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think it ought to be departed from ; for, after all, the use of names is 

 merely a matter of convenience. Agreeably to our determination not to 

 institute any new genus, or to distinguish as species kinds not hitherto 

 regarded as such, we have refrained from treating this section as a distinct 

 genus ; but, after Mr. Don's name, we have given the name previously ap- 

 plied, and then the common English name, leaving them to be adopted by 

 the practical gardener, if he should think fit. At the same time, those who 

 prefer following Mr. Don have only to pass over the names which we have 

 put in parenthesis. We shall adopt the same mode when we come to the group 

 which contains the Indian azaleas, which we have treated as half-hardy. 

 ^ 16. R. FLAVUM G. Don. (AZALEA PO'NTICA L.) The Pontic, or common, Azalea. 



Identification. Don's Mill., 3. p. 847. 



Synonymes. Azalea p6ntica Lin. Sp., 1669., Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 433. ; Azalea arbbrea Lin. Sp., ed. 1. 



p. 130., Buxb. Cent., 5. p. 36. t. 69. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 2383. ; and our fig. 942. 



Spec. Char. $c. Flowers leafy, clammy. Leaves ovate, oblong, pilose, ciliated. 



Corolla funnel-shaped. Stamens very long. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 847.) There 



are a great number of varieties of this species 



in the gardens, differing principally in the colour 



of their flowers, and the hue of the leaves. The 



flowers of the species are of a fine bright yellow; 



but those of the varieties are of all shades, from 



yellow to copper, or orange, colour ; and they 



are sometimes of a pure white, or of white 



striped with yellow and red. This shrub is de- 



ciduous, and a native of the Levant, of Pontus, 



of Caucasus, Asiatic Turkey, &c. It grows to 

 the height of from 4 ft. to 6 ft., and flowers in 

 May and June. It was introduced in 1793. 

 Varieties and Hybrids. As this species seeds freely, and is easily cross-fecun- 

 dated with the North American species, an immense number of varieties of it 

 have been originated in British and Continental gardens. Plants first began 

 to be produced in this way, in the Hammersmith Nursery, about the be- 

 ginning of the present century; and they have since been raised every 

 where : many hundreds by Mr. Waterer of the Knaphill Nursery ; many 

 in the Earl of Caernarvon's gardens at High Clere ; and many by the com- 

 mercial gardeners and amateurs of Belgium, especially in the neighbourhood 

 of Ghent. The High Clere seedlings, and those of Ghent, are, perhaps, 

 the richest- coloured flowers; but some equally beautiful have been raised 

 by Mr. Waterer, Mr. Donald, and others. The varieties and hybrids which 

 are considered as belonging to Azalea pontica, which are given in Loddiges's 

 Catalogue for 1836, are the following : 



A. p. 2 &lba. A. p. 5 cuprea. A. p. 8 glauca. A. p. 11 p&llida. 



3 aurantia. 6 flammea 9 ignescens. 12 tricolor. 



4 crocata. 7 fulgens. 10 ochroleuca. 



& 17. R. NUDIFLO'RUM Torr. (AZA'LEA. NUDIFLO'RA L.) The naked-flowered 



Azalea. 



1,1,-ntification. Torr. Fl. Un. St., 1. p. 140. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 847. 

 SHmniymes. Az&lea nudiflbra Lin. &'/>., 214. ; Azalea periclymenoldes 



Michr. FL Bor. Amer., 1. p.,115., Purs/i Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 152.; 

 the American Honeysuckle ; May Flowers, and wild, or upright, 

 Honeysuckle, Amer. 

 Engraving. Our Jig. 943. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, nearly 

 smooth, and green on both surfaces, ciliated on the 

 margins, having the midrib bristly beneath, and 

 woolly above. Flowers rather naked, not clammy, 

 scarlet, pink, white, striped, variegated, red, purple, 

 &c., disposed in terminal clustered racemes, appear- 

 ing before the leaves. Tube of corolla longer than 

 the divisions. Teeth of calyx short, rather rounded. v ^ 943 



