gathered in Tennessee, of the United States, the only other loca- 
lity recorded for it. 
The common Péiladelphus, or Mock Orange of the gardens, 
has long been known by the name of “ Syringa;” and it is the 
“ Syringa alba, seu Philadelphus Athenzei” of Bauhin and other 
old classical botanical writers. Syringa vulgaris is the botanical 
name, as is well known, of the common Zi/ac, and this circum- 
stance led Mr. Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 183, to quote under the 
common Lilac a passage from old Gerard relating to the peculiar 
odour of the flowers of the Philadelphus coronarius (see our 
Tab. 891):—“ They have a pleasant sweete smell, but in my 
judgement they are too sweete, troubling and molesting the 
head in a very strange manner. I once gathered the flowers, 
and laid them in my chamber window, which smelled more 
strongly after they had lien together a few howers, with such a 
poutiche and unacquainted savor, that they awakened me from 
sleepe, so that I could not take any rest until I had cast them 
out of my chamber.” Curtis afterwards corrected this error, 
but suggested, to prevent similar mistakes in future, to cease 
applying the term Syringa to the Philadelphus altogether ; but 
this is more easily said than done. It is supposed that in both 
cases the name was derived from cupuy£, a pipe, from the use 
made of the long straight stems for pipe-tubes. ‘The odour of 
the common Mock Orange is indeed very powerful, by some 
compared to fresh Cucumber, by others to that of smelts. Of 
our P. hirsutus, the smell of the plant, especially in the dried 
state, is that of Melilot. 
