It was introduced to this country by t.lie Messrs. Booths, 

 of Flotbeck, near Hamburgli, to whom, as the first nursery 

 and seedsmen in Germany, we recommend all those who 

 wish to procure the productions of the countries east of the 

 Rhine. Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



S. Josikaea is a native of Transylvania, in the county of 

 Klausenburg, near Sebes, in stony places, upon the territory 

 of the Countess Rosalie Josika, born Czaky, after whom it 

 has been named. It was first made known to Botanists by 

 Baron von Jacquin, at the meeting of Naturalists at Ham- 

 burgh in 1830 ; and was afterwards particularly mentioned 

 in the Botanische Zeitung for 1831, Vol. I. p. 399, where 

 we find the following interesting note concerning our com- 

 mon Syringa vulgaris : 



" Concerning S. vulgaris, which is marked in the Flora 

 Germanica as if it were of foreign origin, and which is said 

 in all books to be a native of Persia, although common in 

 hedges and gardens, w^e may observe, whatever specimens 

 may have been brought from Persia to Germany and the 

 rest of Europe, that this species is undoubtedly wild in one 

 part of the district comprehended in the German Flora. 

 This is in Hungary, where it ornaments with its flowers, 

 according to Dr. Heuffel, the inaccessible lime-stone rocks 

 of the valley of Cserna, Mount Domaglett, and all the rocks 

 along the Danube, at the military boundaries of Moldavia, 

 Szaszka, Csiklova, and Krassova." 



We may add, that the Himalaya Lilac {S. Emodi) dif- 

 fers but little from this except in the flatness of its leaves 

 and the shallowness of its veins. 



