Botanist was last in England he saw this species grow- 

 ing, and called it his S. jfte.vuosa davurica ; while the 

 plant called *S'. jiexuosa in Cambessedes's paper appears 

 from the figure to be intended for another, named by 

 Dr. Fischer <S'. jiexuosa lat'ifoiia, which approaches nearer 

 to the " Spireea preecox montana folio parvo in summitate 

 bifido V. trifido ' of Gmelin, which is also in our Gardens, 

 under the false name of SpircEa crenata, and which is the 

 aS'. chanicedrifoUa of Willdenow. 



According to Pallas, S. chamaedrifolia, or some of its 

 supposed varieties, is found in Kamtchatka, where the 

 inhabitants use the leaves for tea : the strong shoots are 

 manufactured into smoking tubes for tobacco-pipes, and 

 the plant itself makes excellent clipped hedges. For the 

 latter purpose it is worth a trial in this country. 



Our drawing was made in June 1824, in Messrs. 

 Whitley's Nursery. The shrub is quite hardy, and very 

 ornamental. 



Stem about as high as a man, erect, branched ; the 

 branches ash-coloured, when young flexuose and angular. 

 Leaves ovate, acuminate, inciso-serrate, smooth, about the 

 size of those of Ulmus campestris, with pilose petioles. 

 Corymbs terminal, stalked, hemispherical, somewhat race- 

 mose. Floivers white, rather large. 



J. L. 



