twice fhorter than their laminae : ftigmas recurved patent, 

 about equal to the inner fegments, oblong-Iinear, outer lip 

 obtufe, entire, inner one bifid, obtufe, fegments crenately 

 ferrate, revolutely ereft, upwards divaricate, lapping flightly 

 over towards the bafe only. Anthers blue-violet with yellow 

 pollen. Flowers (lightly fragrant. Comes very near to verji- 

 color, but differs in colour and in having larger flowers, and 

 particularly in the fegments of the inner lip of the ftigmas 

 being divaricate upwards and not lapping all the way over as 

 in that ; befides in feveral {lighter diflin&ions and general 

 appearance. 



Was cultivated by Mr. Philip Miller in 1758, accord- 

 ing to the Hortus Kewenfis. A hardy plant. The leaves die in 

 Winter. Michaux found it in the marflies of Virginia and 

 Carolina, where it flowers in May and June. Clayton's 

 fpecimen, from which Gronovius defcribed this fpecies in 

 the Flora Virginica, is now, with the reft of the latter's Herba- 

 rium, in the ineftimable collection of Sir Joseph Banks. 



Our drawing was made at the Nurfery of Meffrs. Whitley 

 and Brame, at Old-Brompton, who inform us, that it feeds 

 abundantly with them, is eafily propagated by dividing the 

 rootftock, and will grow any where ; but that it fucceeds bell 

 in a moift nutation. G. 



