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the collections of Mr. E. H. Wilson. "This has the showy 
sterile marginal flowers, but its steins are more uniformly 
erect (than V. alrdfolium . ) It differs also in the shorter 
stamens, which are only half the length of the corolla, 
and in the shape of the furrow in the seed. It succeeds 
in gardens no better than V. alrdfolium , although there was 
a healthy plant at Abbotsbury, near Weymouth, a few years 
ago. It Is a native of northern Japan at low levels, and 
of the mountainous parts of the south. The foliage turns 
brilliant scarlet to reddish purple in autumn. It is a 
bush twelve feet or more high in a wild state." (W. J. 
Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, 
p. 642.) 
