Botanist was last in England he saw this species grow- 
ing, and called it his S. fleruosa davurica; while the 
plant called $. fleruosa in Cambessedes's paper appears 
from the figure to be intended for another, named by 
Dr. Fischer $. flevuosa latifolia, which approaches nearer 
to the ** Spiræa praecox montana folio parvo in summitate 
bifido v. trifido" of Gmelin, which is also in our Gardens, 
under the false name of Spirea crenata, and which is the 
S. chamedrifolia of Willdenow. 
According to Pallas, S. chameedrifolia, or some of its 
supposed varieties, is found in Kamtchatka, where the 
inhabitants use the leaves for tea: the strong shoots are 
manufactured into smoking tubes for tobacco-pipes, and 
the plant itself makes excellent clipped hedges. For the 
latter purpose it is worth a trial in this country. 
Our drawing was made in June 1824, in Messrs. 
Whitley's Nursery. The shrub is quite hardy, and very 
ornamental. 
Stem about as high as a man, erect, branched; the 
branches ash-coloured, when young flexuose and angular. 
Leaves ovate, acuminate, inciso-serrate, smooth, about the 
size of those of Ulmus campestris, with pilose petioles. 
Corymbs terminal, stalked, hemispherical, somewhat race- 
mose. Flowers white, rather large. ic 
