No. 888. 
AQUI LEGIA CANADENSIS, 
Class. Order, 
POLYANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Native of North America: Pursh describes 
it as growing in crevices of rocks, from 
Canada to Carolina. It was known to 
Parkinson, who has represented it in his 
Theatrum, p. 1367, and says that it was 
brought from Virginia by Tradescant, and 
that it flowered a month earlier than any of 
the garden kinds. Our plants flowered in 
May. It is a hardy perennial. It blossoms 
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ja the ng months. It may be increased 
by seeds, which are often perfected in 
this country, or the roots will admit. of 
occasional division : the soil should be light 
loam. 
