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CORRiEA HARRTSII. 
f (mr. Harris's cokr^a.) 
CLASS. OUDRn. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDEa, 
RUTACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx cup-shaped, four-toothed or entire, permanent. Petals four, somewhat 
connivent at the base, or joined into a long tube. Stamens eight, equal or larger than the petals ; 
the four opposite them shortest; filaments smootli, awl-shaped, or dilated above the base. Ovary 
four-lobed, densely beset with stellate hairs, and as if it were furnished with a calyptra. Style four- 
furrowed, smooth, terminated by a four-lobed stigma. Fruit of four capsular carpels; ce//s truncate, 
compressed. Seeds two or three in each cell, shining, fixed to the inside. — Don's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character. — An hybrid production, remarkable chiefly for its vigorous, compact habit, handsome 
foliage, and large uniformly crimson flowers. 
This extremely handsome hybrid so far excels all the authenticated species of 
Corrcea^ that, in conjunction with the many others now in course of circulation 
through the country, its cultivation may be expected soon to supersede that of its 
parents. It is one of the products of a quantity of seeds gathered from an inter- 
mixture of the sexual organs in C. pulchella and C. speciosa, by Mr. D. Beaton, 
gardener to T. Harris, Esq., Kingsbury, and was obtained and germinated at 
a previous situation in Herefordshire ; but is now named after the gentleman in 
whose collection it has flowered, and whose liberality in admitting the public to 
his gardens is equalled only by their highly interesting character. 
The practice of hybridization is yet avowedly in its infancy. The extraordinary 
eccentricity of its results, and the truly wonderful improvements on old plants that 
are apparent in their progeny, have at length aroused our cultivators to a sense of 
the injury they are doing to the interests of the art by longer abstaining from so 
laudable an effort ; and with a magnanimous disregard of its consequences to 
botanical nomenclature, we are satisfied that the ranks of hybridists have lately 
been much strengthened, and will go on increasing till our plant-houses are filled 
with a new race of objects, as much superior to the hybrids now existing as they 
are to their progenitors. 
