. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . 1 Upon this figure, Plukenet founds his Solatium quadrifolium Nov Angli-canum,flore la&eo folycoccum (Amalth., p. 195); clearly taking the plant, asJosselyn did, for a kind of Herba Paris {Paris quadrifolia, L.), which is Sola-num quadrifolium baccifcrum of Bauhin (Pin., p. 167, cit. L.). The plant is fkto=®n<ilanos Parities. »35. [83] [84] (8.)This Plant is taken by our Simplifts to be a kind of doubtless Cornus Canadensis, L. (dwarf-cornel; bunch-berry); and it certainlyresembles the figu
. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . 1 Upon this figure, Plukenet founds his Solatium quadrifolium Nov Angli-canum,flore la&eo folycoccum (Amalth., p. 195); clearly taking the plant, asJosselyn did, for a kind of Herba Paris {Paris quadrifolia, L.), which is Sola-num quadrifolium baccifcrum of Bauhin (Pin., p. 167, cit. L.). The plant is fkto=®n<ilanos Parities. »35. [83] [84] (8.)This Plant is taken by our Simplifts to be a kind of doubtless Cornus Canadensis, L. (dwarf-cornel; bunch-berry); and it certainlyresembles the figure of Herb Paris, given by Gerard (p. 405), much more thanthat of Cornus suecica, L. (European dwarf-cornel, p. 1296),— a shrub ill under-stood by the old botanists. 136 jjkfo^ncjlatrtrs EartttCiS, Golden Rod, by others for Sarazens Confound. I judgeit to be a kind of fmall Stm Flower, or Marygold of theWeft Indies, the Root is brown and flender, a foot andhalf in length, running a flope under the upper face of theEarth, with fome firings here and there, the ftalk as big asthe Heal of a Tobacco pipe, full of pith, commonly brown-ifh, fometimes purple, three or four foot high, the Leavesgrow at a diftance one againft another, rough, hard, greenabove, and gray underneath, flightly fnipt and the ribsappear mofl on the back fide of the Leaf, the Flower is ofa bright yellow, with little yellow cups in the midft, as inthe Marygol
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