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the collections of Mr. E. H. Wilson. "This has the showy 

 sterile marginal flowers, but its stems are more uniformly 

 erect (than V. alnifolium.} It differs also in the shorter 

 stamens, which are only half the length of the corolla, 

 and in the shape of the furrow in the seed. It succeeds 

 in gardens no better than F. alnifolium, although there was 

 a healthy plant at Abbotsbury, near Weymouth, a few years 

 ago. It is a native of northern Japan at low levels, and 

 of the mountainous parts of the south. The foliage turns 

 brilliant scarlet to reddish purple in autumn. It is a 

 bush twelve feet or more high in a wild state." (W. J. 

 Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, 

 p. 642.) 



