foliage alone ; but we believe that our present plant in all 
its varieties may be generally distinguished by its shorter, 
more erect, and more clustered racemes. In A. Cateshb@ei 
the racemes are longer, more or less cernuous, and are 
furnished with longer and more pointed bractes. We must 
not conceal however, that the accurate botanist Mr. Nutrra.. 
is decidedly of opinion that A. axilaris and spinulosa (our 
Catesbai) form but one species. To us however our present 
plant, which we take to be variety 8 of Pursn’s axillaris, 
appears to be evidently distinct from the one we have 
given above, No. 1955, under the name of A. Catesbei. 
Native of Carolina and Georgia, and though considered 
as hardy, is liable to be killed by our winters when severe. 
Flowers from May to August. Communicated by Joxn 
Waker, Esq. of Arno’s Grove. 
