however a fragrance to the foliage of that plant clearly not 

 belonging to the present, where the foliage is entirely scent- 

 less. We cannot help suspecting that Jacquin*s figure be- 

 longs to grossularifoliay but that his description has been 

 taken from a variety oi fragrans (see vol. 4. 296 of this 

 work), and that halsamica has arisen from some confusion 

 between _^«gr aw* and grossularifoUa, 



Grossularifolia differs frovafragrcmsy in being a humbler 

 and slenderer plant, with smaller scentless less conspicu- 

 ously lobed leaves and one-flowered peduncles ; the exterior 

 calyx is also placed at a greater distance from the inner 

 than in fragrans, and the lower part of the stamineous 

 column is covered all the way to the base with a starry 

 pubescence, which is not the case in fragransj where the 

 pubescence is only to be found just below the anthers. 



Grossularifolia is a hardy valuable greenhouse shrub; 

 producing the summer through a profusion of rose-coloured 

 blossom. It seeds freely; and is easily propagated by cut- 

 tings. The seedling plants vary exceedingly in the size and 

 even shape of their leaves, which are sometimes round and 

 cordate at the base, at others tapered and cuneate. 



The drawing was taken from a plant about four feet 

 high, with a brown woody stem about the thickness of a 

 man's thumb, and supposed to be about four or five years 

 old ; and which had been raised from seed in a cottage gar- 

 den at Southampton. 



