have 
recognized it. Josselyn's plant was perhaps the offcast of some garden. 
2 Gerard, p. 404. — Compare p. 42 of this ; where our author more correctly 
reckons it among plants truly common to Europe and America. 
3 " Common knot-grasse " (Gerard, p. 565), — Polygonum aviculare, L. Com- 
mon to all the great divisions of the earth, and reckoned indigenous in America. 
— De Cand. Geogr. Bot., vol. i. p. 577; Gray, Man., p. 373. 
4 There are many chickweeds in Gerard; but that most likely to have been in 
the author's view here is the universally known common chickweed, — the middle 
or small chickweed of Gerard, p. 611. This was "common in gardens and rich 
cultivated ground" in 17S5. — Cutler, I. c. Few plants have spread so widely 
over the earth as Stellaria media. 
6 Great comfrey (Gerard, p. S06), — Symphytum officinale, L. : also in the list 
of garden herbs at p. 90. "Sometimes found growing wild," — Cutler (1785), 
/. c. Not admitted by Dr. Bigelow (Fl. Bost), but included by Dr. Gray as an 
adventiz>e. — Man., p. 320. 
0 Gerard, p. 757, — Maruta cotula (L.), DC; a naturalized member of our 
Flora, now become a very common ornament of roadsides ; where Cutler notices 
it, also, in 17S5. 
