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point. Spach arranges his A. parvifolium (H. elatum, Ait.) and 

 A. Webbianum at some distance from each other; and as he 

 was acquainted with both, the presumption is that they do differ : 

 at the same time, the essential character assigned by Choisy to 

 his H. grandifolium, in DeCandohVs f Prodromus/ is equally 

 applicable to H. elatum, — the H. elatum of Choisy in the same 

 work being no doubt that of Desrousseaux in the ' Encyclopedic 

 Methodique/ and not that of Aiton : from other circumstances, 

 however, I believe that it will be found that the true H. grandi- 

 folium has styles almost as long as those of H. hircinum, and 

 narrower sepals than those of H. elatum. What the Madeira 

 plant, alluded to by Mr. Babington is, I do not know. 



H. elatum (for so I presume we must in future call the H. An- 

 glicum of Bertoloni) is a very handsome shrub, from 2J to 5 feet 

 high, woody below, much branched, and bearing copious lemon- 

 yellow flowers. Branches often purple or red, as in Cornus san- 

 guinea, slightly 2-edged, except between the two uppermost 

 pairs of leaves, where it is usually much compressed or winged. 

 Leaves large, from 2\ to 3 \ inches long, and 1^ to 2 inches 

 broad, glossy, usually green, but sometimes spotted or tinged 

 with red in autumn. Peduncles and pedicels, when recent, 

 slightly angled, sometimes appearing flat or 2-winged when 

 dried under pressure. Sepals in a double row, outer ones usu- 

 ally much broader than the inner, oval, acute, or with a minute 

 point, varying much in size on the same branch, but without 

 regard to the state of the flower, and not becoming enlarged 

 after the. petals fall off; all the sepals become reflexed after 

 flowering, and are persistent. None of the flowers at Donard 

 Lodge had the petals fully expanded, even although they and 

 the bundles of stamens fell off by touching them ; all were erect, 

 concave, and closely surrounded the stamens; but this might 

 be caused by their growing in the shade, or by the lateness of the 

 season. The stamens were in five bundles or androphores, and 

 were so slightly united at the base that the stamens appeared 

 distinct when removed artificially. 



H. elatum appears to be a much more tender shrub than H. 

 hircinum, and is not adapted to general cultivation in this coun- 

 try, except in green-houses : the same localities which are suit- 

 able to growing Fuchsias in the open air, where they become 

 small trees or large bushes, are equally adapted to H. elatum. 

 Both are injured readily by frost, and then either transformed 

 into an unseemly shrub, or cut down to the ground every 

 winter. It has now almost entirely disappeared from our bota- 

 nical gardens, but is, I learn, still to be seen in the Botanic 

 Garden of Trinity College, Dublin. Its native country is pro- 

 bably the Azores ; and it can have no claim to be considered 



