our drawing was taken was without fpines, whitft of two young 

 plants," both offsets of this, one was armed with fpines the 

 other unarmed. 



At fir'il fight, the figure of Commei. in, taken from a fhrub 

 that flowered in the Botanic Garden at Amllerdam, and that 

 of Miller, appear very diffimilar ; the former having leaves 

 acutely, and even deeply lerrated, which in the latter are 

 altogether entire ; and the defcriptions of both authors agree 

 with their reprefentations. We are neverthelefs inclined to 

 believe that the above figures were both intended for the fame 

 ipecies. That the leaves are very fubject to vary, both in 

 their general figure and margins, appears from Miller's own 

 ipecimen, preferved in the Baukfian Herbarium, in which 

 fame of the lower leaves are deeply but finely toothed. In 

 confirmation of the identity of thefe plants, it may be obferved, 

 that the Chelfea Garden was probably fupplied with it from 

 that of Amfterdam, and that Weinman, who could hardly 

 miftake Commelin's plant, has drawn his figure with leaves 

 perfectly entire. Willdenow has afiertcd that the Celas- 

 trus pyracanthus defcribed by Thunbkrg is altogether a 

 different fpecies from that of Linnaus, but we fee no reafon 

 to think fo ; the fpecific phrafe of the former, above quoted, 

 agrees very well with our plant, except in the leaves being 

 obovate ; as we have occasionally feen them, and alio obcordate 

 and acute in the fame plant. 



In Lin nous's own fpeci^nen from Clifford's Garden, m 

 the poflefiion of Sir Joseph Banks, the leaves ate moftty 

 obovate, marginated, and rather denticulated than lerrated, 

 the fame as we have generally found them in the younger 

 plants in our greehhoufes. Even the fhrub from which our 

 drawing was taken has fome leaves with a few cartilaginous 

 teeth, fo rigid as to be like little fpines. 



It is a hardy greenhoufe fhrub, readily propagated by 

 cuttings or offsets* Flowers during the fumtner months, and 

 ripens its red fruit in the winter, and not unfrequently has 

 ripe feed-velfels and (lowers at the fame time. 



Our drawing was taken in the garden of Edm on d Gr an gek» 

 Efq. in Exeter, from a {hrub which had been turned out 

 into the border again!! a fouthern wall, where it had grown 

 much more vigoroufly than it did in the greenhoufe. 



