adnate with the calyx. 
A Japanese plant, from whence the species was introduc- 
ed by M. von Sresoxp to the gardens in Belgium. From 
that country, Mr. M‘Koy kindly sent it to the Botanic 
Garden at Glascow. Dr. Wauuicn, however, appears to 
have the credit of first finding the species in Nepal, Gossain 
Than, and Kamaon, and applied to it the name of barbata, 
which on every account is to be preferred to that of Japo- 
nica. ‘The Genus, with the habit of Spir#za Aruncus, 18 
nearly allied to Astitse of Don, differing from this latter 
chiefly in the presence of petals. The Traretxa triternata 
of Venrenat, which Mr. Don refers to AstILzeE, is, by Messrs. 
Morren and Decaisne, considered rather to belong to 
Horeia. Our plant, though making little show on paper, 
is elegant and graceful in its foliage and feather-like flow- 
ers. It is hardy and flowers with us in May. 
Descr. Stem herbaceous, two to four feet high. Leaves 
alternate, bi-triternate ; leaflets ovate, acute, sharply serrat- 
ed. Petiole often tinged with purple, incrassated at the 
base, and where, at its point of union with the stem, are 3 
several spreading hairs, whence the specific name of Dr. _ 
Watticu. Stipules ovate, acute, entire, membranaceous, — 
deciduous. Panicle terminal, many-flowered. Peduncle 
and its branches downy, bracteated ; bracts numerous, — 
small, foliaceous. Flowers white. Calyx glabrous, deeply a 
five-cleft. Corolla of five spreading, spathulate petals. — 
Stamens ten, exserted. Ovaries two, their base united and 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Section of a F 
lower (from Morren and DECcAISNE’S 
figure). 3. Section of the Ovary, 
from ditto :—magnified. 
