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Celandine, by the Weft Country men called Kenning 
Wort, grows but flowly. 1 
Mufchata, as well as in England. 
Dittander, or Pepper Wort, flourifheth notably, and fo 
doth. 
Tanjie? 
Mujk Mellons are better than our Engli/Ji, and. 
[91] Cucumbers. 
Pomftions, there be of feveral kinds, fome proper to the 
Country, 3 they are dryer then our Engli/Ji Pompions, and 
better tafted; you may eat them green. 
words in the description thereof : for even children with great delight eat the 
berries thereof, when they be ripe, — make chaines and other prettie gewgawes 
of the fruit ; cookes and gentlewomen make tarts, and such like dishes, for pleas- 
ure thereof," &c. (Gerard, /. c). Rosa canina, L., was once the collective name 
of what are now understood as many distinct species ; but that which still retains 
the name of dog-rose is reckoned the finest of native English roses. This familiar 
plant may well have been reared with tender interest in some New-England gar- 
dens of Josselyn's day; but it did not make a new home here, like the eglantine. 
Cutler gives the name of dog-rose to the Carolina rose, — R. Carolina, L., — 
which it has not kept; and he also makes it equivalent to the officinal R. canina. 
Our Flora will possibly one day include one or two other garden-roses. A dam- 
ask rose is well established and spreading rapidly in mowing-land of the writer's, 
and elsewhere on roadsides of this country; and that general favorite, the cin- 
namon-rose, which is now naturalized in England, may yet become wild with us. 
1 Great celandine (Gerard, p. 1069), as the west-country name of kenning- 
wort — that is, sight-wort — makes manifest; the juice being once thought to be 
" good to sharpen the sight," — Chelidonium majus, L. Small celandine {Ranun- 
culus Ficaria, L.) was quite another thing. The former had got to be " common 
by fences and amongst rubbish" in 1785 (Cutler, I. c), and is now naturalized in 
Eastern New England. 
2 Gerard, p. 650, — Tanacctum vulgare, L. In "pastures " (1785). — Cutler, 
I. c. Now widely naturalized in New England. 
3 See p. 57, note. "The ancient New-England standing dish " was doubtless 
far better than Gerard's fried pompions (p. 921), and has more than held its 
own. 
