as a greenboufe plant, it rifes with feveral Hems, three or four 

 feet in length, and continues to flower during great part of the 

 Summer, but produces no feed. The leaves grow in whorls of 

 three, four, or five, but generally three at the upper part. The 

 flowers conftantly grow by threes upon ere6l peduncles, to 

 which they are attached nearly horizontally with their mouths 

 turned towards one another, fo as to form a ftriking refemblance 

 to three birds, from whence the name of triornitbophorum, or 

 three-bird-bear ing. it has been for fome years cultivated in the 

 Royal Garden at Kew, but we do not know of its having yet 

 found its way into any other colle&ion except that of Edward 

 Woodford, Efq. at Vauxhall, from whence our drawing was 

 made. It is a native of North-America, and of Portugal; 

 and from what is remarked above, might probably be better 

 treated as a hardy herbaceous perennial. It may be increafed 

 by cuttings or parting the roots. 



