232 Foreign Notices : — Italy. 



mulberry given, besides a numerous series of varieties ; but in reading this 

 work we soon discover that the English horticulturist, although a learned 

 botanist, does not, however, know exactly either the history of the introduc- 

 tion of the species and varieties given by him, or the distinctive characters of 

 each. For example, he calls Dandolo's mulberry, that is Gelso Dandolo, the 

 .Morus macrophylla or M. Morettiawa of Jacquin, while this variety was not 

 known till several years after the death of Count Dandolo. He, with 

 Loddiges, makes two varieties of the M. macrophylla and M. Morettiawa, 

 while they are only one and the same plant. He constitutes as a variety of 

 the M. rubra of Linnseus the M. canadensis by him attributed to Lamarck. 

 (Encyclopedic Methodique) ; and then under this he places the M. canadensis 

 of Poiret and M. rubra of Willdenow, not being aware that the article Murier 

 of that encyclopaedia was not written by Lamarck but by Poiret ; and, that 

 therefore, his two Canadian mulberries, which he makes distinct, are, in fact, 

 only one and the same species." [See note in preceding page.] 

 The following is his division of the species and varieties : — 



" First Section. 



" Mulberries cultivated by me frequently by seeds, by grafts, by cuttings, 

 and by layers. 



Species I. — .Moras nigra Linn. 



1. M. laciniata Mill, not Poir. 



2. M. scabra Mor. (Moretti), Bibl. Agr. 1st ed. notWilld. 

 Species II. — .Morus alba Linn. 



1. M. macrophylla Mor. M. Morettiawa Jacq. Ger. ; M. 



chinensis Bertol., Lodd., Loud. 



2. M. latifolia Poir. M. multicaulis Perott., M. tata- 



rica Desf. not Lin., M. crenellata Bonaf. not Mor., 

 M. fndica Hort. Patav., M. alba bullata Mor. 



3. M. italica Poir. 



4. M. japonica Nois. M. alba crenellata Mor. not Bo- 



nafons. 



5. M. constantinopolitana Poir. 



6. M. nervosa Del. 



7. M. pumila Nois. 



8. M. alba heterophylla Mor. ined. 



9. M. alba flexuosa Mor. ined. M. tortuosa Audibert. 



" All the other mulberries cultivated for rearing silkworms are not varieties, 

 but only variations produced by climate, soil, and cultivation, viz., those vul- 

 garly called succulent-leaved, double, Spanish, Piacentina (also called dwarf 

 or Tuscan mulberry), rosea, Veronese, morellona, Romana, colombassa, 

 furcata, ovalifolia, dura, seraissaini, &c. 



Species III. — Jforus rubra Linn. 



1. M. canadensis Poir. 



2. M. scabra Willd. 



3. M. pennsylvanica Nois., Lodd. 



4. M. missouriensis Audibert. 



" M. caroliniana, and those plants which the brothers Audibert of Tarascon 

 thought to be so many hybrids produced from the mulberry of the Philippine 

 Isles (ilforus alba bullata Nob.) and this species, or with M. rubra, are 

 only variations obtained from seed. 



" Second Section. 

 " Mulberries which are not cultivated in Europe, but were received from 

 foreign parts as dried specimens, and examined by me in the herbariums of 

 De Candolle at Geneva ; of Webb, Delessert, and of the Museum of Plants, 

 at Paris ; of Lindley, of Bentham, of the Linnean Society, and of the 

 British Museum, in London. 



