600 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



Description. — A tree of the middle size, with a conical, some- 

 what spreading head; branches rigid, never flexuose. The leaves 

 vary in form, as they do in almost every species of Cratse'gus, 

 the outline, however, is always wedge-shaped ; they are 3-cleft, 

 or pinnatlfid, 3-toothed ; the lobes quite entire, emarginate, or 

 cut ; the upper surface often glabrous, the under downy. Flowers 

 elegant, white. {Bot. Meg., t. 1897.) " Said to be a native of the 

 Levant, I presume, upon the authority of Pococke's Travels 

 [vol. 2. part ii. p. 189. pi. 85.], which I have not at hand to con- 

 sult. Specimens from Grammont, near Montpelier, are before 

 me, and they are considered wild by Professor Delile, who ga- 

 thered them. This, I suspect, is the species which yields the 

 fruit called at Montpelier -pommettes a deux closes, and not C. 

 Azarblus, It is very near C. Azarblus, of which indeed it might 

 be considered a mere variety, if it were not so much more hardy, 

 nearly destitute of pubescence, and constantly furnished with two 

 stones in its fruit ; in the true azarole there are five, according 

 to Scopoii. 



The tree of C. Aronia is, next to C, maroccana, and C. hetero- 

 phylla, the largest, and most like timber, of all the thorns. It 

 grows very fast, and makes a handsome head, and, on account of 

 the great quantity of apricot-coloured fruit with which it is loaded, 

 is a suitable ornament for lawns and grass in pleasure-grounds." 

 {Bot. Reg., Oct.) 



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FU'CHS/vi macrostemon Ru:% et Pav. Hort Brit. : [P1835 C It.l Bot. mag. 3521. 



var. *recurvita Hook, recurved-sepaled * Ij spl, ? j** 3f ••• 7 ... R V ? Irish hybrid 



Sir W. J. Plooker considers this as the most handsome of 

 all the fuchsias, " whether we consider the graceful mode of 

 growth, the delicate green of the large foliage, the deeply coloured 

 branches, or the size and form of the flowers, and their exceed- 

 ingly rich hues." It was raised from seeds in the Glasnevin 

 Botanic Garden, and sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden under 

 the name of F. recurvata. Sir W. J. Hooker agrees with Pro- 

 fessor Don in considering many of the alleged species of Fuchsm 

 as only varieties of F. macrostemon. These varieties, with their 

 synonymes, are thus given in the Botanical Magazine : — 

 F. m 1 discolor Lindl., B. R., t. 1805. ; Hook., B. M., t. 3498. 



2 conica D. Don; F. conica Lindl., B. R., t. 1062. 



3 globosa D. Don; F. globosa Lindl., B. R., t. 1062.; 



Hook., B. M., 3364. 



4 gracilis D. Don ; F. gracilis Lindl., B. R., t. 847. et 



t. 1052.; F. decussata Gralu, Sims in B. M., t. 

 2507. 



5 recurvata //oo/f. ; F. recurvata A^/w??, B. M., t. 3521. 

 Escallonxacese. 



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* illiiiUa P;ts/ varnished fit A or 5 au.s W. Chili ? 1830 C p.l Bot. reg. 1900. 



