144 OTHER AMERICAN PLANTS. 



into June : a second crop of flowers is sometimes 

 produced in September. The flowers vary somewhat 

 in shading, and there is said to be a white variety. 



Variety majus has larger flowers than the species, 

 and is a more desirable plant. 



Variety variegatum has the foliage prettily edged 

 with yellow. 



Figured in Bot. Mag. t. 313 ; Lodd. Cab. t. 1800. 



D. altaica, a native of Siberia, and D. alpina, 

 from the Swiss Alps, both with white flowers, which 

 in the latter are fragrant, would probably prove 

 hardy ; but we do not know of them in cultivation. 



-D. Laureola, the Spurge Laurel, indigenous to 

 most parts of Europe, is a good plant for shady 

 plantations, as it is not injured by the drip of trees. 

 It is not hardy in New England. 



J), pontica, native of Asia Minor, and also found 

 in Siberia, is precariously hardy, and is killed in 

 exposed situations. 



D. alpina is, figured in Lodd. Cab. t. 66. 



D. altaica in Bot. Mag. t. 1875 ; and in Lodd. 

 Cab. t. 399. . 



D. Laureola in Eng. Bot. 2, 119. 



D. pontica in And. Eep. 2, t. 73 ; and Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1282. 



The Skimmia. 



A genus of evergreen shrubs, from northern India 

 and Japan, of which one, S. japonica, is a very desir- 



