306 THE KENTUCKY FLORA.—LAWSON, 
English Holly, with which it is often cultivated in English 
gardens. 
Stuartia pentagyna was named by Linnzeus in compliment 
to John Stuart (Lord Bute), who was a prominent patron of 
botany in his time, and author of a remarkable book, of which 
some account has been recently given in the Journal of Botany. 
Diospyros Virginiana.—The Date Plum, with large ripe 
fruit on the specimens, like ordinary plums in size and form. 
Resemblance to our Nova Scotian flora is seen in the occur- 
rence, in southern Kentucky, of Rhododendron maximum, the 
magnificent species brought from Ship Harbour, N.S., by the 
late Robert Morrow, many years ago (the history of which is 
given in our Transactions), and of such plants as Vaccunium 
stamineum, the widely spread Viburnum acerifolium, found 
by Cormack and De la Pylaie in Newfoundland, Richardson and 
Drummond from Lake Huron to the Saskatchewan, and Seouler 
and Douglas at Vancouver, and cther species of which specimens 
were exhibited. Several of the ferns are identical with Nova 
Scotian species, such as Lastrea Noveboracensis and Polypodium 
vulgare, two of our common species, and the rarer Asplenvum 
Trichomanes. There is also the Walking-leaf Fern, which, 
although generally regarded as a southern species, occurs in 
several parts of Ontario, as at High Falls, Portland Township, 
Oxford, Hamilton, Ancaster, Lake Medad, Wolfe Island, Owen 
Sound, and Ottawa,—having been also found at Montreal. 
Mr. Kearney’s collection includes the beautiful and still more 
southern mountain spleen-wort, Asplenium montanum, of 
which fine, large tutts were shown. 
