PODOPHYLLUM DIPHYLLUM LINN. 337 
I have often fought for this fuppofed fpecies of Podo- 
phyllum, in the woods of Pennfylvania. Miflead by Lin- 
nzus, who, at one time, defcribes it asa fpecies of this 
valuable genus, and at another time feems uncertain whe- 
ther itis not a f{pecies of Sanguznaria, or Puccoon, I hoped 
to difcover it in the neighbourhood of its relations, which 
are among the number of the moft common vegetables of 
Pennfylvania, both on the eaflern and on the weftern fide 
of the Alleghaney-Mountains. I fought, however, with- 
out fuccefs. Some of my botanical friends have been more 
fortunate. Mr. William Bartram has feen it, but not in 
flower, in the country of the Cheerake-Indians, where it 
grows abundantly. Another gentleman has obferved it, 
growing on the fide of a mountain, ina rich foil, near the 
river Monaungahela, in the county of Fayette, and 
ftate of Pennfylvania. The fame gentleman obferved 
prodigious quantities of it on the Holften, below 
the north-fork of this river, in the ftate of North-Caroli- 
na. Inneither of thefe fituations, however, did he fee it 
in flower. 
About two years fince, Mr. Andrew Michaux, an in- 
duftrious French botanift, who has been travelling, for 
fome time, through different parts of our States, difcover- 
ed this vegetable on the Blue-Ridge, near the head of the 
Roanoke-River, in Virginia. It grew in a rich, loamy, 
~ humid foil; and generally under the fhades of the large 
foreft-trees of the mountains, fituations correfponding to 
thofe in which it had been difcovered by the accurate and 
indefatigable Clayton, many years before him. Mr. Mi- 
chaux fays, the plant did not feem to have an extenfive 
fpread, but that it was very common in two particular 
places. He did not fee it in flower. 
From a root of this vegetable, which was fent to Mr. 
William Bartram, by Mr. Michaux, there was produced 
VOL. Ur Uu a fine 
