120 ROSE FAMILY. 



2. BPHLffiiA. MEADOW-SWEET, &c. (Greek name of some shrub, or 



tin; flowering branches of which garlands were made.) All hardy shrubs or 

 perennial herbs : fl. late spring and .- uniiiier. ) 



1. S/irnlm, if/'t/t ^hiiji'i Imres. 



# Native sper.u-n : '>'/ tht /</.' common in i\<tnl //.;, t/n t/rxt occasionally planted. 



S. opulifdlia, NIM.-BAKK ; so-called from the loose bark, separating in 

 thin annual layers from the stems : a tall shrub, with long recurving branches, 

 the roundish and mostly heart-shaped leaves partly :!-lobed and cut-toothed, 

 white flower, (of no lie.mfy) in umbel-like corymbs, the pods large for this 

 ^enus, blailderv, and commonlv turning purplish. Wild on rockv banks, from 

 New York \V.\v S. 



S. COrymbbsa. From S. Penn. S., not common: shrub l-2 high, 

 smooth, w'ith oval leaves cut-toothed towards the apex, and wbite flowers in a 

 flat compound corymb. 



S. tomentdsa, HAKI>HA< K or STEEI-I.KBUSH. Common K. in low 

 grounds; 2 -3 high, hoary-downy, except the upper face, of the ovate or 

 oblong serrate small leaves, the rose-purple or white flowers crowded in a very 

 dense terminal panicle; pistils downy. 



S. salicifdlia, COMMON MK. ux>w-S\vi.i.r. Common in wet grounds, 

 also in old gardens : shrub 2 - 3 high, bushy, smooth, with wedge-lanceolate 

 or oblong leaves simply or doubly serrate, and white or barely tlesh-colored 

 flowers in a crowd'-d panicle. 



* * Cultivated for ornament, exotic or W. Xtnili American. 



H- Flowers in close or x/iikc-like rlitxtrrs collected in a close and narrow or spike- 



like terminal panicle, pink-purple. 



S. Douglasii, DOUGLAS'S MEADOW-SWEET. Cult, from Oregon and 

 California: resembles our wild Hardback (S. tomentosa), but has longer usu- 

 ally lance-oblong and very blunt leaves rather whiter beneath, and deeper pink 

 flowers with smooth pistils. 



-i- - Flowers in compound corymbs or broad paiv< 



S. cal!6sa (also named S. FoRTt'Nici ), from Japan: shrub 3 - G high, 

 smoothish, with lance-oblong and taper-pointed unequally and very sharply 

 serrate, leaves, branches terminated by clustered dense corymbs or cymes of deep 

 pink flowers, 10 glands at the mouth of the calyx, the pistils smooth. 



S. arisefblia. Tall shrub from Oregon, with slender branches, terminated 

 by a very lar^e and light or drooping decompound panicle of small yellowish- 

 white flowers; the leaves roundish-ovate, very obtuse, thin, cut on each side 

 into 4 or 5 blunt and toothed lobes, sometimes almost piunatitid, soft downy, at 

 least beneath. 



*- -i- -4- /'Vu/c/rs /'/( simple, <>/lnt umbel-like corymbs terminating leafy shoots of the 

 season : natives of Lurope <vi<l Axiu : /H-tn/s irl,it<- wr/il tin' first s/ </(>. 



S. b611a, from Nepal : a low shrub, with ovate acute and merely sharply 

 .serrate leaves whitish-downy beneath, the simple corymbs sometimes clustered; 

 and rose-pink (lowers. 



S. Cham8edrif61ia, from E. Knrope and Siberia; a spreading low hush, 

 .smooth, with ovate or oblong usually blunt and cut-toothed leaves, at least 

 towards the summit, and rather small (lowers in simple corymbs. 



S. trilobata, from Siberia ; a spreading smooth bush, with rounded cre- 

 natelv cut and 3-lohed leaves and rather showy flowers. 



S. lanceolata, or I;I.I:VI.SI\N\, from China, has oblong, lance-oblong, or 

 gome three-cleft vrrate-toothed leave-, and sho\\y flowers. 



S. hypericifdlia, ITALIAN M\v, or ST. I'IIIK'S WKK.VTU. Shrub 

 3-6 liiu-li, smooth or smoothish, with IOIILT recurved branches, and very small 

 \vedLre-obloi] g leaves, a little eremite or lobed at [he end ; flowers small, white, 

 in small sessile umbels. 



-!--- /-Vo/rr/'.s- in niiii/ilf Sdixilr nnilx-ls nlon<t tin- slindi'f Irtnu-hrs of the pre- 

 ccdimi i/i'iir, sitlilniili'il mill/ !/ i/r<'''ni*h bua-SCales or imjwrffct leaves, rathei 

 rut Her than the pnijtrr /cfirv.s-, in 



