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B. ferruginea ought to have a place in shrubberies on 

 account of the beauty of its foliage. 



B. Jundzilli, which has some of the characters of B. gallica, 

 has not up to the present time received attention from cultivators. 

 It is probable that by cultivation very beautiful and very free- 

 flowering varieties might be obtained from it. 



Sect. VII. — Carolina, Crepin. 

 Styles free, included ; stigmas forming a sessile head over 

 the orifice of the receptacle ; ovaries inserted exclusively at the 

 bottom of the receptacle ; sepals spreading, or erect on the fruit, 

 caducous, the exterior ones entire, or pinnate with erect not 

 spreading appendages ; inflorescence usually many-flowered with 

 a narrow or dilated bract to the primary pedicel ; stipules adnate, 

 the upper ones narrow, more rarely dilated ; leaves on the flower- 

 ing branches 5- 7- 9-foliolate ; stems erect ; prickles straight 

 or rarely hooked, placed in pairs, sometimes mixed with aciculi, 

 rarely all more or less setaceous, straight, numerous, and 

 alternate. 



B. Carolina, Linnaeus, 1753. — North America. 



B. humilis, Marsh., 1785 (R. parviflora, Ehrh., 1789).— 

 North America. 



B. foliolosa, Nuttall, 1810. — North America. 



B. lucida, Ehrh., 1789. — North America. 



B. nitida, Willd., 1809.— North America. 



Some amateurs grow B. Carolina, with single flowers ; we 

 do not know it with double blooms. 



B. humilis, with double flowers, was frequently grown in 

 Europe, but it has been almost entirely abandoned, in spite of 

 real merit. 



B. lucida, on account of its foliage, tinted with red in 

 autumn, should often enter into the composition of shrubberies. 

 B. Bapa, Bosc, which has large double flowers, has affinity 

 with B. lucida, of which it is perhaps a garden variety. 



Sect. VIII. — Cinnamome^:, Crepin. 

 Styles free, included; stigmas forming a sessile head over the 

 orifice of the receptacle ; insertion of ovaries basilo -parietal ; 

 sepals entire, erect after flowering, persistent, crowning the 

 fruit ; inflorescence usually many-flowered, with a more or 

 less dilated bract on the primary pedicels ; stipules adnate, 



