2 New hardy Trees and Shrubs 



but has flowers only one half the size, and the plant is of slen- 

 derer growth ; but the colour of the flowers and the plant in other 

 respects is nearly the same, and it is probably only a variety of 

 C. campaniflora. 



The following prove to be the same as Clematis campani- 

 flora Arh. Brit-i viz. C. viornoides Schrader and C. Viticella bac- 

 cata Dec. 



BERBER/tcE^. — Berberis [? iberica'] glauca Booth. This is 

 a distinct but rather slender plant, with small but very glaucous 

 leaves, and is nearly related to B. iberica. It was received from 

 Messrs. Booth of Hamburg, but it is in other collections under 

 the false name of jB. zlicifolia; but the true B. zlicifolia of Forst. 

 is the same as the B. heterophylla of Juss., a plant found near 

 the Straits of Magellan, while the present plant is probably from 

 the Altai or Caucasus. 



Berberis carolinidna Nutt. This is only a variety of B. 

 canadensis (or rather of B. vulgaris), with long narrow leaves ; 

 and, as a variety of the common berberry, is very distinct and 

 rather singular. 



Berberis {xiulgdri&\ provincidlis Schrader. This ? species has 

 dark brown shoots, with few spines, red fruit, and rather shining 

 leaves, which are retained longer than on most of the varieties of 

 B. vulgaris. It seems as if it were intermediate between B. vul- 

 garis and B. sinensis, and it is probably only a rather distinct 

 variety of B. vulgaris. The plant was received from the late 

 M. Fischer of Gottingen, as the true B. provincialis ; that 

 generally sold in nurseries for B. provincialis not being different 

 from B. vulgaris. 



Berberis [vulgaris] lucida Schrader. This is only the common 

 Berberis vulgaris, with rather lai'ger and brighter leaves. 



Berberis \vidgdris\ emargindta Willd-, Arb. Brt. p. 303. This 

 is only a rather strong-growing variety of B. vulgaris, but not 

 very distinct. It was received from M. Fischer of Gottingen. 



Berberis [vulgaris'] spathiddta Schrader. This also is only a 

 very slight variety of B. vulgaris. 



^CERA^CE^. — A^cer [eriocdrpa] Pdvio. Booth. This is only a 

 variety of A. eriocarpa, with the leaves a little more divided, and 

 the upper surface wrinkled like some of the pavias, which I sup- 

 pose induced Messrs. Booth to give this variety of (Sir Charles 

 Wager's) maple so absurd a name. 



AVer [campestre] taurica Dr. F'ischer. This seems to be one 

 of the endless varieties of ^^cer campestre, with less divided and 

 larger leaves, but decidedly only a variety of the common maple. 



i^HAMNA^CE^. — Qeanbthus thyrsijiorus Lindl. This hand- 

 some species is vei'y distinct from C. azureus. It has much 

 smaller and rounder leaves, and rather flat panicles of bright 

 blue flowers. It is the C. ovatus cyaneus of the Continental col- 



