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in Albania, where it forms extensive bushes in the district of Orosi, near 

 Simoni and Kalyvarin. 



The discovery in Europe of a wild -growing species of the genus 

 Forsythia hitherto only known in E. Asia (China) raises the question as 

 to whether it has only become wild in Albania, In reply to which there 



Fig. 204. — Forsythia eubop^ea. 



are the three following grounds for its being native or else very long 

 established there : 



1. Its specific variation from all other known forms. 



2. Its considerable presence in a large part of the Mirdizia. 



8. The fact that this shrub is so well known to the inhabitants of the 

 country that it has an Albanian name. 



