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which the first resembles our wild Pasque flowers, and the 
other looks like a Dahlia. 
Of Deutzia three species. 
Rhododendron Metternichi, an alpine species, from the 
north of Japan, resembling the R. maximum, but with purple 
flowers. 
Pawlownia imperialis, a tree like a Catalpa, with large 
panicles of trumpet-shaped purple flowers; it is called Kiri 
in Japan, and is one of the most magnificent plants of the 
country. 
Lilium cordifolium,.a curious plant, allied to Wallich’s 
L. giganteum. 
Prunus Mume, a yellow-fruited Plum, used only for pic- 
kles, like our Cucumbers, and producing many hundred varie- 
ties; also employed by the J apanese for dwarfing ; upon which 
subject is the following curious statement. “ The Japanese 
have an incredible fondness for dwarf trees, and with reference 
to this the cultivation of the Mume is one of the most general 
and lucrative employments of the country. Such plants are 
increased by inarching, and by this means specimens are ob- 
tamed which have the peculiar habit of the Weeping Willow. 
A nurseryman offered me for sale, in the year 1826, a plant 
in flower, which was scarcely three inches high; this chef 
d'wuvre of gardening was grown in a little lacquered box of 
three tiers, similar to those filled with drugs, which the Ja- 
panese carry in their belts. In the upper tier was this Mume, 
in the second row a little Spruce fir, and in the lowest a 
Bamboo, scarcely an inch and a half high.” 
Benthamia Japonica, a new species, smaller in all its parts 
than the old species, and inhabiting the highest mountains 
of Japan. 
_ Stachyurus precoz, a shrub referred by Professor Zucca- 
rini to Pittosporacez, cultivated by the Japanese for its copious 
and beautiful early tails of whitish flowers, 
Corylopsis spicata and pauciflora, hazel-like bushes, be- 
longing to Hamamelaces, 
oyma rutecarpa, a powerful stimulant purgative and 
sudorific medicine, 
Aralia edulis, a species with roots having an agreeable 
aromatic and bitter taste, eaten in the winter like Scorzonera. 
Schizophragma and Platycrater, two new genera, related 
to Hydrangea, and with the same habit as that genus. 
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