From a careful comparifon of many fpecimens with the — 
defcriptions ahd figures of authors, we cannot but fufpeé that — 
different fpecies have been confounded, under the name of © 
Potyconum /frute/cens, and that this circumiftance led the © 
late L’Heretier to confider the Atrapuaxis /pinofa as — 
a diftin& fpecies, notwithftanding the obfervations of PaLias — 
and Wixtticu. ‘The fpecies defcribed and figured by Di1- — 
LENIUS, we think, is evidently only a variety of the one here ~ 
reprefented, though the Arrapuaxis /pinofa of L’HERETIER © 
(the fame with Poryconum frufe/cens of Patias, as we judge 
from the {fpecimens) appears to be diftin&. Moft of the fyno- 
nyms ufually quoted to Potyeonum /frutefcens, feem to us to 
belong to a {pecies different from either of thefe, on which 
account we have not ventured to adduce any of them here, 
except that of Dittentus. Linnaeus himfelf feems to have 
been very undecided whether to call the parts of the flower 
in this genus calyx or corolla: in the Genera Plantarum the 
former term is ufed, in the Syfema the latter. At firft fight, 
the two outer reflexed fegments might pafs for the calyx, the — 
three inner ones for the corolla; but a more careful invefti- — 
gation fhows that thefe parts grow firmly together at the bafe, 
are equally perfiftent, and increafe with the growth of the 
‘fruit, chara€ters more appropriate to a calyx than acorolla, _ — 
Native of Siberia ; communicated by Mr. Loppicrs. Is ~ 
confidered as hardy, but is beft preferved under a frame in _ 
the winter months, Flowers in July, : , 
