but at the same time we perceive that some confusion has 
been produced in the subsequent history of the species, from 
the plant having been erroneously identified by Linnzeus 
with his widely distinct Hepysarum violaceum, and by the 
error haying been adopted, instead of corrected, by Gro- 
novius in the second edition of the Flora Virginica, where our 
plant (the one of the first edition) appears under the specific 
phrase by which Linnzeus had distinguished Hepysarum 
violaceum in his Species Plantarum, while the right phrase 
of the first edition is in this postponed to the wrong one, and 
transferred to the synonymy. We have in consequence omit- 
ted all reference to the second edition of the Flora Virginica. 
The species was taken up many years ago by the late 
Dr. Solander, under the specific title Asphaltites, from a 
spontaneous sample in the Banksian Herbarium. The de- 
scription we have published from the manuscript, anxiously 
wishing to promulgate even the least unnoticed memorial of 
that accomplished pupil of Linnzeus. 
We are at a loss to conjecture why Mr. Nuttall should 
have displaced the species from this genus, with the asser- 
tion that it is not furnished with the glandules or calli, 
that denote an affinity to Psorauea; the foliage of the plant 
being in fact covered with such. 
The drawing was taken from a sample that flowered in 
the Sloane Square Nursery; the seed of which had been im- 
ported from Virginia, where the species is native, by Messrs. 
Frasers. It is a hardy herbaceous perennial. Not enume- 
rated in the Hortus Kewensis. 
Stem from a foot to a foot aud a half high, angular, up- 
right, roughishly furred. Leaves alternate; leaflets very 
slightly furred, glandularly dotted, lanceolate with a 
bluntish point, equal; central partial petiole on the upper 
leaves as long or longer than the general one; stipules 
linear, lanceolate, glandularly dotted. Peduncles from the 
axils of the upper leaves, hence in some sort terminal, twice 
or thrice the length of the leaves (4-6? inches long). Flowers 
racemosely spiked, shortly stalked, of a palish violet-blue: 
raceme linearly lanceolate (3-4? inches long), upright. 
Calyx pubescent, vavicosely veined, and glandularly dotted. 
Bractes ovate, taper-pointed, three times the length of the 
flowers and enveloping them before they expand, after 
which they quickly fall off, dotted with glandules of a harder 
consistence than those of the other parts of the plant. Ale 
twice the length of the very short carina. Pod one-seeded, 
the length of the calyx, gibbous, cross-wrinkled, not furred. 
