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Beam- Tree-leaved Spiraa. 



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ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosace^ Jussieu. {Introduction to the natural system of 



botany, p. 81.) \ ^ .«.,*'' • ■ 



SPIRMA "L.— Calyx 5-fidus, persistens. Stamina 10-50 cum petalis 

 toro calyce adhserente inserta. Carpella 1-00 distincta, rariter basi coalita, 

 brev^ apiculata, sessilia, raro stipitata. Semina 2-6 suturae internee affixa, 



exalbuminosa. Embryo inversus, cotyledoiaibus crassiusculis. Frutices 



inermes, v. herbee perennantes. Rami alterni. Folia alterna, sim^icta, 

 rarb decomposito-pinnatisecta, nervis pennatis v. ternato-pahnatis . Flores 

 o,lbi aut rubicundi nunquam Jlavi. — Dec. prodr. 2. 541. . 



§ Spirana. Ovaria libera. Torus apice liber, basi tubo calycino con- 

 cretus. Carpella non inJlata.—Fmtices. Flores hermaphroditi paniculati. 



Folia serrata exstipulata. — Veq^ I. c. ^ , ' .^j- c • ♦• 



S: aricBfolia; foliis ovatis obtusis inciso-serratis subpmnatifidis basi cuneatis 



subtiis tomentosis, panicula multiflora villosa basi divaricata. 

 S. ariaefolia. Smith in Rees, vol. 33. Dec. prodr. 2. 544. 

 8. discolor. Pursh ft. am. bor. I. 342, Dec. prodr. 2. 545. 



Frutex erectus, dumosus, ramis strictis. epidermide cinnamomeo-griseo . 

 obductis, mbangulatis. Folia simplicia, ovato-oblonga, suprtl glabra, sub tds 

 tomentosa, nunc grossd serrata. nunc inciso-serrafa, nunc pinnatijida, basi 

 cuneata, laciniis obtusis, serratis ; stipulis obsoletis. Paniculae ter?mnales, 

 multiflorce, denscB, ramis inferioribus sepias longioribus, divancatis ; ramulis 

 villosis. Calyx rotatus, albus, 5-partitus, laciniis ovatis, villosis, peta- 

 loideis. Petala laciniis calycinis subcequalia, oblonga, venis tribus m medio. 

 Stamina in disco tubum calycis tegente inserta. Carpella 5, villosa, mono- 

 sperma, ovule solitario appenso* * . 



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A handsome har^ shrub, native of the North-west 

 of North America, where its seed was collected by 

 Mr. Douglas for the Horticultural Society. It was 



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• The shrub called ^ttuJu by Theophrastus, and spireon by Pliny, is 

 supposed by some to have been our Spirsea salicifolia, by others Viburnum 

 Lantana. The latter is called by the modern Greeks «Av**?'^« J the lormev 

 seems to be unknown to them. ■ / 



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