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Paris, and planted in my garden, May 19. 1763. In this year of the peace 

 Mr. BufFon sent me another.' " (H. C. p. 23.) 



-Hypericum IL&lmichunn smells like J?eseda. (//. C. p. 25.) 



Junfperus caroliniana, and J. virginica. " iMiller, as well as Mr. Collinson, 

 has followed Hermann and Eoerhaave in arranging J. caroliniana and J. 

 virginica as separate species, and Miller says that the difference is constant, 

 if the seeds are carefully gathered from the same tree, but that they fre- 

 quently arrive mixed together from America, which has occasioned them to 

 be mistaken for varieties." {H. C. p. 27.) 



J^imiperus phoenicea. " Cedar of Phoenicia vulgo, brought by Sir Charles 

 Wager from the Island of Ivaca, in the Gulf of Malaga, when he carried 

 Don Carlos to Naples, not before in our gardens ; it is also called t/unfperus 

 hispanica." {H. C. p. 27.) 



J^imiperus thurifera. " Extract of a letter to Mr. Collinson from Mr. Bowles, 

 intendant of the Spanish mines, and dated Madrid, March 4. 1766: 'There 

 are sweet-scented junipers in Spain, with red, purple, and brownish berries, 

 and some of them grow monstrous large in the south-east mountains, near 

 the source of the river Tagus ; their leaves and smell are exactly like savin, 

 and full of berries ; I measured one of these trees, 14 ft. in girth, and wide- 

 spreading, like a beech.' " {H. C. p. 27.) 



iarix americana. " Mem. ' Black larch, first brought from New York by P. 

 Collinson at Peckham,' and from the original tree the specimen which 

 Mr. Lambert has figured was taken. Sir E. Smith, in Reeis EncyclojocBdia, 

 says that this interesting tree ' was cut down about the year 1800 to make 

 a rail by its sapient possessor.' " (i/. C. p. 28.) 



Z/igustrum vulgare var. " Collinson, as well as Miller, appears to have con- 

 sidered the evergreen privet to be a separate species ; and the latter, when 

 he adopted the Linnaean nomenclature, called it L. italicum." (H. C. p. 29.) 



Liriodendron Tulipifera. " Mem. ' The tulip tree, at Waltham Abbey, in 

 flower June 26. 1745, 96 ft. high, and 9 ft. round, or 3 ft. in diameter, is 

 now, 1761, the largest tree. In 1756, the famous tulip tree in Lord Peter- 

 borough's garden, at Parson's Green, near Fulham, died ; it was the tallest 

 tree in the grove, above 70 ft. high, and perhaps 100 years old, being the 

 first tree of the kind that was raised in England, and had for many years 

 the visitation of the curious to see its flowers and admire its beauty, for it 

 was as straight as an arrow, and died of age by gentle decay ; but it was 

 remarkable, the same year this died, a tulip tree I gave Sir Charles Wager 

 flowered for the first time, whose house and garden was opposite to Lord 

 Peterborough's, and this tulip tree I raised from seed, and was thirty years 

 old before it flowered. So Parson's Green is not likely to be without a 

 tulip tree. — P. Collinson, F.R.S.' In the catalogue it again appears 

 under another letter as the ' Arbor Tulipifera an Liriodendron Cateshy.^ 

 In the Catalogus Flaniarum, published by a Society of Gardeners in 1730, 

 it is said that ' this tree was formerly preserved with great care in green- 

 houses, by which means many of them were destroyed.' " {H. C. p. 31.) 



Lycium chinense. " Me7n. 'In the spring, 1752, my honoured friend, the 

 Duke of Argyle, presented me with the curious trees and shrubs under- 

 mentioned, from his garden at Whitton, on Hounslow Heath," and among 

 them is, ' one China purple-flowered lycium, sent from China to the Duke 

 for the tea tree.' This lycium is the supposed 'true tea tree' mentioned 

 in a letter of Collinson's, which my frientl Dawson Turner has printed at 

 p. 391, of his ' Extracts from Dr. Richardson's Correspondence.'" (H.C. 

 p.32.) 

 jLycium ruthenicum. L. sibfricum flowered for the first time in 1769 ; flowers 



purplish ; new. (H. C. p. 32.) 

 Archibald Duke of Argyle. See Arb. Brit. vol. \. p. 57. "The following me- 

 morandum appears to have been written by Mr. Collinson soon after the 

 decease of His Grace, and is not among the notes which Mr. Lambert has 

 published in the Trmisaclions of the Linnaean Society. ' The Duke of 



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