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mayflower in botany, name for several spring-blooming plants. In England the hawthorn is called mayflower, or may; in North America the name is used for the trailing arbutus , the hepatica , and an herb ( Maianthemum canadense ) of the family Liliaceae ( lily family). The latter, a common wildflower of northern forests, bears a cluster of small white blossoms and has many local names, e.g., Canada mayflower and false lily-of-the-valley. It is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Liliopsida, order Liliales, family Liliaceae.

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Mayflower The Mayflower, an unremarkable ship of about 180 tons, has been immortalized, since it carried the first Pilgrims to New England and because the Mayflower Compact of 21 November 1620 was agreed on board. An early exercise in self‐government, it was later followed by the formal election of a governor and assembly.

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Mayflower Ship that carried the Pilgrims from Plymouth, England to Massachusetts in September, 1620. It carried 120 English Puritans (some from a congregation from the Netherlands) who established the Plymouth Colony in 1620.

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