208 SHORT NOTES. 
radicle: the extent to which the carpels appear fa be adnate to the 
‘calyx-tube,’ too, would seem to keep it aw m other genera allied 
resemble those of Rhaphiolepis, and are unlike those of Spirea or its 
immediate allies; but so far as I am "weiaie nted with Pirea, either 
from actual study of the plants themselves, or from Prof. Decaisne’s 
ib 
Tr 
e genus is undoubtedly we distinct from peng of 
position, t 
preponderating weight in deciding the Saari of affinit 
The 
genus Emplectocladus + has coriaceous leaves, arranged in a fasciculate 
manner on short knob-like branchlets; in ’ Gillenia the ovules are 
ascending ; the inclusion of the fruit of Stephanandrat in the 
calyx-tube may be regarded as in some ee a its im- 
suggest, Quillaice = merged in Spireee, and there are in reality 
no distinctive ¢ characters to maintain them apart, § this Tacit would 
vanish 
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; Kindb. Rocks by 
. n 
Arran, rh 16, 1968. Since the above date I have found the 
Lae at ees, King’s Cove, and other wom in the island. I am 
ware of any other Scotch stations.—Carduus arvensis, var. 5. 
vag ah ee ee ols cla a (Hist. des 
1, - 
et 5. Recently reduced to Prunus by A. Gray. 
Sieb. 2, Zace., A Wiichen, Xia ak: t 
Cfr. Benth. and Hook. f., Gen, Plant. i, 603; Baiilon, Hist. plant, i. 442. 
latter author removes Ezochor from Spireee, where it is stationed by 
