this fort which flowered in my garden at Brompton in July 
1797, three of the Cyme, and three only, threw out each of 
them from their circumference a very different flower from 
thofe in the centre, fmaller indeed, but very fimilar to the 
flowers of the Hydrang. hort. fee P|. 437. In 1788, Mr. Warrer 
publifhed his #1. Carolin. in which he defcribes a fecond {pe- 
cies of Hydrangea, which he calls radiata,* having very: dif- 
tinétly, as in. the Vidurnum, two different kinds of florets in 
the fame Cyma, this variation in the florets is. added by him to 
the generic chara€ter: the fimilarity which exifts between the 
flowers of Mr, Watter’s Hydrangea radiata, and thofe of the 
prefent plant fufficiently juftify. Dr. SMirm in making it an 
Hydrangea ; the appearances obferved by Lourgrirot on dif. 
fe€ting the germen, aud our difcovery of the exiftence of two 
different kinds of flowers in the Hydrangea arbore/cens, tend 
ftill more to confirm its propriety ; we may add, that in the very 
habit of thefe feveral plants. there exifts aconfiderable fimilarity ; 
ftill, however, it is only by ripe feed-veffels of the prefent plant, 
that this doubtful matter can be fatisfatiorily cleared up y but it 
will not follow, that if it be not an Hydrangea it muft be a 
Viburnum... Ee yehogebeds styea il Silt Site 4 
This magnificent and highly ornamental plant, according 
to Dr. Smita, was introduced from China to the royal 
garden at. Kew, by Sir Jossru Banks, Bart. in 17903; it 
was imported by Mr. Srater about the fame time, with whom 
it is faid to have firft flowered in this country. Cage 
If room were allowed us, it would be {uperfluous to de- 
{cribe minutely a plant now fo very common; fuffice it to 
fay, that from a ftrong perennial root, rife a number of half- 
fhrubby, irregular, fomewhat fpongy flalks, ftrongly {potted 
when young with purple, from one to three feet high, termi- 
nated by large bunches of flowers, at firft green, then rofe- 
coloured, and finally green a fecond time; thefe are the moft 
common changes to which they are liable: but it will fome- 
times happen that a plant which has produced red flowers: 
one year, fhall produce blue another, though growing in the 
fame pot; this we faw happen in the year 1796 toa plant in 
the poffeffion of the Countefs of Upper Ossory, whole re- 
fined tafte and fuperior judgment have in feveral inftances 
contributed to render our works more acceptable to the 
* ‘This plant, or one extremely fimilar to it, was introduced by Mr. Wit. 
~Ltams, Nurferyman at Paris, a few years fince; we faw it in full bloom, at 
_ Mr. Corvitt’s, King’s-Road, in the Summer of 1796. or 
+ Pericarpium abortit, quod ex diffeéto germine et per microfcopium vife _ 
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