FOKSYTHIA EUKOP.EA. DEG-EN AND BALDACCI : NEW SPECIES. 665 



Moreover, the highly cultivated extra- European Forsythias seldom bear 

 fruit, most probably on account of their organs not being of suitable form 

 for our blossom-visiting insects. The circumstance that the Albanian 

 species ripens quantities of the fruit, and therefore is provided with all 

 biological properties in order to be able to propagate its species, would 

 have considerable weight in support of a judgment being given in favour of 

 its being indigenous. 



^Yhilst the other species of the genus are only distinguishable by 

 such slight differences that the two principal forms, F. suspensa and F. 

 viridissima, were recently regarded as heterostyle forms of one and the 

 same species, the European species is very distinct, so that I must 

 describe its discovery as the most important and valuable find which 

 Dr. Baldacci has hitherto made. 



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