722 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM: PART III. 
Genus VII. 
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KE’RRIA Dec. Tae Kerria. Lin. Syst. lcosandria Polygynia. 
Identification. Dec. in Trans. of Lin. Soc., 12. p. 156. ; Prod., 2. p. 541.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 517. 
Synonymes. Rubus L., Cérchorus Thunb., Spire‘a Camb. 
Derivation. Named in honour of W. Ker, a collector of plants for the Kew Gardens. 
2 1. K.sapo’ntca Dec. The Japan Kerria. 
Identification. Dec. in Trans. of Lin. Soc., 12. p. 156.; Prod. 2. p. 541. 
Synonymes. Ribus japonicus Lin. Mant., 245.; Cérchorus japénicus Thunb. Fl. Jap., 227., Bot. 
tees bas Bot. Mag., t. 1296.; Spirz‘a japénica Camb. Ann. Sci. Nat., 1. p. 389.; Spirée du 
Fase aed Bot. Rep., t. 587. ; Bot. Mag., t. 1296. ; and our Jig. 426. 
Description, §c. A shrub, a native 4.26 
of Japan, introduced in 1700, and for 
a long time treated as a stove, and 
afterwards as a green-house, plant ; 
but it has been ultimately found quite 
hardy. It has soft, and not very per- 
sistent, wood, clothed with a smooth 
greenish bark; twig-like branches; 
leaves that are ovate-lanceolate, and 
serrated with large and unequal teeth, 
feather-veined, and concave on the 
upper surface ; stipules that are linear- 
subulate; and yellow flowers. The 
single-flowered state of this species 
has only lately been introduced; and 
it flowered, for the first time in England, in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, in 
April, 1836. The double-flowered variety has become so common as to be 
found in the gardens even of labourers’ cottages. It is a most ornamental 
and beautiful shrub, from its very numerous, large, golden, sub-globular blos- 
soms, which begin to appear in February or March, and, in tolerably moist 
soil, and a warm situation, continue to be produced for several months. It is 
generally planted against a wall, more especially north of London. It is 
easily and rapidly propagated by its sprouting suckers. Plants, in the London 
nurseries, are 50s. per 100; at Bollwyller, it is 10 francs per 100; and at 
New York, 50 cents each. 

Genus VIII. 
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SPIR/E‘A L. Tue Spirrma. Lin. Syst. Icosandria Di-Pentagynia. 
pte iy Heo Gen., No. 630.3; Gertn. Fruct., 1. p. 337. t. 69. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 541.; Don’s 
ill., 2. p. 4 
Synonymes. Spire*a sp. Cambessedes Mon. Spir. in Ann. Sci. Nat., 1. p. 227.; Spirée, Fr. ; Spier- 
staude, Ger. 
Derivation. From speira, a cord, in reference to the supposed flexibility of the branches of some 
of the species; or, according to some, from spezrad, to wreath; in allusion to the fitness of the 
flowers to be twisted into garlands. Spir@on is Pliny’s name for a plant the blossoms of 
which were used, in his time, for making garlands ; but that plant is thought by some to have been 
the VibGrnum Lantana, 
Description, §c. Low deciduous shrubs, with conspicuous flowers of con- 
siderable elegance and beauty. They are all readily propagated by suckers, 
which, in general, they produce in abundance. They will grow in any common 
soil ; and the price of most of the sorts, in the London nurseries, is from 1s. 
to 1s. 6d. each, or from 50s. to 75s. per hundred ; at Bollwyller, from 50 cents 
