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RHODODENDRON Dauricum. Dorftep- 
~Lravep RHODODENDRON,. 
Clafs and Order. 
Decanpria MonoeynNia, 
Generic CharaGer. 
Cal. 5-partitus fabinfundibulllorais, ig Stam. declinata,. Capf, 
5-locularis. : : | | Bey 
Specific. Character and Synonyms. 
RHODODENDRON dauricum ; foliis glabris pun€tatis nudis, 
| corollis rotatis. Sp. Pl. 562. Pall. Rof. | 
1. p. 47. ¢. 32. Bot. Rep. t. 4. Mart. 
Mill. Dig. Willd. Sp. Pl.2. p. 604. 
CHAMZRHODODENDROS folio glabro majufculo, am- 
plo flore rofeo. Anm. Ruth. 181. t. 27. 
ANDROMEDA foliis ovatis utrinque pun€tatis. Gmel, Sid.4. 
Po 124. 0. 10. | = 
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_ This very beautiful fhrub is, according to PaLias, pecu- 
liar to the fubalpine traéts of eaftern Afia, occurring chiefly 
in the northern parts of Siberia between the Jenifea and Lena 
-Tivers, where the northern fides of the mountains in the be- 
ginning of May are entirely empurpled by it. It muft of 
courfe be confidered as a very hardy plant, though like many 
other inhabitants of the coldeft regions, when cultivated in 
this country, from the greater mildnefs of our-winters it is apt 
to expand its flowers prematurely, which are ufually deftroyed 
by fubfequent frofts and cold winds. On this account it is better, 
as foon as the bloffoms begin to appear, to remove the plant 
under fhelter, where it will prove exceedingly ornamental in 
the very depth of winter; but fhould the froft begin early and _ 
Continue fo long as to retard the opening of the bloffoms till 
