[Sophora] aitfiralis, Bot. Mag. n. 509 ; P. tinfloria, n. 1099 ; 

 P. lupinoidcs ; V. alba, our prefent plant. To which we may 

 probably add from Michaux, Pooalyria f Crotalaria L.] 

 ■perfoliata; P. unifiora ; P. villofa ; P. mollis, The above plants 

 are all natives of North-America, and agree in having herba- 

 ceous items, ternate leaves, large ftipulae, and a. pediceilated 

 inflated pod. 



We have greatly to regret that whilft Mr. Salisbury has 

 pointed out the different genera, he has not in this effay, given 

 us the generic characters, nor applied any names, except tq one 

 aiTemblage, confining of Soph or a tetraptera n. 167. S. yiicro- 

 fhylla and a new fpecies from Sandwich Iflands, Thefe are 

 certainly very diftincl from the above and every other fpecies 

 hitherto enumerated under Sophora and Podalyria ; and Mr. 

 Salisbury has framed a feparate genus of them and given it 

 the name of Ed wards i a, in honor of Sydenham Edwards, 

 well known as a very fkilful botanical draftfman, nearly the 

 whole of the drawings of the Botanical Magazine being the 

 produBion of his pencil. In the Paradifus Londinenfis, this 

 author had indeed before given the characters of the Ample* 

 leaved fpecies, natives, of the Cape of Good-Hope, to which 

 he applied the name of Podalyria ; but as Lamarck made his 

 genus chiefly from Podalyria linttoria, it would, we think, 

 have been better to have retained this name for the genus or 

 which our prefent plant is a fpecies. On this account we have 

 not thought it right to change the name of Podalyria tor 

 the prefent ; but if this mould be generally adopted for the 

 Cape fpecies, our plant and its congeners may be aptly enough 

 called Th ermopsis, from the refemblance feveral of them bear 

 to Lupins. Podalyria alba is a hardy herbaceous perennial, 

 readily propagated by feeds and with care by parting its roots, 

 but Miller remarks that thefe plants do not bear moving well. 

 A variety with blue flowers is mentioned by Murray in the 

 Gcettingen Commentaries for 1778. Introduced by Mr. Mar* 

 Catesby in 1724. Flowers in June. Drawn at the £otaru& 

 Garden, Brompton, 



