New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of That Country (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...quite worthless as to the latter. 3 Cham&syce, or spurge-time, of Gerard (edit. cit., p. 504), is Euphorbia chamasyce, L., a species belonging to the Eastern continent; for which Sloane (cit. L. Sp. PI. in loco) appears to have mistaken our Euphorbia maculata, L.; while Plukenet (Aim. 372, cit. L.) recognizes the affinity of the same plants, calling the latter Chamasyce altera Virginiana. Josselyn's spurge-time may be E. maculata; but quite possibly, taking the station which he gives into the account, E. polygonifolia, L. 8 There are " several sorts of spurge," according to the Voyages (p. 78); of which this, which I cannot specifically refer, is possibly one. Jagged Rose-penny-wort 44 Soda dariglia, or majsacote, the Ashes of Soda, of which they make Glasses. Glafs-wort, here called Berrelia, it grows abundantly in Salt Marshes.2 St. John's-IVort St. PeterV Wort 1 To this species of Saxifraga, L., unknown to our Flora (Gerard, p. 528), our author, with little doubt, referred the pretty 5. Virginiensis, Michx.--See p. 58 of this, note. 2 Gerard, em., p. 535, --Salicornia herbacea, L. But Linnaeus referred one of Clayton's Virginia specimens (the rest he did not distinguish from 5. herbacea) to a variety, /?. Virginica (which he took to be also European; Sp. PI.), and afterwards raised this to a species, as S. Virginica, Syst. Nat., vol. ii. p. 52, Willd. Sp. PI., vol. i. p. 25. To this the more common glasswort of our salt marshes is to be referred; and we possess, beside, a still better representative of the European plant in 5. mucronata, Bigel. (JFl. Host., edit. 2, p. 2), which may perhaps best be taken for a peculiar variety (5. herbacea, /3. mucronata, articulorum dentibus squamisque mucronatis, Enum. PI. Cantab., Ms.; and 5. Virginic..