have onlv traditional evidence of the identity of his plant with 

 ours, and have therefore not adopted his name. 



Not having had an opportunity of examining this plant in a 

 living ftate ourfelves, we are indebted to Mr. Anderson for 

 the knowledge of its increafing by runners, and of its remarkable 

 brittlenefs ; by whom we are alfo informed that it is a native of 

 Canada ; and that it was introduced by the Right Honourable 

 Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, who received it from the late 

 Mr. Francis Masson, in 1806. Donn gives 1798 for 

 the year of introduction of his bulbofa. It is a perfectly hardy 

 perennial. 



