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Genus VII. 



KE'R/?/yi Dec. The Kerria. Lin. St/st. Icosandria Polygynia. 



Identification. Dec. in Trans, of Lin. Soc, 12. p. 15G. ; Prod., 2. p. 541. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 517. 



Synonymes. /liilius L., Corchorus Thtinb., Spina? 'a Ca»ih. 



Derivation. Named in honour of IV. Ker, a collector of plants for the Kcw Gardens. 



a 1. K. japo'nica Z)cf. The Japan Kerria. 



Identification. Dec. in Trans, of Lin. Soc., 12. p. 156. ; Prod. 2. p. 541. 



Synonymes. iJubus jap6nicus Liti. Mant., 245. ; C6rchorus ja|>6nicus Thunb. Ft. Jap., 227., Hot. 



Rep., t. .587., Bot. Mag., t. 1296. ; Spirse'a japonica Camb. Ann. Sci. Nat., 1. p. ;!89. ; Spiree du 



Japon, Fr. 

 Engravings. Bot. Rep., t. 587. ; Bot. Mag., t. 1296. ; and out Jig. 426. 



Description, S^-c. A shrub, a native 426 



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, wooil, clothed with a smooth 

 greenish bark ; tw ig-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 505. per 100; at Bollwyller, it is 10 francs per 100; and at 

 New York, .50 cents each. 



Genus VIII. 



L. iiafc,. I La. 



L. 



^TIRyE^A L. The Spirjea. Lin. St/st. Icosandria Di-Pentagynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 630. ; Gsertn. Fruct., 1. p. 337. t. 69. ; Dec. Protl., 2. o. .541. ; Don's 

 Mill., 2. p. 517. 



Synonymes. .Spirae^a sp. Cambessedes Mon. Spir. in Ann. Sci. Nat., 1. p. 227. ; Spiree, 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 speirao, to wreath ; in allusion to the fitness of the 

 flowers to be twisted into garlands. S/tiriron 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 Mburnum Lantkna. 



Description, Src. 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 \s. 

 to \s. 6d. each, or from 50s. to 75.?. per hundred ; at Bollwyller, from 50 cents 



