[134] Mentha aquatica, L. Sp. Pl. (Gerard, p. 684); for which it is likely our author (and also Cutler, l. c., p. 460) mistook M. Canadensis, L., Gray.
[135] Nepeta cataria, L. (Gerard, em., p. 682); considered by American botanists to have been introduced from Europe.
[136] Agrimonia Eupatoria, L. (Gerard, em., p. 712); common to America and Europe.
[137] Xanthium strumarium, L., Gray (Gerard, p. 809); common, as a species, to both continents; but in part, also, introduced.—Gray, Man., p. 212.
[138] Nuphar advena, Ait.,—the common American species,—is meant; and this, though resembling N. lutea, Sm., of Europe, is distinct from it.
[139] Arum, L. (Gerard, p. 381). The New-England species “differ,” as our author says, “from all the kinds” in the Old World.
[140] None of the species, presumably here meant, are common to America and Europe. Our author’s white violet is Viola blanda, Willd.
[141] All our true honeysuckles (“woodbinde, or honisuckles,”—Gerard, p. 891; Caprifolium, Juss.) are distinct from those of Europe; but what the author meant here is uncertain.
[142] Convallaria, L.; Polygonatum, Tourn.; Smilacina, Desf. Many botanists have referred our smaller Solomon’s seal to the nearly akin C. multiflora of Europe; but Dr. Gray (Manual, p. 466) pronounces the former a distinct American species. The second of Josselyn’s species is the “Polygonatum Virginianum, or Virginian’s Salomon’s seale” of Johnson’s Gerard (p. 905), and also of Morison (Hist., cit. L.), and earliest described and figured by Cornuti as P. Canadense, &c., which is Smilacina stellata, (L.) Desf.; peculiar to America. The third is set down by our author, at p. 56, among the “plants proper to the country;” and Wood (New-Eng. Prospect, chap. v.) mentions it among eatable wild fruits, by the same name. It is probably Smilacina racemosa, (L.) Desf.,—a suggestion which I owe to my friend Rev. J. L. Russell’s notes upon Josselyn’s plants, in Hovey’s Magazine (March, April, and May, 1858); papers which were published after the manuscript of this edition had passed from the hands of the editor,—and is also confined to this continent.
[143] Geranium, L. The first is G. Carolinianum, L., which nearly resembles Gerard’s dove’s-foot (p. 938); the second is G. Robertianum, L., common to us and Europe; and the third (Gerard, p. 940)—which cannot be G. dissectum—was meant, it is likely to be taken for synonymous with the fourth, or raven’s-claw,—doubtless our lovely G. maculatum, L., which belongs to that group of species which the old botanists distinguished by the common name Geranium batrachioides, or crow-foot geranium, which flowers in May, and is of well-known value in medicine; and the “knobby” root, attributed to Josselyn’s third kind, favors this opinion.