DOUBLE KEREIA. 



Ktrrui JcpoHuur [Jl . pi.). 



S this plant is often la))elled 

 Corc/mriis Ji/jjinilca , we com- 

 mence tins notice liy sayini;' 

 that it is not a covehoras, 

 anil sliould never l>e so 

 called. The covehorus is 

 allied to the lime-li'ce ; tlu 

 Iverria is allied tothesi>ii'a'a, 

 and IS, therefore, a rosaceons 

 |ilant. The leaves are iniite 

 s])ira?a-]ike ; hid the llov\-er 

 of the doidili' variety may 

 take us far a\v;v}' from 

 spir;ea, until we examine it 

 carefullv. 



The Japan Kerria is 

 named in honour of Mr. 

 AVilliam Kerr, a collector sent out from the Royal Gardens 

 at Kew, and some time suiierintendent of the Botanic Garden 

 in Ceylon. The hardiness and beauty of the doulile variety, 

 which was lirst inti'oduceil, made the botanists desire to 

 obtain the sino-le fdrm of the plant; and Don, in the 

 second volume of his " Dichlamydeus Plants" (]i, 517), 

 intimates that it was still unknown in fSo.i, when that 



