It is perfectly hardy, and will grow in almost any soil 
and situation. Notwithstanding these advantages itis cer- 
tainly far from being common in gardens or shrubberies. 
The finest plants of it we have seen, are in Mr. Joseph 
Kirke’s nursery, at Old Brompton, at which place the 
drawing was taken. 
‘ A native of the oriental provinces of Russia, where it is 
frequented by the spanish or blister-fly (Lyrra vesicatoria. 
Ginel. syst. nat. 1. 2013, the former Canruarts of the shops), 
which is collected by the apothecaries from this bush. ‘The 
berries are eaten by the common people, although disgust- 
ingly bitter, and not entirely innoxious. The stem, which 
is sometimes two inches in diameter, is used in the manufac- 
ture of walking-sticks, and the handles of instruments ; it 
is na solid, of a yellowish-grey colour, and beautifully 
veined. . 
Cultivated in 1752 by Mr. Miller, who raised it from 
seed, sent from Petersburgh, where it had been received 
from Tartary. It varies in the shade with flowers entirely 
white. 
In Jussieu’s arrangement and nomenclature this species 
belongs to XyLostEon. 
a The corolla dissected, to show the pubescence of the filaments within 
the tube. 6 The pistil between the two bractes, showing the germen 
crowned by the minute calyx without the corolla, 
