pedicles much fhorter than the flower*. But the fame Herbarium 

 contains a fpecimen marked as belonging to cordtfolia, and like 

 it with refpecl; to the length of the pedicles, communicated by 

 Profeffor Peck : this has two leaves on the fcape, and the lower 

 leaf has the fame flipulae as Mr. Menzies's plant. Our 

 charafter is intended to feparate thefe plants ; at the fame time, 

 it may perhaps be doubted whether they ought not to be con- 

 fidered as mere varieties of the fame fpecies. 



The firfl: notice we find of this plant is by Jo. Bod^eus 

 a Stapel, in his Commentaries on Theophraftus, who has 

 given a characleriftic reprefentation of it, cut in wood. The 

 figure in Herman's Paradifus, ufually referred to this, can 

 hardly belong to it. It is apetalous, has purple ftamens, and 

 what is frill more material, the pedicles of the flowers are 

 branched. 



A hardy perennial, native of North-America. Propagated by 

 parting its roots. Communicated by the late Mr. Swain son 9 

 from his collection at Twickenham. 



TIARELLA menzitjii, PuRSH. 



