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4. The Metz Varin Lilac (S. dubia (rothomagensis) metensis), fig. 116. 
This is a sport with soft rosy lilac flowers observed by MM. Simon-Louis 
Fréres upon a plant of the Saugé Lilac growing in the Place de |’Espla- 
nade at Metz. 
5. The Varin Lilac ‘ President Hayes,’ fig. 117, has flowers of a 
deep metallic violet : it has been offered for sale by an American horticul- 
turist, and its origin has not been indicated. 
The origin of the Varin Lilac has been extremely contested. It suffices 
Fic. 114.—SyRINGA PERSICA LACINIATA. 
to establish this, to examine the different names given to it by botanists. 
Thus Willdenow thought that it was a native of China; many cultivators 
call it, again, the Persian Lilac. The majority have considered it to be a 
pure species; others have suggested that it might be a hybrid; it is also 
the opinion of M. E. A. Carriére, who has for a long time studied the 
small-leaved Lilacs, that it is a simple form of the common Lilac. M. 
Franchet follows him in this opinion, and calls it ‘S. vulgaris, var. dubia. 
