160 Ornamental Shrubs. 



was 6^. marylandica, indicating Maryland as its habitat. 

 The plant is somewhat smaller than the preceding, and 

 blossoms a month or more earlier. The flowers are white, 

 with purple filaments in striking contrast with their sur- 

 roundings. There is usually but one style, whereas in the 

 other there are five. The foliage differs in that the leaves 

 are more oblong, serrulate, and downy on the under side. 

 Both have been introduced to European gardens, and re- 

 ceived with favor by all who have become acquainted with 

 their characteristics. They do best in a peaty or sandy 

 soil. 



S. pseudo-camellia is so named from the fact that its 

 flowers very much resemble those of the camellia. Pro- 

 fessor Sargent, in his notes on the forest flora of Japan, 

 says that Stiiartia pseudo-camellia is common in the 

 Hakone and Nikko Mountains between 2000 and 3000 

 feet above the sea, where it is a most striking object, from 

 the peculiar appearance of the bark ; this is light red, very 

 smooth, and peels off in small flakes like that of the crape 

 myrtle. It becomes there a tree of considerable size ; and 

 on the shores of Lake Chuzenji he measured a specimen 

 whose trunk at three feet from the ground girted six feet, 

 and which was upward of fifty feet high. The flowers re- 

 semble a single white camellia, are smaller and less beau- 

 tiful than the flowers of our coast species, ,S. virginica, but 

 are larger than those of pentagyna. Specimens were sent 

 to America nearly thirty years ago by Mr. Thomas Hogg, 

 and the tree appears to have flowered in the neighborhood 

 of New York several years before it was known in Europe, 

 where of late it has attracted considerable attention. As 



