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lithed by Gronovius, at Leyden, in 1762, 1 find that both 
the fpecies of Podophyllum mentioned by Linnzus, are 
enumerated among the indigenous vegetables of Virginia. 
Jn this excellent work, after giving the Swedifh natura- 
lift’s fhort fpecifick charaéter of the Pedophyllum diphyl- 
lum, Dr. Clayton adds the following defcription of his 
own: ‘ Podophyllivel Nelumbonis f{pecies foliis renifor- 
“© mibus, in petiolis longiffimis erectis e radice immediate 
“ ecreffis, binatim difpofitis, fubtus glaucis: fructu magno 
coriaceo lutefcente uniloculari, per maturitatem ad api- 
“ cem operculi inftar horizontaliter dehifcente : feminibus 
“ oblongis lucidis fpadiceis. Flores nondum videre licuit. 
Maji initio folo fubhumido & fertiliffimo fub arborum 
excelfarum tegumine, .convallibus & clivis montium 
collegi*.”” 
This is all the information that I have been able to col- 
lect, from the writings of botanifts, concerning the Po- 
dophyllum diphyllum of Linnzus. In the Hortus Kewen- 
fis of Mr, Aiton, a work which contains excellent de- 
fcriptions of a confiderable number of new, or hitherto 
imperfectly defcribed, fpecies of North-American plants, 
no mention is made of it. I-prefume, it muft have been 
unknown to Mr. Iuffieu, when he publifhed his Genera 
Plantarum fecundum Ordines Naturales difpofita, inthe 
year 178q, otherwife this able botanift would not have 
omitted the mention of it, in drawing the characters of 
the two genera Podophyllum and Sanguinaria, to both 
which our plant is nearly related. Neither do I find any 
mention made of this plant by Dr. Schoepf+, and fome 
other late writers, who after rzding poft-hafle through the 
countries of the United-States, have publithed volumes 
of Travels, &c. 
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+ ‘This Gentleman is the author ofa trifling work entitled Materia Medica Americana potiffi= 
mum regni vegetabilis. Erlang: 17873; alfo of a work, in two volumes oCtavo, entitled Reif 
durch einige der mittlern und fudlichen vereinigten Nordamericanifcben Staaten, &c. printed, at the 
fame place, in the following year, and of fome other publications, 
