. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . (5-)This Plant I found in a gloomy dry Wood under anOak, 1670. the i8//z of Auguji, afterwards I found it in 1 Mulgedium leucophocum, DC. (Gray, Manual, p. 241). This fine plant ispeculiar to America. ifkfo^nglantrg Parities, [77] The Figure of the Plant when it is at full open Champain grounds, but yet fomewhat fcarce: TheRoot is about the bignefs of a Fre?ich Walnut, the Barkthereof is brown, and rugged, within of a yellowifhColour, from whence arifeth a flender ftalk, no bigge
. New-England's rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. . (5-)This Plant I found in a gloomy dry Wood under anOak, 1670. the i8//z of Auguji, afterwards I found it in 1 Mulgedium leucophocum, DC. (Gray, Manual, p. 241). This fine plant ispeculiar to America. ifkfo^nglantrg Parities, [77] The Figure of the Plant when it is at full open Champain grounds, but yet fomewhat fcarce: TheRoot is about the bignefs of a Fre?ich Walnut, the Barkthereof is brown, and rugged, within of a yellowifhColour, from whence arifeth a flender ftalk, no biggerthan an Oat ftraw, about two Cubits in height, fome-what better than a handful above the Root fhooteth outone Leaf of a Grafs Green colour, and an Inch or twoabove that, another Leaf, and fo four or five at a greaterdiftance one from another, till they come within a handfulof the top, where upon flender foot ftalks grow the Flow- |kfo=€nglantJ0 Parities* 131 ers four or five, more or fewer, cluttering together in palelong green husks milk white, confifting of ten fmallLeaves, fnipt a little on the edges with purple hair threadsin the midft; the whole Plant is of a brakifh tail: When itis at its full growth the ftalks are as red as [78]
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