The inflorefcence of the prefent plant having till now been 
only known to us by imperfeé& figures or ina dried ftate, and 
having been mifled by the very fingular agreement of its other 
parts, we had in No. 1155 joined it with the amécllata of 
Desronratnes, as the variety 8; keeping however the 
proper fynonyms of the two plants diftin&. A comparifon 
of the defcriptions of their inflorefcence, now that both are 
known to us in a living ftate, will fhew that the two plants 
never can be confidered but as very diftin& fpecies. Borealis 
approaches in many refpeéts to Uvutaria, as umbellata on 
the other hand does to Convattarta. We can find no 
difference in their /eaves ; but in our plant the amdel had no 
traces of any braétes at the bafe of its pedicles, nor were thefe 
placed round a fhort axis as in that, but iffued fafciclewife from 
the naked top of the ftem, and were of very unequal lengths ; 
they alfo differed in form, fize, and colour of their re- 
fpeftive corollas. Umbellata was found by Micuaux on 
the Alleghany mountains ; there is likewife a {pecimen of it in 
the Bankfian Herbarium, brought by Mr. Turner from the 
Cherokee territory. Borealis was introduced into this country 
in 1778, by Dr. Soranper, from Newfoundland and the 
neighbourhood of Hallifax in Nova-Scotia. We find alfo a 
one-flowered fmaller fpecimen, brought from the North-Welt 
coaft of America, by Mr. A. Menztzs, in the fame Herbarium, * 
which very probably belongs to a fpecies diftin& from both. 
Umbellata was moft likely unknown in this country till publifhed 
in this work, Both {pecies are hardy, and bloom together in. 
june. a 
A ree ee 
CORRIGENDUM, 
No. 1155, 1.23 for “SmitactnaA BOREALIS (a)”, read 
“ SMILACINA UMBELLATA;” and in line 13, exclude variety 
8 with its proper fynonymy, as belonging to the fpecies now 
publifhed. The account of the habitat is alfo to be modified 
according to the preceding obfervations. G 
