474f Floricultiiral and Botanical Notices, 



fruit of the C. coccinea], and of a pale golden colour. [Brit. 

 Mow.- Garden, August.) 



When was C niexicana introduced into Britain ? 1823, G. 

 Don in Loudon's H. B., p. 201., and in G. Don's Syst. of Gar d. 

 and Bot., ii. 601.; 1824, Sweet in his H. B., ed". 2. p. 175.; 

 1829, D. Don, in the Brit. Fiorver-Gardefi, t. 300.; for I un- 

 derstand his account to represent Mr. Lambert to be the first 

 introducer of it, and this in 1829. These facts relate to this 

 question : in Lee's nursery are plants of C. niexicana for sale, and 

 in the garden of the London Horticultural Society are two plants, 

 there may be more, of it. If the plants in these places have not 

 been derived from Mr. Lambert's plant, C. mexicana has been 

 introduced by some person or persons other than Mr. Lambert, 

 and possibly earlier than by him. Mr. H. Laundy has com- 

 municated, in G. M., ix. 630., some information upon what he 

 has cited as " the Cratae^gus stipulacea, which was received by 

 Mr. Young of Taunton, h'om the late Mr. R. Barclay of Bury 

 Hill, under the specific name of mexicana." Is the species 

 here implied the C. mexicana rather than the C. stipulacea? Mr. 

 Laundy's communication is dated Sept. 2. 1833 : the Cratae^gus 

 had been received from Bury Hill at some previous time. 



The degree of hardiness of C. mexicana in Britain. Mr. G. 

 Don has marked it, in Loudon's H. B., p. 201., to require the 

 shelter of a frame : Mr. Sweet had done the same, in his 

 H. B., ed. 2. p. 175. : Mr. D. Don has stated it, in the Brit. 

 Flox'o.-Garden, t. 300., to be quite hardy. In the garden of the 

 London Horticultural Society, one plant is planted in a clump 

 in the arboretum in the open garden ; another is trained to the 

 southward face of a tall wall, and materials of shelter are placed 

 during winter over the plant at some feet above it : this plant is 

 much larger and more luxuriant than that ; but the difference 

 may be owing to other causes than the shelter. Mr. H. Laundy 

 has noted, in the communication referred to above, on the species 

 of Cratse^gus there implied, be this mexicana or not, " nor does 

 it always ripen the extremities of the shoots sufficiently to en- 

 able it to resist our winters unhurt." 

 XCI. 'Empetrece. 



2739. £'MPETRUM. [America 1833? 1830? L s.p Bot. reg. 1783 



2411IO rQbrum Wi/ld. red-frmieU )U tt- fr procumbent ... Brown purple Southern point of South 

 The sex of the specimen figured is the female. " We have hitherto seen only fertile individuals alive ; 

 but in all probability sterile ones exist somewhere in collections." — Lindley. 



" Although not striking in its appearance, it forms an interest- 

 ing addition to the hardy evergreen shrubs of this country. . . . 

 It grows freely in peat among other plants of a similar kind." 

 Mr. Low of the Clapton Nursery has lately introduced it, 

 " under the name of ' the Cranberry of Staten Island.' " It . . * 

 is found all over the southern point of South America, growing 

 with Pernettia mucronata [see Vol. X. p. 286.] along the sandy 



