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France, See. flowering in March, April, and 



May. 



Tie second species grows about the same 

 height with the first and sixth sorts, and bears 

 a great resemblance to them in the branches ; but 

 the leaves are heart-shaped, and the berries are 

 red, growing sometimes single, at others double, 

 and frequently there are three joined together ; 

 they are about the same size with the first sort. 

 It is a native of Russia, flowering in May and 

 June. 



It varies with white flowers in shady groves. 



The third rises with a strong woody stalk, 

 fix or eight feet high, covered with a whitish 

 bark, dividing into many branches : the leaves arc 

 ovate, opposite, entire, and covered with a short 

 hairy down, soft, like cloth to the touch: the 

 flowers come out on each side of the branches 

 opposite, on slender peduncles, each sustaining 

 two white flowers standing erect : the three low- 

 er segments of the corolla are narrow and reflex, 

 the other two are broader and upright. It is a 

 native of the North of Europe, flowering in 

 May. 



The fourth species seldom rises more than 

 three or four feet high, dividing into several 

 spreading irregular branches : the leaves are 

 smooth : the flowers come out from the side of 

 these on slender peduncles, each sustaining two 

 white flowers, which are cut into five segments 

 almost to the bottom. It is a native of the Py- 

 renean Mountains, flowering in April. 



The fifth has a short thick woody stem, which 

 divides into many strong woody branches grow- 

 ing erect: the leaves arc petiolcd, entire, dark 

 green above, but pale underneath : the flowers 

 upon very long slender peduncles, which come 

 out opposite on each side of the branches, at the 

 base of the leaves ; they are red on the outside, 

 but pale within, shaped like those of the third 

 sort, but a little larger, and standing erect. 

 They appear at the end of April, and are com- 

 monly succeeded by two ovate red berries, joined 

 at the base, and having two punctures. It is a 

 native of the South of Europe. 



The sixth species seldom rises more than four 

 or five feet high : the branches arc slender, co- 

 vered with a smooth purplish bark : the joints 

 are distant, where leaves come out opposite, and 

 sometimes there are two on each side : the pe- 

 duncles are very short, each sustaining two white 

 flowers, succeeded by blue berries single and di- 

 stinct. The flowers appear in May (March or 

 April), and the berries ripen in August. It is a 

 native of Switzerland. 



The seventh is about four feet in height, 

 sending out many slender branches : the leaves 

 ovate, Dairy, opposite, on very short petioles : 



the flowers are produced in whorls round the 

 stalk ; they are of an herbaceous colour, and ap- 

 pear in August: the fruit, which is hollow, 

 ai'd shaped like a pottage pot, ripens in the 

 winter : the corollas are regular and bell-shaped : 

 the fruit fleshv, globular, the form and size of 

 the flowers of Arbutus, four-celled, containing 

 cartilaginous roundish seeds. It is a native of 

 Virginia, Sec. flowering in August and September. 



The eighth species is alow shrub, seldom rising 

 more than three feet high: the stalks are slen- 

 der and woody, and have a reddish-coloured 

 bark : the leaves oblong, pointed, slightly serrate, 

 opposite : the flowers small, pale yellow, two or 

 three on each division of the raceme : the berries 

 oval, black, four-celled, with one hard seed in 

 each cell : the roots creep far under ground, and 

 send out many stems : many of these which 

 come up in the spring produce flowers the same 

 year, so that there is generally a succession 

 of them from May to September; the shoots of 

 the former year (lowering early, the side branches 

 soon following, and then the young shoots. It 

 is a native of North America. 



The ninth trails over bushes, and twines round 

 the boughs of trees, with its very slender hairy 

 (or smooth) branches, which are opposite, and 

 commonly stained with purple, in part at least, 

 or on one side : the leaves opposite, ovate, 

 smooth (or hairy), underneath glaucous, all 

 distinct and more separated from the stem, 

 though even in these there is a slight membrana- 

 ceous ring running round the branch, and con- 

 necting the two opposite leaves: the upper floral 

 leaves are sessile and cordate : the peduncles short, 

 single, or more often triple, covered with glan- 

 dular hairs, as are also the calyx, and tube of the 

 corolla: theflowers are in a thick roundish whorled 

 spike, many together (from ten or twelve to 

 nineteen ortwenty) ; the tube an inch long, curved 

 a little; the border two-parted, both parts reflex ; 

 the upper one divided into four blunt and nearly 

 equal segments, the lower one linear and entire : 

 the tube is wider and shorter, the border much 

 longer than in the tenth sort : the border being 

 turned back, the stamens stand much above the 

 corolla, and the pistil much above them : the co- 

 rollas are usually red on the outside, and yellow- 

 ish within, but they vary much in colour, be- 

 tween red, purple, and yellow, and in the shade 

 are very pale : they smell very sweet, especially in 

 theevening. Itisanativeofniost parts of Europe, 

 flowering here from the end of May to July. 



The great beauty and exquisite fragrance of 

 the flowers of this plant give it a place in most 

 ornamental plantations. In climbing it turns 

 from east to west, with most of our climbers ; 

 and in common with them it bears clipping and 



