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Kerin Bot. Mag. n. 827. cum Ic. Pancratium carolinianum. 

 Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. p. 418. Lilio Narcissus Polianthus, rlore 

 albo. Catesb. Hist. v. 2. App.p. 5. t. 5. pessimd. 



Though a native also of South Carolina, where the frost is 

 occasionally very severe, this species is more tender than the 

 preceding, and will not thrive with us, out of a stove, or bark- 

 pit. I have ventured to quote the last synonym on the 

 authority of roots gathered in a bog, about fifty miles up the 

 river from Savannah, by my faithful servant, Robert 

 Bagshaw ; and possibly in the identical spot where Ca- 

 tesby discovered his plant, which was near Palachucula, 

 a deserted Indian town, so that it will be easily ascertained 

 by the botanists of that country. Mr. Ker suspects that the 

 figure was drawn from a plant of Pancratium Maritimum in 

 our gardens, which it certainly resembles so much, that I 

 joined them in the second volume of the Linnean Transac- 

 tions: but as Catesby says in his preface, "in designing 

 the plants, 1 always did them while fresh and just gathered 

 and afterwards in his description, " the leaves are of a deep 

 shining green, like those of Lilio Narcissus flore luteo au- 

 tumnalis minor? this figure only proves him to have been 

 a very bad draughtsman : many of his others are equally 

 incorrect. 



Hymenocallis Sessilis. Pancratium Amoenum. Jacks, 

 in Bot. Hep. n. 556. cum Ic. mold.— Linn. Trans, v. 2. p. 71. 

 r. 10. Pancratium declinatum. Jacq. Hort. Vind. v. 3. p. 11. 

 t. JO. Pancratium Americanum floribus niveis, &c. Ph. Mill. 

 Diet. ed. l.v.2. n. 4. Narcissus totus albus, &c. Shane Hist. 

 Jam. v.l.p. 244, auctoritate ejusspeciminis. Narcissus Ameri- 

 cans, &c. Commel. Hort. Amst. v. 2. v. 178. t. 87- bond. 



