19S QBober 1748. 



%Q the ibuth, neither he nor Meffrs. Clayton. 

 and Mitfhel ever found it, though the lat- 

 ter gentlemen have made accurate obferva^ 

 tions in Virginia and part of Maryland, 

 And from his own experience he knew, 

 that it did not grow in the northerly parts. 

 I have never found it more than fifteen 

 inin. north of forty-three deg. The time 

 of the year when it comes up in Penjyhaniaj 

 is fo late, that its feed has but juft time 

 fufi&cient to ripen in, and it therefore feems. 

 unlikely, that it can fucceed further north. 

 Mr, Bar tram was the firft who difcovered; 

 it, and fent it over into Europe, Mr. Juf- 

 Jeu during his flay at London, and Dr. 

 ' Lannceus afterwards, called iiCollinfonia^Uovs^. 

 the celebrated Mr. Peter Collinfon, a mer^ 

 chant in London, and fellow of the Englijh. \ 

 an4 Swedijh Royal Societies. He well de-* 

 ferved the honour of having a plant called 

 after his name, for there are i&w people 

 that have promoted natural hiftory and all 

 iifeful fciences with a zeal like his ^ or that: 

 have done as much as he towards colleding,, 

 cultivating, and making known all forts of; 

 plants. The Collinfonia has a peculiar fcent, 

 which is agreeable, but very ftrong. It al- 

 ways gave me a pretty violent head-ach 

 whenever I paffed by a place where it flood 

 in plenty, and efpccially when it was in 



flower. 



