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PANCRATIUM Carolinianum. 
Carolina Pup tith 
ee 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDER, 
PANCRATIUM. | Supra vol. 3. fol. 221. 
P. Carolinianum; multiflorum; foliis non inferne vaginantibus, antheris su- 
pinato-incumbentibus. Ker. in Journ. sc. cum icone. 
Lilio-Narcissus polyanthus, flore albo. Catesby Carolina, 3. p. 5. t. 5. 
Pancratium spatha multiflora, foliis linearibus, staminibus nectarii longitu- 
dine. Mill. Dict. ed. 7. n. 6. 
Pancratium Carolinianum. Linn. sp. pl. ed.2.1.418. Walter, fl. Carol. 120. 
Hort, Kew. ed. 1. (not of Salisbury in Hort. Trans. 1.338.) 
P. maritimum. Pursh. amer. sept. 1.222. 
For the greater part of the synonyms cited above, we 
are indebted to an excellent monograph upon the genus 
Pancratium, printed some years since in the Journal of 
Science and Arts, from the pen of John Bellenden Ker, 
Esq. We are assured that the plant now published is the 
true P. Carolinianum of Linneus, and distinct from mariti- 
mum. It certainly appears to agree perfectly with the 
figure in the Banksian Library, which Mr. Ker considered 
an authentic representation of the species, but we are 
unfortunately unable to add any thing to the information 
respecting the differences in these two plants, beyond what 
is afforded by our figure. The specimens reached us in a 
withered state, and at a time when we had not leisure to 
contrast the two species, P. maritimum and Carolinianum 
with each other. It may not be useless, however, to state 
what the opinions of various Botanists have been with 
respect to P. Carolinianum. 
Willdenow, Sprengel, Sir James Smith, and others, 
consider it the same as P. maritimum. Mr. Salisbury sup- 
