cantha ” definitely associated by Linnaeus with the Buissor 
Ardent is believed to have been misapplied ; it is generally 
held that the Pyracantha of Greek anthors is our Hawthorn. 
Nevertheless the use of the name Pyracantha to connote 
the Everlasting Thorn has become popular; that plant is 
now, and bids fair to remain, the Pyracantha of gardens, 
which fails to appeal to the lay mind either as a Crataegus 
or as a Cotoneaster. In this case the popular instinct 
appears to be sound, for the suggestions made by 
Medik and by Spach, though more satisfactory than that 
of Linnaeus, are both more or less open to objection. 
Under the circumstances it seems desirable, and it certainly 
is more convenient, to adopt yet another suggestion, first 
made by Roemer in 1847, and recently endorsed by 
Schneider, and to treat the group of species to which our 
plant belongs as a genus Pyracantha, closely allied indeed 
both to Crataegus and to Cotoneaster, but equally distinct 
from either. Pyracantha angustifolia was first introduced 
to cultivation by Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin from seeds sent to 
Les Barres from Eastern Tibet by Soulié in 1895. A 
second set of plants was raised at Kew from seeds sent from 
Western China in 1899 by Lieut. Jones. The original 
plant at Les Barres bears plentiful crops of berries which in 
the late autumn develop a bright orange colour. At Kew, 
where P. angustifolia does well on a sunny wall, there is 
hardly sufficient sunshine to bring out its best qualities as a 
shrub, and in the open, although it survives the winter, it 
has not proved perfectly hardy. In the warmer conditions 
of South-western England it is more at home, and the 
material for an illustration has been obtained from a plant 
in fruit in the open in J anuary, 1910, in the garden of Lieut.- 
Col. D. Dd. Cunningham at Tormount, Torquay; the 
flowering twig which completes our figure was supplied in 
July, 1910, from the same bush. The species is best 
propagated from cuttings of half ripened wood. 
Descriprion.—Shrub; branches spreading; twigs at 
first more or less yellow tomentose, in their second season 
glabrous, their bark tawny purple, rough with lenticels ; 
occasionally some of the twigs modified into stout spines 
3-8 lin. long. Leaves clustered on abbreviated twigs or at 
the bases of longer ones, persistent, linear-oblong, obtuse 
