114 THE KAMTCHATKA KHODOTHAM. 
5-lobed limb j the segments lanceolate, downy at the throat, unequal, the three uppermost rather the 
smallest, and less deeply divided, spotted with crimson at the base, standing up like a hood, the two 
lower very much spreading and spotless. The stamens, which arise from the bottom of the flower, 
are ten, curved downwards, the upper shortest, the lower twice as long as the others, not so long as 
the corolla, with ovate, double, deep-purple anthers. FL Rossica, vol. i., p. 40. 
To the locality given by Gmelin and Pallas, Ledebour adds the following : Mount Marekan, 
according to Torczaninoff j the country of the Tschuktskes in the Bay of St. Lawrence; Kamtchatka 
and Unalashka. Sir W. Hooker gives Banks's Island and Port Edgcombe, on the north-west coast 
of N. America. It is, therefore, clear that it belongs to climates far more rigorous than our own, 
and with much worse summers. And this is the key to its cultivation. Like the R. Chamcecistus } it is 
unable to endure the drier air and brighter summer sky of England ; but shrinks from our heats, and 
withers beneath such evaporation as leaves undergo in this climate. Hence the wisdom of the treat- 
ment which consists in keeping such plants in a cold pit closed up all day, and uncovered all night. 
Mr. Loddiges's cultivators made nothing of it till they put it under a north wall where Liverworts 
and such soft flabby plants delight to dwell. 
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iinn; 
example by including the C/iantacisttis in that genus. Its great leafy calyx 
ilmost to the base, and nearly equally spreading although very unequal stamens 
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simple, in which respect it agrees with the Chinese Azaleas 
On the contrary, the hairs are 
divides it. 
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almost divided into separate petals, sufficiently 
found in the scaly Azalea (A. squamata) than in any Ehododendron we have exami 
In the accompanying figure, 1, represents an anther previous to its burstin 
; and 2, the underside of a leaf with the terminal erland. 
