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inches long. They have no petals and the inflorescence owes its 
beauty to the numerous clustered stamens, the filaments of which 
are pinkish-white, 3 inch long, and the anthers yellow. Leaves 
roundish-oval, 2 to 4 inches long, stellately hairy beneath. 
Like most of the Hamamelidaceae this Fothergilla possesses 
distinction and an unusual order of beauty, and it seems remarkable 
that so striking a plant should have been allowed to disappear from 
gardens for so long. When young the plant is benefited by having 
a little peat placed about its roots. 
P. caucasica and P. stenoptera. This hybrid was raised in the 
Arnold Arboretum from seeds received in 1879 from the late Mr. 
A. Lavallée’s collection at Segrez where trees of both the parent 
species are still (or were a few years ago) growing in close 
proximity. P. caucasica is well known in the British Isles and 
VIL. A New Heath. 
Erica arborea var. alpina, [ Ericaceae]. “i 
Although a somewhat tender species and occasionally destroy 
by frost the typical Erica arborea is well known pei 
According to Aiton it was introduced from the South o — in 
1658. In 1899, the var. alpina was acquired for the Kew co nite 
and this, so far as I can ascertain, was its first introduction ker cu te 
tion. Compared with the ordinary £. arborea, it is a stu nm us 
with stiffer, more erect branches, and altogether more — . : - 
young shoots are covered (like the type) with an abundanc 
branched hairs which, under the lens, give them qu 
the exceptionally trying winter of “be ser Rats ae Kee 
twig was injured. It is now 6 or OF coun 
ed during the last decade 
far as one can judge at 
