assigned to it in that work by the accurate Solander, and 

 also from our having some years since been favoured with 

 a specimen from the Kew Garden, under the name of 



A. 1 



aevis. What we have seen in the Garden of the Horti- 



cultural Society from the Berlin Garden, under the name 

 of A. laevis, was, however, nothing but a large-flowered 

 state of A. cyaneus. 



Nees von Esenbeck places this in a different section 

 from A. cyaneus, upon the ground of its branches being 

 racemose, and not panicled. We are, nevertheless, persuaded 

 that very little value really attaches to such a distinction. 



We have here another case of serrated and entire leaves 

 in the same species ; some specimens being in one state, 

 others in another. 



Native of North America. Flowers in August and 

 September. A hardy perennial. 



J. L. 





