Note 229 — {41} Fifthly, Of Plants.

Goodyera pubescens (Willd.), R. Br., is plainly meant by the author; and the common name of the plant—rattlesnake plantain—still preserves the memory of its supposed virtues as a wound-herb. It seems, by the next page, that Josselyn tried to carry living specimens to England; but they “perished at sea.” The putting this among the Pyrolæ (as if by some confusion of Goodyera with Chimophila maculata) was a bad mistake.