fecd-veffels form, the panicle expands, and the capfules are 
diftin@ and placed alternately along the branches: there are 
good fpecimens of the plant in both ftates, fent by BanTRAM 
to Peter Corztinson, in the Bankfian Herbarium, and de- 
{cribed by SoranperR, under the name of pilofa, with a query 
whether it may not be a variety of pen/y/vanica. The origin of 
this doubt appears to have been the figure in PLuxenert, re- 
ferred by Linnaeus to the latter plant, ‘but which certainly 
belongs to this, and is fo quoted by Micuaux and Pursu. 
We have examined the fpecimen in CLayton’s own Her- 
barium, now in the poffeflion of Sir Josepn Banxs, and find 
it to be certainly the fame as our plant in its fully expanded 
fate ; indeed it is quoted by SoranpeR as a fynonym of his 
pilofa. As this fpecimen is the only authority for #valis being 
a native of the United States, that fpecies fhould at prefent be 
excluded from the American catalogue. 
The very different appearance of SAXIFRAGA Uirginienfis, 
when it fir comes into flower and afier the capfules are formed, 
feems to have led to the confufion; in the former ftate, it very 
much refembles nivalis, as may be feen by comparing our figure 
with that of wivalis in the Flora Dangca. : 
: sae 
We obferve, that the leaves vary confiderably in different 
fpecimens, in fize, crenature, and length of the petiole ;_ which 
Jatter are however feldom.as long as in our {pecimen, which was 
: probably drawn by being flowered under glafs. : 
A hardy alpine perennial ; native of Penfylvania, Carolina, 
and Virginia; propagated by feeds or parting the roots. 
Communicated by Mr, Sweet, from the Stockwell-Common 
Nurfery. 
