from the fame quarter. Both are exceeding fragrant, more 
peculiarly fo in the night-time. Leaves about eight. Style — 
green for a confiderable way, as is the ftigma, Se 
After a ftri& fcrutiny of Linn zus’s PaNcRATIUM Caro. 
linianum (maritimum. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 42.) taken up by him — 
from Caressy’s figure and defcription; we have very litle — 
doubt but that it is in reality the reprefentation of the Euro- — 
pean maritimum, which Catessy probably faw in bloom at 
fome of the Englifh gardens of that day; when judging from 
general appearance, he believed it to be the fame with the — 
plant which he fays he had feen in America, and which moft 
likely was in fa& the prefent {pecies ; with this impreffion he 
had it figured, and publifhed it for what he believed it to be. 
We fufpe& alfo that the Lirrum pen/ylvanicum of our No. 
872 (L. concolor. Parad. Loyd. t. 47.) though decidedly a 
diftin& fpecies from dulbiferum, has no better pretenfion to — 
an American pedigree; the figure of it is found in the Work — 
-on the Natural Hiftory of Carolina, by the fame author, where 
he tells us that he faw the plant in bloom in England, at Mr. 
Cox.inson’s, in 17465, and that it was a Penfylvanian vegetable. 
- But we are much deceived, if, inflead of being a child of 
America, its parentage be not to be traced back to either 
China or Japan. We fulpe& it-to be the L. philadelphicum. 
Thunb. Flor. fap. 135, which is the Lit1um Julbiferum. Thunb. 
Ad. Soc. Linn. Lond.,v. 2. DP. 333; not the philadelpbicum of this 
work; which might have been, however, the plant that CaTEsBY 
took it for, when he faw it in England ; judging from diftant 
recolleftion only. The many concurrent data from which we 
have formed the above judgment,. it would be too tedious to 
detail here. The Pancratium mexicanum, taken up by 
Linnaus froma figure in Hort, Elihamenjis, we take to 
merely a weak Specimen of the P. /ittorale(@.) Supra No.825- ©: 
