306 THE KENTUCKY FLORA. LAWSON. 



English Holly, with which it is often cultivated in English 

 gardens. 



Stuartia pentagyna was named by Linnaeus in compliment 

 to John Stuart (Lord Bute), who was a prominent patron of 

 botany in his time, and author of a remarkable book, of which 

 some account has been recently given in the Journal of Botany. 



Diospyros Virginiana. The Date Plum, with large ripe 

 fruit on the specimens, like ordinary plums in size and form. 



Resemblance to our Nova Scotiau flora is seen in the occur- 

 rence, in southern Kentucky, of Rhododendron maximum, the 

 magnificent species brought from Ship Harbour, N. S., by the 

 late Robert Morrow, many years ago (the history of which is 

 given in our Transactions), and of such plants as Vaccinium 

 stamineum, the widely spread Viburnum d-ceri folium, found 

 by Cormack and De la Pylaie in Newfoundland, Richardson and 

 Drummond from Lake Huron to the Saskatchewan, and Scouler 

 and Douglas at Vancouver, and other species of which specimens 

 were exhibited. Several of the ferns are identical with Nova 

 Scotian species, such as Lastrea Noveboracevsis and Polypodium 

 vulgare, two of our common species, and the rarer AspleniwW 

 Trichomanes. There is also the Walking-leaf Fern, which, 

 although generally regarded as a southern species, occurs in 

 several parts of Ontario, as at High Falls, Portland Township, 

 Oxford, Hamilton, Ancaster, Lake Medad, Wolfe Island, Owen 

 Sound, and Ottawa, having been also found at Montreal. 

 Mr. Kearney's collection includes the beautiful and still more 

 southern mountain spleen-wort, Asplenium montanum, of 

 which fine, large tufts were shown. 



