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* PHILADELPHUS hirsutus. 



Hairy Syringa. 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Philadelphace^e. 

 PHILADELPHUS. Bot. Reg. vol. 1 . fol. 570. 



P. hirsutus ; foliis oblongo-ovatis acutis dentatis 5-nerviis utrinque hirsutis 

 subtus albidis, floribus solitariis ternisve, stylis ad apicem concretis stigma- 

 tibus indivisis. DC. prodr. 3. 206. 



P. birsutus. Nuttall. gen. airier. 1. 301. Loud. arb. britt. p. 954. Jig. 678. 



A small shrub, not more than three or four feet high, 

 with a few thinly scattered straggling branches. Mr. 

 George Gordon, the under gardener in the Arboretum of 

 the Horticultural Society's garden, who has paid particular 

 attention to this ornamental genus, finds it the smallest of all 

 the species. He describes it in a memorandum in my pos- 

 session as " a hardy shrub, not injured by the severity of the 

 present winter, growing from three to four feet high in any 

 good soil, and flowering about the middle of July. It strikes 

 freely from cuttings of the young wood about the end of 

 August, under a hand-glass, in a mixture of peat and sand 

 in any shaded situation ; the cuttings should remain until 

 the following March or April, when they may be planted 

 in the open border." 



It was first discovered by Mr. Thomas Nuttall on the 

 rocky banks of French Broad River, Tennessee, near the 

 warm springs, abundantly, and is correctly described by that 

 writer as having an undivided 4-grooved stigma, by which 

 character it is at once known. This is represented in the 



* See Bot. Reg. vol. 23. fol. 2003. 



