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finest in the flavour of its berries, as well as in their size. It 

 has not yet flowered in the Society's garden," 



R. echinatum. A slender reclining prickly bush, with 

 brownisli yellow flowers, and black hairy berries, small, but 

 of a pleasant taste. " A common trailing shrub, on dry 

 shelving rocky places on the mountains, at the Grand Rapids 

 on the Columbia, and on the mountains of Northern Cali- , 

 fornia ; never frequenting edges of rills or swampy ground in 

 shady woods among Carices, as R. lacustre does. This species 

 flowered for the first time, last April, in the Society's garden. 



" Several undescribed species, from the same country a^ 

 those above noticed, are in a growing state in the Society's 

 garden ; but, as no native dried specimens of these exist in this 

 country, they cannot for the present be here noticed. Many 

 other important additions of the genus Rtbes yet remain to 

 be introduced to our gardens from America, among which 

 two species of unrivalled beauty adorn the untrodden wilds of 

 Northern California, which we hope, ere many years, to see 

 as common in the gardens of England as R. sanguineum now 

 is ; and although as fruits they are precisely alike, being 

 peculiarly disagreeable, the splendour of their blossoms and 

 varied foliage may procure for them a distinguished place in 

 any garden." 



55. History and Description of the Species of Camellia and Thea, 

 and of the Varieties of the Camellia, Japonica, that have been im- 

 ported from China. By Mr. William Beattie Booth, A.L.S. 



. Garden Clerk. Read Aug. 18. and Sept. 1. 1829. 



This article may be considered a miniature of the work 

 now publishing by Chandler and Booth under the title of 

 'Camelliead ; and therefore, as we duly notice that work dur- 

 ing its progress, we shall merely give a list of the species and 

 varieties here described. 



1. C. Sasdnqua, Sasanqua, or T,ady Banks's Camellia. 



2. C. olelfera, Oil-bearing, or Oil Seed-tree Camellia. 



3. C. Kissi, Kissi, or Nepal Camellia. 



% C. ???alifl6ra, Apple-blossomed Camellia. 



5. C. reticulata, Reticulated, or Captain Raives's Camellia. 



6. C. japonica, Japan, or Single Red Camellia. 



1 . alba plena. Double White Camellia. 



2. fimbriata. Fringed White Camellia. 



: 3. variegata, Variegated, or Double-striped Camellia. 



4. rubra plena. Double Red Camellia. 



5. incarnata, Incarnate, or Lady Hume's Blush. 



6. oinemoneflora, Anemone-flowered, or Waratah Camellia. 



7. crassinervis. Thick-nerved, or Air. Kejifs Camellia. 



8. ??^yrtif61ia, Myrtle-leaved Camellia. 



9. involiita, InvoXuie-j^etaled, or Lady Long's Camellia, 

 10. variabilis. Various-flowered Camellia. 



' ' W, Poinpdnia, Vom'^Qne, or Keiv Blush Cameilia.. . - 



