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mean to be pofitive of their being fo, fince we do not know 
for certain that they have fprung from the feed of one ftock ; 
but merely to fhew that they feem to us to differ, only by fuch 
modes as are analogous to the modes, by which we have ob- 
ferved indifputable varieties to differ the one from the other 
elfewhere. For thofe who think differently from us, we have 
attached, by way of fubfpecific diftin@ions, the f{pecific names 
given to them by others, to be retained at difcretion. The prefent 
plant has been recorded as a variety of , in both editions of 
the Hortus Kewenfis ; although 2, flill lefs. diftin@, has been 
{fpecifically feparated as well as y; which laft however differs the 
moft of the two. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. We 
are obliged to Mr. Haworru for the prefent fpecimen. G. 
