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red colour. I have seldom seen white berries there. The 
_ Chinese eat the fruit, but it is insipid. ; 
Burzau in De Canpoiue’s Prodromus [XVU, 242] sug- 
gests that VM. alba var. mongolica, first discovered by Father 
Davip in the mountains of Southern Mongolia, may be the 
original wild type of the white mulberry. This variety, very 
common in the mountains of Northern China, is characterised 
_ by its leaves being very irregular in shape ; they are always 
lobed, from three to five lobes, the margin of which is 
provided with long cuspidate teeth ; the berries are dark red, 
nearly black. According to the late Dr. Hance [Journ. 
- Botan, 1875, 185] the mulberry cultivated in the south has 
: invariably undivided leaves ; but the cultivated trees in the 
_ heighbourhood of Peking have habitually lobed leaves. The 
: Pp eking cultivated mulberry trees belong to the variety 
latifolia, which name Bureau applies to the Morus alba most 
generally cultivated in South and Middle China, and which 
has also been named MV. multicaulis. Other varieties of 
AL. alba recorded in China are, according to Bureau, lc. 
Ys uigriformis, Macao (Callery), v. indica, Canton (Hedde), 
~ Formosa (Oldham), v. atropurpurea (.M. rubra, Lour.). 
; P., XXXVI; & sang. The mulberry tree is well figured 
Ch. (XXXII, 34]. Kin huang, LVI, 16, rade drawing. 
In Japan, where sericulture is also highly developed, the 
_ Same broad-leaved variety of M. alba is extensively cultivated 
for the same purposes. [See Mique, Prol. Flora japon, 
180); Francuur & Savarier Enum. Plant. Japon. [1, 482]. 
The rearing of silk-worms in Japan, according to the Japanese 
_ 4nnals, dates from the 3rd or 4th century. [See N. Rowvor’s 
*xeellent work Les Soies, 1885, I, 272, Summon [Syn 
- Plant. econ. jap., 161] states that the mulberry tree was 
_ Introduced into Japan from China. jp AOE oA 
Amen. exot., 788 :— 3% soo, vulgo kuwa. Morus fractu 
itlbo. — Kadem fructu nigro. The Phon 20 [LXXXVI] 
