to be always depended upon, and has had recourfe to the fruit 
for a diftin€tion. As we have already affented to this altera- 
tion, we felt ourfelves at a lofs whether to refer this plant to 
S1Lrene or Cucusautus. It has no corona, and as we are 
not certain that its feed-veffel is effentially different from that 
of C. baccifer, we have thought it at leaft fafeft to leave it as 
we find it. : 
Native of Virginia, New-England, Canada, and the Alleg- 
hani mountains, and known to the Cherokee Indians by a name 
fignifying Snap-ftalks. Is a hardy herbaceous perennial, re- 
quiring no particular treatment but tying up, to prevent the 
ftalks being broken by the wind. 
Varies with pubefcent and fmooth leaves and ftalks, and 
fometimes, according to Crayton, with only two leaves in- 
ftead of four at each joint. 
Communicated by Mr. Loppices of Hackney. Cultivated, 
as we learn from Piuxenet, by the elder Mr. WALKER, 
before the year 1688. Flowers during the fummer months, 
