Prof. Dow's Monograph of Streptopus, &c. 533 
I am indebted to my highly esteemed friend Dr. Boott, the worthy Secretary 
of this Society, for native specimens of this remarkable plant, which was ori- 
ginally discovered by Michaux on the mountains of South Carolina, and 
afterwards by the late Mr. John Lyon, by whom it was introduced into our 
gardens in 1811. The plant flowered in May of the following year at the 
nursery-grounds of Messrs. Fraser, Sloane Square, Chelsea; and a figure of 
it appeared in the September number of the Botanical Magazine for that 
year. Dr. Short has since discovered it on the mountains of Kentucky, 
Pursh records it also as a native of Pennsylvania; but I am not disposed to 
place much reliance upon the stations assigned to American plants by that 
botanist, from their having been in many cases noted down from memory, 
after the lapse of some years. Although a native of South Carolina, the plant 
does not appear to have come under the notice of the accurate Elliott, whose 
account of it is copied wholly from Michaux. 
2. P. Menziesii, umbellis sessilibus bifloris, sepalis oblongis mucronatis 6- 
nerviis margine revolutis basi saccatis, stylo longissimo piloso, foliis 
ovatis sessilibus glabriusculis. 
Hab. in ora occidentali Americz Borealis. Menzies. Y. (v.s. sp. in Herb. 
Smith, nunc in Mus. Soc. Linn.). 
Caulis pedalis et ultrà, teretiusculus, pilis 5—8-articulatis dichotomis, ramulo 
laterali brevissimo, copiosè vestitus, subviscosus. Folia sessilia, ovata, 
acuminata, 8-nervia, subtùs ad nervos pubescentia, bipollicaria, unciam 
lata. Umbella terminalis, sessilis, biflora. Pedicelli inarticulati, pilis 
longioribus 6—8-articulatis dichotomis copiosiüs vestiti. Perianthium 
majus, campanulatum, flavum ? Sepala oblonga, mucronata, 6-nervia, 
margine revoluta, basi saccata, 2 unciæ longa. Filamenta canaliculata, 
inferné dilatata, glabra. Antheræ erectae, innatæ, biloculares, obtusæ, 
filamentis plùs duplo breviores. Stylus staminum longitudine, triqueter, 
dens? pilosus. Stigmata 3, revoluta, stylo 6-pld breviora. 
In the Smithian Herbarium there is a sin gle specimen of this highly interest- 
ing plant gathered by my venerable friend Mr. Menzies on the north-west coast 
of America in the voyage of discovery under Vancouver, to which he was at- 
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