Note 161 — {41} Fifthly, Of Plants.

Female pimpernell (Gerard, em., p. 617),—Anagallis arvensis, γ, Sm.; A. cærulea, Schreb.,—but scarcely differing, except in color, from the scarlet pimpernel, which has long (“in clayey ground,”—Cutler, l. c., 1785) been an inhabitant of the coasts of Massachusetts Bay, though doubtless introduced.