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Kew possesses living plants bearing this name, but no authenticated 
specimens. r. Bean states that it is of bushy habit, throwing up 
annually new shoots from the base. Dr, A. E enry’s 6696, from 
Fang, Hupeh, must be very near this species if not the same. It 
is closely allied to C. alba, L., and characterised by having pedicels 
considerably longer than the ovary. 
Cornus chinensis, Wang., in Fedde, Repert., vol. vi., p. 100. 
This is closely allied to C. Mas, Linn. and C. officinalis, Sieb. et 
Zuce. (Fl. Jap., vol. i, p. 100 t. 50). Indeed, I cannot follow 
r. Wangerin in treating the Chinese specimens as specifically 
different from the latter. He states that C. chinensis differs from 
both of the species named in having much longer calyx-teeth, and 
from C, oficinalis in having tufts of pale grey hairs in the axils 
of the veins on the underside of the leaves ; whereas they are of a 
rusty brown colour in C. officinalis. There are numerous specimens 
at Kew, both from China and Japan, and the characters on which 
r. Wangerin relies are more or less inconstant, especially the 
relative size of the calyx-teeth, As for the tufts of hairs in the 
angles of the veins, they vary considerably, both in quantity and 
colour. A Japanese specimen, collected by Bisset (n. 1093), has 
white hairs in quite small tufts. On the other hand they are 
brown or white on different leaves of the same branch. 
ave now no doubt that I incorrectly referred Wilford’s 945 
from Port Chusan, Corea, to C. macrophylla, Wall. in Journ. Linn. 
oc., vol. xxiii., p. 345. Dr. Wangerin has since described it 
(Fedde, Repert., vol. vi, p. 97) under the name of C. coreana. 
Tt is also closely allied to C. alba. Pére Faurie’s 4353 (1889) 
“Montagnes de Managata,” Japan, is another specimen of the 
same affinity ; but as I have not studied the group to which C. alba 
belongs I must leave these specimens unnamed. C. australis, 
. A. Mey., belongs to the same group. C, Schindleri, Wang., 
in Fedde, Repert., vol. iv., p. 337, is unknown to me. 
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XLVIIL—TREES NOTED IN DEVONSHIRE. 
W. DALLIMORE. 
The contribution of an exhibit to the Forestry section : ee 
“Bath, West of England and Southern Counties Agricultura 
Show,” by the Director of the Royal Botanic ie a 
furnished the object of my visit to Exeter in June. : e in : 
neighbourhood, I was able to pay visits to a few gardens of interest, . 
where some fine specimens of trees were noted. 
SrrETE RALEGH. 
