. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . ead of a Serpent,opening at the top like a mouth, and hollow throughout,containing four crooked pointels, and on the top of everypointel a fmall, gliftering, green button, covered with alittle white woolly matter, by which they are with thepointels faftened clofe together and more up the tip ofthe upper chap, the crooked pointels are very fliff andhard, from the bottom of the husks, wherein the Flowerftands, from the top of the Seed Veffel moots out awhite thread which runs in at the bottom of
. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . ead of a Serpent,opening at the top like a mouth, and hollow throughout,containing four crooked pointels, and on the top of everypointel a fmall, gliftering, green button, covered with alittle white woolly matter, by which they are with thepointels faftened clofe together and more up the tip ofthe upper chap, the crooked pointels are very fliff andhard, from the bottom of the husks, wherein the Flowerftands, from the top of the Seed Veffel moots out awhite thread which runs in at the bottom of the Flower,and fo [80] out at the mouth; the whole Flower is milkwhite, the infide of the chaps reddifh, the Root I did 1 Chclonc glabra, L. (snake-head). Plukenet quotes this figure under Digi-talis Verbesina? foliis, &c. (Amalth., p. 71; Mant., p. 64); which is referred byLinnat-us to Gcrardia fcdicularis, L. Plukenet has himself figured our plant,and but little better than Josselyn, in Phytogr., t. 34S, fig. 3. The genus is pecul-iar to America. 0cfo=@fnglantras Earitieg. 133. [81] (70This Plant I take for a varigated Herb Paris, True Loveor One Berry, or rather One Flower, which is milk white,and made up with four Leaves, with many black threadsin the middle, upon every thread grows a Berry (whenthe Leaves of the Flower are fallen) as big as a whitepeafe, of a light red colour when they are ripe, and clutter-ing together in a round form as big as a Pullets Egg,which at diftance fhews but as one Berry, very pleafantin tafte, and not unwholfome; the Root, Leaf, and J34 ©ebj^tifllantiis ftaritie*. Flower differ not from our Englifli kind, and their time ofblooming and ripening agree, and therefore doubtlefs akind of Herba Paris} [S2J The fmall Sun Flower, or Marygold of America.
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