appears to have countenanced him in this idea, vid, note; we 
cannot account for this error in Prof. Retzius, diftinguifhed 
for the excellence of his botanical obfervations, but by fup-— 
pofing that he fmelt to the old leaves of the Lycium, which, 
if ever fo ftrongly bruifed, emit little or no fcent: an odour 
fimilar to that of the prefent plant is excited in the Dracoce- 
phalum Sibiricum on the flighteft touch, and the roots of feveral 
{pecies of Mimofa are equally offenfive. 
Kmprer, who found this plant not only wild, but culti- 
vated in Japan, obferved the flowers to vary in the number — 
of their fegments, which they do here: Tounsere obferved 
it with double flowers, a variety now not uncommon in the 
colleétions about London; he remarked alfo hedges made of it, 
and what is very remarkable, he fays, the plant produces no | 
fruit, frudus non producit; Kamerer muft have found it in — 
fruit, or he would not have called it daccifer; Mr. Haxton, © 
when in the fuit of the late embaffy to China, found it cul- | 
tivated by the Chinefe in the open ground and in pots. 
It was introduced here in 1787, by Monf. Cexs*, is ufually 
kept in the greenhoufe, and is readily enough increafed by © 
cuttings. 
Many of the Japanefe plants being as hardy as our own 
natives, we recommend it to be tried in the open ground, 
* Ait. Kew, 
