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SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 



ness is the mere work of a fertile imagination. When any one haa 

 got Kosa berberifolia, he need not trouble himself about whether hs 

 has it from the seed raised by Mons. Hardy, or the seed raised by hia 

 predecessors. There is no more variation, and no more hybrid about 

 either, than there is in two plants of small salac 1 . 



Roea Micropliylla. 



This, we are told, is nearly allied to the Macartney Rose ; so ar 

 the varietiss of it, and ought not to have been separated. 



(RosA bourboniana). 



