Mr. Erasers plant, from which our drawing has been made, 

 was of the fame fpecies as that he had in view ; otherwife we 

 fhould have doubted its being fo, not perceiving the flighted 

 irregularity in the corolla of feveral fpecimens we examined. 

 We have not had an opportunity of feeing the figure in Mr. 

 Pursh's work, which is not yet publifhed. The fpecific name 

 of §>udmqfh that gentleman makes ufe of, is the appellation given 

 to the plant by certain Indians in the neighbourhood of the 

 Miffouri River, in whofe country it is fpontaneous, and where 

 it ferves them as a principal article of food during the winter. 

 The fpecimens we faw, in our judgment, feemed to belong to 

 Scilla and not to Phalangium. 



A hardy plant. Blooms in May. Our drawing was made 

 from a plant imported by Mr. Nuttall, which flowered at 

 Mr. Fraser's Nurfery, in Sloane-Square. G. 



