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* AMYGDALUS incana. 

 Hoary-leaved Almond. 



ICOSANDRIA MOISIOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosacea, § AmygdalejE. 

 AMYGDALUS. Botanical Register, vol. 14. t. 1160. 



A. incana ; foliis obovatis oblongisque serratis subtus incano-tomentosis, caly- 

 cibus cylindraceis : laciniis oblongls herbaceis tomentosis, petalis emarginatis 

 tubo calycis brevioribus. 



A. incana. Pall.fi. Ross. p. 13. t. 7. 



A. nana, var. incana. Loudon Arh. Brit. ii. 674. 



A rare and very pretty hardy shrub, inhabiting the range 

 of Caucasus, or open plains near the foot of the promontory, 

 near Teflis, among rocks. It is readily known from A. nana, 

 by its leaves covered thickly with hoariness beneath ; never- 

 theless it has been thought to be a variety of that species. 

 This was the opinion of Guldenstadt who tirst discovered it ; 

 but it was not adopted by Pallas who first published it. 

 M. DeCandolle has omitted the plant in his Prodromus, and 

 Mr. Loudon in his Arboretum Britannicum, not having seen 

 the species, and being perhaps influenced by Pallas's bad 

 figure of A. nana, adopted the views of Guldenstadt. 



No two species can however be more truly distinct ; and 

 the characters by which they are distinguished, namely, the 

 obovate coarsely serrated leaves hoary beneath, long downy 

 calyx, and short petals, of the one, and the finely serrated 

 leaves smooth on both sides, short smooth calyx, and long 

 petals, of the other, I find to be uniform in the wild plant. 

 In my specimens from the Caucasus, sent me by the late 

 M. De Klustine and Mr. Prescot, and in others from Iberia, 

 which I owe to the liberality of the Imperial Museum of 



* See Botanical Register, fol. 1160. 



