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F. excorlicata. Page 945., add to the end of the paragraph : “ The berries areso sweet, that the missionaries have been trying to introduce the speciesinto Otaheite , as a sugar plant; but have been unable to procure seeds,as in New Zealand the berries are eaten greedily by the pigs, as soonas they appear.”

“ F.fulgens Dec., Lindl. in Bot. Reg., n. s. t. 1. This is a splendid plant, anative of temperate regions of Mexico , which will probably prove half-hardy.”

Piiiladelpha'ckiE.

P hUadelphus. 954., before § ii. insert: —

“ P. Gordon iana Hort. is a kind received from the banks of the Columbia;which grows in its native country like underwood, and flowers later thanmost of the species.”

After § ii., &c., insert: —

“46.* P. specio'sds Schrad. The sho wy-fiowered Philadelphus, or Mock

Orange.

Identification. Schrad. Diss. Phil, j Lin. Bot. Reg., t. 2003.

Engraving. Bot. Reg., t. 2003.

Spec. Char., ifc. Leaves ovate, rarely oval-ovate, long-pointed, sharplytoothed and serrated; hairy beneath. Flowers ternate and solitary. Lobesof the calyx very sharply pointed. Style deeply 4-cleft. Stigmas longerthan the stamens. {Schrad.) P. specidsus is a hardy shrub, 8 ft. or 10ft.high, with gently bending branches, loaded with very large and scentlesswhite flowers, this species, Dr. Lindley observes, though one of the hand-somest of the genus, is one of the least common. There are plants in theHorticultural Society’s Garden.”

P. g randifidrus. 954., dele the line headed “ Synonyme ,” the words “ and ourfig. 676.,” and the last sentence in the paragraph headed “ Spec. Char.”Deutaa scdbra. 956., Mr. Gordon informs us, proves to be quite hardy.

956., add, after the paragraph headed “ D. Brunbms ,: ”

“ I), grandiflbra Hort. There is a plant bearing this

name in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, whichwas received from China .”

ATyrta'cea:.

Eucalyptus robusta. 959. 1. 2., add after parenthesis :

“ fig. 2767. shows a full-grown tree of thisspecies, growing near Port Jackson .”

959., in the paragraph headed “ E. amygdalina,” for,

“ 94., ” read “ 694.”

Before the last paragraph, insert: —

“ E. alpina Hort. There is a plant bearing this name 'in the Norwich Nursery, which appears hardier thanany other species of the genus : it is also of much slowergrowth, and is of a bushy compact habit, sending outlaterals at every joint. It is a native of Mount Welling-ton, in Van Diemen’s Land, where the climate is verysimilar to that of England; and the seeds of it were sentto England by Mr. James Backhouse , about 1834.”

961., add to the paragraph headed “ Leptospcrmumlamgerum “ This species is called, in Van Die-men’s Land, the hoary tea tree; from the cir-cumstance of the leaves having been used as asubstitute for tea. Several other kinds of Lep-tosp^rmum are designated tea trees, from thesame cause; such as L. baccata, the smooth, orberry-bearing, tea tree ; L. flexuosum, the foresttea tree; L. grandiflorum Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 514., &c. They are allbeautiful myrtle-like evergreen plants, which would probably prove

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