veiny, dark green. Flower-stalk solitary, terminal, about 
two inches long, single-flowered. Flowers small. Calyx 
of three deciduous, broadly-ovate, pale greenish- white, 
concave, slightly-downy segments. Stamens many, longer 
than the pistils. Filaments flat, dilated upwards, contract- 
ed again below the anther, whose two cells are separated 
from each other and lateral. Pistils several. Germens 
oval, glabrous, attenuated upwards into a short style. 
Stigma obtuse, scarcely lobed. The fruit, which I have 
not seen, resembles a raspberry, is red, and consists “ of 
many little two-seeded berries collected into a globose head, 
and each crowned with the persistent style, one-celled, two-, 
or by abortion, one-seeded, one seed placed above the 
other. Micu. 
I had the satisfaction of receiving a flowering specimen 
of this rare and little-known plant, in May, 1830, from the 
garden of Mr. James Smita of Monkwood Nursery, Ayr. 
It was introduced into England, according to Mr. P. Mi- 
ter, in 1759, and was figured by that author in his Icones, 
above quoted. It was probably then soon lost to our gar- 
dens, and has now been again imported by Mr. Smitu, 
whose collection is so rich in the rarer American plants. 
It is stated by Micuavx to be an inhabitant of the tract of 
the Alleghany Mountains, from Canada to Carolina, yet I 
have never received specimens of it from any of my Ameri- 
can correspondents, though I have particularly requested it. 
The plant so called by Porrer, and figured in the Illustra- 
tiones of Lamarck, (t. 500,) though quoted as such, by Sir 
James E. Sairu, is rightly referred by De Canpbo te to his 
Acta palmata. On that account, and because a represent- 
ation does not exist in any generally accessible work, with 
which I am acquainted, I have been glad of this opportu- 
nity of giving it a place in the Botanical Magazine, al- 
though the fruit is still a desideratum ; and although it is 
not a plant that recommends itself as eminently deserving 
a place in our flower-gardens, save in those of the curious. 
Fig. 1. Flower, after the Calyx has fallen away. 2, 3. Leaves of the 
Calyx. 4, Stamen, 5. Pistil.— Magnified. ¢ 
