134 SAXIFRAGE FAMILY. 



berries glandular-bristly ; these and the bruised herbage exhale an unpleasant, 

 skunk-like odor. 



R. rtibrum, RED C. Cult from Eu., also wild on our northern borders ; 

 with straggling or reclining stems, somewhat heart-shaped moderately 3 - 5- 

 lobed leaves, the lobes roundish, and drooping racemes from lateral buds dis- 

 tinct from the leaf-buds ; edible berries red, or a white variety. 



<- -*- Leaves sprinkled with resinous dots : flowers larger, with oblong-bell-shaped 

 calyx : berries larger, black, aromatic and spicy, glandular-dotted. 



R. floridum, WILD BLACK C. Woods N. . leaves slightly heart-shaped, 

 sharply 3-5-lobed and doubly serrate; racemes drooping, downy, bearing 

 many whitish flowers, with conspicuous bracts longer than the pedicels. 



R. nigrum, GARDEN BLACK C. Cult, from Eu. : like the preceding, 

 but has greener and fewer flowers in the raceme, minute bracts, and a shorter 

 calyx. 



* * Cultivated for ornament from far W. the flowers highly colored. 



R. sanguineum, RED-FL. C., from Oregon and California : glandular 

 and somewhat clammy, with 3 - 5-lobed leaves whitish-downy beneath, nodding 

 racemes of rose-red flowers, the calyx-tube oblong-bell-shaped, the berries gland- 

 ular and insipid. 



R. atireum, GOLDEN, BUFFALO, or MISSOURI C. : from W. Missouri 

 to Oregon ; abundantly cult, for its spicy-scented bright-yellow flowers in early 

 spring ; smooth, with rounded 3-lobed and cut-toothed leaves (which are rolled 

 up in the bud), short racemes with leafy bracts, and tube of the yellow calyx 

 very much longer than the spreading lobes ; the berries blackish, insipid. 



2. ITEA. (Greek name of Willow, applied to something widely different.) 

 I. Virginica, a tall shrub, in low pine-barrens from N. Jersey S., smooth, 



with oblong minutely serrate leaves, and racemes of pretty white flowers, in 

 early summer. 



3. DECUMARIA. (Name probably meaning that the parts of the flower 

 are in tens, which is only occasionally the case. ) 



D. barbara. Along streams S. : a tall, mostly smooth shrub, with long 

 branches disposed to climb, ovate or oblong shining leaves, and a compound 

 terminal cyme of small white odorous flowers, in late spring. 



4. PHILADELPHIA'S, MOCK-ORANGE, STRING A (which is the 

 botanical name of the Lilac. The generic name is an ancient one, afterwards 

 applied to these shnibs for no particular reason). Ornamental shrubs; na- 

 tives of the S. Atlantic and Pacific States, Japan, &c. ; the species mixed or 

 much varied in cultivation. The following are the principal types. 



P. coronarius, COMMON MOCK-ORANGE. Cult, probably from Japan. 

 Shrub with erect branches, smoothish oblong-ovate leaves having the taste and 

 smell of cucumbers, and crowded clusters of handsome and odorous cream-white 

 flowers, in late spring. 



P. latifblius, BROAD-LEAVED M. Cult., unknown wild, has the erect 

 stems of the first, is robust, 6 - 12 high, with the ovate and toothed 5-ribbed 

 leaves hairy beneath, and large pure-white and nearly scentless flowers clus- 

 tered, in early summer. 



P. inod6rus, SCENTLESS M. Wild in upper districts S. : shrub smooth, 

 with spreading slender branches, mostly entire ovate-oblong leaves, rather small 

 flowers scattered at the end of the diverging branchlets, and calyx-lobes not 

 longer than the ovary. 



P. grandiflbrus, LARGE-FL. M. Wild along streams from Virginia S., 

 and planted in several varieties : tall shrub, with long recurving branches, ovate 

 and pointed usually toothed smoothish or slightly downy leaves, and very large 

 pure-white scentless flowers, in early summer, either single or in loose clusters 

 at the end of the branches, the slender-pointed calyx -lobes much longer than the 

 ovary. 



