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Mount Victoria in "Western Burma is the home of Aupmone 



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TjsuIv Wheeler 



Ciift'e at a high altitude on that mountain in 191:5, and has been 

 grown in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. The species is 

 widely distributed from Kashmii' to Wostern Cliina, with this 

 southern extension to Mount Victoria. The plant is very 

 yanable m size, colour, and hairiness, the form fijrured has 

 beautilul |)ur]dis)i-blue flowers. 



The variety of rotcutiJIa Jacuricu here figured is one of th& 

 most attractive of the shru])l)y Potentillas. A native of upland 

 tluckets m Szechuan and W. ITupeli, at some GOOO ft. above sea 

 level, It was introduced to cultivation by Messrs. J. Veitch & Son^ 

 through seed collected by Mr. E. II. Wilson in 1900. The plant 

 hgured IS intermediate betueeu /\ fruficosa, Linn., anA iK 

 ^/a.;u^;u-./, Nestl.. but is nearer to the latter species, from which 

 It (lifters m its more lax habit and mme or less hairy leaflets. 



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Botanical Magazine for December.-^Tbe plants %urcd are 

 lHI,(t. 8GP,9)- ns bnnteut., S. Watson (t. 8040), andV.... 



Jj'f'^M joponica and its vurieoiated fcnms have Ion- been 

 lamiliar j^arden plants, (,eiug common! v used in conservatory 



WdT"\l '''''•''' ""/^ ^" ^ubtvopienr bedding. In favoured 

 localities tl.e species is Imrdy and will attain a b.ic^ht of 1^ ft., 



liil 'V • T i'^^^^^Hy' ^^''' ^^^^^^h^o Garden have sfood since 

 IsqJ' '"^"'^"- ^^'^"^ ''^'^^^ "»lv m the severe frosts of Februarv, 

 l«Jo. ihe ^o-enus as now understood includes onlv F. japomca, 



^ijy^i""^.?'''^}- * ^^«^'^'- ^- %'^^'^''^ '"^^^^^ Bcdani.al 



W.^wT f f^' ri'^'V^''^ ^'^''^>*' -^ '4^^'^'" pnpynfna. Hook., 

 ^v. been transferred to Tetya^nuUu; .nd F. Urndi. Benth. & 



Dene" \:l''v^ 7^'''"Z' "^'^^ ^-^ ^-'''^'^ ''^ t- 85''^ '^« ^- horridus, 



l^W.L T^r^T^ ''-'' «"n>osed to be fron. YrMsl 1l,e 



Sovatie ! *^' ^''"''V ^'''^ ^^^^^' according, to Fran.het and 



NoAa her is more correctly written Tats'de. 



Un!^'!.lZr''''^-^!'''T'''' '^'^-yphnv^ ^s a native of Japan, the 



Eur ,M..n i' ^;/V-° ^T'- ^^^'''''^^' ^''^''^^y resembling tho 

 be e i r dtV- '^'t'l^^^'.'^'^^ especially in Its flowers, it niay 

 nre .^r- '"'V^'^'^V'^' '^' ^™^^^- ^^'^^^''^^ ^'^'^ '»'t I-^h.!; the.4 

 adlnne o n ^''-V*"'"^^ <-armine. while 1be seed., winch 

 fr it a pi!' t""\'^-' «'^'"^*"»^^ ^^^-^ ^1n^ dehiscence of the 

 We ,:l 7^Z''\ "i ' -^^'-^^l^* ^'^^^^- The specimen for the 



W^ In Vb,^uv'.oiL' '"' ^"^^"' ^'^^'^^ ''' ^'^' nulie hardy and 



ISsf bvT/r T 'tt"' tr'"V^''^-"^'' ^^^^^^-^ J+ >^-ns discovererl in 

 ^X- e,rs ;, l' ]^- n ^T ^'^'*'" ^^^^ivated at Kew for 



a >out n fmtniirT7"^li'^"'^^ ^'^^'^'^'^"^ "' ^^^'^^ -^' ^^^^^^^ J^^*^' 



oiC elm . tf Vr"'- "''\' bi-ownisb.purplc veins' on the 



on ^Mld specnacs, and Mr. AV. R. Dvkes has called 



