a62 B>: Smith'/ Botanical CharaSlers of fame Plants 



cies.ia the gardens, which I have not yet feen in fufficient perfec- 

 tion to difcriminate them. 



1. Leptospermum fcopariutriy fohis ovatls mucronatis obfolete 



trincrviis, calycibus glabris ; dentibus membranaceis co- 



loratis. 

 L. fcoparium. Forji. Gen. N. 6. 

 L. fquarrofum. Gcvrin.Sein. 174. /. 35. 

 Melaleuca fcoparia. Litifi. Suppl. 343. G. ForJl. Prod. 37. 

 Philadelphus Icoparius. Ait. Hart, Kew. v. 2. 156. 



This is the moft commonly cultivated fpecies, and flowers conti- 

 nually. I have received it from the garden of MefTrs. Lee and 

 Kennedy, by the name of Philadelphus fioribundus, along with three 

 otlier fpecimens, which I fufpeft to be varieties of this. They were 

 called P. rubricaulis, P. rubrijlorus, and the " original P. aromaticus." 



The variety /3 of Hort. Kew. is, according to Sir J. Banks's Herba- 

 rium, a very flight one, with fhorter and broader leaves. This is, 

 however, the identical Lept. fquarrofum of Gaertner. 



What P. aromatlcus of Hort. Kew. is I have not determined, and 

 muft therefore omit it for the prefent. 



2. I^.Jlavefcens, foliis lineari-lanceolatis obtufis enerviis, caly- 



cibus glabris: dentibus membranaceis coloratis nudis. 



The flowers appear to be of a fine yellow in the dried fpecimens. 

 I have not feen this fpecies living. 



3. L. attenuatunty foliis lanceolato-linearibus acutis trinerviis, 



calycibus fericeo-villofis : dentibus membranaceis coloratis 



nudiufculis. 



Neither 



