D. Neapolitana is the other, and the common collina the 



middle. 



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D. australis, if we may keep that name, grows in damp, 

 or marshy coppices which border the lagunes and 

 lower shores of the coast near Naples ; in gardens it will 

 stand a great deal of heat in light soil even m that climate 



but not in a hard 



heavy 



This is also found to be 



the case with the American Myricas, and some other plants 

 in the climate of Italy, which in England are imagined not 

 to live without peat earth and shade : and a plant of this 

 genus, D. Cneorum, in its native light calcareous soil of 

 Austria, resists a very considerable summer heat. 



** The present species is plentiful on the banks of the lake 

 of Licola, and of the river Volturno and plain of S. Agata, 

 all near Naples. It seems to be perfectly hardy in Eng- 



land 



W. F. S 



The Hon. W. F. Strangways has favoured me with the 

 foregoing memorandum, as well as with the specimen from 

 which the figure of this * ' * 



prepared. 



interesting species has been 



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