370 ICOSANDRIA-POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 



Filipendula n. 1 135. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 55, 



Ulmaria. RauSyn.259. Clus. Pan7i. 699. f. Hist. v.2.\9S.f. 

 Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 488./. bad. 



Regina prati. Dod. Fempt. [)7.f. Ger. Em. 1043./. 



Barbicapra. Lob. Jc.lW.f. 



In moist meadows, and about the banks of rivers and ditches, 

 common. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root fibrous, without knobs. Stems 3 or 4 feet high, leafy, 

 branched, furrowed, angular, smooth. Leaves of a few large, 

 pointed, unequally serrated, veiny leciflets ; the terminal one 

 deeply 3-lobed j intermediate ones very small ; all white and 

 densely downy beneath. Stipulas rounded, deeply toothed. 

 Fl. extremely numerous, cream-coloured, with a sweet but 

 oppressive hawthorn-like scent, in dense, compound cymose 

 panicles. Cal. reflexed. Fet. roundish. Stam. numerous. Ger- 

 mens 6 or 0, sometimes more, spirally contorted, with short 

 styles, and large capitate stigmas. 



The taste of the herbage, like the scent of tiie flowers, is aromatic, 

 resembling the American Gaultheria procumbens, as is well ob- 

 served by Dr. Bigelow, in his American Medical Botany, v. 2. 

 30. t. 22. Nor is it unlike the flavour of Orange-flower water. 

 Dried sloe-leaves partake of this flavour, see p. 357 ; and hence 

 we trace it to the perfume of green tea, and the delicious odour 

 of the Chinese Oleafragrans, a plant in no respect allied to our 

 Meadow-sweet. 



Spircta salicifolia, see n. 1, has been found in Gibside wood, Dur- 

 ham, by Mr. R. Wigham. 



ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNTA 



254. ROSA. Rose. 



Linn. Gen. 254. Juss. 335. Fl.Br.537. Sm.in Rees's Cycl. v. 30. 

 Tourn. ^ 408. Larn. t.440. Gartn. t. 73. Woods Tr.o/L. Soc. 

 V. 12. 173. 



Nat. Ord. Senticosce. Linn. 35. RosacecB. Juss. 92. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf; tube pitcher-shaped, contracted at 

 the summit, permanent, finally succulent ; limb in 5 



