with remarks upon them, has enabled me to give the accom- 
panying representation and description. ‘‘ The S. Penn- 
Wwanica is always of humble growth, rarely rising more 
than six or eight inches from the ground, which it covers in 
dense patches of considerable size; and improves much un- 
der cultivation.”” The flowers too are of a rose colour. 
* The S. Virginica is more solitary in its habit: there are 
fewer stems arising from one root, and they frequently ex- 
ceed two feet in height.” Mr. Exuiorr says, that this has 
sometimes entire petals ; but Dr. Snort has never seen the 
petals otherwise than bifid : a circumstance, together with the 
smaller size, narrower leaves, and smaller flowers, by which 
it may be known from S. regia (Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1724.). 
Descr. Stem a foot and a half to two feet high, nearly 
glabrous, almost erect and trichotomously panicled above. 
Leaves in remote, opposite pairs, oblong, acute, glabrous, 
the lower ones broader upwards, and the lowest petiolated ; 
the petiole fringed with ate hairs on each side. Peduncles 
mostly bearing three flowers, with small ovate or lanceolate 
bracteas on the pedicels. Calyx oblong or cylindraceo- 
clavate, striated, very obtuse at the base, five-toothed, and 
as well as the pedicels viscido-pubescent. Petals of a fine 
scarlet, the limb spreading, oblong, bifid, with acute seg- 
ments. <Anthers and Styles exserted. 
