were extended to the Weft- India Ifles and to Newfoundland, 

 for the purpofe of collecting plants ; and many of our late 

 valuable acquifitions are due to his laborious zeal, particularly 

 the J atropha pandurtefdia> figured at No. 604 of this work ; 

 one of the mod ornamental plants in our itoves, bearing a ctm- 

 ftant iucceffion of brilliant fcarlet flowers through the whole 

 year. 



If our fynonym from Ray be right, of which we can 

 hardly doubt, from his fo accurately defcribing the long, 

 pointed, hairy fegments of the calyx, this plant was, in his 

 time, brought from Maryland into England by a Mr. Ver- 

 non, but whether in a living or dried ftate he does not fay. 



Plukenet defcribes the flowers as white, but the colour 

 entirely disappears in drying, which might deceive him. That 

 our plant does however vary with white flowers we learn from 

 two very fimilar fpecimens preferved in the Bankfian Her- 

 barium, lent by Bartram in 1764. The flowers of one of 

 thefc are defcribed as flefh-coloured with a red centre, of the 

 other white with a red centre; in both the items are erect, 

 and the whole plant hairy even to the tube of the corolla. 



Michaux defcribes fimilar varieties of his ar/Jlata, which 

 adds to the probability that it is the fame with our pilqfa. 



Our drawing was taken in Mr. Vere's garden at Kenfington- 

 Gore, from a fpecimen in which the corolla was often varioufly 

 jagged ; but, except a few minute indentations, vifible at 

 their points, the lacinias are naturally quite entire, fometimes 

 ob.ufe at others pointed. 



Mr. Fraser found this fpecies in the weftern parts of 

 Georgia and South-Carolina, and likewife about Santee River, 

 the very fituation which Michaux points out as the habitat of 

 his arijiata. If our other fynonyms are correct, it mult like- 

 wife be indigenous to Maryland and Virginia. 



Flowers in May, June, and July. Is more tender than fome 

 of the fpecies of this genus. 



