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in Frangula ; De Canvorte added the greater number of 
the lateral nerves or ribs; and Wittpenow, in his Enu- 
meration of the plants of the Berlin Garden, has made use 
of the roundness of the base of the leaves in his character, 
describing those of Frangula as acute at both ends ; but 
none of the above characters seem very exact, or not con- 
stant. In the berries we examined we found three seeds, 
and the stigma being described by Pomer as three-lobed, 
it may be the natural number ; and there being but two in 
Frangula, this character, if constant, would be a good 
specific distinction. 
The genus Ruamnus belongs to the Natural Order of 
Rhamnee, and is divided by De Cannot into several 
sections, to which he has given names. R. latifolius be- 
longs to his third section, the Frangule. Our friend, 
Mr. Rosert Brown, in his Observations on the plants 
collected in the expedition of Masor Dennam and Capran- 
Ciaprerton, has ingeniously proposed to add the names of 
the subgenera to the different species, a nomenclature, 
which, if generally adopted, would, in these large genera, 
be found to be of great advantage. Upon this plan, our 
plant would be designated Ruamnus (Frangula) latifolius ; 
the name thus at once denoting the species and section to 
which it belonged: This plant has been generally consi- 
dered as @ greenhouse shrub, but is sufficiently hardy to 
bear our winters in the open air, without protection. ‘The 
plant from which our drawing was taken grew in Mr. 
Jenxins’s Botanic Garden in the New Road to a large size, 
and we received specimens of the same species from the 
late Mr. Warxer, from a plant which had grown in an 
exposed situation in his garden at Southgate, for twelve 
years, and continued in vigour at that time. 
