This fplendid native of North-America was introduced by 

 Mr. Peter Collinson, from Pennfylvania, about the year 

 1738. Michaux found it growing in moid graffy fpots in 

 Carolina. Spontaneous fpecimens have feldom more than 

 three flowers in a kind of umbel; but cultivated carefully, and 

 kept" in a moift fhady border of bog-earth, it will rife to the 

 height of five feet and produce a thyrfe of from twelve to fifteen 

 flowers. Differs from L. Martagon in having a bulb as white 

 as ivory, not of a reddifh -yellow ; in having narrower, linear- 

 lanceolate, tender, not obovate-lanceolate fubcorrugately vein- 

 ed harm leaves ; has alfo much fhorter internodes. The plant 

 adduced by Linnaeus and all his fucceffors from Miller's 

 work, by way of a fynonym to this, is quite a diftinft fpecies, 

 moft probably the large yellow-fpotted many-flowered variety 

 of the European L. Pomponiam ; of this any one that attends 

 to its defcription may eafily convince himfelf. Blooms in July 

 and Auguft ; fcentlefs; feeds freely and is eafily propagated 

 by the numerous offsets it produces ; tolerably hardy ; at leaft 

 we never loft any in the fevereft winters by cold merely ; the 

 bulbs fometimes rot in very wet feafons. G. 



