cultivator, a contemporary of Mr. Philip Miller, who for- 

 merly had the management of Dr. Sherard's celebrated 

 garden at Eltham ; both as having the right of priority and 

 being preferable to An am en i a, a word formed from the 

 Arabic Anahaman y fignifying an Adonis or Anemony. 



Mr. Salisbury doubts whether this be really a diftin£t 

 fpecies from capenjis, from which it feems to differ chiefly in 

 bearing an umbel of much fewer flowers and in the narrow- 

 nefs of the petals. M. Ventenat has given an excellent 

 figure of the latter, under the name of A n am en i a coriacea. 

 As all the fpecies are from the Cape, capenfis is undoubtedly an 

 improper name, but we think ought neverthelefs to be retained, 

 for we confider it as a rule, rarely to be deviated from, that 

 where it may become neceffary to change the genus, the fpecific 

 name before in ufe (hould ftill be preferved. 



All the fpecies of this genus are very acrid plants, and this 

 is faid to be ufed by the inhabitants of the Cape, in the room 

 of Cantharides, to blifter the fkin. Is a hardy greenhoufe 

 plant, requiring the fame treatment as Atragene capenfis. 

 Cultivated in the royal garden at Hampton-Court, in 1691, as 

 we are told both by Morison and Plukenet. 



Our drawing was taken at Meffrs. Grimwood and Wykes, 

 Kenfington, in April laft, from an old plant, purchafed out of 

 the colle&ion of the late Dr. Fothergill at Upton* 



