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* AMYGDALUS incana. 
Hoary-leaved Almond. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacez, $ AMYGDALEZ. 
AMYGDALUS. Botanical Register, vol. 14. t. 1160. 
A. incana ; foliis obovatis oblongisque serratis subtus incano-tomentosis, caly- 
cibus cylindraceis : laciniis oblongis herbaceis tomentosis, petalis emarginatis 
tubo calycis brevioribus. ; 
A.incana. Pall. fl. Ross. p. 13. t. 7. ` 
A. nana, var. incana. Loudon Arb. Brit. ii. 674. 
A rare and very pretty hardy shrub, inhabiting the range 
of Caucasus, or open plains near the foot of the promontory, 
near Teflis, among rocks. lt is readily known from A. nana, 
by its leaves covered thickly with hoariness beneath; never- 
theless it has been thought to be a variety of that species. 
This was the opinion of Guldenstadt who first discovered it; 
but it was not adopted by Pallas who first published it. 
M. DeCandolle has omitted the plant in his Prodromus, and 
Mr. Loudon in his Arboretum Britannicum, not having seen 
the species, and being perhaps influenced by Pallas's bad 
figure of A. nana, adopted the views of Guldenstädt. 
No two species can however be more truly distinct ; and 
the characters by which they are distinguished, namely, the 
obovate coarsely serrated leaves hoary beneath, long downy 
calyx, and short petals, of the one, and the finely serrated 
leaves smooth on both sides, short smooth calyx, and long 
petals, of the other, I find to be uniform in the wild plant. 
In my specimens from the Caucasus, sent me by the late 
M. De Klustine and Mr. Prescot, and in others from Iberia, 
which I owe to the liberality of the Imperial Museum of 
* See Botanical Register, fol. 1160. 
