according to Mr. Pursh, in Virginia and Pensylvania. In- 
troduced by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy in 1795. The flowers 
continue long in succession, and make a fine appearance 
about September and October. Not very common in our 
gardens; where it has been mistaken for sérumosus. 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Col- 
vill, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
The leaves are rough and hard on the upper side, but 
soft and downy on the under, a circumstance more easily 
distinguished by the touch than the sight. In dried samples 
the softness of the under surface, so striking in the fresh 
leaves, is scarcely perceptible, and has, we have little 
doubt, been the cause of the species being repeated under 
the head mollis. 
We know by the sample in the Banksian Herbarium, 
that our plant is the pubescens of the Hortus Kewensis; and 
by another in that of Mr: Lambert, that it is also the plant of 
the Flora Americze Septentrionalis; and haye no reason to 
doubt its belonging to the rest of the synonymy adduced 
above. 
We find no sample of mollis among the specimens from — 
which Mr. Pursh constructed his Flora. of North America; 
and do not believe that he had any other authority for it 
than Willdenow’s record, which we believe to be a mere repe- 
tition of pubescens, determined from the fresh sample, while 
the other has been determined from the dried one. 
