one now represented and yery distinct from the other. 
In the Banksian Herbarium, virginica is exemplified by 
three plants of distinct species, the one the true Linnean 
species taken up from Gronovius, the other the present, 
and the third a plant that we believe is included as a variety 
by Walter in his SmeNe caroliniana, along with the Linnean 
virginica and the present pensylvanica. 
Our plant is not published in the Hortus Kewensis. ‘The 
drawing was made from one that flowered in the nursery of 
Messrs. Frasers, in Sloane Square, and had been imported 
this year from America, together with the best chosen and 
largest collection of plants of that country, which has eyer 
reached England. An assemblage collected at various 
points from Canada to New Orleans, and has employed 
Mr. Fraser nearly two years in putting together, 
A dwarf plant, about 3 or 4 inches high. Lower leaves 
cuneately lanceolate, narrowly elongated, channelled at the 
lower part and tapered like a petiole, rather firm, fringed 
with a roughish nap: wpper short, linearly lanceolate, op- 
‘posite and connate into a short sheath, shaggily villous. 
Stem (oftenest several) roughishly villous, stiff, at the upper 
part trichotomously cymose, several-fiowered, the central 
peduncle of every trichotomy one-flowered. | Upper flowers 
gathered into a sort of fascicle; peduncles viscously villous, 
with small connately double bractes. Calyx about an 
inch long, cylindrical, narrow far this genus, dull red and 
green, viscously pubescent, fluted, with ten raised green 
lines. Corolla pink: petals with ungues equal to the calyx, 
and cylindrically concrete with the pedestal of the germen: 
lamina cuneately oblong, shorter than the calyx, crenulately 
truncate, with two small short tooth-shaped scales at the 
base of the same colour. Alternate stamens inserted on 
the unguis of the petals, the others at the top of the pedestal 
of the germen, all protruding above the calyx. Styles 3, 
above the calyx, recurved, pink at the top. Germen ob- 
Jong, 3 times shorter than its pedestal, 
Native of Pensylyania, Mardy, 
