Note 237 — {41} Fifthly, Of Plants.

Upon this figure, Plukenet founds his Solanum quadrifolium Nov’ Anglicanum, flore lacteo polycoccum (Amalth., p. 195); clearly taking the plant, as Josselyn did, for “a kind of Herba Paris” (Paris quadrifolia, L.), which is Solanum quadrifolium bacciferum of Bauhin (Pin., p. 167, cit. L.). The plant is doubtless Cornus Canadensis, L. (dwarf-cornel; bunch-berry); and it certainly resembles the figure of Herb Paris, given by Gerard (p. 405), much more than that of Cornus suecica, L. (European dwarf-cornel, p. 1296),—a shrub ill understood by the old botanists.