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circumstances amidst which this plant lives, it should be kept in a state of rest durin- winter, ^v'hich, under the influence 
of our varying temperature, is difficult ; for even if this and other Arctic plants are placed, in whiter, in what we call a 
cool temperature, we still find them in a growing state, by which they become weak and soon exhaust themselves.—J^o^ 
Mag.,t. 4621. 
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437. LoMATiA PERRUGiNEA. B. Broicn. A half-liardy shrub from South Chik^, with bcaudfu 
ferruginous foliage. 
Belongs to Proteads. 
Introduced by Messrs. Yeitcli & Co. 
This charming plant is growing in the open air hi the nursery at Exeter, but we fear that it will not generally bear 
the climate of this country. It, however, deserves a place wherever beautiful foliage is valued. According to Cavanilles, 
it forms a shrub ten to twelve feet high, with ferruginous branches. Tixe leaves are deep green, bipinnatifid, ferruginous 
when young, from six to twelve inches long, with some of the leaflets occasionally lobed. The flowers, which have not been 
produced in England, appear in short erect racemes from the axil of the leaves, and arc said to be green outside, and crim- 
son inside. Mr. Lobb does not say where it grows naturally, but according to Cavanilles, it inhabits S. Carlos in Chile, 
in places occasionally overflowed by salt water, 
438. Callicakpa japonica. Thunlerg. A half-hardy deciduous flirub, ^vith small pinkish 
flowers. 
Native of Japan. Blossoms in August and September. Belongs to the Order of A^erbcnes. 
Introduced by Dr. Siebold, (Fig. 221.) 
This is an inelegant soft-wooded shrub, growing two or three feet high, and having the branches closely covered 
when young with a short fur composed of stellate hairs. The leaves are stalked, about three or four inches long, serrated 
except at tlie two ends which ai'e entire, when full-grown destitute of hairs on the upper side, but downy on the veins of 
the underside ; in addition to this the under surface is sprinkled with pale yellow glands, not discoverable Avithout a 
mafmifying glass ; in form the leaves vary from oblong, tapering to each end, to almost a rhomboidal outline. The 
flowers grow in dense axillary racemes, whieh are many-flowered, nearly smooth, and a little longer than the leafstalks. 
The calyx is cup-shaped, very obscurely four-toothed, or altogether truncate. The corolla is pale pink, nearly equally 
divided into four blunt lobes, three times as long as the calyx, with four projecting stamens. The plant has not beauty 
enough to be worth growing in choice collections. 
Siebold and Zuccarini have pointed out {Florce Japontcce familiw naturales, part 2, p. 30) the error committed by 
