longer than the ftyle ; all marks in which it differs from our 

 prefent fubjecl; it is laid to be a bog plant, while this, ac- 

 cording to Michaux, ii an inhabitant of dry cultivated 

 paflares ; poffibly the differences may arife from thefe differ- 

 ent places of growth only ; if this proves to be the cafe, 

 juncea with the fynonym of Catesby mould be added to 

 erefta. ♦ 



Root an elongated, tunicated bulb, covered with dark brown 

 membranous integuments or fkins, throwing out fibres from 

 the edge of its bafe circularly, in the manner of that of a 

 Hyacinth ; leaves dark-green, upright, channelled, carinate, 

 linear, acute, with thinly fcattered hairs on each furface, 

 complicate at their bafes, twice longer than the fcapes, which 

 are leveral in fuccefuon, ftria, roundifh, hairy, terminating in 

 a 2— 6-flowered, braQeate, fubfaftigiate raceme ; braties fmall, 

 fubulate, convolute ; corolla rotate, hirfute outwards ; anther3 

 fagittate, cloven from the bafe ; ftigma fubcapitately three- 

 lobed and pubefcent. Flowers of a bright mining yellow in- 

 wards, fubherbaceous outwards, and owing to a fucceffion of 

 fcapes produced for feveral months together. 



A native of Virginia, Carolina, and Pennfylvania, A fpeci- 

 men that appears to us a mere variety of this, with fhorter 

 leaves, the corolla far more hirfute and even woolly without, 

 is added to the Bankfian Herbarium by Mr. Menzies, and is 

 there faid to be called by the Cherokee Indians Chera Nowote 

 (i. e. fiery plant). The fpecies was introduced into Kew 

 Gardens, by Mr. William Young, in 1784. Begins to 

 bloom about June. 



Our drawing was taken at Mr. Lodbige's Nurferv, Hack- 

 ney. Juncea was imported by Mr. Fraser, Nurferyman, in 

 Sloane-Square. Both feem to be rare plants, at leaft we have 

 feldom met with them. They appear to be perfedly hardy, 

 but are feen to greateft advantage when cultivated in a pot 

 and kept in the pit with alpine plants. Bog-earth with a 

 fmall quantity of undunged loam fuits them beft. G, 



