76 NEW SYLVA. 



terete flexuose, leaves with 11 to 21 folioles 

 broad lanceol. acuminate duplicate serrate, sti- 

 pules oblong entire, flowers paniculate crowded, 

 panicle oblong, bracteoles lanceol. equal to the 

 short clavate pedicels — Sibiria and New Sibiria 

 in N. W. America, a large shrub, with fine in- 

 carnate odorous flowers, folioles 1 or 2 inches 

 long. My specimens have racemose panicles 

 before anthesis, becoming glomerate in full 

 bloom. 



676. Basilima PYGMEA Raf. Sp. sorbif. var. 

 pygmea Pallas fl. t. 25. Quite diflerent from 

 the last by folioles broader less acum. ovate 

 lanceol. laciniate and flowers corymbose — Mts. 

 of Sibiria and probably in boreal America, a 

 small dwarf shrub. Not seen but the figure of 

 Pallas is strikingly diflerent. It must not be 

 blended with the Sorbus pumila of Origon, that 

 has edible berries. 



Monograph of HYDRANGEA. 



Linneus had only one species, our botanists 

 have gradualy increased them to 4 ; but I shall 

 still further increase them to 10. They are all 

 shrubs growing in mountains and hills on rocks 

 and near streams, blossoms estival. Ihe Ge- 

 nus had been united to the Saxifragides, but 

 Lindley dreamt that it was to be united to the 

 Caprifoliacea ! with berries and monopetal co- 

 rollas ! It really belongs to the Natural family 

 of DicEKACEA in the Nat. Order Ascadia, 

 which includes all the Saxifragides with ovary 

 and capsule coalescent or inferior. It includes 

 two subgenera. 



Apleria. Flowers uniform consimilar. 



Megasteira. Flowers dissimilar, the exterior 

 enlarged neutral radial, as in Opulus, 3-4fid un- 

 equal. 



