according to Mr. Pursli, in Virginia and Pensylvania. In- 

 troduced by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy in 1795. The flowers 

 continue long in successionj and make a fine appeai-ance 

 about September and October. Not very common in our 

 gardens; where it has been mistaken for strumosus. 



The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Col- 

 vill, in the King's Road, Chelsea. 



The leaves are rough and hard on the upper side, but 

 soft and downy on the under, a circumstance more easily 

 distinguished by the touch than the sight. In dried samples 

 the softness of the under surface, so striking in the fresh 

 leaves, is scarcely perceptible, and has, we have little 

 doubt, been the cause of the species being repeated under 

 the head mollis. 



We know by the sample in the Banksian Herbarium, 

 that our plant is the pubescens of the Hortus Kewensis ; and 

 by another in that of Mr. Lambert, that it is also the plant of 

 the Flora Americse Septentrionalis ; and have no reason to 

 doubt its belonging to the i*est of the synonymy adduced 

 above. 



We find no sample of mollis among the specimens from 

 which Mr. Pursh constructed his Flora of North America; 

 and do not believe that he had any other authority for it 

 than Willdenow's record, which we believe to be a mere repe- 

 tition oi pubescensj determined from the fresh sample, wliUe 

 the other has been determined from the dried one. 



