170 ON A CHINESE MAPLE. 
r. Hanbury writes me that in his opinion P. atlantica, —_ 
yf palastina, Boiss., and P. cabulica, Stocks, are a iarnogpeg 
he 
When describing the Japanese Maples in Siebold’s col- 
ey Zuccarini observed* that 4. truncatum and A. letum, both 
hich he h ; 
its affinity with .4. truncatu um ‘and A. cultratum, Wall. ; and he five 
son) regarded 4. truncatum, A. letum, and A. Mono as all differe 
but hesitated as to the Miontite of. the latter ith Siebold an = 
Zueearini’s A. pictum, which he believed different from that of 
unberg. M. Maximowicz nyc to discriminate 4. letum, 
A. truncatum, and A. Mono by ood characters, derived mainly from 
the fruit; and with the ah ee constancy of these Dr. Regelll 
diameter, enclosing five free nutlets, and with a ve Ww and 
most persistent scent of apples, can be a mere form of our Hawthorn. ||| 
oir on a species belonging to a closely- 
* Abhandl. d. math.-phys. Kl. d. k, baier, Akad. d. Wissensch, iv., 2., 157. 
+ Bullet. Acad. cag xv., 416, + Ejusd. op. xv., 523. 
§ Prim. Fl. Amur. 6 | Tent. Fl. Capa 34. 
1 In Miquel Ann. mae bot. Lugd.-Bat. i., 251, 
** Ejusd. op. ii., 87, tt Fl, Sachalin, 1 
Rust Ore of the Imp. Bot. Garden of St. Petersburg ” (the ee is in 
tha aad ean whisk Sea among btanite— 
Sum tre i 9 3, ii 234 ; ries 
- v. Lirol i., 287; Visi 
sy es C inh — ht Fl ic oo Fuss (Fl. Transsily, excurs : 
ac, ia whic e es i the 
commonest kind in ‘Transsilvan: (es i een the two, and says 1s 
r nssily; ee nt ou, erm aa is pasta! 
: ; but perhaps it is ¢ ne t recorded 
Reichenbac Aes beth iteo mote elf under if ¥ — i Z 
remar 
il] See my peg on this, Species ae Journ, Bot. viii., 313), 
