The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-04-25


cry crushed under foot with careless mattenion On
its rocky hills flourish several interesting and elegant plants
rarely found in other ocaes the marshes of the Chrstana
and Delaware, the south, furnish variety of aquatics
confined to such suaons the sandy soil of Jersey affords
productions found this side ofthe river; and
the scpentine RIDGE few miles from in the opposite d.
recton has several flowers peculiar to that region So that
Fora embracing in its plan the district within ten miles Of
Wilmington, might vie with any other of similar kind in the
United States, both in the NUMBER elegance and exuberant
growth of the plants comprised.
The arrangement adopted regard to the plants be here
noticed ofhem the order of their towering be-
ginning with the earliest that bloom The first in this
gon of country indicate the approach of Spring. does not
possess many charms for the Botanical student aude to
the Skunk Cabbage, (Symplocarpus es) which exhaes
very offensive odor when wounded and is found swampy,
moist and sheltered situations nearly the frost and
have disappeared The flowers collected into round
SOLID head oyehung by sort of cow which is curiousy
notified with brown green and yellow The leaves afterwards
shoot up and often attain height of two feet during the
summer The North American Bear said to be acquainted
with the medicinal properties of this plant, which cahar
tic and also antspasmodic.
The Whtlow grass shad blossom Draba perna) is by
considered the earliest blooming plant of country,
and may perhaps be in flower in little before
the just described 1t is very humble plant, often in
bloom when only half inch high, but afterwards growing
several inches 1t is roadsdes and dry places
and bears TWO crops OF HoWers III
little pods
The Leather-wood, (Drca pauStrs) the only species Of
its genus and exclusively American plant, puts forth its
small yellow flowers thees in the early part of April, be-
fore the appearance of the leaves 1t is remarkable for the
toughness of its bark. that it is easier off branch
down the root, than from the stem. This small shrub
habits moist situations and may be found in moist places
the Brandy near the Paper Mills.
The well known Bood-root, Puccoon, (Sanguinaria
bloom about the time,
nearly all woods with its snowy white flowers The root
large and filled with bitter, red juice possessing emetic
and other medicinal qualities
The Lyer-wor (Hepaca trOba) is of our earliest
blooming plants common on the woody hills along the Bran
DIVINE. is nearly evergreen, has three lobed leaf that
gives its name, and bears beautiful little hower with blue
purple, white petals or in number. But short time
snce the Lverwort was in great repu'e Panacea in all
complaints of the liver and lungs and eager its ad
mers search of it, that this harmless little plant almost
suffered ex ermnaton from borders According the
absurd doctrine of signatures formerly vogue the shape
the leaf rendered this herb admirably adapted diseases
the ver and the ways might be inferred that the
Boodroot eminent purifier of the blood because of the
red color of its juice
About the middle of April two beautiful species of fine
none make their appearances the Rue Anemone (A Thai
ictroides which has few small roundsh leaves and cus-
ter of white flowers; and the Wood Anemone, A. neorosa)
with leaves growing together around the stem, and single
bossom-red flower The former inhabits similar places
the Lverwor and the latter grows in patches moist sha
dy woods The CaytOna Ogica abounds at the time