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-HypRANGEA HortTeEnsis. GARDEN 
HYDRANGEA. 
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HYDRANGEA bortenfis foliis ellipticis ferratis glaberrimis 
ftaminibus aqualibus. Smith icon. rar. i. 12+ 
HORTENSIA. Commerf. Fuffien Gen. 214. 
PRIMULA mutadbiis caule fuffruticofo multiplici, foliis ovatis 
ferratis, floribus nudis. Loureir Coch. Chin. 
V. 1. Pp. 104. a 
VIBURNUM fomenic/um foliis ovatis acuminatis ferratis. ve- 
Y nofis fubtus tomentofis, umbellis lateralibus. 
Thunb. Fap. p. 123.2 . 
SAMBUCUS aquatica -furculis pinguibus pun@latis, &c. Sijo 
- . . vulgo Adfai et Anfai et Adfiki. Kempf. Am. 
Exot. p. 854. var. fl. albo, pila florida major, 
It appears to be a point not yet fully determined, whether the 
prefent plant exhibits the appearances belonging to it ina ftate 
of nature, or thofe which are in a certain degree the effect of 
accident, or of art; in its fruétification it certainly is not fo 
completely barren as the Guilder Rofe, Viburnum Opulus, cul- 
tivated in our gardens, fince it-has moft of its parts perfe& ; 
yet as none of the authors who have feen it in China or Japan 
(where it is faid not only to be much cultivated but indigenous*) 
defcribe its fruit, we are inclined on that account to regard it, 
n-a-certain degree, as monftrous, ——---—~ —~ =~ 
It will appear by the fynonyms, that authors have entertained 
very different opinions as to what this plant really is; Jussreu _ 
following Commerson makes it-an Horlenfias Tuuxperc a 
Viburnum, Loureiro, ridiculoufly enough, a Primu/a, and 
Dr. Smits an Hydrangea. , Se : 
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«In the original defcription of the chara@ers of the ¢. 
‘Hydrangea by Ltnnxus, there is-no mention made of two _ 
different kinds of florets,‘as in the Viburnum, nor has any au- 
‘thor that I am acquainted with deferibed the Hydrangea arbor. 
as producing fuch; yet, to my great furprife, in a plant of 
; : ae Sates Steg Boe 
a: ae te eet, 
- * Habitat et ob pulchritudinem colitur Cantone Sinarum, Loxreir. Coch. C bike 
wv. 14 ps 104. Crefcit in fylvis variis, inter Miaco et Jedo, etiam ciltaum, Thunb. 
‘Fil. Fap. p. 123, who refers to Kmper, whofe plant is certainly ours; yet it 
muft be acknowledged that Ts un zeRc’s defcription does not well accord with it. 
