we have, with a mark of doubt, inserted Micnavx’s plant as 
asynonym. We have cited both here, more with a view of 
facilitating the comparison of their characters, than from con- 
viction of their belonging to the panduraius of Linnaus. 
In panduratus, the peduncles are scarcely longer than the 
footstalk of the leaf, and rarely produce more than one flower, - 
though there are vestiges of two opposite pedicles, which ge- 
nerally, if not always, abort; the peduncles of candicans seldom 
bear fewer than three and often more flowers, which are 
much larger and more even at the border, and open wider. 
The outer lacinie of the calyx in panduratus is smooth and_ 
even, having none of the wrinkled neryes, so conspicuous in 
those of candicans ; and there is a remarkable difference in 
their made of growth. Both have large tuberous roots, but 
those of candicans have eyes like the potatoe, and if cut into 
pieces, every eye will grow; but the root of panduratus 
produces no eyes, nor could cuttings of it be made to shoot, 
though kept in.the greatest heat of the bark bed for upwards 
ofa year. The stems of candicans die quite down to the 
root every year, and fresh stems are produced from the eyes ;- 
but that of panduratus grows from the crown of the root, 
and, though inclined to die back in the winter, remains: 
woody towards the bottom, where fresh buds are formed, 
from which the stems shoot again in the spring ; but,’ was the 
stem to be cut down close to the root, fresh shoots could not 
without great difficulty be produced, and most probably the — 
plant would perish. : 
- Native of South-Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and is 
too impatient of cold to be trusted out of the stove ; for want 
of due attention to this, we believe this plant is generally lost, 
and, perhaps, the only one now living in this country is at 
the Honourable Wittiam Hersert’s, at Spofforth, near 
Wetherby, in Yorkshire ; to whom we are indebted for the 
specimen from which our drawing was taken, as well as for. 
most of the above particulars respecting it. 
