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^ PASSIFLORA incarnata. S. 



North American Jiesh- coloured Passionflower or May^ 



Ap^le. 



MONADELPHIA PENTAS'DRIA. 



Nat. ord. Passiflore^. Jussieu in annales du mus^tn. 6. 102. 

 PASSIFLORA. Supra vol. l.fol. 13. 



Passiflora incarnata. Vide supra vol. 2.Jbl. 152, «§* »« ^otis tomo eidem ap- 

 petisis. 



The present is the North American plant included by 

 Linnteus in his Passiflora incarnata; but if it is to be held 



r a distinct species from that which we have given as the 



variety /3 in the 152d article of this work, not the one by 



' which the genus first made its appearance in Europe ; al- 



though both have been combined under the Linnean incar* 

 nata. The species which first appeared in Europe, we have 

 little doubtj was that which we have given in the above cited 

 article, and which has since been published in Curtis's Ma- 

 gazine and in the Horticultural Transactions, by the specific 

 title of edulis. Some botanists however are of a different 

 opinion, and think the original plant was neither the present 

 species, nor that we speak- of, but a different, though closely 

 allied, one. 



We have referred to our former article for the synonymy, 

 leaving our readers to apply the various synonyms according 

 / to their own judgment. 



We have not discovered, on a comparison of the living 

 plants, any differences, beyond colour, of which we were 

 not aware when we pubhshed the variety ^ in the 152d ar- 

 ticle of this work ; except that the lower portion of the calyx 

 in the Brazil plant is contracted into a shallow tube, with a 

 partitioned nectaiy, while here the same part is nearly flat 

 and the nectary not partitioned. 



The drawing was taken this summer from a plant which 

 flowered in the rich and well kept collection of Mr. Vere, at 

 Kensington Gore. 



