90 Report on New and Rare Plants, fye. 



afforded of ascertaining, with precision, the real characters of 

 this singular species. From M. Von Bieberstein's first 

 description of it, under the name of R. provincialis, I was 

 formerly induced to refer it, as an uncertain synonym, to R. 

 myriacaniha of De Candolle.* To that species it now proves 

 to be nearly allied, distinguishable, however, by many sa- 

 tisfactory characters. It forms a low compact bush, co- 

 vered with very numerous, small, glandular leaves, and, in 

 the flowering season, with a profusion of pure white blos- 

 soms. Its branches are beset with many small setae, resembling 

 rusty glands, and, besides these, with strong falcate prickles 

 immediately under the leaves. In general aspect it may be 

 said to resemble R. rubiginosa, passing into R. spinosissima, 

 At present it is very rare in gardens, but may be easily in- 

 creased by layers, in the manner usually practised with Roses. 



XLV. Prunus pseudo-cerasus. 



P. paniculata, Ker, not of Thunberg. 



This new species of Cherry was presented to the Society in 

 1822, by Mr. Samuel Brookes, of Ball's Pond, who imported 

 it from China. It has also been sent to the Society from 

 China by Mr. Reeves, under the name of Yung To. It 

 differs from the common Cherry of the gardens in having its 

 flowers growing in racemes, not fascicles ; in their stalks 

 being hairy ; and, to a certain degree, in the outline of its 

 leaves. Placed in a forcing-house, it ripened its fruit in fifty 

 days from the time of flowering, and under circumstances 

 unfavourable to forcing Cherries in general. Its fruit is 

 small, of a pale red colour, of a pleasant subacid flavour, 



* Rosarum Monographia, page 65. 



