Note 168 — {41} Fifthly, Of Plants.
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The designation is uncertain. The old botanists gave the name Auricula muris, or mouse-ear, to species of Myosotis, Draba, Hieracium, and Gnaphalium. Josselyn’s plant may most probably be Antennaria plantaginifolia, Hook. (mouse-ear of New England), which is very near to A. dioica of Europe.—Gray, Statistics, &c., l. c., p. 81.