MicuHavx notices the near affinity of the two genera. He 
fuppofed the American plant to be the fame with the European 
Veratrum album ; but, although very fimilar, when cultivated 
together, fome remarkable and conftant differences have been 
obferved; the flowers, in the former, are more inclined to a 
~ yellow green colour; the petals are broader and more ereé 
and have their margins, efpecially about the claw, thickened 
and covered with a white mealinefs; its feafon of flowering is. 
full a month later, | 
It is a hardy herbaceous perennial, which grows to moft 
advantage in an open fituation. Flowers in July and Auguft. 
Cultivated by Peter Coxriinson, Efg. in 1763, Our 
drawing was taken at the Botanic Garden. Brompton, 
