It is perfectly hardy, and will grow in almost any soil 

 and situation. Notwithstanding these advantages it is cer- 

 tainly far from being common in gardens or shrubberies. 

 The finest plants of it we have seen, are in Mr. Joseph 

 Kirke's nursery, at Old Brompton, at which place the 

 drawing was taken. 



A native of the oriental provinces of Russia, where it is 

 frequented by the Spanish or blister-fly (Lytta vesicatoria. 



Gmel. si/st. nat. 1 . 2013, the former Canthakis of the shops), 

 which is collected by the apothecaries from this bush. The 

 berries are eaten by the common people, although disgust- 

 ingly bitter, and not entirely innoxious. The stem, which 

 is sometimes two inches in diameter, is used in the manufac- 

 ture of walking-sticks, and the handles of instruments ; it 

 is hard, solid, of a yellowish-grey colour, and beautifully 

 veined. 



Cultivated in 1752 by Mr. Miller, who raised it from 

 seed, sent from Petersburgh, where it had been received 

 from Tartary. It varies in the shade with flowers entirely 

 white. 



In Jussieu's arrangement and nomenclature this species 

 belongs to Xylosteon t . 





a The corolla dissected, to show the pubescence of the filaments within 

 the tube, b The pistil between the two bractes, showing the gevmen | 



crowned by the minute calyx without the corollai I 



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