Note 212 — V JUNE, 1851 (ÆT. 33)

[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.”]