The leaves grow diftichwife, are little more than an inch 

 broad, about two feet in length ; the upper part of lamina 

 ftriated ; the fcape iffues from the middle of thefe. The bloom 

 was gone off before I could procure it for examination, but 

 in the drawing the fegments of the corolla feem fomething 

 Ihorter than the tube, and the crown about a third fhorter 

 than the fegments. 



It is certainly neither the mexicanum nor carolinianum of 

 .Linnaeus, if any reliance can be placed on the fynonyms he 

 has cited, and which are moil probably alfo his authorities for 

 the fpecies. The web that connects the ftamens both in fize 

 and form affords a very ftrong diftin&ion from all the fpecies 

 yet known to us ; but it certainly in habit comes neareft to 

 the mexicanum of any we have read of. 



Mr. Salisbury tells us that the variety of Pancratium 

 liitorale y publifhed in our laft number, is likewife a native of 

 Carolina. G. 



