[208] Toad?
[209] [Excursions, p. 326; Riv. 401.]
[210] [Rough Notes of Journeys in the Pampas and Andes.]
[211] [Supplied by Thoreau.]
[212] [Bigelow, in his Florula Bostoniensis, says of this plant, now generally called the evening-primrose, “In the country it is vulgarly known by the name of Scabish, a corruption probably of Scabious, from which however it is a very different plant.” Josselyn gives a quaint description of it under the name of Lysimachus or Loose-strife in his Two Voyages, and says it “is taken by the English for Scabious.”]
[213] I have since heard some complete strains.
[214] Pale lobelia.
[215] [Evidently not Aster miser, or, as it is now called A. lateriflorus, which flowers much later in the season.]